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Keynote speaker: prof. Ian McLeod
Difference, indifference and undifference: or, the theory and practice of multicultural discourse in the US and the UK.

Dr Ian McLeod is Senior Lecturer in English at the Institut Libre Marie Haps in Brussels, where he teaches translation, interpreting, American Literature, and the social, political, economic and cultural history of Britain.

Dr McLeod is a published poet and a previous winner of the Australian Commonwealth Literary Award for Poetry.

His latest book, published in November 2010 by Leuven University Press, is the authoritative scholarly translation of Jean-François Lyotard's central work of philosophical aesthetics, Les TRANS/formateurs Duchamp.

He has published many scholarly translations, most notably from the works of Jacques Derrida, including the well-received and much-quoted English version of La Vérité en peinture.

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Keynote speaker: prof. Larisa Avram
"Manner of speaking" across constructions.

TENTH CONFERENCE ON BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES

"CROSSING BOUNDARIES: APPROACHES TO THE CONTEMPORARY MULTICULTURAL DISCOURSE"

6-7 APRIL 2012

Commonly defined as the acceptance and even endorsement of cultural diversity, multiculturalism seems to echo Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia, a polyphonic dialogue between texts, voices and discourses, where hierarchies are constantly undermined by the free play of centres and margins. Today, multiculturalism has become an effigy of the contemporary society and discourse, but although it is generally perceived as a positive outcome of cultural progress, it also poses some ethical problems related to cultural assimilation and erasure of boundaries. Our conference aims to host discussions on the ways in which the contemporary discourse mirrors this symptomatic crossing of linguistic, cultural and narrative boundaries, in order to achieve an accurate radiography of multiculturalism in all its aspects.

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