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Superdiverse texts, communities, practices.Migrating in and across cultures and/or literatures.Multi/inter/trans/disciplinary approaches to Literature, Postcolonial, Ecocritical and Partnership Studies.Proposals analysing texts, genres, genders, cultures, disciplines, media, and theories in literary studies are thus welcome. Through these multifarious multidisciplinary approaches, literature can be seen as a complex and dynamic system, in which issues of cross- cultural contact can be tackled from different theoretical and methodological points of view.
The main theoretical frame of the conference is meant to be broad and yet specific: it spans the range of perspectives from cultural and postcolonial studies to anthropological, historical and philosophical reflections on cultural difference it also includes theoretical views on the role of literature and the arts in cultural interactions (of cooperation and conflict) in an age of “superdiversity”. A multidisciplinary perspective is therefore essential to the representation and analysis of cultural phenomena as evidenced by the rich bibliography available. Literature and its interactions with science, medicine, technologies, artificial intelligence and other disciplines in the humanities – such as history, anthropology, the visual and multimedia arts and music – are at the core of many potential and multifaceted investigations, originating within literary discourse itself. Investigating the critical implications of these dynamics through multidisciplinary perspectives to literary studies and bridging the gap between apparently divergent approaches is nowadays an increasingly sought cultural and scholarly practice. Subjects and cultures are mutually involved in complex and protean dynamics. Organizing and scientific committee: Francesca Di Blasio, Maria Micaela Coppola, Mattia Mantellato, Nunziana Mastrangelo, Stefano Mercanti, Greta Perletti, Chiara Polli, Emanuel StelzerĪNDA Conference 2022 focuses on the philosophical and scientific debate on cultural contact by investigating multidisciplinary approaches to literatures in English. Title: Always Connect: Transdisciplinarity and Intercultural Contact in Literary Discourse