IV ENCUENTRO INTERINSTITUCIONAL DE ESTUDIANTES DE CULTURA Y LITERATURA DE LOS PUEBLOS DE HABLA INGLESA

NEXT EVENT WILL BE DONE NEXT YEAR

(2009)

Since 2005, the Conference has brought together several scholars for the purpose of exploring particular topics relevant to the Literatures and Cultures of the English Speaking Countries. This activity has contributed widely to the discussion, exchange of ideas concerning Literature among professors and students from the different Pedagogical Institutes of our country. We have welcomed experts in the field of Literature and Culture: Víctor Carlson (IPM) and (IPC), David Durán (IPC), Alí Rondón (IPC), Élida León (IPC), William Ancker (American Embassy), Rosa Damico (IP-Maracay), Rebeca Oropeza (IP-Maracay). Besides, our conference has dealt with different literary movements, cultural aspects in literature, the lives and masterpieces of great authors such as William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Harol Pinter, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Nathaniel Hawthorn, V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Claude McKay, among others. In addition, it has addressed topics such as Translation in Literature, Caribbean Literature, American Literature, African Literature, Australian Literature and British Literature.
The Conference this year will foster and discuss the works of such writers as William Faulkner, Sandra Cisneros, Bobbie Ann Mason, James Joyce, Alice Walker, John Ashbery, Taslima Nasrin, Allen Ginsberg and Margaret Atwood.

What’s our mission?

Our mission is to make the learning and teaching of English through Literature and culture an experience that is motivating, enriching, and effective for both professors and students.

What drives us?

First, the desire to engage professors and students in the field of Literature and Culture as an option to carry out the process of learning and teaching. Secondly, the desire to promote research in English language teaching (ELT), in order to contribute to the academic growth of professors and students.

WHAT DO WE DO?

We engage native and foreign professors, experts, specialists and students of Culture and Literature of the English speaking countries in a collaborative, creative, academic and dynamic process that is tended to show Culture and Literature as a dynamic and different way to improve the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language.

WHY?

Because we believe that one of the best formula to grow academically and personally is to engage professors and students in process of the learning and teaching of the Anglo-speaking Culture and Literature.

OBJECTIVES

1. Become aware of the literary and cultural diversity of the English speaking countries.
2. Promote the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language through the Anglo- speaking literature and culture.
3. Motivate the reading of literary texts in Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (UPEL).
4. Encourage literary and pedagogical research in the teaching of the English language.
5. Create an intellectual environment favorable to the pursuit of research in English
6. Foster a critical attitude that understands literary study as something necessarily associated with the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language.

TOPICS FOR THIS IV CONFERENCE

1. A CULTURAL STUDY: TASLIMA NASREEN. (IPM)
2. CANADA: LITERATURE AND CULTURE. (IPM)
3. WOMEN AND BOBBY ANN MASON'S "SHILO AND OTHER STORIES". (IPM)
4. A POETIC VOICE IN PORTMODERNISM. (IPM)
5. THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET. (IPM)
6. UNVEILING SOCIAL-POLITICAL REFERENCES IN LITERATURE: "EVELINE" "HOWL". (IPM)
7. THE DARK SIDE OF HUMAN NATURE: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. (IPM)
8. LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. (IPM)
9. ALL WHAT DAPHNE NAVER SAID IN REBECCA. (IPM)
10. FATE IN "THE MERCHANT AND THE ALCHEMIST'S GATE" BY TED CHIANG. (IPM)
11. ALIENATION, LONELINESS AND DEPRESSION IN PICTURES OF THE ICE BY ALICE MUNRO.(IPM)
12. MOVIES AND LITERATURE: GREAT TOOL TO TEACH EFL. (IPM)
13. UNA PERCEPCIÓN DE AURA. (IPM)
14. DUBLINESES: LA JUSTIFICACIÓN DE UN EXILIO.(IPM)
15. MYTHOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN "CHILD, MAIDEN, WOMAN, CRONE". (IPM)
16. LA NARRATIVA HISPANOAMERICANA. (IPM)
17. READING LITERATURE: TRYING TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY. (IPM)
18. LA LITERATURA: UNA PROPUESTA PARA EL APRENDIZAJE SIGNIFICATIVO. (IPM)
19. TRYING TO SOLVE SOME `MYSTERIES´ INEXTRICABLY RELATED TO LITERARY ANALYSIS.(IPC)
20. RÉSUMÉ BY DOROTHY PARKER. (IPC)
21. A DEFINITION OF HUMANITY BY A NON HUMAN.(IPC)
22. THE EVOLUTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A ROBOT INTO HUMAN LIFE.(IPC)
23. THE CONCEPT OF WOMEN THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF DORIS LESSING.(IPC)
24. STORIES “TO ROOM NINETEEN” AND “WINTER IN JULY”.(IPC)
25. LANGUAGE AND REALITY (ON THE SEMIOTIC POTENTIAL OF LANGUAGE).(IPC)

The next conference will be held on July 2nd and 3rd 2008 at Instituto Pedagógico de Maturín, Auditorium “Libertadores de América”, Maturín- Monagas, Venezuela.