XXIII AIA CONFERENCE
Forms of migration – Migration of forms
BARI – 20-22 SETTEMBRE 2007
Under the Auspices of the Chancellor of the University of Bari
* * * * * * * * * * *
CALL FOR PAPERS
The next AIA Conference will be hosted in Bari, from the morning of 20th September to the morning of 22nd September 2007. The AIA Board and the University of Bari have agreed upon the following theme:
Forms of migration – Migration of forms
Migration – of people/s, ideas and cultures: of literary genres, motifs, and forms; of languages, discourses, registers, and modes of communication – has emerged as a key concept and a central phenomenon in contemporary culture. In a world of ever increasing human, social, and cultural flows like our own the phenomenon has become extremely relevant, but it has always existed and globalization itself can be historicized. In fact, migration and the consequent interpenetration of cultures, in its multifarious aspects, can be observed both diachronically and synchronically, especially, but not only, across those physical, psychological, literary and linguistic contact-zones where people/s, ideas, cultures and languages literally and/or metaphorically meet, intersect and interact.
The contributions (in English or in Italian) will be organized in the three traditional sections of AIA conferences:
1) Literature
2) Culture
3) Language
Those intending to present a paper must send an abstract (maximum 400 words, including references) to each of the three Convenors of the workshop they wish to participate in at the e-mail addresses given below by 26th April. Each proposal should include name and affiliation of the author(s); a description of the topic and the main issue or research question addressed.
Workshop papers should be 20 minutes in length, allowing 10 minutes for discussion. Times must be rigidly observed.
Acceptance will be notified by 15th May.
The final version of contributions for publication must be handed in by 30th November, 2007.
The Convenors of the Parallel sessions are:
Vito Cavone v.cavone@lingue.uniba.it
Maristella Trulli m.trulli@lingue.uniba.it
Claudia Corti cortic@unifi.it
Vittoria Intonti v.intonti@lingue.uniba.it
Federica Troisi f.troisi@dilifile.uniba.it
Marina Vitale mvitale@iuo.it
Domenico Torretta d.torretta@lingue.uniba.it
Anna Maria Sportelli a.sportelli@lingue.uniba.it
Marina Dossena marina.dossena@unibg.it
Members wishing to present papers must be fully-paid up AIA members. Membership can be renewed by clicking on the following link: http://www.lett.unitn.it/aia/iscrizione.htm
Possible topics
a) Literary Workshops
q Migration of genres, intersemiotic transformations and transcodifications (from narrative to drama, from narrative to film, from theatre to film/ music etc.)
q Theatrical translations, adaptations, and revisions
q Metamorphoses of Myth in Literature
q Contamination and Hybridity of Modes and Forms (satire, parody, burlesque, travestie etc.)
q Intertextuality/ Interdiscursivity / Rewriting
q Variations and Transformations of the “Western Canon”
q Multiculturalism and Postcolonial Literature
b) Culture Workshops
q Ethnicity, Race and Nation
q The globalisation of space and the multiplication of borders.
q Diaspora, trauma and hybrid formations: whose history? whose home?
q Intersections and boundary crossings
q Diasporic Cultures: ‘border’ writings, divided identies.
q After the High Culture/Low Culture divide: the metropolitan mix.
q Gender issues and multiculturalism
q Women ‘living in translation’.
q Queer subjects and diasporic landascapes.
q Women, globalisation and the new technologies of communication.
c) Language Workshops
(all the topics
may be discussed from a synchronic or a diachronic point of
view):
q Language and identity
q Genre and specialized discourse
q Translation and negotiation
q Variation and change in language contact situations (e.g. across territories: code-switching and code-mixing, etc)
q Other forms of interlinguistic migration (e.g. word loans)
q Other forms of intralinguistic migration (e.g. metaphor as a form of migration; convergence/divergence of (supra)regional or social varieties, etc)
The topics are intended for general guidance. Other topics can be proposed provided they are consistent with the general theme of the Conference.