2^nd CALL FOR PAPERS

EUROFRINGES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

1^st edition: Intercultural networking. Challenging stereotypes.

 BUCHAREST, 6-8 June, 2013,

DIMITRIE CANTEMIR UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE FOR INTERCULTURAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH

The Institute for Intercultural Studies and Research of Dimitrie Cantemir University in Bucharest has the pleasure to invite you to participate to an international conference entitled: EUROFRINGES. Intercultural networking. Challenging stereotypes.

Based on the evidence that on the margins of Europe we share a common historical past, the EUROFRINGES conference proposes an analysis of intercultural networking within the geographical area of the S-E fringes of Europe and beyond (within the scope of Todorova’s concepts of Balkanism orNesting Balkanisms[1], Edward Said’s Orientalism[2] and Milica Bakić-Hayden’s Nesting Orientalisms[3]). It seems that over the past century these connections have been intensifying and complicating, so that the 20^th century might be more discussed than the Early Modern period. Thus, both contemporary and past periods will be investigated: in order to understand the present, we need to reflect on the past; ideally, there will be a large diversity of countries represented.

This upcoming first edition possible thematic areas include – but are not limited to:

Revisiting and reconsidering the literary canon in the “South – Eastern European Culture” and the Balkans from the perspective of the intercultural networking strategies existing within this area. Challenging stereotypes. Circulation of concepts and ideas (official and unofficial channels). Relationship with the West: translating, adopting, and/or rejecting concepts and mentalities Intellectuals as cultural messengers/ negotiators. Ethnic and religious heterogeneity in the East versus the West.

Fields:

-          literary studies (e.g. thematic networks, literary topoi; rewriting the literary cannon);

-          language studies;

-          history and (inter)cultural studies (e.g. gender studies, post-colonial studies, ethnicity studies);

-          translation studies.

Working languages: English and French.

Publication:

All papers presented will be published in the Conference Proceedings (with ISSN, published at a publishing house accredited by the Romanian Council for Scientific Research (CNCS)).

A selected number of papers will be subject to publication in EuroFringes Cultural Studies Research, a peer-reviewed volume, published at Addleton Publishers, N.Y.

Conference fee:

50 euro – senior academics;

35 euro – junior academics;

25 euro – PhD students.

The fee includes: conference participation tax and folder, meals and publication.

Conference organizers:

The Institute for Intercultural Studies and Research, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest

Partners:

The Romanian Academy (The Institute for South-East European Studies)

Deadline and contact details:

Please send an abstract (about 250 words) by 31^st January 2013 15^th March 2013 (extended deadline) to:

eurofringes@gmail.com

[1] Cf. Todorova, Maria (1997), Imagining the Balkans New York: Oxford University Press

[2] Cf. Said, Edward (1979), Orientalism, New York: Vintage

[3] Milica Bakic-Hayden and Robert Hayden, “Orientalist Variations on the Theme <Balkans>: Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics“,Slavic review, vol. 51, no. 1 (Spring 1992)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS. EUROFRINGES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

1^st edition: Intercultural networking. Challenging stereotypes.

 BUCHAREST, 6-8 June, 2013,

DIMITRIE CANTEMIR UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE FOR INTERCULTURAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH

The Institute for Intercultural Studies and Research of Dimitrie Cantemir University in Bucharest has the pleasure to invite you to participate to an international conference entitled: EUROFRINGES. Intercultural networking. Challenging stereotypes.

Based on the evidence that on the margins of Europe we share a common historical past, the EUROFRINGES conference proposes an analysis ofintercultural networking within the geographical area of the S-E fringes of Europe (within the scope of Todorova’s concepts of Balkanism orNesting Balkanisms[1], Edward Said’s Orientalism[2] and Milica Bakić-Hayden’s Nesting Orientalisms[3]). It seems that over the past century these connections have been intensifying and complicating, so that the 20^th century might be more discussed than the Early Modern period. Thus, both contemporary and past periods will be investigated: in order to understand the present, we need to reflect on the past; ideally, there will be a large diversity of countries represented.

This upcoming first edition possible thematic areas include – but are not limited to:

Revisiting and reconsidering the literary canon in the “South – Eastern European Culture” and the Balkans from the perspective of the intercultural networking strategies existing within this area. Challenging stereotypes. Circulation of concepts and ideas (official and unofficial channels). Relationship with the West: translating, adopting, and/or rejecting concepts and mentalities Intellectuals as cultural messengers/ negotiators. Ethnic and religious heterogeneity in the East versus the West.

Fields:

-          literary studies (e.g. thematic networks, literary topoi; rewriting the literary cannon);

-          language studies;

-          history and (inter)cultural studies (e.g. gender studies, post-colonial studies, ethnicity studies);

-          translation studies.

Working languages: English and French.

Publication:

All papers presented will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

A selected number of papers will be subject to publication in EuroFringes Cultural Studies Research, a peer-reviewed volume, published at Addleton Publishers, N.Y.

Conference fee:

50 euro – senior academics;

35 euro – junior academics;

25 euro – PhD students.

The fee includes: conference participation tax and folder, meals and publication.

Conference organizers:

The Institute for Intercultural Studies and Research, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest

Deadline and contact details:

Please send an abstract (about 250 words) by 31^st January 2013 to:

eurofringes@gmail.com