Appel à com : "Cultural institutions and literary reception"

[Madeleine L.]

The British Academy Network Conference on Cultural Institutions and
Literary Reception in Europe, IGRS, University of London, 14-15 June
2010, organized by Research Project on the Reception of British and
Irish Authors in Europe (RBAE) and supported by the British Academy,
building upon the work of the British Academy Network on Reception
Studies (2004-09)

The role of institutions in the process of reception (for example,
historically, the Index of the Vatican, and current institutions such as
the academic research centre) has at all times been powerful; at the
same time, there are counter-institutions, representing oppositional
forces (minorities, undergrounds and associated texts), which have equal
importance. These have been the focus of interest of comparative
studies, concerned with the ‘affinities’ and with their opposites
(‘philias and ‘phobias), both common phenomena in reception history.
They may have deep religious and historical roots; or they may be
phenomena of a particular set of temporary conditions. At the present
time, a new set of institutions is in the process of coming into play,
institutions which mirror and utilize recent technology and are
impacting on both the traditional and modern institutions of culture,
whether the publisher, the journal, the university, the library, the
book itself. ‘Literature’ and ‘literacy’ are themselves changing their
forms. This is a crucial moment to take stock.

We are especially interested in hearing from large reception projects,
whether well established or new, which engage with these themes on a
European scale.

Keynote speakers

Prof. Bernhard Fabian FBA (English and Bibliography, Münster)
Prof. Marc Fumaroli FBA (Académie française; Collège de France)
Prof. Joseph Th. Leerssen (Modern European Literature, Amsterdam)
Prof. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Comparative Literature, Eötvös Loránd,
Budapest)
Prof. Rosa Rabadán (English and Translation Studies, León)

Short papers (20 mins) are invited for the following panels:

Cultural and Political History: Romanticism / Translation as cultural
control and cultural expression
Chair: Prof. Ágnes Péter (English, Budapest)

The Site of the Intellectual in Europe
Chair: Dr Gisèle Sapiro (CNRS, Paris)

History of the Book
Chair: William St Clair FBA (Institute of English Studies, London)

Correspondence Projects
Chair: Prof. Timothy Fulford (English, Nottingham Trent)

Translation in Cultural Context
Chair: Dr Francesca Billiani (Italian, Manchester)

OtherMedia Projects
Chair: Prof. Ian Christie (Film and Media History, Birkbeck)

Please send proposals as soon as convenient to the conference convener:
In the Sections to do with Translation in Cultural Context and History
of the Book, we would especially welcome some French translators,
preferably those involved in European projects of some scale.

Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic &
Romance Studies
Elinor.Shaffer@sas.ac.uk <mailto:Elinor.Shaffer@sas.ac.uk>

Details of the RBAE Research Project and British Academy Network can be
found at www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae <http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae>