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Significant Readings: Department of French Studies Graduate Assoc. Conference at Louisiana State University
| Location: | Louisiana, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2010-01-05 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-10-30 |
| Announcement ID: |
171638 |
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Significant Readings: 4th Annual Department of French Studies
Graduate Student Conference at Louisiana State University
March 12-13, 2010
The 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, aims to explore the continued importance of signs and symbols in French literature and linguistics. In what ways are signs and symbols used in language to represent/distort or maintain/subvert the status quo? How have certain symbols evolved throughout French literary history? How do symbols reflect cultural ideals?
We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for 15-minute papers (in English or French) discussing any aspect of the conference topic including, but not limited to, the following:
• Archetypal characters
• L’Argot
• Authorship/Imitation
• Barthes
• Baudrillard
• Bilingualism
• Bourdieu
• Cognitive/linguistic metaphors
• Cultural Technologies
• L’Ecriture féminine
• (False) Signatures
• Fetishism
• Language (standard or non-standard)
• Literary metaphors
• Masquerade
• Physical signs
• Representations
• Saussure
• Semiology
• Semiotics
• Signposts
• Symbolism/Symbolist Movement
• Tropes
• Visual Culture
The deadline to submit abstracts for the 4th Annual Graduate Student
Conference at LSU has been extended to January 5, 2010. Please email your abstract to frenchconference@gmail.com. Please write “2010 Abstract” in the subject line.
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