|
Probably the biggest challenge of society today, is to find mechanisms to disarticulate the various representations and manifestations of violence that are emerging as a common part of our increasingly globalized and differentiated world. “Reflections on Violence” encourages participants to consider literature, film, the plastic arts, performance, cultural and political thought, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and so forth, as contexts where violence is reframed. We welcome submissions from all disciplinary and professional backgrounds to present papers in English and/or Spanish. Panels are encouraged.
Possible themes and topics include, but are not limited to:
Political violence
Translation
Social violence
Cinematographic adaptation
Sexual violence
War on drugs
Cultural violence
Idigenism
Feminism
Colonialism/postcolonialism
MigrationPlagiarism
Abortion
Race issues
Religion
Radicalism
Biographies
Spanglish/code switching Anthropophagy/cannibalism
Literary/cinematographic genres
Keynote Speaker: Mario Mendoza, probably the most important Colombian writer from his generation. Winner of the Biblioteca Breve award with Satanás, turned into a movie by Andrés Baiz
|
