The International Regional Studies Colloquium announces a call for
papers for "The Arts and Regional Identity," a conference at the
University of Perpignan 21-23 September 2000.
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~soq/irsc.html
The Arts and Regional Identity
"The Arts and Regional Identity," a conference sponsored by the
International Regional Studies Colloquium, will be
concerned with the role of the arts and artists in the construction of
and contests over regional identity.
Studies of all art forms, historical periods, and cultural regions are welcome.
Conference papers and panels might address (but are not limited to) the
following topics:
Poets, novelists, and visual artists as champions of regional cultural
identity.
The emergence of cinema as a unifying factor in contemporary regional
identity movements.
Art and politics in constructions and reconstructions of regional
identity.
"Regionalism" vs. "Regional identity": sources for a debate on new
definitions.
The comparative study of regional identity movements.
Conference site: Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France
Conference dates: 21-23 September 2000
Papers may be presented in any language.
Selected papers will be published in a special edition of The Southern Quarterly.
Papers for presentation should be no longer than 10 pages (about 20 to
30 minutes reading time).
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2000
Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2000
Send abstracts of papers and of panels (250 words) to:
Tony Jappy
Département d'Etudes Anglaises et Américaines
Université de Perpignan
66860 Perpignan CEDEX
France
tony@univ-perp.fr
or
Robert Stephen Young
The Southern Quarterly
Box 5078
The University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5078
U.S.A.
Robert.Young@usm.edu
Expenses for accommodations, will be underwritten, in part, by the conference.
Support for "The Arts and Regional Identity" is provided by the
Université de Perpignan, the College of International and
Continuing Education at the University of Southern Mississippi, and The
Southern Quarterly.
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