Department of Culture and Literature, Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Latvia,
Center for Gender Studies, University of Latvia

Re-thinking Culture and Literature: Transnational and Comparative Spaces

1 - 3, November, 2002

Topics include:

Baltic literatures: historical, contemporary, comparative perspectives
Diaspora and ethnic literatures
Gender and genre
Canon and process
Ethnography of the Eye: Memory and Modernity in Visual Practices
Multifocal approaches to the study of language and literature:
multiethnic, postcolonial, and transnational perspectives
Global-regional-local in the cultures at the turn of the century
The impact of technology on contemporary literatures
Questions of local or national languages in the creation of a new literature
Close readings of individual works or sequences in one or several authors' writings
Cross-cultural comparative analyses of texts

Working languages: Latvian, English, German, Russian

Publication of conference proceedings is planned.

Deadline for abstracts and panel/roundtable proposals: 15, July, 2002.

There is a limited oppportunity to book rooms at the university hotel in the downtown at a very decent price.
Hotel accommodation for Baltic participants will be covered.

Conference committee:

Professor Sigma Ankrava
Associate Professor Irina Novikova
Docent Edgars Oshinsh
Docent Tatiana Kuharenok

300-word proposals should be sent to:

Department of Culture and Literature
Faculty of Modern Languages
Visvalzha 4a, office 430
Riga
LV-1586
University of Latvia
Riga
Latvia

Or e-mail address:
iranovi@lanet.lv (Irina Novikova)
edosin@lanet.lv (Edgars Oshinsh)