How does literature respond to event(s), monumental changes, ruptures and transitions? This upcoming conference at Warwick University attempts to answer some of these questions.
The conference invites abstracts that address, but may not necessarily be restricted to, the following areas:
Theories of Event and Literary Event
Questions of Testimony and Writing
Literature and Change
Plasticity, Contingency and Speculation
Practices of Reading
Fragility and Literature
Biopolitical Events
Climate‘change’asanundoingofallevents
Theories of Non-Event
Postcolonialiality and Event
Re-definition of event from a world-literature perspective
Inviting proposals for 20-minute presentations. Please submit at least 350-word abstracts, along with a short biographical note (50-100 words) by November 10th, 2019 to litandevent@gmail.com.
More details can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/event/cfp/