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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies With sincere apologies for cross-posting, I enclose some details about a conference which will take place next year at the Prato Campus of Monash University. MURDER AND MAYHEM IN THE MARE NOSTRUM; CONTEMPORARY CONFIGURATIONS OF MEDITERRANEAN DETECTIVE GENRES 5-7 July 2004. Monash University, prato Campus (Florence) An international conference organised between Manchester Metropolitan University and Monash University devoted to literary and cinematic detective genres from any country bordering the Mediterranean. We are seeking original, unpublished papers of twenty minutes' duration on any aspect of late 20th-century or 21st-century fiction and film within the genre, or the representation and symbolic value of the Mediterranean in detective fiction and film from other areas. Conference Website: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/conferences/murder_mayhem/index.html The official language of the conference is English. All abstracts and papers must be in English. Please submit a one-page abstract as a Word document to the appropriate memnber of the conference panel by 1st November 2003. The abstract should be in the following format: * saved as an A4 sized file (not letter size) * margins of 1" (2.54 cm) all round; * title of paper centred top 14-pt font; * followed on alternate lines by: your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address (valid for at least a further year); all centred, 12-pt font; * body of text in Times New Roman 12-pt font; fully justified. Abstracts to be sent to the member of the conference advisory board who deals with your country of specialism: Nicoletta DiCiolla McGowan, Manchester Metropolitan University (Italian; abstracts from Europe) [log in to unmask] Mirna Cicioni, Monash University (Italian; abstracts from outside Europe) [log in to unmask] For further information please visit the conference website. Mirna Cicioni -- Dr Mirna Cicioni Italian Studies School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Monash University, Clayton Campus Victoria 3800, Australia Phone: (61) (3) 990 52212 SLCL Fax: (61) (3) 990 55437 ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html