CALL FOR PAPERS
12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMILE ZOLA AND NATURALISM
NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO, USA
OCTOBER 911, 2003
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 30, 2003
The International Association for Multidisciplinary Approaches and Comparative Studies related to Emile Zola and his Time, Naturalism, Naturalist Writers and Artists, Naturalism and the Cinema around the World
(AIZEN © ) invites submissions for its annual conference. We welcome proposals for papers, lectures, panels and special film screenings; innovative approaches are especially welcome. Scholars, Assistant Professors, Instructors, Doctoral Candidates from related disciplines (Literature, Film Studies, Philosophy, History, Womens Studies, Comparative Literature, etc.) are encouraged to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations.
Possible topic headings or panels:
New Critical Approaches to Zolas Text / Nouvelles approches critiques du texte zolien
Zola and the Visual Novel / Lécriture du regard chez Zola (photographie, cinéma, peinture, sculpture, architecture, etc.)
Special Session: Jack London
Film Adaptations of Zolas Fiction / Adaptations filmiques des romans de Zola
The Middle Ages and Mythology in the French Naturalist Novel /
Moyen-Age et mythologie dans le roman naturaliste français
Special Panel: Le Rêve
Zolas Influence on American Naturalist Writers / Influence de Zola sur les écrivains naturalistes américains
Naturalism in Film and the Media / Le naturalisme au cinéma et dans les médias.
Serialization and Zolas Fiction (mass production, the serialized novel, the novelistic cycle, repetition of motifs, etc.) /
Fiction et sérialité chez Zola (fabrication en série, roman-feuilleton, roman-cycle, répétition de motifs etc.)
Naturalist Fiction and Film in the Americas / Littérature et cinéma naturalistes dans les Amériques
Post-Colonial Naturalism / Le naturalisme post-colonial
Naturalist Texts Southern Style / Textes naturalistes à la mode du sud
Naturalist Fiction and Crowd Psychology / Fiction naturaliste et psychologie de foule
French Naturalist Writers and Art Criticism / Les écrivains naturalistes français et la critique dart
Special Session: Interdisciplinary Naturalism / Le naturalisme interdisciplinaire
Zola and Contemporary Pedagogical Thought / Zola et la pensée pédagogique de son époque
Vampirism, Horror, and the Macabre in Naturalism / Le vampirisme, lhorreur et le macabre dans le naturalisme
Please mail your submissions or proposals (papers may be presented in English, French, or Spanish)
with a brief resumé to:
Prof. Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt
Dept. of Modern Languages
and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E6, Canada
Tel.: (780) 492-1191
Fax: (780) 492-9106
e-mail: hoyt@telusplanet.net
or
Prof. Elizabeth Emery
Dept. of French
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, USA
Tel.: (973) 655-4452
Fax: (973) 655-7909
e-mail: emerye@mail.montclair.edu
For more information, see:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~aizen/events/index.html