Tenth Annual Graduate Conference on Romance Studies at Boston College
“The Quest for Meaning Through the Coexistence of Ideologies”
Call for Papers
April 5-6, 2002
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Possible topics:
“Westernization”
*Phenomena of regionalization and globalization: place of the author’s role
within that referential frame as an individual and engagé citizen.
*Archival regional and national structures in literature
*Transculturation/hegemony/subaltern/ hybridity/ diaspora/
deterritorialization/ othering/ eurocentrism/ mestizo
*End of postmodernism: now what?
*(Con)fusion
*Enforcement of cultural boundaries: practice of exclusion
*Homogeneity deconstructed by antiwar, women’s, gay & lesbian, transgender and
transsexual movements
*Queering the globe
Ethnolinguistics
*Theoretical aspects in ethnolinguistics (relationships among language
/culture/ thought /ideology/ society)
*Dialectology and ethnolinguistics
*Ethnolinguistics and semiotics
*Oral tradition in text
*Languages/cultures in contact
Medieval
*Strategies of coexistence
*Jewish Diaspora
*Peace, negotiation and reciprocity
Post-Colonial Cultures
*Mimicry and originality
*Resistance and complicity
Other
*Testimony and literature: anthropological, historical, philosophical and
political readings
*Tradition of black literature in Latin America and the Caribbean
*Ethnicized/subaltern discourse
*New languages of communications (codes) and identity
*Poetics and socio-political commitment
*Literature of travels – written from and to the Americas
*Pícaros and picaresque
*Didactic of literature – research & reflection on classroom practices
This list is meant to be suggestive rather than exhaustive. Papers on other
topics related to the conference will be considered.
Proposals for papers, panels (3-4 papers) and roundtables are invited in all
areas of Romance languages from all theoretical perspectives. Presentations
will be limited to a reading time of 20 minutes (with an additional ten
minutes for discussion). Abstracts must be submitted anonymously and should be
no more than 250 words, counting references and examples, with margins of at
least 1-inch, letter size 11/12. They must include an attached cover letter
indicating the title, author’s name, affiliation, address, telephone number
and e-mail address. Proposals for panels should contain the title of each
presentation and the above information for each participant. Papers may be
read (and abstracts submitted) in Spanish, English, Italian and French.
Submissions are accepted from graduate students only. There is limited lodging
space available for presenters from out of town. E-mail and fax submissions
are accepted. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.
Deadline for submission: December 7, 2001
Address all submissions to:
Secretary
Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures
Lyons 304
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804
Tel. (617) 552-3820
Fax (617) 552-2064
E-mail: reyescub@bc.edu
Address all inquiries to:
Organizing Committee
Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804
Tel (617) 552-3820
Fax (617) 552-2064
E-mail: romrev@bc.edu
A selection of papers will be published in the literary criticism journal
Romance Review
www.bc.edu/romrev
William Reyes-Cubides
Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures
Editor, Romance Review
Boston College
Off. (617)552-4632 ext. 8
http://www.bc.edu/romrev
"Our greatest glory consists not of never falling, but in rising every time we fall" --Oliver Goldsmith
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