Conference on exile this week

 

About 80 scholars and writers from all over the world are expected to attend a colloquium on exile and the arts on May 5 to 7 on the seventh floor of the Hall Building.

Hugh Hazelton, José Antonio Giménez-Micó and Goretti Ramírez, three professors in the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, have organized Dis/ Location: Writing Exile/Migrancy/Nomadism/Bordercrossing.

Hazelton said, “Due to the timeliness of the topic and to the conference's multilingual format, it is shaping up to be a major event.”

The colloquium will include academic papers and readings of original work. Participants will present in English, Spanish, or French, and the work under discussion is from Latin America, Canada, Europe, the U.S.A., Australia, Africa and the Orient.

The distinguished Argentine-Canadian writer, scholar and visual artist Nela Rio will give the keynote address on today in Room H-767, starting at 10:30 a.m.

Two other writers who will speak are Nora Strejilevich, from San Diego State University, and Luis Torres, a Chilean who has settled in Canada. Strejilevich will talk about Exile as a Site of Creativity on Friday at 11:50 a.m. at H-767; Torres will discuss Exile and Community in Literary Works at 12:10 p.m. on Saturday in H-767.

More highlights include the panels Fronteras, (Friday at 10:25 a.m. in H-763), Figures de l’exil européen (Friday at 5:55 p.m. in H-763), and Entre le Canada et la Chine (Saturday at 5:25 p.m., H-767).

Outspoken Art/Arte Claro, a poetry and art exhibition dedicated to the elimination of violence against women, opened today at noon in H-767.

Dis/Location is sponsored by Concordia, the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, the Hispanic Students Association, the Concordia Student Union, and the multilingual publisher White Dwarf Editions.

For more information, please go to
http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/cmll/dislocation_program.htm.