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Reflections
Durham University Postgraduate Conference
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
15-17 September 2006
Collingwood College, Durham
We invite proposals from postgraduate students on
the theme of
'Reflections' related to the study of modern languages
and cultures.
Reflection, doubling, mirroring, echoes, parallels,
imitations,
representations, illustrations and replications are
amongst the themes we
would like to address in the course of this
interdisciplinary conference.
We encourage speakers working on all periods.
Specialists in each of
the following languages will be present to stimulate
debate: Arabic,
French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
We welcome papers on any combination of the
following areas:
Literature: influence, intertextuality, mirror
effect, mise en
abyme, structure, paratext, literature and society,
literature and thought,
self-referentiality, autobiography.
Linguistics and translation: sociolinguistics,
translation theory,
language, intertextual reflection, replication,
reproduction.
Identity: narcissism, reflection of the first
person, self-other
relationship, otherness, doubling, self-reflexivity,
fragmentation,
schizophrenia, appearance versus reality, masks,
theatre, disguise, gender
studies.
Visual studies and media: film and cinema,
iconography, painting,
architecture, illustration, image, photography,
image/text relationship,
media and advertising, consumerism.
Cultural studies: fashion, music, tastes, cultural
icons.
Philosophy and psychoanalysis: society, politics,
interpretation of
the mirror stage, the uncanny.
This list is far from exhaustive; any other
interpretations of the
theme will be considered.
Keynote speakers to be confirmed. We hope to publish
the proceedings
of the conference. The conference will also include
sessions on
practical aspects of postgraduate research.
Please send an abstract in English (maximum 200
words) to
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Papers should be in English, and last no longer than
twenty minutes.
Sarah Buxton, Laura Campbell, Tracey Dawe, Elise
Hugueny-Léger
Conference Organisers
Durham University
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