THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
WRITING THE SELF MODES OF SELF-PORTRAYAL IN THE CULTURAL TEXT
The 10th Annual Conference of the English Department of the University of Bucharest will be held between 5 7 June, 2008.
Papers are invited in the following areas:
British and Commonwealth Literatures
American Literature
Cultural Studies
Please note that the papers should address the following general topics: self and authenticity; the (de)construction of the self; self and (multiple) identities; pathologies of the self; the self in the information/ consumer age.
Possible topics:
Sources of the self: The developing modern, the emerging postmodern in the Republic of modern selves; Cultural battles and the retrieval of the self; Interpretation and Construction: the selfs textual/textural/contextual connection
Cultural episodes: Modern culture in the landscape of moral good/ Writing beyond the moral visions/ Why the escape from history and the self?
Cultural typologies and beyond: Canonical self-portrayals of Western culture and the writing revolutions; Scandalous romantic selves assessed: from the new to the radical cultural action; Assessing the (trans)Atlantic cultural texts in the age of the postcolonials; Writing the everyday self;
Centres, channels, challenges in cultural writing: Techniques of self-criticism in portraying the (late) modern/post-modern culture; Writing and re-writing the cultural self as a source for cultural history and cultural anthropology; Writing the multicultural self in the media.
You are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations or panels (60 min.) on the above-mentioned topics.
To register, please fill in the form below and send it to the following e-mail address by 1 March, 2008: bucharest_litcultst_at_yahoo.com
The conference fee of 40 Euro (to be paid upon arrival)includes folders, lunch, coffee breaks and refreshments for two days. A selection of papers will be published in University of Bucharest Review.
Details about accommodation will be provided in the 2nd Call for Papers.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Bucharest,
Assoc. Prof. Octavian Roske, Head of the English Department
The Organizing Committee:
Prof. Irina Pană
Dr. Ioana Zirra
Dr. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Ruxandra Rădulescu, PhD candidate
Dragoş Ivana, PhD candidate
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
REGISTRATION FORM
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Title of paper
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*Details about accommodation to be provided in the 2nd Call for Papers.
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