During the last decades, when technology, science, engineering, mathematics, and life sciences had apparently taken over the interest of the general public and the investment of academic bodies, arts and humanities seem not to find their place anymore. This intellectual crisis, potentially affecting individuals, societies and dictating the future evolution of humanity, needs to be addressed also by reassessing the place of literature by questioning what literature means nowadays, but also why, how and when to read.

The workshop co-organised by LE STUDIUM and MSH Val de Loire on the 20th of November will bring together three researchers representing different literary areas, from current day war poetry in Ukraine and Eastern European interwar theatre to Latin American end of XXth century fiction, nevertheless united thorough a few key socio-cultural aspects such as migration, modernity, conflict, transformation of literary structures and canon and the tumultuous relationship between center and periphery. Regardless the diversity of literary expertise, the questions which will be addressed will gravitate around the specificity, the challenges of literary research and how to find solutions in the respective areas.

This event takes place within the framework of the Transmission(s), Transfer(s) and Reappropriation(s) research axis of the MSH Val de Loire. This interdisciplinary axis brings together researchers from various fields to reflect on the circulation of knowledge, skills and cultural practices, and on the processes of mediation, translation and appropriation that shape them.

CONVENORS

• Nancy Calomarde, LE STUDIUM Visiting Researcher
  FROM: Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. National University of Córdoba - AR
  IN RESIDENCE AT: Reception and Mediation of Foreign and Comparative Literature and Culture (Rémélice), University of Orléans - FR 
• Camelia Crăciun, LE STUDIUM / MSH VdL Visiting Researcher
  FROM: University of Bucharest - RO
  IN RESIDENCE AT: Maison des Sciences sociales et des Humanités Val de Loire (MSH VdL)  / University of Tours - FR  
• Liudmyla Harmash, LE STUDIUM Visiting Researcher 
  FROM: H.S. Skovoroda National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv - UA
  IN RESIDENCE AT: Cultural and Discursive Interactions (ICD) / University of Tours - FR