Dear
Friends, some four years later, here we come back again. We are pleased to
announce that time has come that we hold again our international conference on
the American literary and cultural West.
In REWEST
Research Group we are planning to have our fourth edition next October 2018.
And we'd better be starting to get it all ready so here you have some
information on what we are planning to do and how to get on board. Soon, you'll
find more information on this right here, stuff on how to travel and stay,
registration, program, keynote speakers... So far, here we will leave the call
for papers and a summary of the most important information that you need for
now: name, date, place. The conference will be held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque
Country, at the Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). It
will take place from October 8 to October 10 2018. The title for this
new edition reads like follows: IV International Conference on the American
Literary and Cultural West: The West Travels beyond Itself: New Spaces, New
Voices, New Forms. You will find more information on how to submit proposals in
the call for papers. You can either read it from here or click on the click below
to download it:
Do not
hesitate to get in touch with us if you want to get more information or if you
have any doubt. We have a new email address: rewest.fac.letras@ehu.es.
We would
really enjoy having you here with us next October.
IV International Conference on the American
Literary and Cultural West:
The
West Travels Beyond Itself: New Spaces, New Voices, New Forms
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU),
Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
8-10 October 2018
The IV International Conference on the American Literary and
Cultural West, The West Travels Beyond
Itself: New Spaces, New Voices, New Forms, organized by the REWEST research
group (Research in Western American Literature and Culture, www.ehu.eus/rewest), seeks for papers
which expose the contemporary revision and revival of the West and as a
literary and cultural form of representation, as well as of its global impact.
The Conference will privilege transnational and interdisciplinary approaches
aiming to understand the artistic production of space and a cultural site whose
iconography has moved beyond national limits and literary and artistic borders.
The aim of the
Conference is to propose a site of debate about the revision and revival of the
West as an ideological and cultural concept. We aim at analyzing the new
dimensions of the global, multicultural, multicontextual, multidisciplinary 21st
century West. In this light, papers can address a variety of issues ranging
from (but not only):
-The West travels beyond itself
-The West looks at Europe
-Europe looks at the West
-The influence of the cultural myths of the Old West in the present
century
-The new literary voices of the West
-“Other” western narratives
- Environmental literature of the American West
- Reimagining women in the West
- Western masculinities
- Bordercrossing
- Western mythologies
- The American West in popular culture
- The West and its new forms of expression
- New Western music
- New Western cinema
-The West in the arts
- The West and the new digital forms of communication
-The West in television
- The West in comics and graphic novels
……
Papers should not exceed 2.000-3.000 words (approx. a 20 minutes
delivery). Although English will be the official language of the Conference,
papers in Spanish and Basque will also be accepted.
Please submit your proposal (300 words) plus a brief bio-note (200
words) to the Conference organizers by April 30th, 2018. Proposals
should be submitted via e-mail to rewest.fac.letras@ehu.es.
