054- Identity and Otherness: A Comparative Overview of Basque and Georgian Literatures
Chairs: Martin Artola (TSU University) & Garbiñe Iztueta (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU-Etxepare Euskal Institutua)
Key-note speakers:
Izaro Arroita Azkarate: Conflicting memories and families in conflict: Identity and otherness in contemporary Basque literature. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Paulo Kortazar: "National identity in a global world; otherness in a country without a state. The case of Basque Contemporary Literature". University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Dato Turashvili: "If the sky in Basque Country looks like the sky in Georgia?". Writer and TSU University
Accepted abstracts:
Aitzpea Leizaola: Basques, Mi’kMaqs and Inuits: Transoceanic First Nations encounters in comic and graphic novels. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Monika Madinabeitia: Frank Bergon´s Fiction: From Black To White. Mondragon Unibertsitatea / Universidad de Mondragón.
Eneko Bidegain: Laxalt family’s Basque American correspondence after Sweet Promised Land. Mondragon Unibertsitatea / Universidad de Mondragón.
Kepa Matxain: Transformation of Identity in the ‘Bertso-Event’: Three Experiences of Crisis. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Marian Chkhartishvili: Process of National Identity Forging: We vs Others in Nineteenth Century Georgian Literary Fiction (specific title in progress) TSU University
Zurab Targamadze: Process of National Identity Forging: We vs Others in Nineteenth Century Georgian Literary Fiction (specific title in progress) TSU University
Sopio Kadagishvili: Process of National Identity Forging: We vs Others in Nineteenth Century Georgian Literary Fiction (specific title in progress) TSU University
The Project was supported by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG) [grant number MG-ISE-22-170]