The III International Conference in Narratives, organized by Universidad EAFIT, proposes rewriting as an object of reflection from the arts, humanities, social sciences and communication sciences. To interrogate the gesture of writing a text again, it involves accounting for an operation that, in its apparent simplicity, shows the experience of time and repetition, the recording of memory, the tension between imitation and difference, and the means of reproduction and creation. Along its relationships, objects and notions that it implies, the gesture of rewriting is exemplary and heuristic; it has become a model for understanding various phenomena and cultural practices.
The III International Conference in Narratives -Rewriting: Logic of repetition? - is organized in association with the Università degli Studi di Padova - Italy.
The organizers of the III International Conference in Narratives -Rewriting: Logic of repetition? invite reasearch professors and posgraduate students in the arts, humanities, social sciences and communication sciences, to disclose their research results with reference to the following subject areas.
Subject areas
Palimpsests: intertextuality and rewriting
Rewriting is a part of literary practices and by extension it is inherent to the creative tradition of literature. Indeed, rewriting is associated with linguistic and literary phenomena such as dialogism or historical poetics (Bajtin), to intertextuality and intertextual memory (Kristeva - Genette). Rewriting is operative when analyzing the porosity between the aesthetic of imitation and originality. Henceforth, it can be activated as a model to adress phenomena of influence and affiliation, as well as opening roads to understanding the strategies of irony and transformation such as parody, pastiche and self-writing.
Hermeneutics of rewriting
Due to a sort of circularity or return, rewriting can be thought as a sense regenerating experience. To this extent, topics around rereading, comprehension, reconfiguration, appropriation and application may be discussed.
Writing transgenerational trauma and violence
How is history rewritten? In narrative of memory, what political, social or epistemic processes are revealed where changes and omissions appear? Understood here to write in an other way, rewriting allows the approach to substitution and change processes. By extension, it is an excellent heuristic metaphor for memory studies, it also interrogates the stability of the written and leads to a fluid and dynamic vision of historiography and historical experience (Koselleck).
Postcolonial identity deconstruction and rewriting
It will also be the opportunity to discuss the role of archive and testimony, the historiographical critical review, the dialectic of tradition and innovation, the approaches from subaltern studies and postcolonial discourses of identity, cultural deconstruction and reconstruction with gender perspective.
Creation Process
The exercise of rewriting forwards to the process of artistic invention. From the point of view of temporality in art, rewriting allows to revisit the debates on the status of incompleteness of creation, the origin or the beginning of the work of art and, the repetition as an exercise in style development. Along with this, all repetition operations linked to the artistic process, such as the outline, the scheme, the trial and the draft will be thought as well.
Media, materials and transmedia communication
What role does the media play in the gesture of rewriting? What materials are the ones that allow rewriting processes? In what way are cultural rituals of repetition, translation and rehabilitation organized? The manuscript, print and digital media are examples of means that shape in each case the transmission and exchange of codes, records and human relations. The invitation here is to approach recording, copying and reproduction practices and devices that enable to start over and to transform. This pathway will undertake digital humanities, the tension between oral, visual and written, along with translation and transcription as rewriting operations.
Conference Languages
Spanish - Italian - Portuguese - French - English
Schedule
Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 4th
Notification of accepted proposals: September 11th
Papers submission: October 16th
Publication of the final program: October 30th
Payment of registration of speakers and attendees: from October 16th
The III International Conference in Narratives -Rewriting: logic of repetition? -: November 5 and 6