The Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Bucharest, Romania 25-26 November 2022
From
the Black Forest to the Black Sea, the Danube crosses ten countries and four
capital cities, forming a site of cultural memory, both fluid because of the natural
features of the river and static because of the lands it connects. From epoch
to epoch, the Danube has sparked the imagination of many writers and artists
that left us a rich artistic heritage, whose disparate locations invite us to
travel and explore.
The
river Danube is an essential element in defining and shaping the geographical,
environmental, historical and political landscape of Central and Eastern
Europe. Therefore, the study of the cultural phenomena of the Danube region is
meant to increase our awareness of belonging to a diverse common tradition and
to get inspiration from the natural relationships the river represents.
Future
participants are invited to present papers that explore the artistic cultures
of the Danube in verbal, visual and aural forms – such as prose, poetry, drama,
graphic novels, comics, documentaries, feature films, photography, painting,
sculpture, installation art, music etc. – examining the signifying systems they
use, the imagery on which they draw, their audiences, their social and
historical contexts, and the further discourses they bring about.
Possible
topics associated with the Danube may include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- literary
history and cultural memory
- myths
and legends, fantasy and science fiction
- translation
and intercultural history
- film
and dramatic adaptations
- rhythms,
meter and prosody in poetry and music
- linguistic
diversity and cultural hybridity
- popular
culture
- relationship
between genre and place
- social
dimensions such as class, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, community
- political
regimes and narratives of resistance or dislocation
- national,
transnational, cosmopolitan and multicultural identities
- wars,
conflicts and disputes
- individual
and collective trauma
- urban,
rural and natural landscapes
- family,
kinship and domestic spaces
- posthuman
representations
- boundaries,
borders and mental space
- flora
and fauna
- natural
disasters and ecocriticism
- ecological
intervention and water conservation
- travel
writing and mobility up and down the river
- migrants,
exiles, refugees, asylum seekers
- festivals,
customs and traditions
- shipwrecks,
death and suicide
- childhood,
maturity and old age
- old and
new technologies
- industrial
and commercial history
Authors
are invited to send a 250-word abstract,
5 keywords, a short bibliography and a
100-word bio to the panel organizer, Monica Manolachi, monica.manolachi@lls.unibuc.ro, by 1 November 2022.
Participation
fee: 100 RON (teaching staff) / 50 RON (students). Details about the payment
will be sent at a later date to those who send their contributions.
A
selection of articles based on the presentations will be published in a themed
volume.
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NON-FICTION
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Bozovic, Marijeta and
Matthew D. Miller. Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River. Academic
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Brilly, Mitja (ed). Hydrological Processes of the Danube River
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Cristea, Adrian Eugen,
Marius Marinescu, Mihai Mitran. Dunărea,
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Számvéber,
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Wingeate Pike, David. Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, the
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FILMS
Frozen Time, Liquid Memories:
1942-2012.
Dragan Kujundžić, 2013.
Film clips: Cinema Komunisto. Mila Turajlić, 2012.
Oxygen. Adina Pintilie, 2010.
Notre Musique. Jean-Luc Godard, 2004.
The Ister. David Barison and
Daniel Ross, 2004.
Donau, Dunaj, Duna, Dunav, Dunarea. Goran Rebić, 2003.
Northern Skirts (Nordrand). Barbara Albert, 1999.
Cabaret Balkan (Буре барута / Bure Baruta). Goran Paskaljević,
1998.
The Danube Exodus. Peter Forgács, 1998.
Underground (Подземље / Podzemlje). Emir Kusturica,
1995.
The Explosion (Explozia). Mircea Drăgan, 1973.
Cold Days (Hideg napok). András Kovacs, 1966.
The Waves of the Danube (Valurile Dunării). Liviu Ciulei, 1959.
La Ronde. Max Ophuls, 1950.
The Third Man. Carol Reed, 1949.
