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Subject: Call for papers -- IALIC
IALIC (International Association for Languages and Intercultural
Communication)
4TH Annual Conference
Lancaster University, UK
"The Intercultural Narrative"
14th-16th December 2003
CALL FOR PAPERS
(deadline: 1 Sept. 2003)
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 individal 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 home 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…) and Herta Müller (Herztier/The Land of
Green Plums…).
FULL INFORMATION ON EVERY ASPECT OF THE
CONFERENCE – INCLUDING FORMS FOR PROPOSALS - IS
AVAILABLE ON THE IALIC WEBSITE www.ialic.org. IF YOU
HAVE ANY PERSONAL QUERIES OF ANY KIND PLEASE E-
MAIL conference@ialic.org or THE CONFERENCE ORGANISER
DIRECTLY:
Robert Crawshaw
Department of European Languages and Cultures (DELC)
Lancaster University
LANCS UK LA1 4YN
Tel. +44 (0)1524 592663
r.crawshaw@lancs.ac.uk
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Bakhtin Centre
Floor 8, Arts Tower
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN, England
Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7415
Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7400
E-mail: Bakhtin.Centre@Sheffield.ac.uk
URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/bakhtin.html
Director: Professor David Shepherd
Lecturer: Dr Craig Brandist
SNF Research Fellow: Dr Karine Zbinden
Honorary Research Fellows: Dr Colin Gardner, Mr Jonathan Hall
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