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IALIC 
4TH Annual Conference 
Lancaster University, UK 
The Intercultural Narrative 
14th-16th December 2003 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

We warmly invite you to submit a proposal for the 4th IALIC conference. 
The conference, which has as its main themeThe Intercultural Narrative, 
proposes to investigate the various forms of this emerging genre, its 
theoretical foundations and its sociopolitical implications. In the 
context of the conference, narrative may be interpreted in the widest 
sense as encompassing art, film, music, photography, literature and 
documentary as well as the various media through which it is expressed. 
We understand its object to be that of capturing the state of being 
'between cultures' as a consequence of physical or psychological 
displacement, a principle which may be reflected in the content and 
structure of the narrative and in the combination of media employed. It 
raises questions of identity: how identity is constructed through 
narrative, whether the ideal of coherence is attainable... and also the 
ethical implications of attempting to 'narrate the other', at the level of 
the individual or, between communities, through ethnographic study. It 
also raises questions of genre: what generic forms does the intercultural 
narrative take and how do its different discourses interact? Finally, it 
will consider the processes of articulation between intercultural 
narratives and their social contexts. The conference is interdisciplinary 
and is intended to appeal to researchers in the Arts and Humanities as 
much as to historians, social scientists and cultural theoreticians. It 
is being organised jointly by the International Association for Languages 
and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) and the Institute for Advanced 
Studies (IAS) at Lancaster University with sponsorship from The British 
Academy, the Institut Français and the Goethe Institut. The conference 
will include an independent forum to which contributions are also invited, 
on the pedagogical implications of intercultural study within Higher 
Education. This will be co-ordinated by the UK Subject Centre for 
Language, Linguistics and Area Studies (see LTSN hom! e page). 

Keynote Speakers: David Bellos, Princeton University, Carolyn Cooper, 
University of the West Indies, Günther Kress, London Institute of 
Education, Crispin Thurlow, Washington State University. 

Keynote Interlocutors in a special debate on the roles and 
responsibilities of the 'intercultural author': Ismail Kadare (The File on 
H., Albanian Spring...); Herta Müller (Herztier/The Land of Green 
Plums...) and Nuria Amat (Intimacy, The Country of the Soul, Reina de 
America ... 


FULL INFORMATION ON EVERY ASPECT OF THE CONFERENCE - INCLUDING FORMS FOR 
PROPOSALS - IS AVAILABLE ON THE IALIC WEBSITE www.ialic.org 
<http://www.ialic.org>. IF YOU HAVE ANY PERSONAL QUERIES OF ANY KIND 
PLEASE E-MAIL conference@ialic.org conference@ialic.org> AND WE 
SHALL RESPOND WITHOUT DELAY. 

Deadline for submissions: 1st September 2003 

Robert Crawshaw for the Conference Organising Committee 
Department of European Languages and Cultures (DELC) 
Lancaster University 
LANCS UK LA1 4YN 
Tel. +44 (0)1524 592663