PhDnet-Abschluss-Konferenz
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- PhDnet-Abschluss-Konferenz
- 2016-10-26T09:00:00+02:00
- 2016-10-28T17:00:00+02:00
When
Oct 26, 2016 09:00 to Oct 28, 2016 05:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Where
Phil I, GCSC, R.001
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The European PhDnet ‘Literary and Cultural Studies’ conference “Literature and Crises: Conceptual Explorations and Literary Negotiations”, organized in collaboration with the International PhD Programme ‘Literary and Cultural Studies’ (IPP), seeks to fulfill three aims: First of all, it wishes to shed light on the interfaces between literature and culture in general and on the disciplinary border crossings between literature and other fields in which crisis serves as a key concept. Secondly, the conference tackles emerging conceptual explorations, i.e., new analytical tools and methods that result from treating literature and crises not as separate constructs but as highly interrelated terms. Thirdly, the conference engages with concrete examples in literature through which crisis and related concepts are negotiated.
In light of the manifold and diverse literary negotiations of crises, which range from a more descriptive understanding of crisis understood as a marker for chaos, catastrophe or disaster and an incentive for social change to a vague meaning of a metaphor that obscures rather than lays bare the origins and problems related to a specific crisis, event or situation, the conference provides a platform for discussions of both theorizations and exemplary analyses of the various relationships between literature and crises (economic, environmental, political, social, cultural, humanitarian or crises of identity, norms and values). Emphasis will furthermore be put on historical lines of development in the dialogue between literature and crises and emerging dynamics between literature and crises.