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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Call for Papers: Historiography in literatures and cultures: between literature, history and myth</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">, 20-21 December 2013</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:16.666667938232422px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> Baku Slavic University and Azerbaijan Comparative Literature Association are pleased to invite paper proposals for a traditional joint Comparative Literature conference on the topic </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Historiography in literatures and cultures: between literature, myth and history, </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">which will take place in Baku in 20-21 December 2013.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore methodological and practical aspects of history as expression of memory and memorization of history in the text, how history locates between historical and literary genres, and how distinguish portrayal methods of history in different cultures.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;color:rgb(42, 42, 42);"> History is the significant factor, which impacts in the content and forms of representation of the text, both scientific and artistic. Comparative investigation of different periods and locations, such as The Great Migration of early medieval period and migration of XX century, followed after collapse of modern empires; or disillusionment of newly emerged states in yesterday’s ideologies, icons and attempts to reconsider past, brought to parallels in conceptualization of past, changing the interpretation of past, or in other words, history of different period and by different people. In this context, one of the substantial issues of the day is to what extent chronicle or</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;color:rgb(42, 42, 42);">historical textbook are documentary, and to what extent imagination in literature and visual arts is data garbling and could be considered ethical. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> Suggested panels and papers should address, but not limited, to the abovementioned points and research questions:<b></b></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> Is speculation in literary or visual (such as movie, poster) representation of historical events, persons and vice-versa?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Where are the borders between literary (or any art type) genres and documentary?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Reassessment of past in texts: incompleteness of history?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Historical itineraries</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> and changing interpretation of depiction of history in textbooks and by different people?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Are literature and culture tools for resolving contradictions of history writing?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">How technologies</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> influence into creation of documentary and fiction?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">How they create <b>historical stereotypes</b>?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Literary fiction as source for undocumented stories of history?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">History and ideology</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Literary <b>forms and genres</b> for representing myth and history in medieval period in different cultures (epic, kasida, oda, et al.)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Traces of history in ancient myth (as <i>Belosnejka (Snowwhite) </i>and seven dwarfs, or amazons in Iskender-Nameh by Nizamy)?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Collective Memory</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">: Are they the same: Oral Literature and <b>Oral History</b>?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Individual memory</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> and <b>travelogu</b>e (travel notes) as historiography (<i>Journey to Erzerum</i> by A.S.Pushkin,<i> Journey to Moscow from Peterburg</i> by A. Radishev, <i>Letters by Russian trekker </i>N.M. Karamzin, travelogues by Medieval ambassadors, <i>Seldjuk-Name or Ibn-Bibi about campaign of Turks from Asia Minor, Polovtsians and Russians to Soudak,</i>by Ibn-Bibi )</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Individual memory</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> and <b>diary</b> (<i>The Diary of Anne Frank, Azerbaijani Diary </i>by Thomas Goltz)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Traces of history through <b>architecture</b> (privatized buildings by <span class="ecxgm">Bolsheviks</span> in Soviet era; style of construction as influence of time, such as classic Roman-Greek style vs. modernity as described in<span class="ecxapple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Fountainhead<span class="ecxapple-converted-space"> </span></i> by Ayn Rand)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tt><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Proposals, which cover a</span></tt><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">ny relevant aspect and field are welcome <tt><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">in the following formats, especially with pro and cons papers</span></tt></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br></span><tt><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">1. Individual papers<b></b></span></tt></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tt><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Panel sessions</span></tt></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tt><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">3. Roundtable discussions</span></tt></p><pre style="line-height:20px;font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> Working languages of the conference are Azerbaijani, Russian and English. But is pre-organized panel, German and French are also allowed. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Papers are allotted 15 minutes for
presentation</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">and 5 minutes
for discussion.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></pre><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Deadline </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">for abstract submission and panel proposal is June 5, 2013</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Notification of acceptance is 15 June 2013</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Conference date: 20-21 December 2013</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE WILL FUND ALL MEAL FOR PAPERS<br> SELECTED, AND WILL FUND ACCOMMODATION THROUGH A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS.</span></p><p class="ecxNoSpacing1" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Paper proposals (150-200-words abstract for a paper to last 15 minutes,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">brief CV no more than 1 page, contact information) are due by June 15, 2013 and should be sent to:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(0, 104, 207);cursor:pointer;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="mailto:rahilya_g@hotmail.com" style="color:rgb(0, 104, 207);cursor:pointer;">rahilya_g@hotmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p><p class="ecxNoSpacing1" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="RU"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:20px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">On behalf of Organizing Committee,</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">Prof. Dr. Rahilya
Geybullayeva</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">Founding Head of Azerbaijani Comparative Literature
Association</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">Head of the Azerbaijani Literature Department</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">Baku Slavic University</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">S. Roustam str., 25 </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">Baku, Az-1014, Azerbaijan</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">Tel.: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">+ 99 412 597 04 19<span style=""> <br></span></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";">Fax: + 99 412 493 30 42 </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";" lang="IT">E-mail: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="mailto:rahilya_g@hotmail.com"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="IT">rahilya_g@hotmail.com</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;"><a href="http://www.azcla.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";" lang="IT">www.azcla.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";" lang="IT"></span></p>
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