Cultural Capital: Canons, Cultures, and Contexts
POSSIBLE TOPICS :
Material Contexts: Combining Codes
Cultural Artifacts
Revisiting the MLF: the Womens Liberation Movement Today
Womens Canons (Yourcenar at 100)
Twentieth-century Theater
Reassessing the Lyric and the Poetic
French Popular Song from Trénet to Raï/Rap
Rethinking Theory: Capital and Status of Literary Criticism Today
The Tour de France at 100: Sports as Culture
Science and Culture (100 years for Mme Curies Nobel)
Mainstreaming the Exotic (centenary of Gauguins death)
Films and Popular Culture (Fernandel at 100)
Food and Gastronomy
Le Roman contemporain
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Art
Journals and Departments: the Institutions of French Studies
Mediology / Television / Internet
Y a-t-il toujours une exception française?
Francophone Canons
Queer Canons
Bourdieu and Cultural Capital
Visualizing the Post-Colonial and the Francophone in the Arts
National Canons / International Contexts
Radio
Objects: Beyond chosisme
Space and Spatiality
Theater in/and the Streets
After the Postmodern
The Cultures of Globalization / The Globalizations of Cultures
French Culture and Technology
France and Frenchness in the European Context
As always, the subjects are not restrictive and papers and proposals for panels (as well as other formats) will be accepted based on merit.
Please send a copy of your proposal to:
Lawrence R. Schehr
Department of French
2090 FLB
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
Fax: 217-244-2223
Email: schehr @uiuc.edu
Email attachments should be in WP for Windows, Word, or a compatible Rich Text Format.