"Legitimation of Literature in Totalitarian Regimes": International Conference (Romania, June 2011)

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Legitimation of Literature in Totalitarian Regimes
International conference
Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
June 17-18, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

CNCSIS (National Council for Scientific Research in Higher Education) Research Project: "Cultural discourses and forms of legitimation in the 20th century European literature" solicits submissions for the international conference “Legitimation of Literature in Totalitarian Regimes” hosted by the Department of Romanian and Comparative Literature, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania.

We invite Professors, Scholars and Doctoral Students to send proposals for original 20 minute papers discussing various aspects such as (but not necessarily confined to):

Discursive strategies in totalitarian regimes
Official cultural discourse. The rhetoric of power
Aestheticism and euphemization
Ambiguity and allegory
Discursive games and their legitimation
Poetics of transparency
Transgressive languages
Biography and confrontation

Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are very welcome.

Please e-mail proposals/abstracts for papers (max. 500 words) with a short biography to the following address: legitimationconference@gmail.com by March 31st, 2011.

The conference is organized in cooperation with The Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature (RAGCL).

The organizing committee:
Dr Rodica Ilie (Conference Chair, Project Director) Dr Andrei Bodiu (Dean, Graduate School Coordinator) Dr Adrian Lacatus Dr Georgeta Moarcas

More info: http://unitbv.ro/legitimare/conference.html