JAMES MADISON
UNIVERSITY – October 24-25, 2002
To commemorate the 700th
anniversary of Dante’s exile from Florence, the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures at James Madison University is organizing a conference that
will bring together scholars/researchers from a variety of disciplines to
consider the impact that exile has had and still does have on humanity.
Marginality, subordination, undesirability, persecution, and enslavement constitute an array of tragic results of any of the following: military occupation, religious intolerance, laws by which dominant cultures define ethnic groups, economics, or, simply, fear of difference. For centuries men of letters, artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians, have been forced into exile for these reasons. We are inviting faculty, students, and independent scholars and researchers in fields such as English and foreign literatures, history, art history, science, philosophy and religion, music, theater and dance, psychology, sociology, political science and others, to submit abstracts/proposals and convene panel discussions and/or workshops. We also encourage participants to organize and chair sessions.
1.
Submit
abstracts of about 300 words.
2.
Each
abstract should indicate: title, author’s name, affiliation, address, telephone
number and e-mail address. Proposals
with multiple authorship should indicate the person to be contacted.
3.
The
deadline for submission of abstracts/proposals is June 9, 2002. All those chosen to present or discuss
papers or chair sessions will be notified by July 15, 2002.
4.
Send
abstracts/proposals to: Dr. Giuliana Fazzion, Program Chair, Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures, James Madison University, Harrisonburg,
Virginia, 22807. Tel.: (540) 568-3511; Fax: (540) 568-6904; E-mail: fazziogx@jmu.edu.