Oxford Graduate French Conference: CRIME

La conférence doctorale du département d'études françaises d'Oxford est de retour cette année avec une journée d'études, "CRIME", qui aura lieu le vendredi 28 septembre à la Maison française d'Oxford. Nous invitons les doctorants à soumettre des propositions pour des communications de 20 minutes, soit en anglais, soit en français. Les approches à la question peuvent provenir de tout aspect des études françaises (littérature, art, cinéma, musique, linguistique...) Veuillez trouver ci-dessous l'appel à contribution en version originale.

CRIME - CALL FOR PAPERS


A One-Day Postgraduate French Conference
Friday 28th September 2007 at the Maison Française d'Oxford

www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/gradconf


In an era of identity theft, eco-crime and global terrorism, can we move towards a reconsideration of crime in the literary and cultural imagination? To what extent have ways of thinking about power, deviancy, exclusion, legitimacy and punishment evolved and changed? This conference invites contributions that draw on a variety of genres and media to address these issues, encompassing a range of historical, theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches in the French and Francophone context.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

- Unlocking motive(s)
- Deviance
- Postcolonial crime
- The boundaries of legitimacy
- Literature as crime
- Crimes against humanity
- Punishment and imprisonment
- The figure of the criminal
- Crimes of difference
- Individual/global crime


Please send 250 word abstracts (in either English or French) for papers
of no more than 20 minutes to:
jessica.benson@sjc.ox.ac.uk and louise.hardwick@trinity.ox.ac.uk

Deadline: Friday 5th May.

Please note that speakers will be encouraged to apply to their home institutions for funding towards the conference.