[Discussion] CFP: French Orientalism: Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other (grad) (7/30/05; 10/29/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call for Papers

The Ph.D. Program in French at the City University of New York invites
paper proposals for its fall 2005 graduate student conference "French
Orientalism: Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other." The conference
will take place on Saturday 29 October 2005. Papers should be 20 minutes
in length.

In Orientalism, Edward Said wrote of "the Orient as a locale requiring
Western attention, reconstruction, even redemption. The Orient existed
as a place isolated from the mainstream of European progress in the
sciences, art, and commerce. Thus whatever good or bad values were
imputed to the Orient appeared to be functions of some highly
specialized Western interest in the Orient."

Working from this standpoint and within the current global context, this
conference will explore the French and Francophone construction of the
Orient. Proposals for papers from all historical periods and disciplines
are welcome. Papers may be either in French or in English.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Exploration, conquest, and the nation
Literature: confrontation, appropriation, and resistance
Religion, territory, and political relativism
Flora and fauna: possession, domestication, classification
Food and cultural consumption
The French stage: Performing the Orient
Harems, fetishism, and exotic sex
The feminization of the Orient
Women and agency
Occidentalism: The returned gaze
Orality and history
Self-representation in literature

The deadline for submissions is 30 July 2005. Please direct abstracts,
proposals, and questions to Desmond HOSFORD (dhosford@gc.cuny.edu) and

CJ WOJTKOWSKI (cwojtkowski@gc.cuny.edu). Submissions may be in Word or
WordPerfect.

Further information may be found at:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/french/events/orientalism.html



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