medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
"CELEBRATION!"
October 14-16, 2004
Co-sponsored by Montclair State University at the
Hyatt Regency on the Hudson, Jersey City, NJ
The 2004 Romance Studies Colloquium will take place from October 14 to 16
in Jersey City (NJ), in a spectacular setting overlooking the Hudson River
and New York City. The colloquium will address the representations of
celebration across the Romance languages. Material, sociological, and
theoretical implications of celebration will be considered. Comparative and
interdisciplinary approaches (painting, architecture, film, photography,
theory, cultural studies and media) are actively encouraged. Topics from
any period may include, but are not limited to the following:
CELEBRATION!: Carnival and other holidays or feast days, rites of passage,
victory(military, sporting, political); commemoration of (national)
heritage, regional identity, gay pride, religious belief; the theories of
Bourdieu, Turner, Bakhtin; the rhetoric of celebration (ode, epithalamion,
blason);literary representations of royal entries, banquets, weddings,
rituals.
Plenary speakers
Edvige Giunta, New Jersey City University
Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Columbia University
Nancy Regalado, New York University
Proposals for twenty-minute papers (maximum one page, in English) should be
sent to:
Prof. Elizabeth Emery
Department of French, German, and Russian
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
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For more information and updates, please consult the conference web site:
www.chss.montclair.edu/~emerye/romancestudies.htm
For more information about the journal Romance Studies, see
http://www.maney.co.uk/search?fwaction=show&fwid=212
The deadline for proposals is February 10, 2004
*Apologies for cross-postings*
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