call for papers

a k harrington a.k.harrington at DURHAM.AC.UK
Thu Mar 23 14:33:33 UTC 2006


Dear all,
Please would you advertise the following conference to graduate 
students/postgrads at your institutions if you think that it would 
interest them?
Many thanks,
Alex Harrington
Lecturer in Russian
University of Durham


Reflections

Durham University Postgraduate Conference
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
15-17 September 2006
Collingwood College, Durham, UK

We invite proposals from postgraduate students on the theme of 
‘Reflections’ related to the study of modern languages and cultures.

Reflection, doubling, mirroring, echoes, parallels, imitations, 
representations, illustrations and replications are amongst the themes 
we would like to address in the course of this interdisciplinary 
conference. We encourage speakers working on all periods. Specialists in 
each of the following languages will be present to stimulate debate: 
Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

We welcome papers on any combination of the following areas:

•	Literature: influence, intertextuality, mirror effect, mise en abyme, 
structure, paratext, literature and society, literature and thought, 
self-referentiality, autobiography.

•	Linguistics and translation: sociolinguistics, translation theory, 
language, intertextual reflection, replication, reproduction.

•	Identity: narcissism, reflection of the first person, self-other 
relationship, otherness, doubling, self-reflexivity, fragmentation, 
schizophrenia, appearance versus reality,  masks, theatre, disguise, 
gender studies.

•	Visual studies and media: film and cinema, iconography, painting, 
architecture, illustration, image, photography, image/text relationship, 
media and advertising, consumerism.

•	Cultural studies: fashion, music, tastes, cultural icons.

•	Philosophy and psychoanalysis: society, politics, interpretation of 
the mirror stage, the uncanny.

This list is far from exhaustive; any other interpretations of the theme 
will be considered.

Keynote speakers to be confirmed. We hope to publish the proceedings of 
the conference. The conference will also include sessions on practical 
aspects of postgraduate research.

Please send an abstract in English (maximum 200 words) to 
sarah.buxton at durham.ac.uk by Wednesday 31 May.
Papers should be in English, and last no longer than twenty minutes.

Sarah Buxton, Laura Campbell, Tracey Dawe, Elise Hugueny-Léger
Conference Organisers
Durham University

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