The France-Florida Research Institute
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Florida
Call for papers:
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies
International Colloquium
Keynote Speakers: Etienne Balibar, Pierre Alféri
"Verbal, Visual, Virtual: New Canons for the Twenty-first Century"
March 31 - April 3, 2005
From The Interpretation of Dreams at the beginning of the century, with its emphasis on the visual language of the unconscious, to Sophie Calle's phototextual autobiographies at its close, experiments with form, genre, aesthetics, and representations in visual, verbal, and virtual modes cross boundaries and push the limits of textualities and the canon. Lacan's psychic language, Barthes's Mythologies, Kristeva's Révolution du langage poétique, Ricardou's textique, Baudrillard's simulacra, ciné-romans, new technologies, the era of theory, postmodern performatives, electronic media, and globalization - all have challenged twentieth- and twenty- first-century readers/viewers with new mappings of culture. Speakers at the 22nd meeting of the 20th-21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium are asked to explore the revolutionary dynamics of languages-verbal, visual, virtual-- that have transformed our way of seeing and being in the world and altered the very notion of texte.
Possible topics are listed overleaf. The list is indicative and is not restrictive. Standard panels will normally consist of three papers. Proposals are welcomed for individual papers, whole panels, or non-standard types of session on any topic relevant to the overall conference theme.
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
"Il n'y a pas de hors-texte"
1913 and the Arts
Art and Engagement
Art, History, and Ethics
Autobiography and Photography
Avant-garde Art Practices
Baudrillard and Theories of the Simulacrum
Benjamin's Angel
Blurring Boundaries
Cinema/Texte/Image
Claude Simon
Clichés
Cultural Topographies of the City
Ekphrastic Impulses
Endings and Beginnings
En-visioning the Canon
Fantômes du Nouveau Roman
Figurations
Hybrid Texts
Identities, Media, and Society
Identity and Representation
Image and Identity
Imagined Geographies in Francophone Literature &
Film
Internet Identities
Intertextualities
L'Ecriture filmique
L'Espace littéraire du Vingt-et-unième Siècle
Languages of the New Media
Le Visible et L'Invisible
Literature's Others
Memory and the Archive
Myth and Montage
OULIPO
Passages/Arcades
Perception, Production
Performance and the Postmodern
Picturing Stories
Postcolonial spaces
Rhizomes
Television
The Counter-Canonical
The Situationist International 1957-1972
Tropes of Technology
Verbal and Visual Games
Videos and its installations
Visions and Cultures
Voicing Narrative
Women, Surrealism, and the Arts
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti as Mark of the Marginal
Writing, Screening, Theorizing
Zones
Papers may be given in either English or French. Presentations will be selected for inclusion in the conference program on the basis of merit. All submissions must contain the following information for all proposed speakers:
? Name
? Affiliation
? E-mail address
? Mailing address, phone, and fax number
? Title of paper or presentation
? Brief description/summary of paper or presentation (250-500 words)
Proposers of panels and other sessions must provide the above information for each paper, together with their own contact details and a brief description/summary (250-500 words) of the overall rationale for the proposed panel or session.
Deadline for submissions: 1 October, 2004. Proposals and enquiries should be addressed to:
Dr. Carol J. Murphy
Director, France-Florida Research Institute
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
P.O. Box 117405
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Telephone: (352) 392-2016 ext. 235
Fax: (352) 392-5679
e-mail: frflorida@rll.ufl.edu
The preferred method of communication is e-mail. Be sure to include your e-mail address when contacting the conference organizer so that you may be alerted to any program updates. Information updates will be posted regularly on the conference website: www.rll.ufl.edu/icffs