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Call for Papers: 16th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 25-27, 2010
From Border Building to Border Hopping: The Shifting Nature of the Text:
Artistic production carries with it an inherent quality of crossing
borders, given that the artist must cross from a public face to an
insular, creative self at each moment of creation. This conference is
dedicated to analyzing the various aspects of borders as seen in
artistic creation--authors and characters crossing geographic borders,
sexual and gender boundaries; transgressing the norms allowed by a given
political regime; bending or breaking traditional boundaries of genre
and medium; rejecting the High Culture / Low Culture dichotomy; the
dispersion of texts themselves across boundaries geographic, political,
temporal and more.
At the same time, presenters may consider the parallel and opposing
phenomenon of Border Building--including the role of artistic production
in nation-building and in the construction of borders of identity, as
well as the (re)definition of academic disciplines--and how such
construction is carried out by artists and academics.
Keynote speakers for the 2010 Carolina Conference are Réda Bensmaïa
(Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature), Teresa Fiore
(Professor of Italian Studies) and José Manuel Prieto (Novelist,
Professor of Spanish-American Literature). There will also be an Invited
Reading by author Manuel Muñoz.
Abstracts must be submitted by December 18, 2009. Abstracts are limited
to 250 words and must be submitted online at: ccrl.unc.edu
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Papers or panels on all aspects of literature and film in French,
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Comparative Literature will be
considered. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Individual
presentations should be limited to 20 minutes.
Exceptional papers by both graduate students and professors will be
considered for publication in Romance Notes.
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