"Natacha Atlas fume le Narguilé" by Youssef Nabile
Call for Papers
New call for papers for Contemporary French & Francophone Studies:
CF&FS: SITES consacre un numéro spécial aux échanges culturels franco-arabes. Ce volume va publier deux entretiens avec des écrivains, un essai photographique et une sélection d’essais choisis parmi les communications présentées à notre conférence. Un comité de lecture et de sélection a été établi en collaboration avec CF&FS: SITES.
Download the PDF flier for the appel à contribution here.
Deadline for individual paper proposals (400 words) as well as panel proposals was December 15, 2007.
Download call for papers as PDF document
We invite contributions relating to all cultural inquiries into arabofrancophonie, including, but not limited to:
- The future of Franco-Arabic Studies in the EU and in the US;
- Franco-Arabic identities and linguistic diversity in Europe and in the former French colonies or mandates;
- Teaching cultural diversity: The cultural landscape of the Franco-Arabic world within the academy and their place within European Studies (courses taught, critical approaches, dissertations, publications, professional associations);
- Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Franco-Arabic literature: how to facilitate future exchanges and collaborations between researchers.
- The role played by American (and international) institutions in fostering communication between the teaching of French and of Arabic;
- What effects do the contemporary political climate and the discourse of a global war on terrorism threaten to bring about on the future of Francophone-Arabic Studies in the United States and elsewhere?
All other approaches and treatments of the topic are welcome.
Sahar Amer
Department of Asian Studies
Arabic Program
113 New West, CB#3267
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3267
samer@email.unc.edu
Martine Antle
Department of Romance Languages
225 DEY, CB#3170
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170
mcantle@email.unc.edu