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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Exilic Capitals: The Cold War Exodus and Beyond (seminar)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting</span><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">New York University</span><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">March 20 - 23, 2014</span><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:black">Semi</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">nar Organizer(s):</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa), Veronika Ambros (University of Toronto)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The world cultural maps have been redrawn during the 20th century. The First World War and the Russian revolution were instrumental in turning European capitals, such as Paris, Berlin and
Prague, into the intellectual and cultural centers for exiled artists, scientists and literary figures. The Second World War shifted the exilic centers of cultural and intellectual life to America; making New York and Mexico City the new capitals of ground
breaking historical, scientific, and artistic thought. These asylum seekers, expatriates, and refugees collectively encountered their new home-cities using instead of fixed geographical maps their own writings, plays, films and paintings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Building on the ACLA 2013 seminar “Attitudes towards the Center: Literary Maps of Central and East-European Cityscapes”, we will discuss how the city life of the post-national mega polis
(Toronto, Sydney, Tel-Aviv, Moscow) reflects the artistic search of today`s artists-exiles and cosmopolitan voyagers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Drawing on the works of the exilic writers, filmmakers, painters, and theatre-makers emerging in the post-cold war period, this seminar will examine the changes in the political and literary
maps of the past decades based on such critical concepts as Michel Foucault’s “heterotopia”, Walter Benjamin’s flâneur, and Mikhail Bakhtin’s “chronotope” (among many) and applied to the 20th century exilic cityscapes as they emerge in the works produced in
exile (Kundera, Sebald, Bezmozgis, Glowacki, Rubina, Hoffman, Rushdie, and Huston) and in the oeuvre presented “from the other shores”, by those artists who were labeled dissidents (Havel) or who were considered to be part of the counterculture (J.Topol, V.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">SEMINAR KEYWORDS: exile, cultural capital, chronotope, heterotopia, post-memory, homecoming, dissidence, and cultural tourism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Deadline for Paper Proposals: November 1, 2013</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Link to send your abstract:
<a href="http://acla.org/acla2014/propose-a-paper/" target="_blank">http://acla.org/acla2014/propose-a-paper/</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Inquiries can be sent to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Yana Meerzon -
<a href="mailto:ymeerzon@uOttawa.ca"><span style="color:windowtext">ymeerzon@uOttawa.ca</span></a> and Veronika Ambros - <a href="mailto:vambros@gmail.com"><span style="color:windowtext">vambros@gmail.com</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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