NEWSLETTER #56 - aisna

AISNA Newsletter 56, p. 40
exploration of languages, Western and Eastern. His heroes could be called “men made out of
words.”
Speakers: Barry Ahearn, Helène Aji, Anderson D. Araujo, Massimo Bacigalupo, Walter Baumann,
Danilo Breschi, Ron Bush, Anne Conover Carson, Stefano Casella, Patricia Cockram, Diana
Collecott, Helen Dennis, Luca Gallesi, John Gery, Evelyn Haller, Burton Hatlen, Archie
Henderson, Guiyou Huang, Yoshiko Kita, Sanahide Kodama, Peter Makin, Rosella Mamoli Zorzi,
David Moody, Ira Nadel, Peter Nicholls & Elena Gualtieri, Catherine Paul, William Pratt, Jean-
Michel Rabaté, Tim Redman, Caterina Ricciardi, Peter Stoicheff, Andrew Tayor, Ric Taylor, Emily
Wallace, Yi-ping Wu, and others. Information: William Pratt prattwc[at]muohio.edu, Massimo
Bacigalupo 37237[at]unige.it.
18-22 August 2005. The next world congress of IASA (International Association for American
Studies) will take place at the University of Ottawa, Canada, 18-22 August 2005. Several AISNA
Members will give papers. Please visit the IASA web site: http://www.iasaweb.org for further
information.
8-9 September 2005. Defeat and Memory. University of Edinburgh.
Email: jenny.macleod[at]ed.ac.uk
September 29-30 2005. Literary Landscapes and Landscapes in Literature. University of
Salerno. For further information, contact Michele Bottalico at mbottali[at]unisa.it
6-8 October. Da Ulisse a... Travels into the Deeps of the Ocean. Imperia. This yearly conference
finally turns from the sea surface to its unsounded dees. Elmar Schenkel, Darko Suvin, and many
others will give papers. The conference is organized by Giorgetta Revelli of
Università di Genova. Revelli has edited four volumes of proceedings of the previous conferences
in the series, in which there are many articles on American subjects, see Members’ Publications on
AISNA Website.
20-23 October 2005. (Re)Constructing Pain and Joy in Language, Literature and Culture.
The 6th International Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE),
University of Athens, October 20-23, 2005. Drawing upon the debate on representing vs.
(re)constructing reality through language and literature, the conference aims to explore views in
relation to the treatment of ‘joy’ and ‘pain’ as human experiences combining physical,
psychological, private, public, conceptual and cultural dimensions. Furthermore, it fosters work
that addresses the relationship between pain/joy and creativity, examining the extent to which
pain/joy may be seen as sterile and constrictive or creative and expansive. Proposals for 20-min
papers (title, 300-word abstract, 100-word bionote) by 10 January 2005 to Angeliki Tzanne
, Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens, Panepistimioupoli
Zographou, Athens 157 84, Greece. Tel.: +30 210 7277913; fax: +30 210 7277020.
26, 27, 28 October 2005. International Sea Changes Conference. University of Padua, Italy.
Archivio Antico, Palazzo Bo (Deadline for proposals: June 30, 2005)
SEA CHANGES:Bodies, Practices and Discourses around the Atlantic
The conference will focus on bodies, practices and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with
regard to current issues such as political and human rights, cosmopolitics, questions of identity,
mnemo-history and the rewriting of the past, and glocal tensions and sites [see our project outline at
www.maldura.unipd.it/seachanges] as reflected in the complex formations and negotiations of black
cultures in the circum-atlantic world (African, African American, Latin American, Caribbean,
Black British, Black European).