[Cwgrad-announcements] Call For Papers!

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In case anyone has written a seminar paper that you would like to take
beyond the Comp Lit or English classroom...
best,
Gaby


Graduate Association of French and Italian Students
19th Annual Symposium


defining spaces

"Defining spaces" is a proactive interrogation that frames various
concepts. If space evokes emptiness, or a measured void, as silence
in a musical composition or a white blank in a poem, it also denotes
an interval that is free of any mark yet available for marking. It is
thus absence and plenitude. Or, when interpreted as a material
element, for example in "cinematic space," the term can refer to its
own site, the space of film which mobilizes parameters that require
specific analyses. When coupled with an adjective, such as "colonial,"
the word "space" becomes charged with connotations which may be
social, political, cultural, or gendered. So, whether these
defined spaces refer to what rhythms the textures within the work,
to what is inherent in its structures, or to what sets exterior
boundaries, these spaces invite re-defining.


call for papers

We invite abstracts of 300-500 words about ?defining spaces? in
French, Francophone, and Italian literary and cultural studies.
Students from multiple disciplines are encouraged to apply and
presentations in English are recommended. Please submit abstracts with
title and contact information to Sandra Simmons and Sharon Donaldson
at gafis_symposium at yahoo.com by December 15, 2005.


University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 31-April 1, 2006

Visit http://frit.lss.wisc.edu/frit/ for more information.