ROMANCE STUDIES Colloquium 2006
Call for Papers
LITERATURE MATTERS
The University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
October 19-21, 2006
Without reverting to a nostalgic return to literature as privileged, isolated, or romanticized, can we say literature matters in the world today, both inside and outside the academy? We are soliciting papers addressing ways in which literature matters. These may include literature as social engagement, literature as connective tissue moving in a material way among disciplines and peoples, literature at the core or periphery of cultural studies.
The 2006 ROMANCE STUDIES Colloquium will take place from October 19th to 21st at the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) in a spectacular setting overlooking the Willamette River and surrounded by bike and walking paths through the riparian forest. The colloquium will address literary matters and mattering across the Romance languages. Ethical, material, sociological, linguistic, political, and theoretical implications of the topic will be considered. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches (painting, architecture, film, performance, photography, theory, cultural studies, and media) are actively encouraged.Papers may focus on any time and place in Romance studies. Possible topics include:
--Literature of subversion and resistance
--Literary myth-making
--Identity politics, gay pride, religious belief
--The rhetoric of engagement
--Political autobiography, memoir, testimony
--Performance and propaganda.
Proposals for twenty-minute papers (maximum one page, in English*) should be sent in electronic form by January 15, 2006 to: Prof. Evlyn Gould (evgould@uoregon.edu) with cc: to Jeanne Lawson (jdlawson@darkwing.uoregon.edu), Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403.
A selection of peer-reviewed articles based on papers given at the Colloquium will be published in ROMANCE STUDIES (founded 1982).
*Though papers must be presented in English at the conference, articles for consideration by the journal may be written in English, French, Italian or Spanish.*
Organizing Committee:
Dr. Evlyn Gould, French Studies, University of Oregon
Dr. Karen McPherson, French and Francophone Studies, University of Oregon
Dr. Massimo Lollini, Italian Studies, University of Oregon
Dr. Gina Herrmann, Spanish Peninsular Studies, University of Oregon
Dr. Juan Epple, Latin American Studies, University of Oregon
Dr. Elizabeth Emery, French Studies, Montclair State University
http://www.uoregon.edu/~maxiloll/pages/Romance_colloquium.html