5.0259 CFP: San Francisco Sepharad '92; Paris Humor (2/78)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 29 Jul 1991 22:28:22 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0259. Monday, 29 Jul 1991.
(1) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 16:18:00 PST (50 lines)
From: Julian_Randolph.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: San Francisco Sepharad '92: Call for Papers
(2) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 07:41:38 MST (28 lines)
From: "don l. f. nilsen" <ATDFN@ASUACAD>
Subject: Paris Humor Conference
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 16:18:00 PST
From: Julian_Randolph.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: San Francisco Sepharad '92: Call for Papers
A Call for Scholarly Papers for an Academic Conference:
San Francisco Sepharad '92:
The Cultural and Historical Impact
of the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
500th Anniversary
1492-1992
Sunday May 3, 1992
San Francisco State University
on the following topics:
I. The impact of Jews on the history, economy, government, intellectual
life, and culture of pre-1492 Spain.
II. The history, culture, intellectual life, and social development of
Sephardic Jews in the lands of their dispersion and in Israel:
literature and language; philosophy and intellectual life; music and
the arts; medicine and other sciences; impact on Jewish life, thought,
and culture; contemporary developments.
III. The impact of Sephardic Jews on other cultures.
IV. Conversos and Crypto-Jews: their history and impact on Jewish
life and on the societies in which they lived.
V. Contemporary relations between Spain and the Hispanic World and
Jews, Judaism, and Israel; images of Jews and Judaism in Spanish and
Hispanic culture; changes in attitudes and public policy in present-day
Spain; tracing Jewish roots in Spain.
One-page abstracts should be sent to: Professor Julian Randolph,
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, San Francisco State
University, 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, CA 94132.
Submissions should be in English. Deadline for submission of abstracts:
October 1, 1991.
_San Francisco Sepharad'92_ is sponsored and organized by San Francisco
Hillel, the Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, and the School of Humanities, San Francisco State
University.
Julian Randolph:Hum:SFSU
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 07:41:38 MST
From: "don l. f. nilsen" <ATDFN@ASUACAD>
Subject: Paris Humor Conference
The 1992 Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies
will be held in Paris France from July 6-9, 1992.
October 31, 1991 is the deadline for the call for papers.
Submit your abstract in a 6" x 9" box, with the following information
at the top: NAME:
UNIVERSITY OR INSTITUTION:
TITLE OF YOUR PAPER:
Your proposal must be accompanied by a $100 registration fee ($80 if
you are a member is ISHS). Your registration fee will be refunded if
your paper is not accepted.
Send the proposal and the registration fee to:
Alleen Pace Nilsen
President, ISHS
Asst VP for Personnel
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2803
<IADAPN@ASUACAD>
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Don L. F. Nilsen, <ATDFN@ASUACAD> (602) 965-7592
Executive Secretary
International Society for Humor Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302