LETTERS
INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
27-29 APRIL 2017 – INTERHOTEL CHERNO MORE, VARNA, BULGARIA
ORGANIZERS: THE BULGARIAN SOCIETY FOR BRITISH STUDIES (BSBS)
and
THE BULGARIAN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (BASA)
Advisory Committee:
Ludmilla Kostova (University of Veliko Turnovo), Zelma Catalan (University of Sofia), Vitana Kostadinova (University of Plovdiv), Andrei Andreev (New Bulgarian University). Irina Perianova (University of National and World Economy), Kostadin Grozev (University of Sofia), Madeleine Danova (University of Sofia).
LETTERS can be written characters representing sounds, written messages, epistles, certified documents granting rights. “LETTERS” can mean “learning” or “literary culture.”
This conference aims at bringing together scholars, both established and emergent, working within one or more of the research areas studying LETTERS.
Topics include, but are not restricted to:
- letters and/in systems of writing;
- sound/letter correlations;
- letters and literacies;
- letter symbolism;
- written letters vs spoken words;
- epistolary communication from a historical perspective;
- epistolarities old and new;
- from love letters to hate mail;
- letters and the politics of travel ;
- pseudo-letters and the politics of authorship;
- representations of epistolary communication in literature and other arts;
- methods of studying letters and epistolarity;
- letters and historical research;
- editing letters;
- belles-lettres;
- the Republic of Letters and other networks.
Abstracts (ca 300 words) and short bios are to be emailed to conferencevarna17@gmail.com by 10 February 2017.