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The Hellenic Association for American Studies, and the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English of Aristotle University aim to bring together Greek and foreign graduate students (MA & PhD) as well as young scholars at the start of their careers from various fields and disciplines to a conference which is organized at the Aristotle University Campus.
The conference organizers invite papers that address the concepts of de-centrism and ex-centrism within a globalized context. This conference is interested in examining cultural and literary diversity that has merged from the reciprocal traffic of ideas and influences between cultures, politics, aesthetics and disciplines with an emphasis on identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.
List of suggested topics:
Personal Boundaries in the Negotiation of Identity
Locality and Belonging
Place and Identity
Contested Landscapes/ Contested Narratives
Local v/s transnational politics
Setting boundaries – Transcending Boundaries
Spatial and Social Organization
Ethnic Groups-Minorities- Immigration – Alienation –Exile
Local vs. Global: Shifting Borders and Hybrid Identities
Doppelganger metaphor /Otherness
Polyphony vs. Authorial voices in politics/history, philosophy
psychology, sociology, journalism/law
Gender – Racial identity
New Novels – Old Narratives
Multileveledness – Politext - Hypertexts
Intertextuality
Peripheral/Marginal
Postcolonial Narratives
Cultural Preservations and Electronic Technologies
Embodiment – Disembodiment
World English
Semantics
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