call for papers

[a k harrington]

Dear all
Pls see message below to pass on to any interested graduate students:


Reflections

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


Confirmed keynote speakers are:
-Dr Alison Fell, Lancaster University: "Reflections of/on absence: Annie 
Ernaux's L'Usage de la photo (2005)”
-Dr Alex Harrington, Durham University: “Living in Different Mirrors: 
Reflections of the Self in the Poetry of Anna Akhmatova”

Additional guest speaker:
-Dr Sara Shinton, academic careers consultant 
(http://www.shintonconsulting.com/)

The conference will consist of:
-Paper sessions on the theme of ‘Reflections’
-A training workshop on practical aspects of postgraduate research in 
modern languages, with an emphasis on career planning and employability
-Various social events, including an international wine tasting session, 
and an informal meal in the historic city of Durham

Final call for papers:
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. We hope to publish the proceedings of the conference.

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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