On the 60th anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis, as well as the 10th year since our first Symposium, the sixth C. S. Lewis conference C. S. Lewis - the Reenchanted Academic addresses topics related to the scholarship of C. S. Lewis and his kindred spirits as members of academia: biographical particulars; vocations as literary/cultural historians and critics; specific attention to the influence of Medieval and Renaissance ages in their writing -- academic, theological, and otherwise; their perspectives on pedagogy and education (higher education in particular); their perspectives on the academic as tutor and mentor. We invite papers in the fields of literary history and criticism, cultural studies and arts studies, linguistics, aesthetics, theology, history, ethics, and education sciences, that will invite constructive dialogues between disciplines and generate constructive responses to contemporary dilemmas.
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Anglicists and Americanists Today. Facing Ideology and Its Discontents
Celebrating 100 Years of English and American Studies in Iasi
International conference, 8-9 May 2025, Iasi
Our contemporary world at large has undergone dramatic shifts of paradigms in the last 80 years or so. Between 1945 and 1960, most of the new states in Asia and Africa achieved at least an autonomy if not complete independence from their European colonial rulers. This situation generated a need for political and cultural (self)identification and self-determination. Decolonisation reshaped the world. In its wake, Asian, African, and Western intellectuals reshaped the cultural paradigm: Fanon, the theorists of the so-called “Subaltern Studies”, Michel Foucault’s analysis of the relation between power and knowledge, Edward Said’s groundbreaking Orientalism (1978) shook the plinth and the whole scaffolding of entrenched colonial culture. In Europe, the French upheavals of 1968, with their makeshift barricades and graffiti protests, paved the path for radical movements of restless emancipation. From France, the zest for ceaseless discontent has spread and conquered both sides of the Atlantic. The advancement of technology inspired Julian Huxley, a brother of novelist Aldous Huxley, to envisage in “Transhumanism” (1957) an era of social and cultural change, a future when humanity transcends itself. In the 21st century, Huxley’s concept of transhumanism coexists with Posthumanism and a range of other theories and movements in what looks like a cacophony of narratives and discourses.
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Catedra de limba și literatura engleză și Centrul Linguaculture vă invită să participați joi, 6 aprilie 2023, în Sala Ferdinand, la Conferința Legenda Meșterului Manole - A Romanian Ballad Immured in World Literature, susținută de profesorul emerit Thomas J. Cousineau de la Washigton College, Maryland, Statele Unite ale Americii. Profesorul T.J. Cousineau este autorul a numeroase articole și cărți de specialitate în domeniul criticii literare, printre care se numără Waiting for Godot: Form in Movement (1990), Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction (2004) sau Three-part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard (2008).
Conferința va fi susținută cu ocazia lansării volumului The Séance of Reading: Uncanny Designs in Modernist Writing și va fi moderată de conf.univ.dr. Iulia Milică.
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