In keeping with the 2015 Presidential theme for the 130th MLA Annual Convention, the MLA Provençal Discussion group seeks proposals for its session devoted to troubadour poetry and 'lieux de mémoire,' or sites of memory.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following :
--How do troubadour poets negotiate memory in their poetry?
--How do troubadours respond to the past in their poetry?
--How does troubadour poetry enact, even perform, a play between memory and history?
--How do individual troubadours, or the troubadour corpus itself, function as 'lieux de mémoire' in the Middle Ages, and beyond?
--How is troubadour poetry used and performed as a site of memory today?
The 130th MLA Convention will take place in lovely Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from the 8-11 January, 2015. For more information, see https://www.mla.org/convention
Deadline for 250-word abstracts is March 1, 2014. Abstracts (and papers) may be written in English, French, or Italian.
Contact and inquiries to: Michelle Bolduc, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee mbolduc@uwm.edu