As ever, we hope you are well.

Due to this global difficult

moment, we have decided to postpone the dates of paper and
panel submissions for the ESCL/SELC 2021 Congress:

- Please submit 300-words abstracts together with a short

biography, institutional affiliation (where relevant), and contact
details by 30th September
2020 at escl2021.lcm@uniroma1.it and escl2021.dseai@uniroma1
.it.

- Panel submissions are welcome. The deadline for complete

panel proposals, including a short biography, institutional
affiliation (where relevant), and contact details, is 15th September
2020. Proposals should be sent
to escl2021.lcm@uniroma1.it and escl2021.dseai@uniroma1.it.
 
Acceptance decisions will be notified by 15th January 2021.
 
Warmly, and with best wishes for everyone's safety and health,

The ESCL/SELC 2021 Team

ESCL/SELC - 9th Congress/9ème Congrès
Rome, 6-10/09/2021

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Imagining inclusive communities in European culture

 
20th-century criticism and theory have acquainted us with the
ability of fictional narratives to build or strengthen the identity of
nations and classes, often at the expense of other communities.
Investigations of the ideological significance of fiction as a tool for
social cohesion have insistently stressed its tendency to exclude,
debase or misrepresent other groups. A question that has been
posed less often is, however, how narrative works manage to
build inclusive communities. This question seems of great
relevance in relation to the modern period, especially to early
modern cultural cosmopolitanism (the “r