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To mark the close of the three-year Nordforsk funded project on Literary Transculturation an international conference open to all interested will be hosted by the University of Bergen, Norway, 31.08 -02.09 2012.
PAPERS OR PANELS (OF THREE) ARE INVITED ON TOPICS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
• 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
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Dominica Dipio (Uganda):
"Negotiating Transcultural Identities in African Literature: Timothy Wangusa's Upon This Mountain and Ngugi wa Thiongo's The River Between."
Norma Klahn (U.S):
“Re-Plotting Border Imaginaries: A Tale of Two Cities”
Ato Quayson (Canada):
"Periods vs. Concepts: Space-making and the Question of Postcolonial Literary History"
Richard Rodriguez (U.S.):
"After the Border Wall is Built"
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS OF UP TO 300 WORDS: APRIL 11TH, 2012.
All abstracts should be submitted to Anne.Ronning@if.uib.no
REGISTRATION FEE (non-network members): €150/NOK1500 (registration form can be downloaded from conference website at http://www.uib.no/rg/nnlts/projects/conference-transculturation-and-aesthetics.
The fee includes lunch and coffee breaks all days, reception Friday, and conference dinner Saturday.
ACCOMMODATION: The conference takes place at historical Hotel Grand Terminus. Please make room reservations directly at
http://www.ght.no/en/
THE CONFERENCE STARTS at 10.am August 31st, and ends 4.p.m. Sunday afternoon. The City of Bergen will host a reception for the conference participants at historical Schøtt stuene, 7 pm Friday evening.
For further questions please contact Anne.Ronning@if.uib.no or lene.johannessen@if.uib.no
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.uib.no/rg/nnlts/projects/conference-transculturation-and-aesthetics
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