We are thrilled! For more information about our Keynote speaker, visit http://sihambouamer.weebly.com/

For more information about Vernacular journal, please visit https://trace.tennessee.edu/vernacular/

We are thrilled to confirm Dr. Siham Bouamer as Keynote Speaker for the 2022 Vernacular Symposium (CFP below)! Dr. Bouamer is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Sam Houston State University. Her research focus is francophone and postcolonial studies in North African literature, with interdisciplinary interests in Gender and Queer studies, Cultural studies, and Arabic studies. She is one of the founding organizers of the “Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum” (DDFC) collective.

http://sihambouamer.weebly.com

Call For Papers

“Global Performativities: From Within and Without”

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Siham Bouamer, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies

4-5 March 2022

University of Tennessee-Knoxville & Virtual

The graduate students in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are pleased to announce the Fourth Vernacular Symposium which is scheduled to take place as a hybrid event, with options for in-person or virtual participation. We invite submissions from all areas of French, German, and Spanish Studies that widely interpret and investigate questions related to the conference theme. 

We are interested in research which engages one or more of the following issues in modern foreign language, literature, and cinema:

• Borders and binaries
• Performativity and gender
• Language and performance 
• Transnational Studies
• Transcultural and Intercultural Studies
• Literature, performance, performativity
• Noncanonical authors and artists 

While our journal is limited to graduate students, we invite both graduate students and faculty to submit a 250-word abstract for Vernacular symposium. Panel proposals are also welcome; please include an abstract and short bio for each presenter on the panel. Submissions are not limited to the conference theme, but should be related to French, German, or Spanish Studies. For inquiries and submissions, contact Mallory Nischan at mnischan@vols.utk.edu by December 31, 2021. Please indicate whether you intend to present virtually or in-person. Participants will be notified by mid-January. 

“Global Performativities: From Within and Without”

Keynote Speaker: TBD

4-5 March 2022

University of Tennessee-Knoxville & Virtual

The graduate students in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are pleased to announce the Fourth Vernacular Symposium which is scheduled to take place as a hybrid event, with options for in-person or virtual participation. We invite submissions from all areas of French, German, and Spanish Studies that widely interpret and investigate questions related to the conference theme. 

We are interested in research which engages one or more of the following issues in modern foreign language, literature, and cinema:

• Borders and binaries
• Performativity and gender
• Language and performance 
• Transnational Studies
• Transcultural and Intercultural Studies
• Literature, performance, performativity
• Noncanonical authors and artists 

While our journal is limited to graduate students, we invite both graduate students and faculty to submit a 250-word abstract for Vernacular symposium. Panel proposals are also welcome; please include an abstract and short bio for each presenter on the panel. Submissions are not limited to the conference theme, but should be related to French, German, or Spanish Studies. For inquiries and submissions, contact Mallory Nischan at mnischan@vols.utk.edu by December 31, 2021. Please indicate whether you intend to present virtually or in-person. Participants will be notified by mid-January. 

Please check back for updates as the event gets closer!

The editors of Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture are pleased to announce the first annual Vernacular Symposium. The symposium will be held February 23-24, 2018 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and will feature a keynote lecture by Brad Prager, Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri.

Friday, February 23

1:30-4:00 Registration

2:30-3:30 Identity, Representation, and Americanization  (Hodges 213)                                 

Moderator: Dr. Daniel Magilow, Lindsay Young Associate Professor of German; Advisory Board, Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, and Culture

Afro-German Identity, Media, and Americanism: SXTN’s Ich bin schwarz                             Rudy Saliba

The Defiant Requiem: Appropriation and Americanization
            Catherine Greer

4:00-5:30 Keynote Lecture    (Lindsay Young Auditorium)

Bad Acting: On Testimonial Performance and Nazi Perpetrators                                              

Dr. Brad Prager, Professor of German and Film Studies, University of Missouri;        Faculty Advisor, Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, and Culture

 Saturday, February 24

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Pastries   (HSS 68)

9:00-10:30 Nationalism and Migration   (HSS 68)

Moderator: Dr. Mary McAlpin, Professor of French and Associate Department Head, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures

Du Bellay’s Linguistic Imaginary: The Symbolic Construction of a French Nation through Literary Imitation                                                                                                        Jodie Miller

Ben Jelloun’s Les raisins de la galère: Between Transhumance and Identity Crisis          Gerard Keubeung Fokou

Solar Empires and Space Travel in Eighteenth-Century French Literature                      Erika Mandarino

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:45 Parody, Gender, and Representation  (HSS 68)

Moderator: Dr. Rudyard Alcocer, Associate Professor and Shumway Chair of Excellence in Romance Languages; Faculty Advisor, Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, and Culture

The Actor as Imitator: Making Fun of El Jefe in Trópico de sangre                                                Haley Osborn

The Constraints of Masculinity in Mi compadre el General Sol                                                   Kiko Scruggs

Perceptions of Female Labor and the Public Sphere in La Rampa and Cristina Guzmán                                                                                                                                               Holly Villines

Valor, mujer y agravio: Feminine Self-Representation and Self-Consciousness                  Catalina Rojas