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Aesthetic representations: simulation or simulacra?

Aesthetic representations: simulation or simulacra?

Publié le par Alexandre Gefen

The UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Department of Romance Languages
is proud to announce its Seventh Annual Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium

AESTHETIC REPRESENTATIONS: SIMULATION OR SIMULACRA?
Fictions of the Unrepresentable, Subject/Nation Identity
(De)construction, Possible Worlds, Mimicry and Mockery,
Artificial Paradises...

to be held on:
March 24, 2001
With a keynote speech by Professor Christine Poggi
Art History, University of Pennsylvania


We are accepting submissions in Hispanic, Portuguese, Italian, French and
Francophone Literatures and Romance Philology. This year we encourage
papers dealing with fictions of the unrepresentable, subject/nation
identity (de)construction, possible worlds, mimicry and mockery, and
artificial paradises. Papers dealing with related topics are also
welcome. Works in history, historical linguistics and area studies are
welcome as well. Accepted papers may be eligible for publication in our
Working Papers Series.

Papers can be in English, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish and
should be able to be read in 20 minutes (approximately eight to ten
double-spaced pages). Submit an anonymous one-page abstract with a
separate self-addressed, stamped envelope and a cover sheet stating the
title of the paper, presenter's name, address, telephone number, email
address and academic affiliation by January 19, 2001. Send the
submission to:

GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM READING COMMITTEE
DEPT. OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES
521 WILLIAMS HALL
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19104-6305

For more information, call 215-898-7429 and leave a message for either
Dan Edelstein or Maria Jose Bordera-Amerigo.
OR email danedels@sas.upenn.edu / amerigo@sas.upenn.edu