Second call for papers: Worlds in Dialogue
April 25th, 2009 at 0:40A conference presented jointly by the Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (AUETSA), the South African Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (SAACLALS), the South African Society for General Literary studies (SAVAL), the 4th Conference on South African Children’s and Youth Literature and the South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT),
Hosted by the The School of Languages and the Research Unit: Languages and literature in the South African context (8-11 July 2009),
Venue: North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Final deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2009. Dialogue between the imagined worlds of languages, texts, authors and cultures is an important force in language and literature. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for stimulating and enhancing such dialogue in the field of literary and linguistic discourse. Dialogue here means to enter into conversation with, to create community and new meaning, but also to contest (to discuss critically) or to dialogise (to expose to different points of view, to relativise). The field can broadly be organized as conversations (or breaks in the conversations) between five “scapes” that characterize the postmodern, global “landscape”, according to Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (Modernity at Large – Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.) These “scapes” are ideoscapes, technoscapes, ethnoscapes, mediascapes, financescapes and (can one add) landscapes.
Learn more: http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/skt/worldsindialogue/index_e.html
Tags: AUETSA, SAACLALS, SAALT, SAVAL, ethnoscapes, financescapes, ideoscapes, landscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes