Present Time Dimension - Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century

 

Alperovich Dalit

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Tel Aviv University, Department of English and American Studies

Title of Research:
"Modernist and Ethnographic Literary Constructions of Native American Identity in the Interwar Period"

 
 Hollander Uri

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Hebrew Literature

Title of Research:
"The Music of the Revolution: Natan Zach 1955-1966"

 Jefferies Sarah

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University of Alberta, Department of Comparative Literature

Title of Research:
"Silence and Voices: Absence, Memory, and Imagination in Three Generations of Holocaust Literature"

 

 Meurer David

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York University, Department of English, Program in Communications and Culture

Title of Research:
"The Future of the Novel: Information, Communication, and Narrative"

Email: dmeurer@yorku.ca 

David Meurer is a PhD candidate in the Communication and Culture program at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has a chapter entitled "Copyright Dramas: Theatre Archives and Collections Online" forthcoming in the volume "Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online" edited by Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler, and Martin Zeilinger. The chapter explores the influence of copyright law in the development of digital archives and collections, using performing arts cultural resources as a case study.

David is also a senior research assistant working with two Canada Research Chairs in the New Media Collaboration Centre at York University on the Canada Foundation for Innovation funded Artmob CMS project. This project, in which David plays a critical strategic role, will be beta launching a digital archiving and arts content management system based on the Drupal platform in early 2011. The software incorporates the principles of fair dealing from Canadian copyright law and facilitates cultural dialogue and the licensing of works through the use of innovative, social media inspired tools. The fair dealing tools and architecture are designed to ameliorate the challenges and reduce the costs of creating digital archives for educational, non-commercial purposes, and when completed, will mutually benefit creators, owners, cultural institutions, and the public.

David's work on copyright, authorship, and digital archives provides theoretical and practical contextualization for his dissertation research on the evolving relationship of the production, circulation and reception of narrative fiction to information and communication technologies and practices.

  

 Mishali Yael

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Tel Aviv University, Department of Literature

Title of Research:
 "Gender Roles in the Lesbian Identity: Identity Construction in Theory and Autobiography"

 

 Werdyger-Stepak Raquel

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Tel Aviv University, The Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies

Title of Research:
"The Community of Hebrew Writers in Eretz Israel and Its Response to the Holocaust (1939-1945)"