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The 2004
Romance
Studies
Colloquium will take place from October 14 to 16 in Jersey City (NJ),
in
a spectacular setting overlooking the Hudson River and New York
City.
The colloquium will address representations of celebration across the
Romance languages. Material, sociological, and theoretical implications
of
celebration
will be considered. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches
(painting,
architecture, film, photography, theory, cultural studies and media)
are
actively encouraged. Topics from any period in the Romance
languages
may include, but are not limited to the following:
CELEBRATION!:
Carnival and other holidays, rites of passage, victory (military,
sporting,
political); commemoration of (national) heritage, regional identity,
gay
pride, religious belief; the theories of Bourdieu, Turner, Bakhtin; the
rhetoric of celebration (ode, epithalamion, blason); literary
representations
of royal entries, banquets, weddings, rituals.
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