NA_OR20: Narrations of Origins in World Cultures and the Arts Univeristy of Torino Torino, Italy, November 24-27, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.originsescl2020.unito.it |
Submission deadline | January 31, 2020 |
The international ESCL / European Society of Comparative Literature (https://escl-selc.eu/) conference "Narrations of Origins in World Cultures and the Arts" (University of Torino, 24-27 novembre 2020: https://www.originsescl2020.unito.it) will investigate the most relevant mythologies, archetypes and narrations of origins according to groundbreaking critical perspectives. It will compare literature, science and any form of artistic representation – including cinema and new media – in order to study the different cosmological patterns from cultural, historical and anthropological frameworks. It will also reflect on the role of narratives of pure invention, including parodic and provoking ones. In general, it will explore how poetic, fictional and artistic experimentations intersect in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. We therefore encourage members and participants to think about these questions from the greatest range of possible perspectives.
Personal and panel proposals may address issues (clusters and subthemes) like the following: 1. Narrations and representations of origins in world cultures: the archetypes and their developments. 2. The Big Bang and the birth of human beings: science narratives. 3. Cosmology, art and poetry. 4. Imagining the origins, representing the sublime. 5. Origins as textual genesis, in the arts, literature, styles and literary genres. 6. Languages and narratives of origins in the arts of modernism and modernity. 7. A big deception? Fakes, simulations, inventions, and odd hypothesis about origins.
Submission Guidelines
Proposals should be submitted in English, Italian or French to the e-mail address origins.escl.to2020@gmail.com not later than the 31st of January 2020. Proposals should include a title, an abstract (max. 300 words), a short bio-bibliography and an e-mail address. The time of delivery for each paper should be no more than 20 minutes. Registration fee for Participants: 90 euros; Graduate Students and PhDs: 50 euros. The conference languages will be English, French and Italian.
List of Topics
World Literature; Arts; Cosmological Narrations
Committees
Program Committee
Conveners Chiara Lombardi, Cristiano Ragni
Advisory Board ESCL/SELC Bernard Franco (Université Paris-Sorbonne); Emilia di Rocco (Roma “Sapienza”) ; Brigitte LeJuez (Dublin City University); Jean-Louis Haquette (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne). Torino Clara Allasia, Silvio Alovisio, Erminia Ardissino, Carola Barbero, Elisabetta Berardi, Massimo Bonifazio, Carmen Concilio, Alessandra Consolaro, Emilio Corriero, Paola Dolcetti, Maria Beatrice Failla, Daniela Fargione, Attilio Ferrari, Giuliana Ferreccio, Maria Teresa Giaveri, Chiara Lombardi, Luigi Marfè, Alessandro Mengozzi, Francesco Mosetti Casaretto, Giuseppe Noto, Antonio Pizzo, Cinzia Scarpino, Luigi Silvano, Stefania Stafutti, Piera G. Tordella.
Organizing committee
Mattia Cravero, Barbara Castiglioni, Valentina Monateri, Salvatore Renna, Lucia Giampaolo, Doralice Treglia.
Invited Speakers
The list of invited Keynote Speakers includes:
Mo Yan, Literature Nobel 2012; José Alegría, Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana Historia del teatro universal; Vincenzo Barone, University of Piemonte Orientale; Enrico Bertino, University of Torino; Piero Boitani, University of Roma “Sapienza”, Accademia delle Scienze e Accademia dei Lincei; Claude Calame, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris ; Maria Beatrice Failla, University of Torino, Centro Conservazione e Restauro “La Venaria Reale”; Giorgio Ficara, University of Torino; Massimo Fusillo, University of Aquila, ICLA; Maria Teresa Giaveri, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino e Accademia Peloritana, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres; Iain Hamilton Grant, University of Bristol ; Giulio Guidorizzi, University of Torino and Milano; Priyamvada Natarajan, University of Yale, Department of Astronomy and Physics; Stefano Piano, University of Torino; Alberto Rizzuti, University of Torino; Martin Rees, Cambridge, Trinity College; Silvia Romani, Università degli Studi di Milano; Alberto Voltolini, University of Torino.
Publication
NA_OR20 contributes will be submitted to the review CoSMo | Comparative Studies in Modernism (http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO), and a selection of them published in a "Classiques Garnier" miscellaneous volume.
Venue
The conference will be held at the University of Torino
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to origins.escl.to2020@gmail.com