Innovationen und Reproduktionen in Kulturen und Gesellschaften (IRICS) Wien, 9. bis 11. Dezember 2005

S E C T I O N S

Border Zones: Travel, Fantasy and Representation

Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Contributions to:

Ludmilla Kostova (Veliko Tirnovo)

Speakers >>

ABSTRACT:

This section will explore the cultural significance of border zones and other liminal (threshold) forms within a context defined by travel and the fantasies of the other and the self that frequently motivate and accompany it. Special attention will be paid to the acceptance, contestation and transgression of borders and the cultural representations engendered by such acts.

It is hoped that participants will demonstrate their own awareness of the importance of border zones and the liminal in cultural production by basing their presentations on texts that deliberately cut across traditional generic, canonical and disciplinary boundaries.

Topics include : politics/aesthetics/ ethics of the border zone and its representations in literature, film and the visual arts, fantasies of the liminal and their transmission/contestation through accounts of travel, the liminal and hybridity, the liminal and the exotic, gender performance and/in border zones, the liminal and/in translation.

Speakers / ReferentInnen

• Ludmilla Kostova (University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria): Between Iconography and Iconoclasm: Catherine the Great in Western European Literature from Rudolf Erich Raspe to Malcolm Bradbury [ABSTRACT]
• Elena Andonova-Kalapsazova (South-Western University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria): Practicing Magic from the Margin [ABSTRACT]
• Gergana Apostolova (South Western University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria): TRANSLEGENDRY: Borders and Archetypes in Bulgarian Legends [ABSTRACT]
• Boryana Bratanova (University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria): Between Cognition and Cultural Discourse: A Liminal Approach to Causation in Language [ABSTRACT]
• Elissavet Evdoridou (University of Thessaly) / Theodoros Karakasidis (University of Thessaly): "Border Roles" [ABSTRACT]
• Monika Fischer (University of Missouri): Travel Writing and Parrhesia or To Present or Re-Present Truth [ABSTRACT]
• Angela Goddard (York St John University College): Trying on voices: cultural representations in online communication [ABSTRACT]
• Hanna Hacker (Vienna): Without Queering there is no Border: theories and histories of the relationship between translocality and the sexual "I" [ABSTRACT]
• David Jenkins (Plovdiv University, Bulgaria): Counting the Costs [ABSTRACT]
• Ekkehard Knoerer: Deserting the Real: The Collapse of Representation in Desert Movies [ABSTRACT]
• Hannah Knox, Damian O'Doherty, Theo Vurdubakis, Chris Westrup (Lancaster University): Rites of Passage: The Airport as an Economy of Flows [ABSTRACT]
• Jaroslav Kušnír (University of Prešov, Slovakia): Border Zones in Richard Flannagan´s Fiction (Death of a River Guide) [ABSTRACT]
• Ludmilla Miteva (St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria): Terry Pratchett’s Bromeliad and the Liminality of Gender and Belief [ABSTRACT]
• Oliver S. Müller (Windhoek, University of Namibia): Crossing Literary Boundaries: Nico Helminger’s Poetry [ABSTRACT]
• Irina Perianova (Economic University of Sofia, Bulgaria): Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? [ABSTRACT]
• Sorina Serbanescu (Western University from Timisoara, Romania): Les mythes et les symboles, véhicules de pérennité et de transculturalité. Cas de figure: le symbole du voyageur chez Paul Claudel et chez Lucian Blaga [ABSTRACT]