CALL FOR PAPERS

6th INTERDISCIPLINARY AND MULTICULTURAL CONFERENCE ON
FOOD REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE, FILM
AND THE OTHER ARTS

San Antonio, Texas
February 25-27, 2010

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
College of Liberal and Fine Arts
The University of Texas at San Antonio


The objective of this interdisciplinary, multicultural conference is to examine, celebrate, and enjoy the variety of ways in which food has been represented in literature and the other arts throughout time and throughout the planet.


Two hundred-word summaries of papers on any aspect of the general theme and written in any of the several languages taught at The University of Texas at San Antonio (English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic) will be considered. Proposals for special panels will also be accepted.

Proposals for individual papers or sessions should be postmarked or e-mailed (as a Word document attachment) no later than September 25, 2009 and should be addressed to:

Professor Santiago Daydí-Tolson
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249-0644
e-mail: santiago.dayditolson@utsa.edu


For more detailed and updated information, including previous Conference Programs, and Convivium Artium, the electronic journal on food representation in literature and the arts visit the Conference Web Page: http://flan.utsa.edu/foodconf or http://foodinlitart.blogspot.com