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NEW
Esej in singularnost // The Essay
and Singularity
Mednarodna
konferenca /
International Conference
Ljubljana, Mala dvorana ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4/II, 22.–23. 10. 2009
7.
International Comparative Literature Colloquium VILENICA
2009
"Kdo
izbere?" Literatura in literarno posredništvo / "Who Chooses?" Literature and
Literary Mediation
Lipica, Slovenia, 3–4
September 2009
program and abstracts
International Scientific Conference (Tbilisi, Georgia, October 7-9)
“Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse (20th century experience)”
The conference is about to be organized by the Shota Rustaveli Institute of
Georgian Literature in partnership with Georgian Comparative Literature
Association (GCLA). The conference will be held in October 7-8-9, 2009 with the
support of the Foundation for Georgian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences (Rustaveli
Foundation). The conference is dedicated to the analysis, evaluation, revision
and reinterpretation of ongoing literary processes against the background of
20th century. In addition, the revision and classification of the tendencies of
literary studies are emphasized.Panel topics will include the following:
- Myths and Stereotypes of Totalitarian Epoch;
- Totalitarianism and Models of Alternative Thinking
- Literary Genres of the Epoch of Totalitarianism;
- Totalitarian Text and the Concept of Leader;
- Peculiarity of Interpretation of Creative Text under the Conditions of
Totalitarian Regime;
Dissident Literature;
- Banned and Harmed Texts under the Conditions of Dictate Censorship;
- Public and Intellectual Criticism;
- Totalitarianism from Far-away Perspective (centre and emigration);
- Formation and collapse of Totalitarian Text.
Working languages of the Conference are Georgian, English and Russian. We are
pleased to inform You that Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and
GCLA with the support of Rustaveli foundation will cover Your expenses
(registration fee, accommodation and meals).
Call for
Abstracts:
Paper titles, abstracts of no more than 250 words (in English) and filled
registration forms (registration forms can be downloaded from the following
website: http://www.litinstituti.ge/english/total-reg-form.htm) should be sent
electronically by July 20, 2009 to the Organizing Committee on the following
email: maillit@litinstituti.ge. For
further information feel free to contact the Organizing Committee on the above
mentioned email or visit our official web-site:
www.litinstituti.ge.
Invitation to cooperate with Georgian comparatists and Sjani review
We are writing in order to inform You about the call for papers for the oncoming
issue of the Journal "Sjani". "Sjani" ("The Thoughts") is an Annual Peer-Reviewed
International Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature published by
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and Georgian Comparative
Literature Association. It welcomes articles covering philology, literature,
literary theory, criticism, comparative studies, culture and aesthetics.
Articles can be written in Georgian, English, German, Russian or French
languages. It would be honour for us to receive contributions from You and
publish articles of Your colleagues. The deadline for submitting papers is 20
December, 2009. For the guidance on how to format your paper, please see the
citing style for scientific publications of Shota Rustaveli Institute of
Georgian Literature by visiting out official website:
www.litinstituti.ge or
http://www.litinstituti.ge/english/cit-ingl-stile.htm. For further
information please feel free to contact us on the following e-mail:
maillit@litinstituti.ge.
The Essay and Singularity
An
International Conference of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association,
Ljubljana, 22-23 October 2009
(call for papers)
The essay evades genre
classifications and falls outside the typologies of the three literary genres
that were inherited from Romanticism, but was nonetheless recognized as an
independent genre in twentieth-century literary studies. One characteristic of
this genre is that it transcends the boundaries of literature and hybridizes its
discourse with that of another art, philosophy, science, religion, or politics.
The essay is the genre that, alongside the novel, perhaps best responds to
modernity: from Montaigne and Bacon through Benjamin and Adorno to today, it is
distinguished by experiential and exploratory creation of knowledge, questioning
of established systems of learning and disciplinary divisions, as well as
showing doubt about traditional authorities and general laws or rules. The essay
intervenes in given cultural sources with poetic writing, primarily authorized
by the singularity of an individual’s existence, its enunciatory position,
personalized experience, and perspective that continually enable the essayist
writing to open up new, sometimes barely anticipated associations between words,
things, concepts, disciplines, and experiences. The examining creativity of the
essay, its significance in the dynamics of thought and cognition, and also its
hybridity or borderline quality (characterized at a loss as “semi-literary
quality”) should also be considered and defined outside the comfortable formulas
of the essay as a subjective, at first glance literary practice and
representation of knowledge. The conceptual framework that could prove to be
productive in this endeavour implies singularity, an issue that has recently
been much discussed in philosophy (Jean-Luc Nancy) and literary studies (Samuel
Weber, Timothy Clark, and Derek Attridge). Singularity – to which art itself
unavoidably adheres in its essence – opens new perspectives on the known
structural nature of the essay, such as subjectivity, mixing of genres,
reflexivity and self-reflexivity, first-person narrative, autobiography,
rhetoric and poetics, narrativity and intertextuality, open form, etc. The
conference will raise the following questions: What is the connection between
singularity and pluralism of ethics, policies, and truths in the essay, which is
the presumed emblem of postmodernity? How much and how does essayistic writing
overstep the genre boundaries of the essay and shapes novels, poetry, plays, and
the performing arts? How does it transform itself in the language of modern
print and electronic media? Does an essayistic pop culture also exist? How is
the essay used and misused in education? Furthermore, in a society in which the
criteria of knowledge are shaken, is the essay not often also a pretense or
alibi? Does the rhetoric of essayism not in many cases conceal argumentative
deficiencies, logical errors, scholarly lack of expertise, hidden political
agendas, and ideologies? Or perhaps transgressive thinking, such as is recorded
in essay writing, is only an unavoidable and inherent segment of the cognitive
understanding of new realities?
Organizing Committee:
Dr Marko Juvan (Scientific Research Centre and University of Ljubljana), Dr
Darja Pavlič (University of Maribor), Dr Ivo Pospíšil (University of Brno), Jola
Škulj (Scientific Research Centre, Ljubljana).
Please send the title of a
20-minute paper and a short synopsis (300 characters) in English before 1
June 2009 to Dr Darja Pavlič, e-mail:
darja.pavlic@uni-mb.si
The participants whose abstracts
have been accepted will be sent an official invitation by the Slovenian
Comparative Literature Association in June 2009. They will be asked to send a
longer abstract (2000 characters) before 20 September 2009 in order to publish
it in a booklet before the conference. A selection of papers will be considered
for publication in Primerjalna književnost journal in June 2010. There is
no conference fee. It is expected that the participants will cover their travel
and accommodation costs by themselves. The organizers will provide the
information on accommodation in Ljubljana.
VILENICA 2008,
program and abstracts
Avtor: kdo ali kaj
piše literaturo?
/ The Author: Who or What Is Writing Literature?
Lipica, Slovenija September 4-5, 2008
Responding to cosmopolitanism: the new identities of literary theory
ICLA Committee on Literary Theory International Colloquium, Ljubljana
5-7 June 2008
program and abstracts
VILENICA 2007
5th
International Comparative Literature Colloquium
Literatura
in cenzura / Literature and Censorship
Lipica, Slovenija,
September 6-7, 2007
Milan Dekleva:
Zgodba kot svet in predstava (Lecture from the cycle "Autopoetics", 6. 2.
2007)
Tomaž Toporišič:
Kriza dramskega avtorja v gledališču osemdesetih in devetdesetih
let dvajsetega stoletja. (Lecture, 10. 1. 2007)
Marijan Dović: Modeli slovenskega pisatelja / The Models of a
Slovene Writer. (Lecture, Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU, 28. 9. 2006)
VILENICA 2006
Zgodovina
in njeni literarni žanri / History and its literary genres (programme
and paper abstracts)
Lipica,
September 7-8, 2006
The
Anniversary of Primerjalna književnost Journal
INVITATION
(call for papers)
The
anniversary of Primerjalna književnost
journal which will take place the next year, is reason for invitation to reflect
on what was happening with literature (as object of study) and comparative
literature (as scientific discipline) in the last thirty years. To encourage a
wide range of replies, some issues are presented, but essays with other topics
which will discuss literature or comparative literature after 1978, are also
welcomed.
1.
Comparative literature, other sciences, knowledge and society
Comparative
literature is traditionally open to concepts of different disciplines (philosophy,
linguistics, psychoanalysis, sociology, history and so on). Interdisciplinary
approaches have considerably enriched our knowledge about literature, whereas
transdisciplinarity means a rather new challenge. Transdisciplinarity is
grounded on assumption that knowledge is transgressive in its essence, and
therefore transcends the borders between disciplines as well as the borders
between science and society. Transdisciplinarity doesn’t abolish singular
disciplines; on the contrary it aims for dialogue between specialists and
different kinds of knowledge, therefore also between literary science and
literature. It emphasizes the notion of accountability to different users and
the importance of teaching among other things.
2.
Changes in comparative literature
After
years of mutual exclusion, two main approaches to literary studies in 20th
century, textualism and historism, have reached the point where they can work
together. However, the social turn has marked the recent past of literary
science more than the linguistic turn. Socio-political aspects of text (power,
class, history, race, gender and so on) have gained the attention. When we speak
about the development of comparative literature, we can not ignore recurrences
of past models, for example Geistesgeschichte
as one of them.
3.
Changes in literature
Intertwining
of historism and textualism takes place in a special kind of postmodern novel,
historiographic metafiction. Postmodern achievement is affirmation of genres and
popular culture, whereas the question if postmodernism is the latest literary
movement or just an episode in literary history, remains open. In the recent
past -- marked with economic and cultural globalisation and corresponding
localisation, in the post-socialist states particularly with transition to
democratic society – problems of identity, individual as well as group, are
central in literature. One of the characteristics of current literature is also
new relations with media (hypertext and interactive literature, post-dramatic
theatre).
Guidelines
for participation: an abstract (500-600 characters) written in English or
Slovene should be sent until 15th of October to the editor’s
address (darja.pavlic@uni-mb.si).
Until 15th of November you’ll be informed whether you are invited
to send your paper (20.000 characters with spaces, i.e. 10 pages) until 1st
of March 2007. The selected papers will be published in Primerjalna književnost journal in jubilee year 2007.
Darja Pavlič, editor
A new book
of Slovene comparatist Metka Zupančič,
“Death,
Language, Thought” was recently published in USA.
Minutes
of the General Assembly of the REELC/ENCLS
(Florence, september 2005)
A
letter to the Rectorate of the University of Innsbruck (supporting
the Innsbruck CL department)
Winfried Menninghaus:
Beauty and Death in Darwin and Freud /
Lepota in smrt
pri Darwinu in Freudu.
Lepota in smrt
pri Darwinu in Freudu. (Lecture, 20. 10. 2005)
Winfried
Menninghaus: Hölderlin's Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male
Pindaric Seer / Hölderlinov sapfični modus: Revidiranje mita o moškem
pindarskem vidcu. (Lecture, 20. 10. 2005)
VILENICA
2005
3rd
International Comparative Literature Colloquium
Teoretsko-literarni
hibridi: o dialogu literature in teorije / Hybridizing Theory and
Literature: On the Dialogue between Theory and Literature
(Lipica, 8. in 9.
september 2005, abstracts)
Dr.
Jan
Johann A. Mooij,
Groningenu (Hol):
Literature
and the Arts
(19.
5. 2005,
11.15)
Dr. Galin
Tihanov,
Lancaster (VB):
Post-Romantic
Syndrome
(14.
4. 2005, 10.30)
Special
edition of CL: Literature and
space:
Spaces
of transgressiveness
edited by Jola Škulj and Darja
Pavlič - articles by
Jean
Bessiere (University of Paris III – Nouvelle Sorbonne), Bart Keunen (University
of Liege, Belgium), Bertrand Westphal (University of Limoges, France), Jelka
Kernev, Darja Pavlič (University
of Maribor, Slovenia), Igor Škamperle, Marko Juvan, Jola
Škulj, Marijan Dović (Literary institute ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Katia
Pizzi and Igor Zabel (Modern
galery, Ljubljana, Slovenia).
Jola Škulj
was invited and elected a member of the ICLA/AILC
Executive council.
VILENICA
2004: Comparative Literature Congress (abstracts)
"Kosovel: Between Ethics
and Poetics
(Vilenica, Slovenia, 9.- 10. September)
VILENICA
2003: Comparative Literature Congress
(abstracts)
"Spaces of Transgression:
Literature at the Edge"
(Vilenica, Slovenia, 3. in 4. september)
Jean
Bessiere (University of Paris III – Nouvelle Sorbonne), Bart Keunen (University
of Liege, Belgium), Bertrand Westphal (University of Limoges, France), Jelka
Kernev, Darja Pavlič (University
of Maribor, Slovenia), Igor Škamperle, Marko Juvan, Jola
Škulj, Marijan Dović (Literary institute ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia),
Zoltan Jan (University of Trieste) and Igor Zabel (Modern
galery, Ljubljana, Slovenia).
A new issue of Primerjalna književnost
/ CL review
PKn 2002/2
brings articles by Janko
Kos,
Brane
Senegačnik, Alenka
Jovanovski and
International
Conference:
How
to Write Literary History Today?
Ljubljana, Mala
dvorana ZRC SAZU
, Novi trg 4, 2. floor
Organized by dr. Darko Dolinar and
dr. Marko Juvan
A new issue of Primerjalna književnost
/ CL review PKn 2002/1
brings articles by Aleksander Skaza, Marko Juvan,
Matija Ogrin and Franca Buttolo.
The last, 46th volume of Literary Lexicon brings
a monograph on old verse forms of India by Vlasta Pacheiner-Klander.
New at ICLA/AILC
(conferences, calls for papers …)
http://www.byu.edu/%7Eicla/cgi-bin/announce.cgi
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