Women In French In Scotland

WIFIS 2007 - Speakers update0

Professors Lorna Milne, Mary Orr and Sian Reynolds have already agreed to take part in the conference.

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Posting something on the WIFIS Blog…0

If you want to add anything to the WIFIS blog (CFP, publications, coming events…) please send details to Caroline at caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk

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Call For Paper - WIFIS Conference 13th Oct. 20070

A one-day conference to be held at the University of Strathclyde on Saturday 13 October 2007

The annual Women in French in Scotland conference is organised by women academics in French departments at Scottish Universities and has two broad aims:

- to promote scholarly exchange based on research in French Studies by or about women

- to maintain a network of contacts amongst women teaching and researching in French

 Studies Abstracts (200 words) are invited for 20-minute papers in English or in French by or about women in any area of French Studies. Papers on teaching issues are also welcome and papers on non-literary topics (translation, politics, media) are particularly encouraged. Please send abstracts (and queries) to the organisers by 31 May 2007:

Joy Charnley (j.charnley@strath.ac.uk) and Caroline Verdier (caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk).

The conference will start around 10.00 and will include a series of papers as well as a discussion of professional matters concerning women in French Studies. It will provide a valuable opportunity to meet and discuss with female colleagues from other institutions.

Conference fee: £16/£10

The University of Strathclyde is in central Glasgow, within walking distance of railway stations (Central and Queens Street) and Buchanan Bus Station.  

Conference organised with the support of the Department of Modern Languages and the French Division at the University of Strathclyde

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Who we are0

Women In French In Scotland is an informal network of Scottish-based academics at all levels from postgraduates to professors. Working within the broadly defined field of French studies - although not always within French departments - all share common interests in the contributions that women have made to the history, society, language, politics, cinema, film or literature of France and Francophone countries; or else in the representation and treatment of women and issues of gender in these domains. Activities include an annual conference, which provides a forum for the supportive discussion of papers presented, and is open to UK and overseas academics alike.

For more information on the activities of WIFIS, contact the co-founder, Dr Amy Wygant at the University of Glasgow - A.Wygant@french.arts.gla.ac.uk

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