Artistic Borders, Social Barriers
Artistic Borders, Social Barriers:
Contemporary Critical Discourses in Film, Literature, and Translation听
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University - LLC Graduate Student Conference 鈥� 26th听April 2024 McGill
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The concepts of borders and boundaries are as urgent an issue today as it has been throughout history. Maintaining, establishing, breaching, contesting, and consenting to borders and boundaries entail endless cycles of negations. This conference aims to explore how the aesthetic challenge of rethinking borders between artistic mediums leads us to an ethical challenge of rethinking borders between social subjects and structures.
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Papers are invited to reflect on the concept and function of borders in a wide context within a literary, film, media, gender, and cultural studies framework. They may investigate the notion of borders, boundaries, margins and fringes through a lens of medium-specificity. Alternatively, papers might explore social, political, or gendered spaces --real or imaginary鈥� as performative boundaries. Papers are encouraged to examine how notions of borders and boundaries may influence or misinform our research and teaching, addressing questions about the feasibility and desirability of interdisciplinarity or multidisciplinary approaches.
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Artistic Borders, Social Barriers: The Parallel Destabilization in Cinema and Society
In the realm of cinema, the boundary between fiction and documentary films is a subject of continual evolution and debate. This panel aims to explore how the destabilization of the border between fictional and documentary films reflects and influences the heterogeneity of existing social boundaries.
路听听听听听听听Blending Fact and Fiction in Film, the intersection of fiction and documentary
路听听听听听听听Audience Perception and societal Impact
路听听听听听听听Ethical Implications of genre blending
Presenting the Unrepresentable: Art, Fiction, and Real-World Trauma
To explore the methods and ethical considerations involved in using art and fiction alongside archival footage and interviews to represent events traditionally considered 'unrepresentable', such as war, violence, and genocide.
路听听听听听听听Artistic Representation of Trauma
路听听听听听听听Cinema as social commentary
路听听听听听听听Ethical boundaries in filmmaking
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Rethinking Translation between the Margins and the Center
This panel seeks to foster discussions about the role of translators and translation in shaping and reshaping knowledge, as well as facilitating the flow and communication of ideas. We welcome papers focussing on cultural and sociological approaches to translation and mediation across borders including the evolving relationship of humans with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Translation.
路听听听听听听听Translation, mediation, and intercultural communication as听social听empowerment
路听听听听听听听Translated听voices of 鈥渕igrants鈥� as a site of cultural knowledge production
路听听听听听听听Challenging the concepts of 'Purity' and 'originality' of the source-text
路听听听听听听听Blurred boundaries between Humans and Machine Translation
Environmental conflicts in genre literature
Exploring the synergy of literature and environmental themes, this panel investigates climate change through diverse genres. The panel aims to offer concise insights into the complex interplay of literature, traditional beliefs, and economic development in the context of our changing world in the current global ecological crisis.
路听听听听听听听Intersection of genres and climate change
路听听听听听听听Environmental justice vs human rights
路听听听听听听听Different cultural understandings of nature
路听听听听听听听Nature, traditional beliefs, and economic development
Migration, identity, and national discourses
This panel aims to unravel the complexities of identity, language, and belonging, examining the distinctions between migration and diaspora and contributing to a nuanced dialogue on migration and identity within global communities.
路听听听听听听听Indoor and outdoor landscapes in migrant literature
路听听听听听听听Writing in a different language than the mother tongue
路听听听听听听听National discourses in the time of the global community
路听听听听听听听Migration vs Diaspora: when the traveler is the 鈥渙ther.鈥�
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Proposals submission deadline:听March 12th听Notification of Acceptance:听March 26th
Abstracts of听no more than 250 words, complete with paper title, affiliation, and a short biography of the speaker should be sent to: rania.metni [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Rania Metni)
No听registration听fee听is required.
The conference will be held in-person.
Each speaker will have听15 minutes听for their presentation.
There will be time for questions and discussion at the end of each panel.
For more information about the Conference,
Please contact:听llc.grad.conference [at] mcgill.ca (LLC Graduate Student Conference)