3rd Annual Modern Languages Graduate Student Conference
Theme: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Alterity:
Defining the Other through Language and Literature
Sponsored by the Modern Languages Graduate Forum
Wayne State University
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of German and Slavic Studies
Conference Date: Saturday, April 2, 1005
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: Monday, January 14, 2005
Submission Categories
* The relation between same and the other, * Class, race, and ethnicity relations, * Gender relations, * Relations between nations/national literatures, * Present vs. past (alterity as it relates to time), * The other realities, * Other spaces/spaces of otherness, * Human vs. animal, * Adults and children, * Relarions between teacher/student, * Language variation (standard vs. non-standard language), * Linguistic differences and comparative linguistics.
Submission Criteria
1. Abstracts and papers must be in English.
2. Abstracts must not exceed 200 words.
3. Presentation time limit 20 minutes (8 pages maximum).
Wayne State University
Attn: Elsa Della Torre
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
487 Manoogian Hall
Detroit, MI 48202
Modern Languages Graduate Forum website:
www.geocities.com/graduateforum
