Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:15:49 +0100 (BST)
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Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Bordering Europe Conference


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KENT INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDIES IN HUMANITIES

[Conference Announcement and Call for Papers]

BORDERING EUROPE

20-24 September 1999 - University of Kent at Canterbury

The Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities is hosting a conference in September 1999 on the theme of
Bordering Europe.  The
conference will investigate European culture and its establishment of borders, material and conceptual, inside and
outside itself.  Topics to be discussed will include such issues as:

- the constitution of a national culture, in specific or theoretical terms;
- the question of an international identity-politics;
- sovereignty in literature and other aesthetic matters;
- personal and cultural identity and its relation to space, place, geography;
- displaced writers and the question of exile;
- relations between European post-imperial nations and their former colonies or dependencies;
- cultures at the margin of geo-political Europe.

The preliminary headings under which we envisage the organization of papers include the following:

- France and Algeria (to include Algerian writing; French writing related to 1962 etc.; the position of Algerian writers
or philosophers in France);
- 'Minority cultures' within Europe (Scotland, Ireland, Southern Italy, etc.);
- Germany, Germanies and Turkey;
- The existence of Switzerland;
- Democracy and institutions;
- The relation of political exile to aesthetics;
- Cities and their international status (e.g., Berlin, Paris, Rome, Athens, Glasgow, Venice etc.)
- Translation studies

Abstracts of papers, suggestions for panels, themes or topics should be sent (not later than 12 March 1999) to:

Professor Thomas Docherty,
Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities,
University of Kent at Canterbury,
Canterbury,
Kent CT2 7NX.

E-mail: T.Docherty-AT-ukc.ac.uk