International Conference
Pierre Abelard
3 et 4 octobre 2001
Université de Nantes, France
Fist CALL TO PAPERS
The University of Nantes is organizing a conference on the life and works
of Peter Abelard, born in the village of Le Pallet, near Nantes. The
University invites interested scholars to propose communications for the
conference, which will be held in Nantes
October 3-4, 2001.
The conference will be organized into four half-day sessions; each session
will begin with a plenary address to be followed by three or parallel
sessions (with 3 participants each).
Each of the two afternoons will also have a fourth session directed to a
larger, non-specialized audience.
Cultural and artistic activities are planned in conjunction with the
conference.
Nantes is seventh-largest city in France; its University serves 30,000
students.
Nantes is on the Loire river, 60 km from the Atlantic coast and 400 km West
of Paris.
Paris is easily reached by car (4 hours), by high-speed trains (TGV; 2
hours) which leave Paris Montparnasse Station hourly, or by plane from
Charles De Gaule or Orly airports (50 minutes).
There are also direct flights to Nantes from other European airports,
including Lyon Satolas, Madrid Barajas, and London Gatwick.
Themes to be addressed
You are invited to submit a contribution on any of the following topics:
--History of Education
--History
--Linguistics
--Literature
--Logic
--Musicology
--Ontology
--Semiotics
--Theology
Official Languages: French and English
Chairman
Yann Tanguy, President de l'Universite de Nantes
Scientific committee
Jean Jolivet (Chairman)
Jacques Arsac, Universite P. M. Curie, Paris, France
Fabrizio Beggiato, Universite Tor Vergata, Rome, Italie
Joel Biard, CNRS, Paris, France
Jeffrey E. Brower, USA
Michael Clanchy, University of London, U.K.
Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Univ. degli Studi di Milano,
Italia
M. de Gandillac, Paris, France
Lutz Geldsetzer, Université de Düsseldorf, Allemagne
Kelvin Guilfoy, Murray Sate University, USA
Claudio Leonardi, Florence, Italie
D.E. Luscombe, University of Sheffield, U.K.
John Marenbon, Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K.
Constant Mews, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Peter von Moos, Académie des sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
Organizing committee
Henri Habrias (Chairman)
Michel Bailhache, Faculte des Lettres, Nantes, France
Dominique Billy, Faculté des Lettres, Nantes, France
Henri Demangeau, Association Pierre Abélard, Le Pallet, France
Maurice Liscouet, I.U.T., Nantes, France
Michel Malherbes, Faculté des Lettres, Nantes, France
Jean-Claude Pinson, Faculté des Lettres, Nantes, France
John Tolan, , Faculte des Lettres, Nantes, France et University of
Wisconsin (USA)
Francky Trichet, Faculte des Lettres, Nantes, France
Jean-Michel Vienne, Faculte des Lettres, Nantes, France
Calendar
May 28, 2001 : Deadline for submission of articles
June 30, 2001: Notification sent to authors
September 3, 2001: Deadline for submission of final versions of articles
Instructions to Authors:
Please send a summary of your proposed article: 5000 words maximum
(including bibliography), Times 12-point, 1 1/2 space. The first page should
contain: title, name and affiliation of author(s), name and full address of
main author (including postal address, e-mail, telephone number, and fax
number), a synopsis about ten lines in length, and a list of key words,
along with an indication of which theme(s) from the above list your
contribution addresses.
Please send your summary in two formats
By e-mail, as an attached file (MS Word, RTF or PDF) to :
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By postal mail, three printed copies, to:
Conference Abelard,
H. Habrias I.U.T.
3 rue Marechal Joffre
44041 Nantes Cedex 1
France
Each proposal will be examined by two members of the organizational
committee following a system of double-anonymity. Each article chosen will
be presented by one of its authors during the conference and will be
published in the conference proceedings.
The conference will take place at Nantes' downtown convention center, the
Cité des Congrès (http://www.congres-nantes.fr).
More information can be found at the conference web site:
http://www.abelard.univ-nantes.fr/
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