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Tag: American Studies
International Conference
Framing Souths
Literatures and Languages, Cinema and Photography, Phototext and New Media
University of Torino, 24-26 May 2023
Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2022
In the growing and dynamic field of ecocritical studies, the International Conference Framing Souths aims to explore the different meanings expressed by narratives in cinema, photography, phototext, literature and digital media through a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, with particular emphasis on human-nonhuman relations in the ecosystems of Southern Italy and, more in general, of the Global South.
In the 20th century, the universalist paradigm was put in crisis by thinkers of the black
radical tradition such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, then by African-American feminists who were marginalized both from the women’s movement because of their skin color, and from the civil rights movement because of their gender. The epistemological crisis wrought by postcolonial studies beginning in the 1970s, and currently by decolonial studies, testifies to a deep disenchantment with the category of universality, sometimes understood as an unkept promise of equality that is actually quick to break into violence.
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We share the CFP for the 18th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English: “Recent Approaches to the Posthuman: Cultural Reflections on the (Post-)Human Condition,” to be held onsite at the University of Zaragoza on May 15-17, 2023.
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Women Scientists, Development and Environmental Citizenship: Scientific Transnational Organizations and Public Activism
University of Trieste – Department of Humanities April 20-21, 2023
The Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Trieste is organizing a conference on April 20-21, 2023 in Trieste, dedicated to women’s activism in science, development and environmental justice in the context of transnational organizations during the Cold War.
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