COLLOQUE URBANITÉS LITTÉRAIRES //
CITYSCAPES/LITERARY ESCAPES
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University at Buffalo (SUNY) in collaboration with the
journal Formules (Paris) will host an international conference on “Urbanités
Littéraires” / “Cityscapes/Literary Escapes.”
The goal of the conference is to study relations between
writing and the urban environment, and specify interactive engagements between
literature, architecture, and urbanism. Principle aspects to be examined
are:
-- Wandering
-- Windows/Doors/Entrances/Corridors
-- Utopia and Dream Cities
-- Streets/Boulevards/Avenues
-- Towns/Suburbs/Slums/Countrysides
-- Silos/Warehouses/Industrial Wasteland
-- Writing the City
-- Bridges/Arcades/Underground
The conference will take place September 10-12, 2009 at the
University at Buffalo (www.buffalo.edu).
The top contributions from the conference will be published
in issue no. 14 of the journal Formules (Journal of Formal Creation).
These will be chosen by the review committee and the editorial board of the
journal.
Individual presentations should be 20 minutes or less with
10 minutes more for discussion. Presentation proposals of 300 words or
less, in French or in English, should be sent to the organizers by email by June
15, 2009. All contributions (both French and English) may be sent to:
The organizing committee: Laura Chiesa, Christina
Milletti, Justin Read, Jean-Jacques Thomas