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<p>Institute of World Literature of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava<br>
<br>
and<br>
<br>
The ICLA Research Committee on Eastern and South Eastern Europe<br>
<br>
present the conference<br>
<br>
The “New Imagined Communities”:<br>
Identity Build up in Eastern and South Eastern Europe<br>
<br>
14th - 15th May 2009<br>
<br>
Veda-Malé kongresové centrum SAV<br>
Štefánikova 3<br>
Bratislava 1<br>
<br>
As Stuart Hall has emphasized, the concept of identity is not an <br>
essentialist but a strategic and a positional one. That is to say that <br>
identities are constructed across different, often intersecting <br>
discourses, practices and positions, they are subject to a radical <br>
historicization and are constantly in a process of change.<br>
<br>
In the era of globalism and of the European integration, identity build <br>
up is at stake and new disciplines are getting involved in this area, <br>
challenging comparative literature and cultural studies. Emerging as <br>
both a research and a curricular object, the European studies display an <br>
interdisciplinary and trans-methodologica<wbr>l drive.<br>
<br>
The conference aims at focusing on the epistemological and the <br>
methodological turns in approaching cultural identity and at unveiling <br>
the landmarks (topographical, historical, ideological, symbolic etc.) <br>
that underline the different and yet converging identity projects in <br>
Eastern and South Eastern Europe, as well as in the Central Europe.<br>
<br>
The conference is organized by the Institute of World Literature of <br>
Slovak Academy of Science, jointly with The ICLA Research Committee on <br>
Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The comparative literature has a rich <br>
tradition in Slovak literary studies. This is one of the reasons, why <br>
the conference will be working with the concept of the “communities”, <br>
the notion introduced in the comparative literary studies in 80` by the <br>
well known Slovak comparatist Dionýz Ďurišin.<br>
<br>
Programme outline:<br>
<br>
14th May, 2009<br>
<br>
9.30 – 12.30<br>
9.30 – 10.30 Registration, Welcome <br>
Notions and Methods<br>
10.30 – 10.50 Róbert Gáfrik: Ďurišin’s Concept of Interliterary <br>
Communities and the Contemporary Debate on Cultural Identity<br>
11.00 – 11.20 Ivo Pospíšil: The Problem of Terminology, Methodology and<br>
Axiology: Central Europe (Mitteleuropa)<wbr>, East-Central Europe <br>
(Ostmitteleuropa)<wbr>, East and South-East Europe<br>
11.30 – 11.50 Vladimir Biti: The Cosmopolitan Literary Imperative<br>
12.00 – 12.20 Monica Spiridon: Mapping Europe. (Interdisciplinary <br>
Encounters)<br>
<br>
Lunch Break<br>
<br>
13.30 – 18.00<br>
Round Table The European Republic of Letters<br>
13:30 – 13.50 Jola Skulj: Cultural Realities in View of Dialogism and <br>
Narrative Identity<br>
14.00 – 14.20 Zoran Milutinović: The Construction of Europe in Serbian <br>
Culture 1913 -1945<br>
14.30 – 14.50 Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser: European Cultural Concept from <br>
the Perspective of its Periphery<br>
15.00 – 15.20 Guido J. Snel: Transnationalism as a Realm of Liberation <br>
and as a Prison Space<br>
<br>
Coffee Break<br>
<br>
16.00 – 16.20 Roumiana L. Stantcheva: Migration et identité de <br>
l’artiste contemporain<br>
17.00 – 17.20 Katarína Bednárová: Paysage littéraire européen/mondial <br>
construit ou déconstruit ?<br>
17.30 – 17.50 Dušan Živković: The Relations between The East and The <br>
West throughout the Novel ’The White Fortress’ Written by Orhan Pamuk<br>
<br>
15th May, 2009<br>
<br>
9.00 – 18.00<br>
Globalism and East-European Identity Build-up<br>
9.00 – 9.20 Alexander Kiossev: New Nationalism(<wbr>s) and „Europes: in the <br>
Post-Accession Condition. The Bulgarian Case.<br>
9.30 – 9.50 Vladimír Svatoň: Conflicting Search for National Identity<br>
10.00 – 10.20 Mária Bátorová: On the Acceptance of Singular Identities <br>
and European Identity<br>
10.30 – 10.50 Václav Ježek: Identity Crisis and Identity Formation in <br>
the Context of the Greek-Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in <br>
Eastern Slovakia.<br>
<br>
Coffee Break<br>
<br>
11.30 – 12.50<br>
Conceptual Landmarks<br>
11.30 – 11.50 Péter Hajdu: Ethnicism, Land, and City<br>
12.00 – 12.20 Dagmar Roberts: Picturesque, Powerful and Primitive (On <br>
Slovak National Identity in the Inter-bellum Period)<br>
12.30 – 12.50 Ana Martinoska: The Presence of the Past: The Myth of <br>
Alexander the Great in the Macedonian Literature<br>
<br>
Lunch Break<br>
<br>
14.00 – 18.20<br>
Conceptual Landmarks<br>
14.00 – 14.20 Jale Parla: Reconsiderations of the Ottoman Past in <br>
Literary and Other Discourses<br>
14.30 – 14.50 Nevena Daković: Literature in Cinema: Mythical History<br>
15.00 – 15.20 Jana Dudková: Self-Colonization, Urbicid and Vampirism: <br>
Some Questions about the Representations of Balkan after 1989<br>
16.00 – 16.20 František Šístek: Union or Occupation? Competing <br>
Narratives of 1918 and Identity Construction in Montenegro<br>
17.00 – 17.20 Stijn Vervaet: The Representation of the Past and the <br>
Construction of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Bosnian prose.<br>
17.30 – 17.50 Michael Mueller: About the Rhetorical Dodges that <br>
Triggered off the Turn from the Second to the Third Yugoslavia<br>
18.00 – 18.20 Libuša Vajdová: Decadence and the Balkans<br>
<br>
Adresses:<br>
<br>
Organizer:<br>
Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV<br>
Konventná 13<br>
813 64 Bratislava 1<br>
Tel. (00421-2) 54413391, 54412701<br>
Fax (00421-2) 54431995<br>
E-mail <a href="mailto:usvlust%40savba.sk">usvlust@savba.<wbr>sk</a><br>
<a href="mailto:usvlzit%40savba.sk">usvlzit@savba.<wbr>sk</a><br>
<a href="mailto:lvajdova%40chello.cz">lvajdova@chello.<wbr>cz</a><br>
<a href="mailto:usvldir%40savba.sk">usvldir@savba.<wbr>sk</a><br>
<br>
Tel. in English:<br>
Ms Gabika Magova<br>
Mr Robert Gafrik <br>
Ms Zuzana Husarova<br>
Ms Ioanna Ciesielska<br>
<br>
Place of Conference:<br>
Veda - Malé kongresové centrum SAV<br>
Štefánikova 3<br>
81364 Bratislava 1<br>
Tel. (00421-2) 52450153<br>
www.veda.sav.<wbr>sk/mkc<br>
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