Subject: FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 5th Annual GRA Colloquium
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:06:22 -0500 (EST)


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FINAL CALL  FOR  ABSTRACTS AND EXTENSION OF DEADLINE
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THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 
8, 1999.  AS LONG AS YOUR ABSTRACT IS POSTMARKED BY FEB. 8 AND RECEIVED 
BY FEB. 12, IT WILL BE ACCEPTED.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Department of Romance Languages

Fifth Annual Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium

ON THE EDGE
Margins and Marginalities on the Brink of a New Millenium

March 27, 1999


We are accepting abstracts for presentations *by graduate students* in 
Hispanic, Portuguese, Italian, and French and Francophone Literatures and 
Romance Philology. Works in history, historical linguistics and all 
relevant area studies are welcome.  This year we encourage papers dealing 
with the conference theme from a broad range of perspectives. Some of the 
more obvious perspectives are time, space, and gender, but these are 
certainly not the only possibilities.  Possible topics might include but 
are not limited to:

   -  synchronicities and diachronicities 
   -  (cutting) edges, borders and crossings 
   -  frontiers, limits and transgressions
   -  shifts, changes and transformations
   -  margins and marginalities 

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). Accepted papers may be eligible for publication in 
our Working Paper Series.

Submit an *anonymous* abstract with a separate self-addressed, stamped 
envelope and a cover sheet with the following information:
-  the title of the paper
-  presenter's name
-  address
-  telephone number
-  e-mail address and 
-  academic affiliation 

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 8, 1999.  Send the 
submission to:

GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM READING COMMITTEE
DEPARTMENT 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 Linda 
Grabner-Coronel 
OR e-mail lgrabner-AT-mail.sas.upenn.edu (most reliable method)
OR visit our website:  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~lgrabner/99colloq.html

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Linda L. Grabner-Coronel	"Do unto others as you would have others
Dept. of Romance Languages	do unto you." 
University of Pennsylvania		--The Golden Rule
521 Williams Hall
Philadelphia, PA  19104
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~lgrabner
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