S E C T I O N S

A common place: national cultures, European heritage

Section Chair/ Abstracts, suggestions to:

Adina Ciugureanu (Ovidius University Constanta, Romania) [BIO]

Email: adina.ciugureanu@seanet.ro or aciugureanu@univ-ovidius.ro

ReferentInnen / Speakers   >>

ABSTRACT:

This section aims to explore concepts of ‘European’ identity not only from the perspective of historical and cultural common ground, but also from what is distinct to various regions. Participants are invited to explore the extent to which the local and national, often seen as free-standing, defines and conceptualizes itself by tacit acknowledgement of the common.

The section will also welcome papers discussing what sort of role and place national cultures may have, or play, in an age of increasing globalization. Europe boasts an inexhaustible heritage able to energize regional and national cultures. We therefore invite papers to support or challenge this assumption, focusing on topoi of European identity, self-awareness and national difference in literature, art, music, history and architecture.

ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs

• Italian Culture, English Heritage: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh
  Adina Ciugureanu (Ovidius University Constanta)
  ABSTRACT

• Surrealist fiction in Romania and its European emergence
  Alina Buzatu (Ovidius University Constanta, Romania)
  ABSTRACT

• History Making in Twelfth-Century Britain between the National and the Supranational
  Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu (Ovidius University Constanta, Romania)
  ABSTRACT

• Identities in Exile
  Alina M. Clej (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
  ABSTRACT

• For the ‘Common Roots: Europe and National Culture’
  Edward J Esche (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
  ABSTRACT

• Wyld's World: Cartographic Desire and the Imperial Imaginary
  Matthew Graves (University of Provence, France)
  ABSTRACT

• The Anatomy Lesson and the Order of the Cosmos in Early Modern Europe
  Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest, Romania)
  ABSTRACT

• 'What is my nation*?..': England, Britain and the Other (*Llewellyn, in Shakespeare, Henry V.)
  C. W. R. D. Moseley (Studies in English, Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
  ABSTRACT

• Shifting Identities and European Landmarks in David Lodge’s Fiction
  Lucia Opreanu (Ovidius University Constanta)
  ABSTRACT

• Ignotum per Ignotius or If Curiosity Killed the Cat: An Insight into the Wonders of Europe
  Otilia Pacea (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University of Bucharest, Romania)
  ABSTRACT

• Identity in Ancient Greece
  Leonor Santa Bárbara (Centro de História da Cultura, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
  ABSTRACT

• A Common Quincunx in Seamus Heaney’s Writings: Irish National Culture, European Heritage
  Nicoleta Stanca (Ovidius University Constanta, Romania)
  ABSTRACT