Call for Papers

[Tom Priestly]

My colleague Natalia Pylypiuk asked me to post this:

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>>Making Contact:  Natives, Strangers, and Barbarians
>>October 1-4, 1998
>>The Medieval and Early Modern Institute,
>>University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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>>In the medieval and early modern periods, what sort of boundaries
>>were drawn by and around cultures? identities? geographies?  And at the end
>>of the twentieth century, in an era of globalization, multiculturalism, and
>>postcoloniality, what sort of boundaries do *we* draw around periods,
>>disciplines, methodologies?  What happens at such boundaries?  How do we
>>resist and unsettle the idea of a homogeneous culture when considering such
>>boundaries?
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>>This conference will attempt to address these questions by exploring
>>cross-cultural contacts and other boundary crossings in the medieval and
>>early modern periods.  With its inaugural conference the Medieval and Early
>>Modern Institute, an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the University
>>of Alberta, seeks to promote contact among different disciplines and
>>theoretical approaches involved in the investigation and critical
>>representation of the medieval and early modern world.
>>
>>Proposals for papers and sessions on any topic connected with cross-cultural
>>contact and other boundary crossing are welcome; interdisciplinary sessions
>>will be given priority.  In particular we invite proposals for papers and
>>sessions on the following topics:
>>--Multilingualism and/or multiculturalism before and after the nation state
>>--Early Canadian contact narratives
>>--Crossing boundaries:  women, Jews, heretics, sodomites, infidels,
>>indigenes, and the strangers within
>>--The production and disruption of hegemonic identities
>>--Europeans as barbarians and strangers
>>--War and peace making
>>--Issues of representation: travel and exploration, mapping and map making
>>--Religious polemics/conversion
>>--Linguistic encounters: "farfetched" languages, contamination, and
>>translation
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>>Papers must be limited to a reading time of 20 minutes.  All proposals are
>>subject to limitations of time, space, and the approval of the Organizing
>>Committee.  The official languages of the conference are French and English.
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>>Abstracts of 1-2 pages (250-500 words) and a short c.v., or proposals for
>>entire sessions including abstracts and c.v. should be sent to one of the
>>following members of the Organizing Committee by *November 1, 1997*:
>>
>>Professor Glenn Burger,
>>Department of English,
>>University of Alberta,
>>Edmonton, Alberta,
>>Canada T6G 2E5
>>tel.:  403-492-4639   fax:  403-492-8142  email:  glenn.burger at ualberta.ca
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>>Professor Lesley Cormack,
>>Department of History and Classics,
>>University of Alberta,
>>Edmonton, Alberta,
>>Canada T6G 2H4
>>tel.:  403-492-4686  fax: 403-492-9125  email:lesley.cormack at ualberta.ca
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>>Professor Natalia Pylypiuk,
>>Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Studies,
>>University of Alberta,
>>Edmonton, Alberta,
>>Canada T6G 2E6
>>tel.: 403-492-3498  fax: 403-492-2715  email: natalia.pylypiuk at ualberta.ca


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Natalia Pylypiuk,
Associate Professor,
Department of Modern Languages and
Comparative Studies -  200 Arts
(Division of Slavic & East European Studies)
University of Alberta
Edmonton, ALBERTA
CANADA T6G 2E6
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Office phone & voice mail 403- 492-3498
E-mail:    natalia.pylypiuk at ualberta.ca
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*  Tom Priestly
*  (President, Society for Slovene Studies)
*  Modern Languages and Comparative Studies
*  University of Alberta
*  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
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*  telephone:   403 - 492 - 4219
*  fax:                403 - 492 - 2715

*  email:           tom.priestly at ualberta.ca
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