Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:45:20 -0500
From: Kathleen A Loysen <loysenk-AT-mail.montclair.edu>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Call for Papers - Romance Studies Colloquium


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CALL FOR PAPERS

Romance Studies Colloquium
"CELEBRATION!"
October 14-16, 2004
Co-sponsored by Montclair State University at the Hyatt Regency on the 
Hudson, Jersey City, NJ

The 2004 Romance Studies Colloquium will take place from October 14 to 
16 in Jersey City (NJ), in a spectacular setting overlooking the Hudson 
River and New York City. The colloquium will address the 
representations of celebration across the Romance literatures. 

Material, sociological, and theoretical implications of celebration 
will be considered. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches 
(painting, architecture, film, photography, theory, cultural studies 
and media) are actively encouraged. Topics from any period in the 
Romance literatures may include, but are not limited to the following:

CELEBRATION!: Carnival and other holidays, rites of passage, victory 
(military, sporting, political); commemoration of (national) heritage, 
regional identity, gay pride, religious belief; the theories of 
Bourdieu, Turner, Bakhtin; the rhetoric of celebration (ode, 
epithalamion, blason); literary representations of royal entries, 
banquets, weddings, rituals.

Proposals for twenty-minute papers (maximum one page, in English) 
should be sent to:

Dr. Elizabeth Emery
Department of French, German, and Russian
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
or by email to romancestudies2004-AT-yahoo.com

For more information and updates, please consult the conference web 
site:
www.chss.montclair.edu/~emerye/romancestudies.htm

The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2004.