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> >From: "nicky agate" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP: Everyday Life (grad) (12/15/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07) > >The Department of French at New York University announces its annual =20 >Graduate Conference, =93Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory =20= > >of Everyday Life=94. > >February 16-17, 2007 > > > >=93How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.=94Annie =20= > >Dillard, The Writing Life > > =93How are we to speak of these =91common things,=92 how to track them = >=20 >down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they =20 >remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, =20 >finally, speak of what is, of what we are?=94 Georges Perec, Species of =20= > >Places and Other Pieces > > > >The everyday is far from ordinary: within the banal lurks the =20 >sublime, the familiar masks the strange. But does the quotidian =20 >confine, define or liberate us? > >Everyday life studies have taught us to find the extraordinary in the =20= > >ordinary, to seek out the common denominator within the existing =20 >systems of our society, thereby allowing us to decode the present =20 >while also opening a window onto the past. The theory of everyday =20 >life is not, however, applicable only in the domain of the modern =20 >world. An analysis of everyday life can occur at all levels of =20 >civilization and is not only linked to the existence of the modern =20 >subject. How, then, across the ages, have individuals confronted the =20= > >paradox of daily life in order to more fully understand their place =20 >within a larger societal institution, whether that be family, =20 >community, or country? > >The aim of this conference is to explore the ways in which everyday =20 >life has been experienced, mythologized and ignored from the Middle =20 >Ages to the present day. How is this everydayness negotiated through =20= > >writing and art? How are its effects rendered by literature, =20 >history, sociology or anthropology? By what means, using what =20 >language, to what end? > >We invite graduate students of all disciplines to present 15-minute =20 >papers addressing the theme of everyday life within the context of =20 >French and Francophone literary and cultural studies. 200 word =20 >abstracts should be submitted to nyufrenchconferenceATgmail.com by =20 >December 15, 2006. Papers and abstracts may be in French or English. > >Selected papers will be considered for publication. > >Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: > >The individual: biography, autobiography, memoir, personal journals, =20 >epistolarity > >Community: ethnography, travel, customs, leisure > >Political culture: conflict, violence, resistance > >Cycles: routine, ritual, revolution, evolution > >Consumption: fashion, art, comestibles, fetish > >Corporality: scatology, sexuality, illness > >Language: linguistic innovation, onomastics, dialogue > >Dream: utopia, mythology, distraction, ennui= ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html