Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Postgraduate Symposium Call for Papers

Harmony and Dissonance
***Call For Papers***

Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Postgraduate Symposium
Monday, 17th September 2007
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London


The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes invites postgraduate students working in any area of nineteenth-century French studies to submit proposals for 15-minute papers addressing the theme of 'harmony and dissonance'. A 'postgraduate' is considered to be a student registered for a higher degree
(e.g. Masters' or PhD), and who has not yet been awarded a PhD qualification.

Possible topics for discussion may include (but are not limited to):


- Peace and war
- The poetics of dissonance
- The end of musical harmony?
- Acclaim and scandal
- Conflicting ideologies and political discord
- Criminality and the law
- Sickness and health
- Paris and the provinces
- The class divide
- Romanticism and the Grotesque
- Impressionism and the Salon
- Literary schools in conflict
- Forms of progress and rupture


Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words (in English or French) by Monday, 23rd July 2007 to Susanna Goldschmidt at: smg37@cam.ac.uk

For further information, visit the SDN website: www.sdn.ac.uk/postgrad.htm