The University of Malta’s Department of English has been awarded Erasmusplus funding to host an intensive programme called Mediterranean Imaginaries: Literature, Arts, Culture.
Participants will explore and study Mediterranean literature, film and texts from different periods engaging with the cultural encounters, clashes, and exchanges of the region.
Prof. Stella Borg Barthet from the University’s Department of English, one of the leaders of the Mediterranean Imaginaries programme.They will study how these affect national and regional literatures through a transnational research network, sharing and confronting ideas, practices and study methods.
The programme will foreground and explore openness and hospitality to those experiencing political strife.
It aims to develop receptivity and understanding of different cultures, both in the participants who are directly involved, as well as in the wider communities in which they live and work.
Set to take place in 2017 and 2018, Mediterranean Imaginaries will bring together academics and students from the University of Malta with universities in the UK, Slovenia, Portugal, Italy and Tunisia. It will include two intensive spring schools to be hosted in Malta, two postgraduate symposia to be hosted in Malta and London, and a number of events and publications such as lectures, seminars, poster sessions, workshops, and special issue journals, which will be held in all the partner countries.
These activities will maximise the impact and reach of the ideas and scholarship generated by Mediterranean Imaginaries, to the benefit of academics and students working in, on, and around the Mediterranean.
Mediterranean Imaginaries builds on the successful foundations laid by the Writing the Mediterranean programme that the University of Malta’s Department of English had hosted in 2013 and 2014.
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