[Bilimsel Haber] Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a Globalizing World

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

	*Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in
a Globalizing World*
*Location:* 	Sweden
<http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=Sweden>
*Conference Date:* 	2007-05-12

	

	

Recently, the European Union welcomed fifteen new member states. The
accession of a number of Balkan states is impending. Turkey is waiting
in the wings. Transatlantic relations to the USA are hotly debated, in
politics as in culture. China and India awake as economic giants.
Globalization is upon us. At the same time, two of the earliest
signatories to the treaties eventually leading to the European Union
reject a proposal for a European Constitution, and linguistic,
religious, and ethnic dividing lines show even in some of Europe?s
oldest nation states. What role do literature, and the study of
literature, play in the constant re-negotiation and re-construction of
cultural identities all this implies? How do literary texts, genres, and
forms, thinking about them, teaching them, respond to and shape ongoing
processes of European self-understanding in our era of globalization?
The conference will seek to answer these questions by charting key
developments in a number of fields its organizers see as crucial to the
emergence of a European common literary ?space?: Literature and cultural
value systems, Literature and cultural memory, Literary History,
Translation, the impact of the New Media and the Information Age on
matters of Literature and Identity, and the impact of the Postcolonial.
Emphasis will be not on looking back, but rather on pinpointing where a
specific field is at right now, looking forward to probable
developments, and drawing up a possible research agenda for literary
studies in Europe.

Invited speakers should look upon their presentation not as a polished
conference paper, but as a thought-provoking tour d?horizon in which
they discuss the import of what they see as cutting-edge developments in
their field on the relationship between literary studies and ?the matter
of Europe?.

Poster sessions are planned and time will be alloted to short oral
contributions (selected from abstracts).

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