Forthcoming conferences

The following two conferences are taking place in September 2003 at the Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House. Full programmes, booking forms and further details for both can be found on the IRS website (www.sas.ac.uk/irs); or email Rosemary Lambeth on irs@sas.ac.uk.

Forms of Rewriting and Intertextuality Friday 12 and Saturday 13 September 2003

This international conference aims to make an important contribution to our understanding of the many conceptualizations of rewriting and their relations with existing theories of intertextuality.

Keynote speakers include Maria Irene Ramalho Santos (University of Coimbra); Lisa Block de Behar (Universidad de la República, Montevideo); Maria Alzira Seixo (University of Lisbon); Ruth Amossy (Tel Aviv University) and Francoise Meltzer (University of Chicago).

Organized by: Ziva Ben-Porat (University of Tel Aviv / Institute of Romance Studies) and Jo Labanyi (University of Southampton)

The Second London French Postgraduate Conference: RISK
Saturday 20 September 2003

The theme is widely interpreted and interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, from a variety of periods, are included. Postgraduate speakers from across the UK and Europe will present in four sessions: Risky Identities, Defensive Strategies, Risky Vistas and Balancing Acts.

The organizers are from the four sponsoring London Colleges: Alicia Kent (KCL), Ann Lewis (QMUL), Nadia Rosen (RHUL) and Eva Sansaviour (UCL).

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Cultures of Birth

This interdisciplinary conference will take place at the Institute of Romance Studies, London on Saturday 27 March 2004.

The conference will consider the significance of birth in philosophical discourses, and examine representations of birth in literary and visual culture. Speakers will include Christine Battersby, University of Warwick, Grace Jantzen, University of Manchester and Alison Fell, Queens College, Oxford.

Paper proposals (20-30 minutes) are invited and should be sent by 30 October 2003 to:

Dr Alison Martin (alison.martin@nottingham.ac.uk)
Department of French
University of Nottingham
Nottingham. NG7 2RD
Tel: 0115 84 66536
Fax: 0115 951 4998

Text / Image

Friday 23rd and Saturday 24 September 2005

The colloquium will reexamine the "ut pictura poesis" theory and refine the relation between word and image. Their inter-relationship in certain intersemiotic works of art helps put the finger on certain fundamental characteristics of representation itself, and possibly ideological issues (the politics of race, gender, class, hegemony) and the inscription of cultural values and interests. Lessing's notion of the temporal/spatial distinction will be rethought as well as the way the iconotext seems to disrupt common views of the ontological status of the work of art such as the distinction between the allographic and the autographic . We will address the phenomena of transaction, or trans-lation between painting and literature, between language and the image at large as the analyses will also include all types of images mediated by language (photographs, tapestries, mirrors, maps, optical instruments etc.).

The two organizers of the SAIT-SEAC conference are : Professor Liliane Louvel, University of Poitiers, MSHS, 99 avenue recteur Pineau 86022 Poitiers;
Liliane.Louvel@mshs.univ-poitiers.fr; and Dr Delphine Cingal, University of Assas, 12 place du Pantheon, 75005 Paris; dcingal@club-internet.fr

Please send your proposals to them.