[ecrea] call for papers -- literature and the arts since the 1960s

RELATIONAL FORMS IV
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS SINCE THE 1960s:
PROTEST, IDENTITY AND THE IMAGINATION
15-17 NOVEMBER 2018

an international conference hosted by the
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
University of Porto, Portugal


Confirmed keynote speakers:
Edna Longley | Manuel Portela | Martin Halliwell | Michael Longley


1968 is a momentous year in the global socio-political memory: it has 
come to be seen as the culmination and epitome of a series of processes 
involving protest, and the affirmation of previously silent or subaltern 
causes. Such processes and causes were predicated on challenges to 
established powers and mindsets, and hence on demands for change, that 
have had rich consequences in literature and the arts. This conference 
proposes to address this imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s, 
with a particular but not exclusive focus on word-and-image relations. 
Of the various strands of socio-political memory associated with the 
period that this conference is designed to commemorate and ponder, some 
attention will be given to the developments marking the beginnings 
(c1968) but also the proclaimed end (1998) of the Northern Irish 
Troubles. This particular instance of legacies of violent conflict but 
also fraught peacemaking will be interrogated at a juncture in European 
history in which national and regional identities are in various ways on 
the frontline of political discussion once more, with consequences and 
outcomes that remain unclear.

In sum: the conference avails itself of a commemorative design to 
consider the impact on literature and the arts of a much mythologized 
historical period. We want to showcase and discuss the impact of its 
defining causes, hopes and regrets on the creative imagination, 
preferably from a comparatist perspective.

As indicated by the number in its title, this conference is the fourth 
in a series of academic events that reflect the ongoing concerns of the 
eponymous research group (Relational Forms), based at CETAPS (the Centre 
for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies).

The organisers will welcome PROPOSALS FOR 20-MINUTE PAPERS IN ENGLISH 
responding to the above. Suggested (merely indicative) topics include:
• empowering the imagination: the late 1960s and beyond
• the art of protest: words and images in action
• literature – and the world out there: conflict and violence in public 
vs literary discourses
• narratives of dissension: fiction, youth and conflict
• staging protest: drama and the political imagination since the 1960s
• screening protest: film, television and the political imagination
• poetry, protest and identity/ies since the 1960s
• action, reaction: stereotype and iconoclasm (verbal, visual)
• disruptive, constructive?: tropes of conflict and the making of 
contemporary societies
• take my song for it: vocal music and fraught selves since the 1960s
• translating dissent: protest represented across languages
• urban sights and sounds: street art and writing since the 1960s
• subaltern identities and gaining/giving voice: hybrid constructions
• protest through affirmation: picturing alternate communities
• remediating protest since the 1960s: from audiovisual to digital media

Submissions should be sent by email to (relational /at/ letras.up.pt) 
<mailto:(relational /at/ letras.up.pt)>
Please include the following information with your proposal:
• the full title of your paper;
• a 250-300 word description of your paper;
• your name, postal address and e-mail address;
• your institutional affiliation and position;
• a short bionote;
• AV requirements (if any)

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 31 MAY 2018
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 JUNE 2018
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 15 OCTOBER 2018

Registration Fee: 80 Euros
Student fee: 65 Euros
Registration details will be posted online in September 2018

All delegates are responsible for their own travel arrangements and 
accommodation.
More information available later at 
http://www.cetaps.com/events/relationalforms4/

Organised by the Relational Forms research area
http://www.cetaps.com/research-areas/relational-forms-medial-and-textual-transits-in-ireland-and-britain/
Executive Committee:
Rui Carvalho Homem | Jorge Bastos da Silva | Miguel Ramalhete Gomes | 
Jorge Almeida e Pinho | Márcia Lemos

For further queries please contact:
CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâmica, s/n
4150-564 PORTO
PORTUGAL
(relational /at/ letras.up.pt) <mailto:(relational /at/ letras.up.pt)>


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