INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES / INTENSIVE PROGRAMME [PI]

FROM 7 TO 13 SEPTEMBER 2020

UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA [UV]

[FFTC] Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication / Graduate Hall

This International Conferences (intensive programme of the ERASMUS+ project Reading in Europe today – Reading and Writing Literary Texts in the Age of Digital Humanities) aim to examine the transformations of text and reading through the scope of transversal notions such as hybridisation, miscegenation and marginality, both from the standpoint of the textual object as well as its content. The swift social and technological mutations of the current world, marked by a succession of crisis and retrocessions, the undermining of certain Western societal principles and the globalisation and migration phenomena, along with a scientific and technological revolution that constitutes a part of what we call “society of knowledge”, prompt us to revisit textual objects, their reading and reception as witnesses to these changes, new rites and practices that conform our rich and complex current reality. These two main questions of our international meeting will revolve around the mutations and hybridisations of literary text both in form and content (intergenerationality, intermediality, intertextuality, interculturality, etc.), mainly in the contemporary era, not excluding an historic/diachronic or even comparative approach. In fact, while the orthodoxy/heterodoxy duality has allowed to efficiently catalogue and define the literary and artistic phenomena (avant-gardes, rupture discourses, subaltern discourses…), as of today we can affirm that the “mutant” has managed to establish a domain of its own. Here, associated operative concepts such as hybridisation, miscegenation and marginality emerge as hallmarks that converge in a post-modern constant that defines and conceives identity as the result of a superposition of layers or as a pliable construct. This quality translates into the text as an expression of this reality, this is, as bodies, identities or mutant texts. The intensive programme will count with both in-person as well as online participations. These will be divided in conferences by the professors, as well as communications provided by young researchers. There will also be “literary strolls” to promote several reads related to the notion of “mutation” in a context of cultural and historic discovery.

Director

• [DGP] Domingo Pujante González / Universitat de València

Secretaries

• [SHF] Silvia Hueso Fibla / Universitat de València
• [CSD] Claudia Senabre Díaz / Universitat de València
• [HFVS] Henry Ferney Vásquez Sáenz / Universitat de València

Scientific Committee 

• [AA] Anikó Ádám / Pázmány Péter Catholic University / Hungary
• [APC] Ana PAULA Coutinho / University of Oporto / Portugal
• [CG] Catherine Grall / University of Picardy Jules Verne / France
• [CP] Claude Pérez / University of Aix-Marsella / France
• [FS] Franc Schuerewegen / Universidad de Amberes / Bélgica
• [KH] Karen Haddad / Paris Nanterre University / France
• [LB] Lola Bermúdez / Universidad of Cádiz
• [MHL] Maria Hermínia Laurel / University of Aveiro / Portugal
• [MJC] Maria de Jesus Cabral / University of Lisbon / Portugal
• [NR] Nathalie Roelens / University of Luxembourg / Luxembourg
• [VF] Vincent Ferré / Paris-Est Créteil University / France
• [VJ] Vincent Jouve / University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne / France

Organised by

• Erasmus+ (project funded by the European Commission) 2017-1-HU01-KA203-035921)
• LEA! Reading in Europe today
• Pázmány Péter Catholic University
• Universitat de València

With the support of 

• Office of the Vice-Principal for Internationalisation and Cooperation
• Department of French and Italian Language Studies
• Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication
• GIUV2013-144: HYBRIDA: Cultural Hybridisations and Migrant Identities/ Institute Français in Valencia