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Eugéne Delacroix, Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, 1834

Musée de Louvre

Colloquium Dates:

October 1-3, 2009

Hosted by Montclair State University 

 

Co-sponsored by

Department of Modern Languages and Literature

 

Department of Spanish and Italian

 

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

 Call for papers
 

Plenary speaker

Professor Peter Brooks

Mellon Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University

 

 

The 2009 Romance Studies Colloquium will take place from 1-3 October 2009 in Jersey City, NJ, across the Hudson River from New York City.  The colloquium will address issues related to storytelling across the Romance languages and may include ethical, sociological, anthropological, linguistic, political, literary, or theoretical aspects.  Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches (painting, architecture, film, performance, photography, theory, cultural studies, and media) are actively encouraged. Papers may focus on any time and place in Romance studies.