DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
14th. Annual Conference
TROPOLOGY: TEXT AND CONTEXT
March 21-22, 2003
Keynote Speaker
DAVID BARTINE
Chair of the Dept. of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric
Author of: Early English Reading Theory: Origins of Current Debates and Reading, Criticism, and Culture: Theory and Teaching in the United States and England, 1820-1950
Will speak on
DISCIPLINES OF TROPOLOGY
To be included in the program, you are invited to submit an abstract of your paper (not to exceed 250 words) to the coordinator no later than November 15, 2002.
Suggested topics include: Utopia, The Mirror, Apocalypse, Irony, Parody, Parables, Imagery, Tropes of Decadence, Rhetoric, Metaphores, Symbolism, The Rhetoric of Film, The Rhetoric of History Metahistory, Comedy Tragedy, Cultural Tropes Tropes of Politics, Allegories, Religion as Story, Tropes of Scripture.
The conference is designed to explore any issues related to tropology. Papers may relate to the general conference topic in any interdisciplinary manner through literature, history, film, sociology, anthropology, political science, art, philosophy or religion. Suggestions for panels or sessions are welcome.
For further information:
Prof. Antonio Sobejano-Mor=E1n
Dept. of Romance Languages and Lit.
Binghamton University
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
E-mail: sobe@binghamton.edu or cstiner@binghamton.edu
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