1-2 October 2018. Universitat de València
Deadline: 1 June 2018
Teaching and Theorizing Native American Literature as World Literature: An International Symposium
This symposium aims to be a space of exchange for strategies, methodologies, resources, and reflections regarding the teaching and theorizing of Native American Literature as World Literature. We hope to examine theories, teaching practices, and pedagogical methods that are deployed when Native American literature is engaged in today’s classroom. The challenging role of teachers and theorists as potential intermediaries and responsible disseminators of “transnational literacy” (Spivak 1992) as well as the reception of Native American works by international readers will be a primary focus of attention: How can non-Native readers effectively understand Native American texts in a context of global relations and diverse literary paradigms that attend to and respect local specificities? We also welcome contributions that engage specific Native American texts in a world context from a theoretical and/or comparative perspective.
4-5 April 2018. University of California, Santa Barbara
Deadline: 15 November 2017
Primer Encuentro de Creadores y Especialistas en Lenguas y Literaturas Originarias
La convocatoria se dirige a investigadores cuyos intereses se centran en el estudio de la creación literaria en lenguas naturales como un proceso de conocimiento cultural y en el acto poético como un factor de visibilidad y reivindicación de grupos minoritarios en el continente americano y en el europeo. Asimismo, se reciben propuestas de corte interdisciplinario que abarquen tópicos tales como la traducción a las lenguas ecuménicas, la convivencia y tensión lingüísticas, el liderazgo femenino en las letras y las comunidades marginadas, la música en lenguas naturales, la oralitura, la teorización de géneros literarios transgredidos, la oralidad, los ritos y la tradición, la comunalidad, el tema indígena en el cine documental, la indigeneidad, la trascendencia de políticas de rescate lingüístico y el fomento gubernamental desde el siglo XX hasta el presente.
29 September-1 October 2017. Ghent University
Deadline: 1 May 2017
This conference aims to explore—i.e., to corroborate, to challenge or to further develop—the concept of accelerated development by looking at concrete cases in the literary histories of Eastern Europe where one can speak of a major rupture, such as suddenly acquired cultural independence or freedom or technological evolution, that causes the literature to change course and, possibly, to “accelerate”. More specifically, this conference hopes to find new ways to look at the complex relationships between dominant and non- or less-dominant, central and peripheral, old and young literatures and cultures, colonizing and colonized cultures, progressive and conservative cultures, open and oppressive / repressive cultures, etc. Additionally, the conference aims to discuss the (catalytic) role of cultural agents in the process of accelerated development and the tension(s) between literary and extra-literary motivations. Lastly, the conference hopes to shed light on how cultures going through an accelerated development look at their earlier selves and whether, and if so, how accelerated developments may also lead to new, “own” literary forms that are not quite related to the seemingly dominant cultures.