everyone passing through Italy is invited to the second "coffee break conference" on Classical and Contemporary South Asian to be held in Rome, Sapienza University, next week (8th to 10th September).
For further info, check the website:
http://asiatica.wikispaces.comFor what "coffee break conference" means, please see below:
The present project is the result of a larger reflection on the common sensical statement that the most interesting parts of a conference are the coffee breaks. One yawns or falls asleep while most papers are read –apart from a couple of them and one’s own one. On the other hand, one often takes part of challenging and fascinating debates while sipping at one’s cup of coffee. Often, the same paper sounds thought-provoking and insightful during the break, and extremely boring while it is actually read.
This leaves space enough for the proposal of a coffee break-conference, that is, a conference which leaves behind the more stiff formulations of established and untouchables conclusions, and favours an open-minded exchange of ideas, suggestions, criticisms. In a nutshell, we hope to have less read papers and more discussions.
(matilde adduci, cristina bignami, paola cagna, giovanni ciotti, daniele cuneo, marco ferrante, camillo formigatti, elisa freschi, elisa ganser, artemij keidan, elena mucciarelli, mark schneider)