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Society for French Studies
Annual Conference
Bristol, 1-3 July, 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society's next conference will be held at the University of Bristol, 1-3 July, 2002. We invite proposals for papers (in English or French) for sectional workshops on the topics listed below. The suggested topics may be interpreted widely and are intended to encompass as broad a historical range as may be applicable. In addition to proposals under the headings listed, all subjects will be considered.
Proposals should be accompanied by a short abstract, and be framed with a view to addressing an audience made up of both specialists and non-specialists.
Suggested topics for workshops
Courtly culture: continuity and change
Was there a French Renaissance?
Francophonies
The making of heroes and heroines
Dialogues and interviews
French vocabulary: patterns and innovations
French music
Trials in literature/literature on trial
French political thought
Clothes/uniform/disguise
Theatricality
French theatre today
Versification
Literature and technology
France and the Mediterranean
Metamorphosis in medieval literature
Short centuries / long centuries
Please send proposals and abstracts by 15 September, 2001 to:
Dr Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Department of French, University of Cambridge,
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, Great Britain.
Fax: (+44) 01223 335062. email: [log in to unmask]
For information about the Society for French Studies, visit our website http://www.sfs.ac.uk