<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.acla.org/cultural-transfer-and-minority-and-migrant-identities-europe">http://www.acla.org/cultural-transfer-and-minority-and-migrant-identities-europe</a><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-info" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;color:rgb(77,76,98);font-family:"adobe caslon pro","times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26px"><p class="gmail-organizer" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-label" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">Organizer: </span><span class="gmail-name" style="box-sizing:border-box">Petra Broomans</span></p><p class="gmail-co-organizer" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-label" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">Co-Organizer: </span><span class="gmail-name" style="box-sizing:border-box">Jeanette Den Toonder</span></p><a href="mailto:p.broomans@rug.nl, j.m.l.den.toonder@rug.nl" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,56,75)">Contact the Seminar Organizers</a></div><p class="gmail-seminarProposal" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(77,76,98);font-family:"adobe caslon pro","times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26px"></p><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-seminar-proposal gmail-field-type-text-long gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(77,76,98);font-family:"adobe caslon pro","times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26px"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:border-box">Intensified migration flows and the rich variety of minority and migrant communities that have always played a constitutive role in European history, society and identity are the starting point of this seminar. Its aim is to reconsider the history and role of these communities by examining processes of cultural transfer in which minority and migrant authors play an essential role as cultural transmitters. They contribute to building minoritarian identities by remembering conflicts and overcoming traumas. The examination of historical differences and cultural memory in relation to the construction of new identities is essential for the analysis of experiences of the past displayed by minority and migrant writers as well as for the identitarian discourses of indigenous European populations. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"> Given the large variety of minority and migrant communities, it will be interesting to discuss and compare different literary fields in Europe, such as writings from exiles (, North-African authors in France), from indigenous communities (Sámi in Scandinavia), or from minorities originating from inside Europe (the Danish and German speaking communities in North- and South-Schleswig and migrants from Southern to Northern Europe). These are some examples of writings in which remembrance of conflicts, caused by shifting borders, migration and (neo)colonization, are being exposed and transferred in fictional and semi-fictional literature.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">A deeper insight into the functions of these texts can be gained through discourse analysis as well as institutional analysis. Discourse analysis focuses on an implicit and explicit evaluation and characterization of the transmitted literature, how minorities are represented in literary texts of minority writers and of writers from dominant groups, as well as statements in literature about language and national and cultural identity. Institutional analysis focuses on quantitative and qualitative descriptions of cultural transmission, mapping which authors, languages, genres, etc. have been introduced into the field, the amount of translations, how texts ‘move’ and what role mediators play in cultural transmission and the networks they use.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">From a methodological perspective, the seminar proposes to integrate cultural transfer studies into postcolonial theories, transcultural studies, (ethno-linguistic) nationalism and theories in the field of collective/cultural memory, trauma theory and translation studies, in order to enhance the encounter of different approaches and methods.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:border-box">---------------</div><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:border-box">Do you want to ptopose a paper?</div><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.32px">See for information: </span><a href="http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.32px">http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper</a></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Dr. Petra Broomans, Associate Professor/Senior lecturer</span><br></p><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.8px">31th IASS conference 9-13 August 2016</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">; see: </span><a href="http://www.rug.nl/let/iassgroningen2016" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(119,45,107)" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">www.rug.nl/let/iassgroningen2016</span></a><br></div><pre><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">European Languages and Cultures / University of Groningen<br>Visiting professor Scandinavian Studies / Ghent University</span></pre>
<pre><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Phone: + 31 (0) 50 3637275/5850<br>M: + 31 (0)6 53616699<br>Fax: + 31 (0) 50 3634900<br><br></font></font><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Personal website: </font><a href="http://www.petrabroomans.net/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:"times new roman",serif" target="_blank">www.petrabroomans.net</a>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Studies on Cultural Transfer and Transmission, see: </font><a href="http://www.soctat.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:"times new roman",serif" target="_blank">http://www.soctat.org/</a></pre><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"></font></font></pre><pre><br></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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