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at the Hyatt Regency on the Hudson, Jersey City, NJ 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.Proposals for twenty-minute papers (maximum one page, in English) should be sent to: Dr. Elizabeth Emery, Department of French, German, and Russian, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043 or by email Organizing Committee: Dr. Kathleen Loysen, Dept. of French, German, and Russian Dr. Pamela Smorkaloff, Dept. of Spanish and Italian Dr. Marisa Trubiano, Dept. of Spanish and Italian |
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| Dept.
of French, German, and Russian | Montclair State University | Upper
Montclair,
NJ 07043 | http://chss2.montclair.edu/French/
| Tel 973-655-4452 | Fax 973-655-7909 Questions/ Comments - contact E. Emery |
