Higher Seminars in Transcultural Identities

1.  Nela Bureu Ramos, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, Dept of English, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
Title: “New Crossings/Old Borders: Re-Negotiating Canadian Representations of Identity”
2.  Chris Brighton, Erasmus Guest Lecturer,  Dept of English, Krosno State College, Poland
Title: “Experience in the Development of Intercultural Communication Competence”

1. Malin Lidström Brock, Lecturer in English, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “‘My Inner French Girl’; Imaginary Identities and Communities in Cyberspace”
2. Chatarina Edfeldt, Lecturer in Portuguese, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Transcultural Identities and Luso-Tropicalism in Paulina Chiziane’s O Alegre Canto de Perdiz”

1. Dr Gerard McCann, Erasmus Guest Lecturer, St Mary's College, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Title: “Guns, Guinness and Gambling: The Uneven Development of the Irish Economy” (click here for poster)
2. Dr John Lynch, Guest Lecturer, Stockholm
Title: “Hunger: Passion of the Militant - Steve McQueen’s Film Hunger” (click here for poster)

Day-long Symposium on Transcultural Literature
Co-ordinated by Julie Hansen, Lecturer in English, Högskolan Dalarna.
The following participants have confirmed attendance:
Jenny Tunedal, Sweden - literary critic and writer
Andrzej Tichy, Sweden - novelist
Tetz Rooke, Sweden - docent in Arabic literature, Gothenburg University, translator of Arabic literature to Sweden
Camille de Toledo, France - prose writer, poet and founder of the European Society of Authors
Leila Aboulela, Sudanese writer and playwright

1. Mattias Aronsson, Lecturer in French, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Trahison, hypocrisie et violence – la représentation de la masculinité dans Kiffe kiffe demain de Faïza Guène”
2. Torkel Lindqvist, Lecturer in Arabic, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “A History of Stoning: Religiously Motivated Terror against Human Sexuality in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”

1. Katherina Dodou, Lecturer in English, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: “Familiar Myths: Terrorism and the Family in 9/11 Fiction”
2. Vera Nigrisoli Wärnhjelm, Lecturer in Italian, Högskolan Dalarna
Title: ”Reselitteraturen och bilden av Skandinavien från antiken till 1600-talets slut”