[EDLING:1177] CFP: Multiplicities and Transitions

[Francis M. Hult]

8th Graduate Symposium on Foreign Languages and Literatures

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
March 3-4, 2006

MULTIPLICITIES AND TRANSITIONS

The Graduate Students in Foreign Languages and Literatures and
Comparative Literature at Purdue University invite proposals for their

8th Graduate Symposium. The intention of this symposium is to examine
and explore issues of transitional identities in both their historical

and linguistic manifestations, in addition to their roles in literary
works from different cultures and nations over time. We welcome
abstracts from the disciplines of literature and linguistics, and are
particularly interested in papers that discuss the plurality of
subjectivities in different historical periods, linguistic regions, and
nations. Prizes will be awarded to the most distinguished papers in the
course of the symposium.

Possible topics of discussion include, but are not limited to, the
following:

How do contemporary cultural, social, national, and
political developments and events shape our understanding of the self?

To what extent do these developments find expression in linguistic
modes, regional dialects, grammar, syntax, and slang?

In what way are these changes mirrored in literary characters,
interpretations, theoretical approaches in various countries and continents?

Can one determine similar strands of thought and patterns of reactions beyond 
cultural boundaries, for instance, Francophone or Hispanic regions?

We encourage a broad interpretation of the Symposium theme from a variety of 
fields and backgrounds.


SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Detailed abstracts for papers should be submitted electronically
(300-400 words). Presenters will have approximately 20 minutes to
present their paper, followed by panel discussion. Please submit
abstracts to Dolores Alcaide by  3rd February 2006.

Dolores Alcaide
alcaider at purdue.edu
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Purdue University
640 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2039