Call For Papers
8th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Classical and Modern Languages GraduateForum, Wayne State University
Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures,and Cultures
Conference Theme: Carnival: Merriment, Mayhem and Masquerade
Conference Date: Saturday, April 3, 2010
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: EXTENDED TO Friday,February 12th, 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Tom Conley, Harvard University
Author of: An Errant Eye: Topography and Poetry inRenaissance France (forthcoming, 2010); Cartographic Cinema (University ofMinnesota Press, 2006); The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early ModernFrance (University of Minnesota Press, 1997); The Graphic Unconscious in EarlyModern French Writing (Cambridge University Press, 1992); Film Hieroglyphs:Ruptures in Classical Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 1991).
DESCRIPTION:
From Brazil to Venice, from the ancient forum to BourbonStreet, festival time ushers in a period of merriment and mayhem. Often duringthese periods of celebration normal social codes are suspended or reversed.What are the important roles that these festivals play within a culture and howdoes their universality among cultures speak to the human condition? Come andexplore Carnivals around the world and throughout history.
Abstracts for 20 minute papers are welcome. Topics includebut are not limited to:
- Carnivals across the World
- Saturnalia
- Banqueting
- Circuses
- Festival Culture
- the Grotesque
- Masks
- Bahktin
- Commedia del' Arte
- Racial, ethnic and linguistic identity
- colonization
- syncretism
- cross‐dressing
- social and sexual transgression
- costumes
- pageantry
Submission Criteria
1. Abstracts and papers must be in English.
2. Abstracts must not exceed 200 words.
3. Abstracts must contain the following information: name ofpresenter, affiliation and status, mailing address, e-mail address, title ofpaper.
4. Presentation time limit 20 minutes (8 page maximum).
For further information, contact Jaclyn Dudek,al5204@wayne.edu.
Abstracts should be submitted to Beth Chapman,mailto:ed9859@wayne.edu
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