Call for papers, 2015 NeMLA in Toronto, Canada, April 30 - May 3.Italy in the 1970s: Between Lead and Flowers
This panel seeks to investigate how literature, cinema, visual arts, and historiography essays and narratives responded to or represented the 1970s or, more specifically, the Moro affair. The panel is especially, but not exclusively, interested in papers on: i) memoir writings - by relatives of victims and former terrorists alike; and ii) graphic novels. Papers can analyze fiction or non-fiction published from the 1970s to the present, provided the texts represent, illustrate, or speak of the 1970s decade.
Chair: Sciltian Gastaldi
Area: Italian
Cross: Culture & Media Studies
Here is a link to the session proposal. https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15062To submit a 200-word proposal, please go to www.nemla.org and follow the instructions there to create a user account, and submit your abstract directly to my session. You do not need to cc me.
History, Stories: Revisiting History in Literature, Cinema, Essays, and Memoirs
This roundtable aims at exploring the complex experiences of Italian people worldwide through the lenses of historiography, literature, cinema, social studies, and popular culture. We are particularly interested in analyzing memoirs, historiographical essays, historical novels, historical graphic novels, historical films and documentaries, and sociological studies that narrate the history of Italy and of Italian minorities (from gays to new Italians), the history of Italian emigration, and/or the history of immigration to Italy.
Chair: Sciltian Gastaldi
Area: Italian
Cross: Culture & Media Studies
To submit a 200-word proposal, please go to www.nemla.org and follow the instructions there to create a user account, and submit your abstract directly to my session. You do not need to cc me.Deadline is September 30, 2014
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