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33rd Annual French Literature Conference
March 31-April 2, 2005
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)
TOPIC: Civilization in French & Francophone Literature & Film
Possible approaches and/or topics might include:
- French & "Frenchness" in relation to the idea of civilization
- works promoting or censuring manners, conduct, protocol, etiquette
- issues of ethnic, national, linguistic, confessional identity in defining civilization and the civilized
- representations of the uncivilized, the foreign, the barbarian and the barbaric
- the Eliasian notion of a "civilizing process" in European culture & society
- resistence to civilization or civilizing process(es) as well as representations or characterizations, both positive and negative, of that resistence
- France's claim to a "mission civilisatrice" in all its historical definitions and varieties, etc.
Two anonymous copies of complete papers, in English or in French, must be submitted (hard copy, fax or e-mail attachment) to the conference organizer by November 3, 2004. Submissions should be prepared according to the MLA Handbook and should be held to a twenty-minute presentation time (no more than 10 double-spaced pages). Participants are encouraged to expand their presentations to no more than 18 typed double-spaced pages for publication. Proceedings will be published as volume XXXIII of French Literature Series (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi).
The following link provides access to the program of the 2004 French Literature Conference on victims and victimization:
http://www.cla.sc.edu/DLLC/Fren/Events.Activites/flc/flc2004program.html
For more information, please contact:
Jeff Persels
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Email: perselsj@sc.edu
Tel: (803) 777-6088 / -4881
Fax: (803) 777-0454