CALL FOR PAPERS
Reimagining Identity in Language, Literature and Culture
April 3-4, 2009
University of Texas, Austin
The UT-Austin French and Italian Graduate Student Association proudly announces the Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference at the Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin on April 3-4, 2009. Immigration, Migration and Exile
This conference aims to evaluate conceptions of identity in Italy, France, the Francophone world and the Italian Diaspora from an interdisciplinary perspective. Participants are asked to address identities in states of transformation both throughout history as well as through the optic of more recent developments such as Decolonization, Globalization, Americanization, Postcolonial and post-1989 Migrations and European Union expansion. We aim to go beyond national frameworks by investigating transnational and regional contexts and to encourage a critical debate of the very notion of identity as a discursive category. Participants are asked to address questions of identity in the fields of literature and linguistics, music, film, art and popular culture.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
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- Cross-cultural contacts
- Extra-territorial identities: Diaspora, Creolity,
Mediterranean culture, rhizomatic contacts
- Regional languages and cultures in France and Italy
- Postcolonial, national and transnational identities
- Sexual Citizenship and Gendered Identities
- Linguistic Identity, multilingualism
- Genre and national identity: novels, epics, etc.
- Homogenous versus hybrid linguistic identities
- The outsider in literature and culture
- Authors between “French” and “Francophone”
- Nationalism, integration and minority cultures
- Second Language Acquisition and cultural competence
To be considered, paper proposals, in French, English or Italian, should include:
A 200-300 word abstract
Your name
Mailing address
Email address
University affiliation
Deadline for submission is December 12th, 2008.
Please email paper proposals as a Word document or PDF attachment to: Michael Gott, mgott@mail.utexas.edu