The myth of France as a culturally homogeneous space, long associated with the Jacobinist tradition at home and the mission civilisatrice overseas, stands in sharp contrast with the multiple forms of cultural diversity which traverse France and the wider French-speaking world.  The rise of globalization and the perceived threat of Americanization have sharpened French thinking about what it is that makes France different if not indeed unique. At the same time, cultural diversity within France and other French-speaking countries is now valorized in ways that were almost unthinkable a generation ago. Speakers at this, the 21^st meeting of the 20^th/21^st Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, are invited to mark the coming of age of this major international gathering by exploring the rich dynamic of diversity and difference in France and the Francophone world. 
 

Possible Topics
Theorizing Difference and Diversity Regions and regionalism Paris and the provinces Dialects and vernaculars The American Challenge Ethnic Minorities La République une et indivisible Gender France and Europe Reception and Audience Studies Culture Industries: Mass and Niche Marketing Digital Technology and Cultural Diversity Poetic Licence	Censorship Translation Margins and Borders Exoticism Postcolonialism Transnationalism Diasporas Francophonie: Center and Periphery Universalism and Difference Orality and Literacy Realism/Surrealism/Magic Realism Institutionalizing Difference in the Academy

Deadline for submissions: 15 August 2003.
Enquiries and proposals for papers or panels should be addressed to:

 

Dr Alec G Hargreaves
Director, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies	Dr William J CloonanDepartment of Modern Languages
Florida State University	Florida State University
Tallahassee	Tallahassee
Florida 32306-1540	Florida 32306-1540
USA	USA
Telephone 1 850 644 8559	Telephone 1 850 644 8399
Fax            1 850 644 9917	Fax           1 850 644 0524
E-mail Ahargrea@mailer.fsu.edu	E-mail Bcloonan@mailer.fsu.edu