It's Complicated: A Clash of Perspectives

March 19th and 20th, 2010
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Boston College Romance Languages Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce our eighteenth annual conference in Romance Studies. At this two-day conference we will be discussing the role of conflicting viewpoints in Romance Literatures and Languages. Relevant themes and topics may include, but are not limited to:

Alternative Perspectives
Theoretical Perspectives
Points of View
Cultural Clashes
Perspectives on History
Marginalized Perspectives
Construction/Deconstruction of Perspective
Narrative Perspectives
Linguistic Theories and Perspectives
Gendered Perspectives/ Feminist Perspectives
Queer Perspectives
The Oppression/Repression of Alternative Perspectives
Internal Conflicts and Clashes
Integration/Reconciliation of Perspectives
Visual Perspective/Perspective in the Arts
Geographical/Regional Perspectives
Socio-Political Perspectives
Religious Perspectives

We welcome creative submissions and proposals for papers in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. Presentations will be limited to a reading time of 20 minutes (8-10 pages). Abstracts should follow the MLA style and be no more than 250 words; they must include a cover letter indicating the title, author’s name, affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. A selection of the presented articles will be published in the journal of literary criticism, Romance Review.

Deadline for submission: January 16, 2010

Please send your abstract via email to:
Julia Young and Julie Allen
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Boston College, Lyons 304
E-mail: bcrlgsa@gmail.com