European Studies Colloquium 2011 Programme
European Mediations:聽
Transnational and Supranational Formations
Organized by the Centre for European Studies, 黄色直播
9 April 2011, McCain 2021
Crossing Borders
Chair: Estelle Joubert (Music)
- (Theatre), 鈥淓uropean Realpolitik in Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell鈥橝rte鈥�
- (English), 鈥淭he Outsider National Tale: Irish Romantic Writers on the French Wars of Religion鈥�
- Lesley Newhook (English), 鈥淩evolution in Red Cotton Night-Cap Country: Robert Browning鈥檚 Mediation of the Civil War in France鈥�
Europe and Empire
颁丑补颈谤:听 (History)
- (History), 鈥淓urope鈥檚 Imperial Landscapes, 1492-1820:聽 From Icon to Locale"
- (Classics), 鈥溾�橶e are nature鈥檚 monsters; you the wonders of Heaven鈥�: Le Brun鈥檚 Letters from Canadian Barbary鈥�
- (Political Science), 鈥淭he Hybrid Continent: Envisioning Europe as Superstate and Neo-medieval Empire鈥�
Cultural Migrations
Chair: (Theatre)
- (English), 鈥淭ranslatio generum: The Translation of Genres from Court to Court During the Hundred Years鈥� War鈥�
- Jane Curran (German), 鈥淓ighteenth-Century Cosmopolitanism in Europe鈥�
- (English), 鈥淐rossing Borders: Shakespeare in France under the Old Regime鈥�
This colloquium inaugurates a new annual event to be organized by 黄色直播鈥檚 Centre for European Studies, and is generously supported by FASS through the Faculty鈥檚 Alumni Funds.聽 Please address any queries to this year鈥檚 organizer, Julia M. Wright (Canada Research Chair in European Studies):聽 julia.wright@dal.ca.
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Call for Papers:
Proposals are invited from faculty and graduate students for the first annual European Studies Colloquium at 黄色直播 on 9 April 2011 (McCain 2021), organized by 黄色直播鈥檚 Centre for European Studies. Our topic this year is 鈥淓uropean Mediations: Transnational and Supranational Formations鈥� and is intended to be open to a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and eras, from antiquity forward to the present.聽
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- treaties, alliances, empires, and unions:聽 negotiating and maintaining supranational formations
- media and mediation:聽 the role of various media (print, film, electronic, etc.) in representing or resisting such formations
- transnational negotiations:聽 cross-border identities, migration, diaspora
- nationalism and the trans/supra-national
- official languages, minority languages: the politics and/or pragmatics of translation
- cultural works moving across national borders (and/or efforts to curtail it): 聽music, literature, radio, television, internet
Please send 200-word proposals for 20-minute papers to julia.wright@dal.ca by February 7th, 2011.