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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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