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Host: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Old Dominion University
Homepage: http://web.odu.edu/al/artsandletters/forlang/sympos2001.htm
Organizers: Frederick A. Lubich
Description:
Modern nations underwent dramatic changes in recent history.
European fascism, the worldwide spread of communism, and the
growing globalization of American culture were certainly among
the most influential manifestations of such (inter-)national
transformations taking place around the world. This
interdisciplinary symposium will focus on the (de-)construction
of national identities and ideologies in Western and Eastern
civilizations past, present - and beyond, framing this process
from a variety of academic disciplines. Topics will include
but are not limited to such issues as:
- multiculturalism and identity politics - national themes in literature and popular culture - state and religion, fundamentalist nationalism - national realities and utopias - post- and transnational developments - "Chosen People" - Cursed People? - "Eastern - and Western - Menaces" - South - North dichotomies - assimilation - diasporization - national psychologies and stereotypes - Latin America, Latino cultures, Hispanic hegemonies - host societies - lost societies - ethnic cleansing and ethnic revival - minority and migration literature - regionalism - globalism - Imperium Romanum - Habsburg's Vielvölkerstaat - Western "melting pots" - international communities and world economies - Internet -WWW - Cyberspace etc.
Date received: December 07, 2000
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