Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies

The deadline to send a proposal for the Annual Conference of the
Canadian Society for Italian Studies has been extended to 15 December
2011. For further information see the Call for Papers below.

Papers on Italian music would be most welcome.

For more information on the CSIS, see its website at
http://canadiansocietyforitalianstudies.camp7.org/

and be sure to check out the utube video on the Congress and the city
of Waterloo, Ontario, at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UHEVP5cpdhQ

Konrad Eisenbichler

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Call for Papers

Canadian Society for Italian Studies

Annual Conference

26-28 May 2012 in Waterloo (Canada)

Keynote speaker: Nino Ricci, Sunday, 27 May, 11:00 am



The Canadian Society for Italian Studies will hold its 2012
conference, in Waterloo (Ontario) on 26-28 May 2012. The conference is
part of the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest multidisciplinary academic
gathering in Canada, which attracts delegates from across the
continent and around the world.

We invite individual papers and complete sessions (consisting of a
chair and three speakers) that address traditional areas of Italian
studies, such as Italian literature, linguistics, pedagogy, film,
politics, and culture. We also invite papers or sessions on topics
such as Italian-Canadian studies, Italian culture and the digital
humanities, second and third language acquisition. Papers are also
invited on the topic: “The Birth of Cultural Tourism in Italy,
1350-1650” for a joint session with the Canadian Society for
Renaissance Studies, and on the general theme of the CFHSS Congress,
“Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World.”

Papers are to be 20 minutes in length and can be delivered in English,
Italian, or French.

Proposals should include: a title, a 100 words abstract, and full
contact information for the speaker and a one-page CV. In the case of
session proposals, this information is to be repeated for each
presenter.

Proposals should be emailed in to both conference organizers,
Professor Konrad Eisenbichler (konrad.eisenbichler at utoronto.ca) and
Sandra Parmegiani (sparmegi at uoguelph.ca). Deadline for submission: 15
December 2011.

Presenters at the conference will need to be paid-up members of the
Canadian Society for Italian Studies for the year 2012 and to pay the
two congress registration fees (CSIS & CFHSS)

For further information on the conference and on the society, visit
the CSIS web pages:

http://canadiansocietyforitalianstudies.camp7.org/