[New-Poetry] Norway is quite ahead...

[Anny Ballardini]

> From: Jenel Virden [mailto:J.Virden at hull.ac.uk] 
> Sent: dinsdag 4 juli 2006 12:20


EAAS 2008 CONFERENCE -  OSLO, NORWAY -  9-12 MAY



THEME: "E Pluribus Unum" or "E Pluribus Plura"?



The motto "E Pluribus Unum" mostly subsumes an institutional and political will.  But, from all historical data and possibly even more from contemporary dissensions, it appears that the social and cultural realities of America might well illustrate the possibility for an "E Pluribus Plura" version of the formula.  How does the United States negotiate the inner tensions that, because of its constitutive diversity, might threaten its unity?  How do traditions (political, artistic, literary.), modes of consensus building (from myth to national icons and patriotic assertions of exceptionalism), the feeling of a wished-for common good counteract potential strife and the tensions of particular interests and particular groups, make up for the aporias of nationhood and communitarian feeling, of ideological consensus and a tradition of dissent?  Could it be that there are indeed several "Americas"?  Is being an American necessarily being in many ways double?  Can the politically unifying, centripetal power of the State, hidden under the neutral Unum, accommodate the centrifugal forces that might generate a societal and cultural "plura" out of the hallowed political and territorial "pluribus"?  Do diversities imply, for their survival and development, a "middle ground", a "mainstream", a "tradition" - some kind of American norm?  Seen in light of the various subdisciplines of our fields, these are some of the questions that might generate the wished-for contributions to this Conference.







Deadlines:



January 31, 2007: Deadline for submission of proposals and one-page abstracts for parallel lectures and workshop sessions, to include a ½ page c.v. of workshop chairs and individual lecturers.



Please do not submit proposals for individual workshop papers at this time. These will be sent to selected workshop chairs who will be announced in the May 2007 issue of ASE.



September 15, 2007: Deadline for sending the tentative list of speakers and titles of workshop papers to be included in the October 2007 issue of ASE.



December 1, 2007: Deadline for submitting FINAL titles of papers and names and addresses of speakers.



January 10, 2008: Deadline for information to be included in the 2008 biennial conference program.



Please send all information via e-mail to the EAAS Secretary General, Jenel Virden, at virden at eaas.info




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