Key-note speaker: Christoph Singer (University of Innsbruck) The theme can include the following topics: How do physical and social spaces influence the mental health for the better or worse? What kind of spaces are created, produced, constructed or appropriated by “healthy” or “unhealthy” minds? And how do texts establish and narrate the distinction between what is considered mental health and mental “unhealth” (insanity, eccentricity, abnormality, sociopathology or psychopathology)? Where are the limits and possibilities for translating mental well-being or the lack thereof into narratives? Can the traumatized mind relate these experiences in form of narratives in the first place? What kind of effects and affects are generated by different… Read More
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22nd International Colloquium of American Studies
22nd International Colloquium of American Studies – SECRETS Biennial Conference of the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies September 12–14, 2019 Hosted by the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English and American Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Plenary speakers: Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast), President of the European Association for American Studies Brian Ward (Northumbria University), Chair of the British Association for American Studies Diane Simmons (City University of New York), Award-winning author, professor of creative writing http://colloquium2019.upol.cz/
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