2023 Symposium on Comparative Literature & Cross-Cultural Studies

 

Call for Paper

 

Theme: New Perspectives in Cross-Cultural Studies

 

The Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation in the 2023 Symposium on “New Perspectives in Cross-Cultural Studies.” The Symposium is scheduled on Thursday, August 24, 2023. All alumni and doctoral students of the Institute, as well as doctoral students of related fields in other universities, are cordially invited to participate. 

 

In light of the post-pandemic “new normal,” rapid development of artificial intelligence, and volatile geopolitics, the humanities, now more than ever, needs to revive itself with new insights and innovative thinking. The challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-cultural communication have also gained new urgency. Cross-cultural studies is a broad field that is interdisciplinary in nature. In general, it underscores problems related to “in-betweenness,” “mediation,” and “intertextuality,” while promoting an open attitude to “heterogeneity.”

 

Possible themes include (but are not restricted to):

• language and cultural translation

• intertextuality in literature, arts and media

• cross-cultural imagology

• the body, ecocriticism and posthuman studies

• post-colonial and globalization studies (trans-national migration, border-crossing mobility, etc.)

• interdisciplinary research methods and practices (e.g., food literature; disabilities studies; literature and religion, science, law, medicine, fashion, etc.)    

• others

  

Organizer: Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University 

Date: Thursday,  August 24, 2023

Venue: FG 517 at Fu Jen Catholic University (tentative) 

 

Submission information:

◎Conference languages: Mandarin and English 

◎Abstract submission deadline: June 10, 2023  

(within 500 Chinese characters or 300 English words, with 3-5 keywords)

E-mail: G28@mail.fju.edu.tw, subject: “abstract submission, 2023 Symposium of Cross-Cultural Studies” 

◎Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2023 

◎Paper submission deadline: August 10, 2023 (within10,000 Chinese characters; 7,000 English words)

 

If any questions, please contact Ms. Yang 

Phone: 886-2-29052553 

Fax: 886-2-29052530