Extended Deadline

Call for Papers

Extended Deadline for Submitting Abstracts

Eighth Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Arts

San Antonio, Texas

February 28 – March 1, 2014

Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, 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 the humanities and the arts throughout time around the planet. Writers, artists and poets, scholars in literature, history, art history and film, cooks, psychologists, sociologist, anthropologists, and more are invited to contribute to this dialogue.

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Deadline to Submit Abstract: 11/8/2013

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Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words, written in any of the languages taught at The University of Texas at San Antonio (English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic). Proposals for special panels will also be considered. Submit via

email (MicroSoftWord document attachment only) or hard copy to:

Professor Santiago Daydí-Tolson, Conference Chair

Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

The University of Texas at San Antonio

1 UTSA Circle

San Antonio, Texas 78249-0644

e-mail: santiago.dayditolson@utsa.edu





For more detailed and updated information and Convivium Artium, the electronic journal on food representation in literature and the arts, visit the conference blog: http://foodinlitart.blogspot.com.

To view the 2012 conference program, see http://foodinlitart.blogspot.com/2012/01/conference-program.html





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