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Worlds Not So Far Apart:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Contacts and Analogies between Romance and Slavic Literatures<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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International Conference | <\/strong>July 15-17, 2025\u00a0 | <\/strong>Sibiu, Romania<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If the comparative linguistic study of the three major European language groups (Romance, Germanic, and Slavic) already has a tradition of almost two centuries both in terms of comparisons between the groups themselves and between members of the same group, the same cannot be said for the literatures written in their languages. The widest disciplinary dispersion can be observed in the case of Germanic literatures, where there seems to have been no interest so far either in writing a history covering all these literatures or in recognizing it as a distinct discipline. The picture seems to be more favorable with regard to the Romance and Slavic literatures, where, apart from certain attempts \u2013 albeit rather few, such as those of Nicolae Iorga (1920) and Dmitrij Tschi\u017eewskij (1971) \u2013 to synthesize historically each of these groups of literatures, the tendency to study them as clusters seems to have been institutionalized over the previous century in the form of specialized publications or departments.<\/p>\n

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However, beyond certain generally acknowledged and thoroughly described \u201cwaves\u201d (e.g. the influence of French culture on Eastern European literatures in the 18th and 19th centuries), Romance and Slavic literatures as a whole are still seen as worlds apart, separated typologically by a linguistic barrier and geographically by the Germanic literatures of Central Europe. Of course, there are numerous examples that not only contradict this bias, but also show the complex entanglements between the two groups of literatures. For instance, as Alex Drace-Francis (2006) has shown, the period when the two Romanian principalities were under Russian military occupation (1829-1834) represented a turning point in their modernization process through the assimilation of French culture and ideologies. Another complex example may be the way in which Latin American literatures assimilated more or less simultaneously the critique of capitalism in the works of Soviet writers and the critique of totalitarianism in the writings of Eastern European dissidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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With these premises in mind, we invite scholars from various disciplines to submit proposals that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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