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The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes - Fifth Annual Conference

Institutions and Power

To be held at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
27th-29th March 2007

Call For Papers

We invite proposals for papers treating aspects of the conference theme, to be interpreted as widely as possible. The following list of topics may serve as inspiration:
--The division / association between Church and State
--Military institutions and their representations
--Administrating France: civil servants and bureaucrats
--Social structures / social authority
--The politics of power: governing bodies, democracy and tyranny
--Money and power: banks, stock exchange and other financial institutions
--The institution of marriage
--Across the borders: France and its colonies
--The authority of the law: ruling and legislating
--Schools and universities as shapers of beliefs
--The power of literature / the press
--Contestation, resistance and conflict

Proposals for individual papers or for panels should be addressed, by 31st November 2006, to the Conference Officer, Dr Floriane Place-Verghnes, School of Languages Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

Email: floriane.place-verghnes (a) manchester.ac.uk

(source: Dix-neuf)