Language, Literature, and Peace in the Middle East
This year's conference focuses on the role of language and literature in the waging of war and peace in the Middle East. Specifically, we hope to investigate the ways in which language and literature function to construct and maintain political and cultural boundaries between Jews and Palestinians and reinforce group identities and representations of the other.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Edward Said, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and one of the most prominent intellectuals in the United States today. His writing regularly appears in the Guardian of London, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Arab-language daily al-Hayat, printed in every Arab capital in the world. Said has lectured at more that 150 universities and colleges in the United States, Canada and Europe. His writing, translated into 26 languages, includes Orientalism (1978), an highly influential examination of the way the West perceives the Islamic world, The World, the Text and the Critic (1983), Culture and Imperialism (1993), The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After (2000), and Out of Place, a 1999 memoir chronicling his early years in Jerusalem, his family's exile to Cairo, and his education in the United States....
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[The conference schedule is at <http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/Departments/English/events/schedule.html>.] -- Yoshie
* Calendar of Anti-War Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Anti-War Coalition Working Groups in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/wg.html> * Anti-War Organizing in Columbus Covered by the Media: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/media.html> * Subscription Info about the Anti-War (Columbus) & Peace (Statewide) Listservs: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/mail.html> * Subscription Info about the OSU Committee for Justice in Palestine Listserv: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/cjp.mail.html>