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CfP: „ExRe(y). Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture“

International Conference, April 7 & 8, 2016, Lublin, Poland

Organizers: Izabelle Kimak, Julia Nikiel

MCSU Department of American Literature and Culture in cooperation with Canadian Studies Department and Video Game Research Center is pleased to announce a two-day international conference “ExRe(y). Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture.”

The organizers invite presentations that focus on the forms of expression and repression in American or Canadian literature and visual culture (i.e. film, visual arts, video games, television, and others) spanning the period of the last fifteen years, from the year 2000 to the present day.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• language as a source and tool of oppression and empowerment
• sexuality: self-expression vs. erotophobia and sexual repression
• mind: creativity and trauma, denial and repressed memory
• the body as a space of self-expression and self-inflicted regimes: dietary and beautification practices, clothing, body modification
• emotional abuse, power, and control relationships
• spaces of confinement: prisons, war zones, refugee camps
• surveillance: panopticons and spaces of control
• political repression and persecution: totalitarianism, autocracy, dictatorship, despotism
• representations of post-millennial watersheds (9/11, Enron, John Jay Report, crisis of 2008)
• new forms of narrative expression (blogs, fan fiction, Twiterature)
• text as an interactive space: ergodic literature, hypertext, cybertext
• video games and virtual worlds as spaces of expression and repression
• cross- and trans-media dialogues (expressing image through text and text through image)

Selected presenters will be invited to participate in a joint book project to be published by Peter Lang in 2017.

Abstracts, including the title of the paper, name of the author(s), and academic affiliation, should be sent to Izabella Kimak and Julia Nikiel (exrey2016@gmail.com) by 15 October 2015.

For further information, please visit: http://exrey.umcs.lublin.pl/

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Appel à communication: „La francophonie canadienne comme public: penser ses espaces, ses politiques et ses problèmes“

Colloque étudiant du Centre de recherche en civilisation
canadienne-française de l’Université d’Ottawa
12 et 13 novembre 2015

Organisateurs: Ariane Brun del Re, Marie Hélène Eddie et Mathieu Wade

La notion de public, à la fois pluridisciplinaire et polysémique, permet d’aborder un ensemble de phénomènes, d’acteurs et de processus. Pluridisciplinaire, elle se situe à la croisée des sciences humaines et sociales, traversant les champs de la sociologie (action publique, problèmes publics), de la science politique (politiques publiques, distinction
public / privé), des arts (publics littéraires, artistiques, non publics), de la géographie (espace public), du droit (droit public) et de la communication (sphère publique). Polysémique, la notion de public désigne une panoplie de réalités: un type de collectif (public, audience), une qualité de l’espace (espace public / privé), des types d’action (politiques publics, services publics) et des constructions symboliques (opinion publique, problèmes publics).

Cette richesse fait de la notion de public un outil pour aborder la francophonie canadienne de façon à faire apparaître des acteurs, des actions et des phénomènes inédits. Elle révèle des tensions et des confl its qui existent entre les francophones et les autres groupes de même qu’au sein de la communauté francophone elle-même. Qu’il soit question d’espaces de débat politique ou artistique, parler en terme de « public » permet d’envisager la francophonie canadienne non pas comme une communauté consensuelle et homogène, mais comme un lieu complexe et fragmenté, un espace politisé, traversé de discussions et de contestations. Elle permet également de rendre compte des diverses manières dont les francophones côtoient d’autres espaces et participent à d’autres publics.

Ce colloque est ouvert à tous les étudiants de maîtrise et de doctorat, ainsi qu’aux stagiaires postdoctoraux qui s’intéressent à la francophonie canadienne, peu importe leur domaine d’études sans égard à leur institution d’attache. Aucuns frais d’inscription ne sont requis.

La date limite pour les propositions est le 15 mai 2015.

Plus d’informations sur http://bit.ly/1HTCqv3

 

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CfP: „Empire & Neurosis“ Postgraduate Forum “Postcolonial Narrations”

October 8-10, 2015, University of Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen)

The third edition of the postgraduate forum “Postcolonial Narrations” addresses the interconnections between imperial practices and neurosis. The forum theme proposes to investigate the range of ‘neuroses’ that are generated by or connected to colonial or imperial experiences, but transcends any strictly clinical meaning of ‘neurosis’ and expands into philosophical, literary, and metaphorical implications of the term. In this wider sense, neurosis functions as a tool to describe the individual experiences of colonized and colonizer while the concept also invites questions about the political, social, economic, and cultural practices of establishing, maintaining, or rationalizing empires past and present. The postgraduate forum welcomes contributions by PhD students and postdocs who work in the field of Anglophone literature and cultures, Postcolonial Studies, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Media and Film Studies. Contributors are invited to engage with the theme of “Empire & Neurosis.” As the postgraduate forum aspires to facilitate dialogue, exchange, and collaboration among junior scholars, participants will be given the opportunity to present their projects to an audience of early-career researchers. The conference will take place at the University of Duisburg-Essen, October 8-10, 2015.

The Postcolonial Narrations Conference 2015 will explore value and challenges of bringing together empire and neurosis for the study of contemporary literature, culture and politics. The forum invites papers from different disciplines and reflections on different types of texts, including poetry, prose, film, photography, art, dance, and others. We also welcome comparative approaches that put Anglophone postcolonial literature and culture into dialogue with cultural production in other languages. The debate on imperial neurosis should by no means be limited to former territories of the British Empire. We encourage applicants to venture into comparative analyses that may bring in different imperial formations. Some of the key issues guiding our discussion might be:

• Reading empire through neurotic experiences
• Understanding neurosis as imperial practice and as a consequence empire
• Narrating neurosis in the postcolonial world
• The impact of neurosis on conceptualizations of empire
• Literature and culture in the context of empire & neurosis
• Neurosis as a (dis)rupture of imperial practices
• Postcolonial memorials and memory
• Urban experiences of empire & neurosis
• Psychoanalysis as Postcolonial Theory
• The postcolonial psyche in media, literature, and popular culture
• Problematizing the concept of neurosis, nervous states, or postcolonial melancholia
• Teaching the postcolonial condition in the EFL classroom
• Local and historical specificities in comparison

If you are interested in contributing, please send an abstract (300 words) for a 20 minute presentation to postcolonial.narrations[at]gmail.com no later than June 15, 2015. We’d be happy if you could include a short biographical note and the topic of your current project.

For more information and a detailed call for papers, please visit http://postcolonialnarrations.wordpress.com/

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International conference „Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts“

This conference on Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts (Münster, 14-16 May 2015) serves as a forum for theoretical reflections and critical re-evaluations of the term ideology in a multi- and interdisciplinary context. As a field that is characterized by diversity with regard to its methodologies as well as to the disciplines involved, contemporary postcolonial studies are particularly well-suited for carrying out this debate around such a highly complex concept. This includes the discussion about the ideological (or counter-ideological?) implications of ‘postcolonialism’ itself.

This conference is organized by the English Seminar at the University of Münster, representing book studies, linguistics, literary and cultural studies, and TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). We look forward to a vibrant discussion among our participants and speakers from these and a broad range of neighbouring disciplines.

Invited keynote speakers are:
Lionel Wee, Singapore (confirmed)
Beth LeRoux, Pretoria (confirmed)
Ingrid Johnston, Edmonton (t.b.c.)

The conference will combine different formats, such as plenary talks, panel and roundtable discussions, poster sessions, and readings.

We are very much looking forward to engaging presentations as well as academic exchange and dialogue among junior and senior researchers from different regions as well as a broad range of academic backgrounds.

For further information on the conference, please visit our conference website:
www.wwu.de/Anglistik/GAPS2015/

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CfP: “The aesthetics and politics of contemporary women’s life-writing in Canada and the US: multicultural perspectives”

The international conference “The aesthetics and politics of contemporary women’s life-writing in Canada and the US: multicultural perspectives”, organised by the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland) will take place 07 March 2015. This conference will focus on life-writing by North American women in the context of the multicultural societies of Canada and the United States.

Deadline for paper or panel proposals: November 30th 2014

Please find the Call for Papers here.