30.2531, Confs: Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature/Romania

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Subject: 30.2531, Confs: Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature/Romania

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:23:29
From: Oana Gheorghiu [oana.gheorghiu at ugal.ro]
Subject: Thirty Years since the Fall of Communism Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture

 
Thirty Years since the Fall of Communism Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture 

Date: 21-Nov-2019 - 22-Nov-2019 
Location: Galati, Romania 
Contact: Oana Gheorghiu 
Contact Email: oana.gheorghiu at ugal.ro 
Meeting URL: http://fift.ugal.ro/30years/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature 

Meeting Description: 

A joint project of the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, the
Faculty of Letters, and the Cross-border Faculty of “Dunărea de Jos”
University of Galati, the conference is intended as a cultural forum for
imparting knowledge and research on the textuality and representation of
recent, lived history, from different yet interrelated angles: History and
Memory Studies:

- Political Sciences
- Cultural Studies
- Film Studies
- Literary criticism
- Philosophy
- Sociology
- Cultural Anthropology, etc.

With obvious propagandistic aims, the feature films and documentaries produced
in the Eastern Bloc would ‘rewrite’ the history in the making, providing their
home audiences with the image of a system that should have been perceived as
victorious against the evils of the corrupt, capitalist West, and as a
blessing for the ones fortunate enough to be under the protection of the
Party.
Equally worth commenting on are the few cultural products of the age that
escaped censorship in their attempt to fight the regime, either by subtle
insertion of subversive elements in the communist visual propaganda or by
‘emigration’ to a free world that was more than willing to find out what was
going on behind the Iron Curtain.

Following the 1989 revolutions, the fall of the Berlin Wall and, lastly, the
dissolution of the USSR in 1991, cultural memory has been set in motion to
‘show and tell’ how communism really was, in visual artefacts which have
painted ‘the age of horrors’, 1945-1989, as even darker than it had actually
been. With freedom of expression newly guaranteed, art creators have, since
then, struggled to re-textualize the imposed narratives of the recent past,
thus re-producing a history of communism.

Without any claims to historical truth(s), we hereby invite individual
contributions to an academic debate within the framework of an event that will
hopefully shed some light on the way in which communism was culturally
represented before and after 1989 in the former communist states and in the
West.

A special panel will be dedicated to aspects of overcoming the communist
trauma and regaining a sense of national identity through culture in the
former Soviet states, with special emphasis on Moldova and Ukraine.

You are, therefore, kindly invited to submit an abstract of maximum 250 words
for an individual presentation or a 500-word proposal for a panel or workshop
to oana.gheorghiu at ugal.ro by July 25, 2019. Notification of acceptance will be
sent by August 1, 2019.

The presentations can be delivered in English, French or Romanian. However,
the papers sent for publication will be in English.

Publication:

Following the standard procedure of blind peer review, a selection of papers
will be published in a collective volume with PETER LANG (Germany), a renowned
publishing house that has already expressed its interest in the topic. Papers
equally qualitative that will fall outside the scope of the volume will be
published in thematic issues of the journals edited by the organizing
faculties:

Cultural Intertexts (www.cultural-intertexts.com), indexed with ERIH+ and
Ebsco, under evaluation by Clarivate Analytics - Arts & Humanities Citation
Index;
ACROSS (www.across-journal.com), indexed with MLA, CEEOL and Index Copernicus,
under evaluation by Ebsco.
 






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