PAMLA Conference 21 - Special Session: Paris: Beyond the Lights of the City
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021
Las Vegas, Nevada (will be virual if there is a no-travel advisory in effect)
Conference webpage: https://www.pamla.org/pamla2021/
CFP - Special Session: Paris: Beyond the Lights of the City / Paris : au-delà des lumières de la ville
Paris has always been greatly admired, in particular for its rich culture, its architectural beauty, and its intellectual dynamism. As a source of artistic inspiration though, the City of Light attracts for its magnificent features as much as its dark sides, its « mud » as Charles Baudelaire calls them in his « Draft Epilogue for the Second Version of Flowers of Evil » (1861.) What are the hidden aspects of the French capital that Baudelaire, and many artists after him, have chosen to depict, and what is at stake in doing so?
This panel welcomes communications in French or in English that look at marginal and original representations of Paris and its surrounding in literature, pictural arts, music and cinema from the 19th century to today. Papers will examine how these representations stand apart from artistic and moral norms, and explore the goals of doing so within a society that keeps on struggling to address discriminations and socio-economic inequalities.
CFP full description : https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18195
Deadline : April, 15, 2021
Submit abstract proposals through PAMLA’s online system: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com
Aurélie Van de Wiele, Salisbury University