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The American Association for Italian Studies Annual Conference to be held at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor April 22-25.
Title: Sacred and Profane Consumption in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Organizers: Rebecca Flynn, University of South Dakota, rebecca.flynn@usd.edu and Salvatore Musumeci, University of Sioux Falls, salvatore.musumeci@usiouxfalls.edu.
Description: This panel will thematically explore the social and cultural implications of how sacred and profane acts of consumption depicted in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales define relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit. Proposals concerning the consumption of material goods and how such acts relate to gender, power, and culture will be of particular interest. Please submit a 350-500 word abstract via email by January 15, 2010.
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