From The Interpretation of Dreams at the beginning of the century, with its emphasis on the visual language of the unconscious, to Sophie Calle’s phototextual autobiographies at its close, experiments with form, genre, aesthetics, and representations in visual, verbal, and virtual modes cross boundaries and push the limits of textualities and the canon. Lacan’s psychic language, Barthes’s Mythologies, Kristeva’s Révolution du langage poétique, Ricardou’s textique, Baudrillard’s simulacra, ciné-romans, new technologies, the era of theory, postmodern performatives, electronic media, and globalization – all have challenged twentieth- and twenty-first-century readers/viewers with new mappings of culture. Speakers at the 22nd meeting of the 20th-21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium are asked to explore the revolutionary dynamics of languages–verbal, visual, virtual-- that have transformed our way of seeing and being in the world and altered the very notion of texte.

For more information, please contact:Dr. Carol J. Murphy, Director,
France-Florida Research Institute, Professor of French
University of Florida, 170 Dauer Hall, P.O. Box 117405, Gainesville, FL 32611-7405
Telephone: (352) 392-2016 ext 256, Fax: (352) 392-5679, E-mail: Carol J. Murphy