International conference

After Writing Back. Present and future perspectives in Postcolonial Studies.

University of Bergamo, Italy 13-15 October 2009

The editors of Contemporary Essays on the Postcolonial Short Story invite contributions for an interdisciplinary collection on the postcolonial short story. The collection will try to respond to the following lines of inquiry:

Intermedial relations between literature, visual arts and music became important during the Romantic era which forms a turning -point in the understanding of such relations. German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel even introduced the concept of ´Universalpoesie´with an idea to include different forms of arts and knowledge into the literary narrative. In this session, which will take place at the ICLA conference in Korea 2010, we will discover the various forms of artistic intermediality in the works of Romantic writers. Apart from literature it is possible to present papers about other forms of Romantic art as long as they have some connection to literature.
Contact as soon as possible: Dr. Leena Eilittä, University of Mainz, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS REOPENED

2009 Postgraduate Conference: History, Mystery & Myth

Saturday 14th November 2009 at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

In recent years trends in biography have shifted from the desire to present a definitive life to a more self reflexive approach. Metabiographies such as Lucasta Miller's The Bronte Myth, Sarah Churchwell's The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe and Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder provide alternative renderings of both the biographical subject and his or her entry into collective cultural consciousness.

This one day postgraduate conference intends to respond to these recent innovations in life writing by offering the opportunity to explore such questions as: