Events cultural - creative writing (48)

Environmental disciplines have gained prominence in recent years by the obvious and potentially devastating effects of climate change, namely natural disasters, greenhouse effect, changes in temperature, sea level variations, etc.. Such events require a new way of thinking about the environment. The Ecocriticism, together with other disciplines "green" dealing with the...

III Jornadas Nacionales Argentinas Literature of the Regions: Towards a holistic view of literature in Argentina. Thematic areas: Regional literary history: problems and methods; Literature and other cultural events; Authors and texts of the various regions of Argentina and the contact areas; The phenomena of literary and cultural history of the region; The evolutionary...

Conference Objectives: to bring together researchers and graduate students from different areas. promoting interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary debate about Latin America and the Caribbean as a literary memory and imagination, through oral and written. Topics: Orality, memory and writing literary theory and criticism in literature Caribbean literature and philosophy Language, worldview...

The XVIII Symposium of the Spanish Society of General and Comparative Literature (SELGYC) will be held at the University of Alicante on 9, 10 and 11 September 2010. SYMPOSIUM TOPICS 1. Literature and spectacle. It should be borne in mind that relationship as polymorphic expression that has implementation of a broad social and cultural historical roots, which has allowed their...

This year, the Kipling Study Day will concentrate on a poem, 'The Absent-minded Beggar'. Written to raise money for the families of soldiers fighting in the Boer War, it was an immediate success, and is credited with raising between £250,000 and £300,000 (£14 and £17 million in today's money). It has claims to have been the most practically effective poem in English. What, though, does it mean...

In Spanish American literature, science is often a locus for socio-political commentary, self-discovery, and narrative/poetic experimentation. This conference aims to explore the roles of scientific discourses in shaping the poetics and politics of Spanish American literature, with hopes of better understanding how the convergence of these seemingly separated areas of knowledge and expression has...

This major international conference offers scholars from six disciplines the rare opportunity to come together to discuss what is happening in European literatures now. We are seeking to map out emerging trends in a range of national literatures with a view to putting together inter-disciplinary panels which will reveal significant convergences, divergences and cross-fertilisations in literary...

It Gives Us the Other: Poetry and Translation, is a conference and workday organised with the support of the University of Nottingham Department of French and Francophone Studies, the Nottingham Poetry Series, and the cultural Services of the French Embassy to the UK. We hope the day will emphasise demonstration, workshop, teaching, performance, discussion, and we welcome proposals for...

Cosmopoetics aims to expose an important aperture in contemporary poetry and poetics. Departing from the significant ground gained in late twentieth century poetic avant-gardism, Cosmopoetics takes up the difficult task of defining a twenty-first century poetics. Neither utopian nor dystopian, Cosmopoetics directs itself towards thinking a poetic atopia, a poetic interval within which the multiple...

This symposium asks why contemporary writers have chosen to rework this particular source text, and what stances they have taken towards it: faithful, using creative writing as a means of prayerful reflection or theological exegesis? Or furious, a railing against the Bible’s injustices and absences? Or a mixture of both, a sometimes difficult, sometimes delightful kind of dialogue?...