WOMEN IN FRENCH IN SCOTLAND 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
A one-day conference to be held at the Mitchell Library (Glasgow)
on Saturday 18 October 2008
The annual Women in French in Scotland conference is organised by women academics in French departments at Scottish Universities and has two broad aims:
- to promote scholarly exchange based on research in French Studies by or about women
- to maintain a network of contacts amongst women teaching and researching in French Studies
Abstracts (200 words) are invited for 20-minute papers in English or in French on topics concerning women in any area of French Studies. This year two French historians from Marseilles, who will be visiting Scotland to celebrate the twinning with Glasgow, will be speaking at the conference, so other papers on women in French history are particularly welcomed. We are also very interested in receiving offers of papers on teaching issues and non-literary topics (translation, politics, media). Please send abstracts (and queries) to the organisers by 31 May 2008: Elisabeth Campbell (Elisabeth.Campbell@uws.ac.uk), Joy Charnley (j.charnley@strath.ac.uk) and Caroline Verdier (caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk).
The conference will start around 10.00 and will include a series of papers as well as a discussion of professional matters concerning women in French Studies. It will provide a valuable opportunity to meet and discuss with female colleagues from other institutions. It is also hoped that it may be possible to organise an introduction to the Mitchell Library's extensive collections.
The Mitchell Library, the biggest municipal library in Europe, is situated in central Glasgow, at Charing Cross, and can be reached by train (Charing Cross Station) or bus (nos 44 and 57 amongst others pass nearby)
Conference organised with the support of the School of Media, Language and Music at the University of the West of Scotland and the French Division at the University of Strathclyde.