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SUMMARY:2019 SAUTE Conference: Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity (May 3-4, 2019)
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Ina Habermann, Alex Van Lierde & Alexandra Grasso, Un
 iversity of Basel\n\nDebates about national identity have received new curr
 ency in recent years in a context of demonstrations of national self-assert
 ion, which has resulted for example in the Brexit decision in Britain, in s
 ignificant changes in American international policies, and the introduction
  of authoritarian measures in some member states of the European Union. Sho
 rtly after Britain will most probably have left the European Union, the con
 ference will address the developments outlined above and the cultural disco
 urses surrounding them. As regards Brexit, we argue that many attempts at e
 xplaining the Leave victory and current British Euroscepticism focus quite 
 narrowly on economic, legal and political factors, underestimating more ‘fu
 zzy’ phenomena such as cultural myths, narratives and images which circulat
 e in literature, travel writing, visual arts and other media, influencing p
 eople on a visceral level, sometimes against their better judgement. During
  our conference, we will examine the construction and negotiation of cultur
 al identities in language, literature and the media with a focus on cultura
 l memory and the cultural imaginary as well as stereotyping, mythmaking, pe
 ople’s shared fictions and the impact of the resulting policies on people’s
  lives. We believe that literary studies and linguistics can make an import
 ant contribution to our understanding of current political developments, an
 d to a critique of jingoistic populism.\n\nMore information at https://engl
 ish.philhist.unibas.ch/en/research/conferences-and-colloquia/saute-conferen
 ce-2019/
LOCATION:Department of English, Basel
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