CALL FOR PAPERS
11th Annual International Conference of the Australian Society for French Studies
Brisbane
7th - 9th July 2003
Soi-disant: writing, screening, theorizing the self in French
The 2003 conference takes as its theme representations, discourses and theories of the French/francophone self, both historical and contemporary.
Presentations might relate to such areas as:
- autobiographical writing
- diary-writing
- the self in cinema and television
- histories of discourses of the self
- technologies of the self
- the self in translation
- the self between and across cultures
- post colonial/ gendered/ queer subjectivities
- constructions of national identity
- self and other in theory/philosophy/ psychoanalysis
We invite proposals for
- papers (20 minutes)
- workshops (1 hr)
on the conference theme. Proposals for presentations on any other aspect of French Studies are also welcome.
The languages of the conference are French and English.
Abstracts (of 200 words) should be submitted by email to j.denooy@uq.edu.au or to b.hanna@qut.edu.au or on disk to:
Dr Barbara E. Hanna
Humanities and Human Services
X Block
QUT - Gardens Point campus
GPO Box 2434
Qld 4001
Australia
They should arrive by the 28th February 2003.
Members of the organising committee: Associate Professor Anne Freadman, Dr Joe Hardwick (School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland); Dr Barbara E. Hanna (School of Humanities and Human Services, Queensland University of Technology); Dr Juliana de Nooy (Contemporary Studies Program, University of Queensland).