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Termin:<\/strong> April 26-28, 2017 Miejsce:<\/strong> Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland<\/span><\/p>\n The first of the intended series of conferences dedicated to the exploration of the complexity of Indigenous cultures of North America and minor cultures of Eastern\/Central Europe – is a joint project of the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, Canadian Studies Centre, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Theatrum Research Group and the Centre for the Study of Minor Cultures at the University of Silesia (US), and the Department of English and Indigenous Affairs Office, University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), Canada.\u00a0 As Canadian and Polish scholars and educators working in the fields of\u00a0 Indigenous, minor, and transcultural literary and cultural studies, we propose that the first conference will explore the traditional and contemporary expressions of culture in Indigenous America,\u00a0 specifically Canada, and in the Eastern\/Central European territory of Upper Silesia, specifically Poland, with a primary focus on the\u00a0 acts of resistance, survival and celebration of culture as enacted in storytelling, drama, theatre and performance (DTP). Performance is interpreted broadly including traditional and contemporary music and dance as well as festival events understood as modes of cultural storytelling. We envision the event as a meeting of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars representing a variety of disciplines\u00a0 and Indigenous Canadian and Upper Silesian storytellers, writers,\u00a0 artists, performers,\u00a0 educators and community members.<\/span><\/p>\n Our aim is to explore the richness of Indigenous expressions of culture in storytelling and DPT in Canada and Upper Silesia. We believe that the transcultural dialogue between scholars, artists and educators of marginalized cultures will be an enriching learning experience for all,\u00a0 but especially for Upper Silesians, colonized by diverse powers throughout history, whose most recent struggle for recognition,\u00a0 including the processes of cultural and linguistic revitalization, can benefit from such transcultural encounters. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The exploration of Canadian scholarship on Indigenous literatures and cultures, and especially the work of Indigenous playwrights, artists, performers, scholars\/critics and educators is of great interest to the critics of minor\/ Indigenous literatures and cultures in Europe. We believe that in spite of many differences between Indigenous cultures of America and minor cultures of Eastern\/Central Europe, critical insights and analytical tools offered by Indigenous research methodologies, epistemologies and pedagogical theories \u00a0can provide instructive,\u00a0 alternative ways of approaching the under-studied and under-theorized works of European minor\/Indigenous writers, performers and artists. A panel discussion by specialists in this area will explore diverse perspectives on these complex issues.<\/span><\/p>\n Presentations in various formats will be addressing the following aspects of the conference theme:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Re-reading and re-writing of history in DTP; <\/span>Poetics, aesthetics and politics of identity construction in DTP; <\/span>Storytelling, drama, theatre and performance as tools of decolonization and pedagogy; <\/span>Storytelling as a repository and archive of Indigenous knowledge; <\/span>Interrogating the concept of indigeneity: theorizing indigenous and minor cultures perspectives; <\/span>Indigeneity of Upper Silesia; <\/span>Transindigeneity and a dialogue of cultures; <\/span>Indigenous ontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodology and their translation into storytelling and DTP; <\/span>Use of oral traditions, stories,\u00a0 culture and history to promote activism; <\/span>Inventing home through stories and performance: a decolonizing approach to DTP; <\/span>Performing history and re-visioning of community memories DTP; <\/span>The role of the storytelling and DTP in the cultural revival of Canadian Indigenous cultures; <\/span>The role of the storytelling and DTP in the cultural revival of Upper Silesian culture and language; <\/span>(De)Construction of cultural identity in storytelling and DTP; <\/span>Traditional knowledge and values in storytelling and DTP; <\/span>Indigenous\/ local knowledge and traditional and contemporary expressions of culture; <\/span>Performance of identity and\u00a0 language recovery and revitalization; <\/span>Language recovery and revitalization and identity construction; <\/span>Methodological practices of Native Performance Culture (NPC) as a possible model for the Upper Silesian expressions of culture; <\/span>Diversity of the traditional Indigenous forms of cultural expression in the contemporary Canadian Indigenous and Upper Silesian DTP; <\/span>Theories of affect and the enactment of Indigenous cultures in storytelling and DTP; <\/span>Traditional knowledge versus folklore and its performance; <\/span>Folklore and theatre; <\/span>The role of folklore in preserving Indigenous and minor cultures; <\/span>The condition of ritual in theatre \u2013 Canadian Indigenous and Slavic perspectives; <\/span>Contemporary storytelling methods in DTP; <\/span>The poetics of place and aesthetic values; <\/span>Poetic auto-creation and mythologizing of Indigenous cultures and landscapes; <\/span>Indigenous values and cosmologies and their translation into DTP; <\/span>Heritage tourism and storytelling; <\/span>Cultural festivals and their role in preserving and inventing cultures.<\/span><\/p>\n With a comparative project in mind, we are initiating new avenues of research related to the marginalized local\/ indigenous\/minor cultures of Eastern\/Central Europe studied in the context of Indigenous cultures of North America. We hope this pioneering venture in will lead to a greater understanding of the Indigenous and minor cultures functioning within major dominant national narratives of Canada and Poland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Termin:<\/strong> 30 czerwca-1 lipca 2017 r. Miejsce:<\/strong> Uniwersytet \u015al\u0105ski w Katowicach, Sosnowiec Organizator:<\/strong> ko\u0142o naukowe H\/Story, Instytut Kultur i Literatur Angloj\u0119zycznych<\/span><\/p>\n Opis:<\/strong> Tematem mi\u0119dzynarodowej konferencji Corpus Historicus<\/em> by\u0142o cia\u0142o i cielesno\u015b\u0107 rozpatrywane na wielu p\u0142aszczyznach; szczeg\u00f3ln\u0105 uwag\u0119 po\u015bwi\u0119cono temu, w jaki spos\u00f3b cia\u0142o by\u0142o postrzegane i wykorzystywane w r\u00f3\u017cnych kontekstach historycznych.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Termin:<\/strong> 6-8 lipca 2017 roku Miejsce:<\/strong> Uniwersytet \u015al\u0105ski w Katowicach, Muzeum \u015al\u0105skie Organizator:<\/strong> dr Ewa Macura-Nnamdi, dr Micha\u0142 Krzykawski, dr Ewa Drab, mgr Magdalena \u0141achacz Opis: <\/strong>Szeroko pojmowana tematyka o charakterze interdyscyplinarnym zwi\u0105zana z poj\u0119ciem vulnerabilities<\/em>, w kontek\u015bcie literatury, filozofii, socjologii, Antropocenu.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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