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NeMLA 2017 - Our Most Difficult Translations (Readings From)
Event: 03/23/2017 - 03/26/2017
Abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: Translation, Readings, Language, Linguistic Theory, Interdisciplinary.
Location: Baltimore, MD
Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association
Our Most Difficult Translations
NeMLA 2017 - Humor and Satire in Francophone Literature: Constructing and Deconstructing Identity (Panel)
Event: 03/23/2017 - 03/26/2017
Abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: French, Francophone, Interdisciplinary, Humor, Satire.
Location: Baltimore, MD
Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association
Humor and Satire in Francophone Literature: Constructing and Deconstructing Identity
Resolved: In Francophone literature of the last three centuries, Humor has constructed identity while Satire was used to deconstruct it.
Participants are invited to argue either side of this normative statement.
What does it mean to be working class? How do languages spoken, values held, and cultural representations vary given one’s class position? Though 62% of the country is working class (Zweig), the answers to these questions are left largely unclear and unspoken. Among others, these questions will be addressed via reflection and exploration from individuals from the working class, or who many call “working-class academics.”
Researcher and social activist Jean Anyon, in her investigations of social class reproduction in education, suggests "there is a ‘hidden curriculum’ in school work that has profound implication for theory—and practice—in education” (“Social Class” 67). By making class unhidden in the curriculum, students no longer feel they must "hide" themselves, and allows faculty to foster more honest conversations and writing about such issues.
CFP // Games and Literary Theory Collection -- EXTENDED SUBMISSION
We are soliciting proposals for a collection of essays at the intersection of game studies and literary theory.
This coming year will mark the fourth meeting of the International Conference Series on Games and Literary Theory at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Having hosted the previous two meetings, we have witnessed a rich diversity of scholarship claiming this interdisciplinary field. Yet, we have also noted in the breadth of approaches a lack of a shared disciplinary history or critical archive.
This conference, organized at the Jean-François Champollion National University Institute (“Champollion University”) in the historic episcopal city of Albi, France – site of the thirteenth-century Albigensian Crusades – will take place on 25-26 November 2016. Please send proposals of 100-250 words for 20-minute papers (in English or French) to john.ford@univ-jfc.fr along with a brief CV before 31 July 2016 for full consideration.