Metamorphoses Conference

[eric r laursen]

The University of Utah presents

Metamorphoses, 

an International Colloquium on Narrative and Folklore

October 2-4, 2008

 

Call for papers-Abstracts due June 1

 

Metamorphosis...a change of form by natural or supernatural means (OED).  This colloquium addresses metamorphoses in literature and culture, both as a theme and as a process of transformation, revision, and adaptation.  The conference is the third in a series of International Colloquia focused on fairy tale studies and hosted by various institutions throughout the US and Canada.  The breadth of this year's theme includes subjects as wide ranging as print culture and linguistic anthropology.  Special interests for the conference include the cultural and material history of fairy tales, the adaptation of stories orally or for the stage, and folklore across cultures.  We encourage submissions from fields in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts; and welcome inter- and cross-disciplinary studies.

 

This year at the University of Utah, the colloquium is part of a year-long launch of BA and MA programs in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS) in the Department of Languages and Literature.  For more information, see www.languages.utah.edu/languages/ <http://www.languages.utah.edu/languages/> 

 

We invite papers on topics including but not limited to:

Book history and genre adaptation

>From page to stage

Legends and cultural borders

Linguistic and semiotic transformations

Metamorphosis as theme or motif

Speech acts across borders

Stories bodies tell


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