CFP for Symposium: Dislocating Literature.

[Markus Huss]

Dear listmembers,

in May 2011 the symposium "Dislocating Literature. Transnational Literature
and the Directions of Literary Studies in the Baltic Sea Region" will be
held at Södertörn University (south of Stockholm). Any scholar interested in
the subject are warmly asked to send paper proposals to
dislocatingliterature at sh.se .

CFP is to be found further down in this email. Deadline for abstracts is
December the 1st.

Yours sincerely,

Markus Huss, PhD Canditate in Literary Studies at the Baltic and East
European Graduate School, Södertörn University

together with

Kaisa Kaakinen (Cornell University, Ithaca) and Jenny Willner (Freie
Universitet, Berlin)

CFP:


*Symposium at Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European
Studies (CBEES), May 2011*


*Dislocating Literature. Transnational Literature and the Directions of
Literary Studies in the Baltic Sea Region*

We   are   gathering   international   scholars   to   discuss   literature
 that   deals   with geographical as well as conceptual border crossings
within the Baltic Sea Region. As
the choice of subject already suggests, intersections between literature and
history will make  up  a  key  aspect  of  the  symposium.  In  the
 international  debate  over  the  last decades,  scholars  of postcolonial
 literature  have  most  often  examined  the  issue  of comparison in
relation to history and context. How does literary criticism in the Baltic
Sea Region relate to these debates? Transnational and transregional literary
studies are bound to challenge the idea of cultures, languages and
philologies as closed entities. How does this affect the whole concept of
comparative literature? What happens when we focus  on  the  aspect  of
 trauma  and  dislocation  in  the  literature  of  the  Baltic  Sea region?

Participants are invited to either present their research on specific
literary works that deal with multilinguality, migration and cultural as
well as personal dislocation, or to contribute  to  the  theoretical
debate  on  how  literary  relations  in  the  region  can  be rethought.
 Crossing the  boundaries  between  countries,  cultures  and  languages  in
 this region inevitably involves crossing the tracks of vikings and
tradesmen, smugglers and duty free ships, politicians and armies, nomads and
crusaders, working-class activists and  aristocrats,  fascists  and
 communists,  esperantists  and  feminists, refugees  and economic migrants,
scholars and artists, diplomats and spies. Any literary protagonist, author,
motif or stylistic device that can be argued to reflect such modes of
movement is of potential relevance for the discussion. We also welcome
destabilizing approaches to literary texts that have so far been seen in a
national or regional context.

An abstract (max. 300 words) and a short cv should be sent to
dislocatingliterature at sh.seno later than December 1st 2010.

Symposium language: English

Preliminary date: The symposium will take place at Södertörn University in
Huddinge, Sweden in May, week 20, 2011, during one full day.

Accomodation for one night and traveling expenses within Europe will be
funded. For further inquires please turn to dislocatingliterature at sh.se or
to one of the organizers.

Organisation:

Markus Huss, Södertörns högskola/Stockholms universitet, markus.huss at sh.se

Kaisa Kaakinen, Cornell University/University of Helsinki, krk27 at cornell.edu

Jenny Willner, Freie Universität Berlin, willner at zedat.fu-berlin.de

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