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Conference focuses on Romance languages, literature, film

Conference lectures and events are free and open to the public. Events include:

• "Narrating the National Identity: Myth, Power and Dissidence," a lecture by David Herzberger, professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. The School of Liberal Arts Dean's Lecture. 5:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in the Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union.

• The keynote address "Adventures on the Hyphen, or Some Thoughts on Poetry, Pasta, and Identity Politics," with Sandra M. Gilbert, professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Gilbert is president of the Modern Language Association of America and the author of five collections of poetry. 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union.

• Presentation of the sixth annual Lorraine Lawton Award to Professor Dorothée Bonnigal, Université de Bourgogne, France, for her essay "Restrained Women and Artistic Emancipation: Authority and Resistance in Federico Fellini's 'Giulietta degli spiriti' and John Cassavetes's 'A Woman Under the Influence.'" The award, given in memory of Lawton who died while serving during the Gulf War, honors writing by or about women in Italian literature or film. The award will be given before the keynote address, at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union.

  For more information, contact the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at (317) 494-3828 or (317) 494-7691.

  The conference is sponsored by the dean's office of the School of Liberal Arts and by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Also sponsoring are the Program in Comparative Literature, Italian Studies, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies and the Department of History.

  CONTACT: Ben Lawton, associate professor of French and Italian, (317) 494-3860; home, (317) 463-4433.

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