The meaning of the transcultural and the aesthetic expression of this is the site of muchcontemporary thinking in the wake of postcolonialism. Issues of borders and border-crossings are of central interest, be they geographical, epistemological, cultural, personal, temporal, or symbolic. The notion of writing history “to reconstruct on entirely new terms” (Attwell) is fraught with theoretical perplexities. This is very much what underlies theories of globalization processes, and of course it is not coincidental that precisely postcolonial theories of culture and identity politics have so strongly influenced how we understand our own current and interconnected realities. This interconnectedness, of routes/roots and cultures, is not a phenomenon “elsewhere;” it increasingly circumscribes and describes the realities and lives lived in our own contemporary societies, evident in the processes of migration, border crossings and responses to integration on several different levels and situations.
Papers or panels (of three) are invited on the following topics:
• Theories and methodologies of transculturalism
• The aesthetics of literary transculturation
• Memory and storytelling
• Identity and border-crossing
• Transcultural v.postcolonial
• Translated identities and cultures
• Place and dislocation
• Configurations of belonging and identity
• Mismatching perspectives
• Transcultural indigeneity
Plenary speakers: Dominica Dipio (Makerere University), Norma Klahn (UCSC), and author Richard Rodriguez (San Francisco)
All abstracts should be submitted to Anne.Ronning@if.uib.no or
lene.johannessen@if.uib.no
Deadline: 15 January 2012
Registration fee for non-networkmembers: €150/NOK1500, including lunch and coffee breaks.
Accommodation: The conference takes place at historical Hotel Grand Terminus. For room reservations please contact the hotel at http://www.ght.no/en/
homepage: https://www.uib.no/rg/nnlts/projects/conference-transculturation-and-aesthetics
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