CALL FOR PAPERS: 10th AIZEN International Conference Emile Zola and Naturalism 7th AIZEN Naturalist Film Festival.
The Association International for Multidisciplinary Approaches and Comparative Studies related to Emile Zola and His Time, Naturalism, Naturalist Writers and Artists, Naturalism and the Cinema (AIZEN) invites submissions for its annual Conference to be held at:
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, USA: October 4-6, 2001
We welcome proposals for papers, lectures, panels and special screenings; innovative approaches are especially welcome. Renowned scholars, Assistant Professors, Instructors, Doctoral Candidates from related disciplines (Literature, Film Studies, Philosophy, History, Women's Studies, Comparative Literature, etc.)are encouraged to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations. The suggested topic headings or panel requests are: New Critical Approaches to Zola's Texts/Nouvelles approches critiques du texte zolien; Zola and the Visual Novel /L'écriture du regard chez Zola(photographie,cinéma, peinture, sculpture, architecture, etc.); Special Session: The Dreyfus Affair and the Birth of the European; Intellectual/L'Affaire Dreyfus et la naissance de l'intellectuel européen; Film Adaptations of Zola's Fiction/Adaptations filmiques des romans de Zola; The Middle Ages and Mythology in French Naturalist Fiction/Moyen-Age et mythologie dans le roman naturaliste français; Special Session: VERITE: Zola's Influence on Naturalist Writers Around the World/Influence de Zola sur les écrivains naturalistes du monde entier; Naturalist Fiction and Film in the Americas/Littérature et cinéma; naturalistes dans les Amériques; Naturalism in Film and the Media/Le naturalisme au cinéma et dans les médias; The Baroque, the Fantastic, and Expressionnism in Naturalist Fiction/Baroque, fantastique et expressionnisme dans la fiction naturaliste; Materialism and Other Naturalist Doctrines/Le matérialisme et autres doctrines naturalistes; Special Session: Utopia and Polemical Discourse in Zola's Writing/Utopie et discours polémique chez Zola Naturalism and ethnicity/ Naturalisme et ethnicité; Special Session: Other Naturalist Genres: Poetry, Drama, Essay, Documentary,Travel Narrative, History etc./ Autres genres naturalistes: poésie, drame, essai, documentaire, récit de voyage, histoire etc. Special Session: SON EXCELLENCE EUGENE ROUGON .
DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2001
Please mail your submissions or proposals (papers may be presented in English, French or Spanish) with a brief resume to:
Professor Anna Gural-Migdal
Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, 200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E6, Canada
Tel: Office (780) 492-1191/Dept. (780) 492-4926
Fax: (780) 492-9106
e-mail: aguralm@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
(or, submit material to)
Professor Robert Singer
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Department of English-C309
2001 Oriental Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA
Tel: Office: (718) 368-5794
e-mail: RSinger36@aol.com
Visit the AIZEN/Excavatio Web site: http://www.ualberta.ca/~aizen/