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Genres and Historicity:
Text, Cotext, Context The 12th annual conference of the English
Department, University of Bucharest (Literature) |
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Bucharest, 3-5 June 2010 |
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Genres and Historicity: Text,
Cotext, Context The 12th annual conference of the English
Department, University of Bucharest (Linguistics) |
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Bucharest, 3-5 June 2010 |
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8th Conference on British and American
Studies: “Global Homogeneity, Local Identity” |
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Brasov, 15 February 2010 |
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20th Conference on British and American
Studies (BAS) |
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Timisoara, 20-22 May 2010 |
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Details
20th CONFERENCE ON BRITISH AND
AMERICAN STUDIES
The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Timisoara
Timişoara, ROMANIA, May 20‑22, 2010
15 FEBRUARY 2010
A new edition (the 20th) of the conference on British and American
Studies
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Zoltán Kövecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest,
Hungary
- Professor Michelle Gadpaille, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, University of La Rioja,
Spain
- Professor György Endre Szönyi, University of Szeged, Hungary
Presentations (20 min) and workshops (60 min) are invited in the
following sections:
- Language Studies
- Translation Studies
- Semiotics
- British and Commonwealth Literature
- American Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Gender Studies
- English Language Teaching
The early conference registration fee is EUR 80, to be paid by March 15; the
late registration fee is Euro 110.
For RSEAS members the early registration fee is lei 200; the late
registration fee is lei 250.
Call for Papers
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Reghina Dascăl,
e‑mail:
reghina_dascal@yahoo.co.uk, tel. and fax + 40 256 452224
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Luminiţa Frenţiu,
email:
frentiuluminita@yahoo.com tel. + 40
744792238;
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Loredana Fratila ,
email:
loredanafratila@yahoo.com, tel. +40 740088329
http://www.litere.uvt.ro/BAS_conf/index.htm
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8th Conference on British
and American Studies: “Global Homogeneity, Local Identity”
The English Department at
Transilvania University of Brasov
16-17 April 2010, Brasov
15 February 2010
Due to technological advancement the
world has become a global village.
In this context, local identity, as a set of specific cultural features
belonging to a certain area, appears to be under threat.
Our conference aims to host discussions on the ways in
which an expansive global identity both challenges and
facilitates an explanatory local identity.
The event aims to replicate, in approach and breadth of scope, the
homogeneous heterogeneity which the globalization of culture creates within
the context of one world culture.
The conference fee of 200 RON (60 Euro for foreign participants) is
to be paid upon arrival and covers conference pack, refreshments, and lunch.
Accommodation details and registration form will be sent at a later date.
to Liliana Coposescu at
lili_coposescu@yahoo.com
Translation Studies and Lexicography to Marinela Burada at
marinela.burada@gmail.com
Literary Studies,
Cultural Studies to Ileana Botescu – Sireteanu at
ileana_si@yahoo.com
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Genres and
Historicity: Text, Cotext, Context
The 12th annual conference of the English Department, University of
Bucharest
LINGUISTICS
Department of English, University
of Bucharest
Faculty of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, University of Bucharest, June 3-5, 2010
15 February 2010
Papers are invited in the following areas:
Presentations, in English, should be 20 min. long plus
10 min. for discussion. Authors are invited to submit abstracts, which may
not exceed 300 words (including a list of keywords), and should be submitted
in Word format. Proposals must include title of paper, name and
institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail
address.
Conference fee: 50 euro (conference documents,
refreshments).
A selection of papers will be published in
University of Bucharest Review and in Bucharest Working Papers in
Linguistics.
http://www.english-unib.ro/events.htm
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Genres and
Historicity : Text, Cotext, Context
The 12th annual conference of the English
Department, University of Bucharest
LITERATURE
Department of English, University
of Bucharest
Faculty of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, University of Bucharest, 3-5 June 2010
15 February 2010
In the last few decades, the
culturalist approach to literature has been an unavoidable and incontestable
fact. The text – cotext – context relatedness in cultural-historical
embeddedness is now a current measure of identity in matters literary
and cultural. Indeed, the full historicity of the emergence, growth
and establishment of such basic categories as writing and reading,
representation, style, narrative, author and authority, canon and
canonization, literary history and criticism, or, indeed, genres and
generic identity have been uninterruptedly on the professional
agenda. They are still at the head of heated debates, act as catalysts of
intellectual endeavours and fertilize academic events geared on the same or
similar topics.
Cultural
institutions of the long and complicated process called modernity,
these literary-cultural items of a consistent and consistently changing
inventory open up generous avenues in the academe. We hope that our
departmental conference on Genres and Historicity will bring to the
fore a whole array of issues, which might include:
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the establishment of ‘literature’ in Western
Civilization (with special focus on the British and American
cases/spaces)
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the settlement of modern categories (genres and
species, among others) and their relation with the traditional ones
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the accreditation of high vs. low genres; the
canonical in-/ex-clusion mechanisms and apposite axiological effects
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generic separation, differentiation and
specialization and the modernity discourse
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the
institutionalization of ‘literature’, ‘literary criticism’ and ‘literary
history’, function of generic and specific assertion
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literary history vs. the generic perspective
approach: negotiations and (dis)agreements (the extrinsic vs. the
intrinsic way)
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generic theory, its emergence, whys and wherefores
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continuity and discontinuity in literary-cultural
history: ages, periodization, age dominants, the splendour and decadence
of genres (from integrative primitive poetry to separated modern genres)
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historical silence and the question of reception:
favoured/ite genres vs. genres of disrepute; the dialectics of genre (re)shuffle
and epistemic rearrangements
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public vs. private genres and the historical/historiographic
perspective (antiquarianism into ‘philosophical’ history, literature
into ‘literature’, predisciplinary into disciplinary knowledge)
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pre-, novelistic and post-novel narratives and the
victory of the modern genre par excellence
However this is by no means an
exhaustive list. We look forward to receiving proposals for papers
representing the full diversity of possible approaches to the topic, both
theoretical and text-based.
Conference fee: 50 euro
(conference documents, refreshments).
Presentations, in English, should be
20 min. long plus 10 min. for discussion. Authors are invited to submit
abstracts, which may not exceed 300 words (including a list of keywords),
and should be submitted in Word format. Proposals must include title of
paper, name and institutional affiliation; mailing address, phone number,
and e-mail address.
A selection of papers will be
published in University of Bucharest Review.
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Prof. Irina Pană,
Chair of the Conference Committee
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Prof. Monica Bottez, On behalf
of the English Department's Literature Section
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litcultstbucharest@gmail.com
http://www.english-unib.ro/events.htm
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