UPDATE: Initiation & Knowledge (grad) (2/11/02; 3/8/02-3/9/02)

From: Adele_Parker@brown.edu
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 15:08:15 EST

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    The deadline for submissions to the Brown University
    French Studies Graduate Conference has been extended
    to February 11 2002.

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    Equinoxes: "Initiations: Savoir Apprendre / À prendre"
    Brown University French Studies Department Ninth Annual Graduate Conference
    March 8-9, 2002

    We invite graduate students to present 15-minute papers relevant to the
    theme of initiation as it pertains to the appropriation and dissemination
    of knowledge at the individual or collective level. While the topic
    supports a broad approach, we hope to focus on knowledge as commodity in
    the educational economy, initiation as introduction into an elite, and the
    complex relational dynamics at work in the academy. We welcome submissions
    that treat French and Francophone forms of artistic expression, as well as
    broader sociological or theoretical issues, from the Middle Ages to the
    present and into the future.

    Topics addressed may include, but will not be limited to, the following:

    - Power and Passion in the Student / Teacher Dialectic
    - The Colonial Experience
    - Traités Poétiques: Formation Littéraire
    - Inculcation and Indoctrination
    - Myths, Fables and other Instructive Tales
    - Representations of Educational Processes in Literature and Film
    - Bildungsroman
    - Récits Initiatiques
    - Manuels de Politesse au XVIIe
    - The Pedagogue: Initiator of Innovation or Conformism
    - Rites of Passage
    - Misteaching / Teaching Ignorance
    - The Preface: An Instructional Meta-Text
    - Manifestoes and Proclamations
    - (Re)Teaching the Truth of History
    - Gender and Teaching

    This year's conference will conclude with a roundtable "The Future of French Studies." Participants include Tom Conley, Anne Donadey, Nellie Furman and Lawrence Kritzman.

    Papers may be presented in French or English.
    Please send one-page abstracts by February 11, 2002 to Adele_Parker@brown.edu
    Address all queries to Claudia_Esposito@brown.edu

    Equinoxes
    Box 1961
    Brown University
    Providence, RI
    02912

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