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Call for papers
Humanism, Human Rights,
and Ethics in
French and Francophone Studies
The 9th Annual UC Santa Barbara-
UC Irvine Graduate Conference in
French and Francophone Studies
The University of California, Santa Barbara
May 8-10, 2008
We encourage submissions from all areas and periods of French Studies, including literature, poetry, music, theater, linguistics, history, cultural studies, philosophy, film, and the visual art, from the Medieval period to the present. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, literary and artistic representations of:
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Humanities and the Humanity of the Human
The Bildungsroman and the Egalitarian Imaginary
(Re)imagining Freedom, Justice, and Equality
Literature and the Violation of the Human rights
Literature and the Ethics of Recognition
Human Rights and Gender
Human Rights and Religion
The Appropriation of Human rights by Historically-Marginalized Subjects
Emancipation and Disenfranchisement in Literary Discourse
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The Invention of Human rights
Human rights as a Matter of Literature
Humanism and Literature
Colonial and Post-colonial Literature
Women's Rights
“Littérature engagée"
Freedom of Speech vs Censorship
World Literature and International Human Rights Law |
Plenary speakers will include Christine Chodkiewicz-Putinar (CNRS & UCSB),
Jean-Marc Coicaud (United Nations University),
Madeleine Dobie (Columbia University) & Claudio Fogu (UC Santa Barbara)
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Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (8-10 pages MLA Style), and may be in French or in English.
Please send via e-mail a 200/250-word abstract, in English or in French, with your name, affiliation, contact information, and a short
résumé. Abstracts must be received no later than March 15, 2008.
Send to: uci.ucsb08[at]gmail.com ("mailto" link has been removed)
Participants will be notified via email by April 1, 2008. Selected papers will be published.
Organizing Committee
: Pierre Bras, PhD, Chair
Julien Guillemet, Skye Paine and Dr. Tatiana Khozanova
With the help of Jane Bolin
Department of French and Italian
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4140
Sponsored by the Departments of French and Italian,
Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, and History
The Graduate Division
The Center for Black Studies
The Series in Contemporary Literature
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The Comparative Literature Program
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