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Continuity and discontinuity in East West relationships
| Location: | Romania |
| Symposium Date: | 2007-05-25 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2006-10-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
153103 |
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We invite you to participate to the symposium Continuity and discontinuity in East West relationships. East /West cultural, political, economic relationships are registered either as a continuous and positive interchange or in terms of West East power relations, stressing the binary representations in the discourse about the Other together with the mental borderlines drawn on the symbolic map of world between the West and the East, or the Orient, between nations and cultures, which are much more stable than the political ones. We can consider as a prolongation of the cultural borderlines the ones Western scholars drew inside the Eastern, Oriental or Balkan countries perceived as spaces of incompatible differences, and not as a node of cultural interference inn the frame of Orientalist or Balkanist discourses. In the case of East European countries the discursive elements of Orientalism, Balkanism (thoroughly analyzed by Edward Said, Maria Todorova, and Vesna Goldsworthy etc.) are always counter balanced by those of the European identity that cannot be eluded. They prove that the invention of Eastern Europe is a project of demi-orientalization as in Larry Wolffs analysis of the phenomenon. Our conference intends to analyze East West relationships in a balanced way, with their continuities and discontinuities, which can cast light upon the ongoing cooperation or conflicts. We welcome investigations coming from a multitude of directions: history of the international relations, political history, comparative literature, comparative cultural studies, post-colonial and intercultural studies, cultural anthropology and ethnology, psycho-sociology, communication sciences, philosophy of mind, literary history, history of the mentalities and the imaginary, history of ideas and of intellectual trends.
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