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(UN) LANGUAGE:

What Remains Unsaid in Art & Literature

Written Proposal Deadline:       Sunday,  March 5th, 2023
Conference Date:                        Thursday, March 30th, 2023

LANGUAGE shapes existence, it provides a means to translate, elucidate, and express the human experience. So, what happens when one language doesn鈥檛 translate into another? How does art 鈥渟peak鈥� to us without words?  With these questions in mind, the annual WORLD LITERATURE STUDENT CONFERENCE is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2023 event, titled (UN)LANGUAGE: WHAT REMAINS UNSAID IN ART AND LITERATURE.

Language is an impartial and ubiquitous aspect of society; utilized by some as a tool of oppression, it is an equally powerful force in cultivating change.  Through World Literature we can explore the ways in which art mobilizes resistance by offering perspectives that transcend linguistic barriers.  But can art and literature effectively convert experience into expression?  Translation is the movement of meaning between forms鈥攕ensation to thought, feeling to words, language to language; and, so, this year鈥檚 theme invites presentations that explore the boundaries and possibilities of how language and culture interact with each other. How can words and images capture the depth and breadth of human experience? How do you put the feeling of looking at art into words? What does it mean to translate the untranslatable, to say the unsaid? 

EXAMPLES OF PAST PRESENTATIONS

Here is some inspiration in regards to topics & theses that past presenters have presented on. 

If you have trouble coming up with a relevant topic or thesis, compare the following topics and theses to their respective conference themes. 

• The Road No Longer Taken: Do Oral Stories Still Have a Place in the Modern World? (Rodman Joseph, 2018)
• The Paradox of the Passions: The Artistic Neutering of LGBTQ+ Cinema (Karina Asaikpuka, 2018)
• Traduction Inters茅miotique et Censure Dans la Po茅sie Catalane (Liza Siamer, 2018)
• The Refugee's Tale of Hope (Hanna Choi, 2018)
• Making an 鈥極ther鈥�: Native Americans in Civil War Westerns (Jasper Cattell, 2017)
• Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A tale of Freudian Regression (Jaiden Dembo, 2016)
• Beyond Lonely Starbucks Lovers: Agency & Persona in Taylor Swift鈥檚 鈥淏lank Space鈥� Video (Melanie Hiepler, 2015)
• Baudrillard鈥檚 Persona Simulacra: Investigating Richard III and In the Heart of the Country (Maya Gal, 2017)
• Beyonc茅 and the Greeks: Using Femininity for Political Purposes (Brigitte Malana, 2016)
• The Gardener & Garden: The Internalization of Man in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals (Elda Hajdaravoc, 2016)