The Graduate Students Association (GAFIS) of the French and Italian Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison invites submissions for the 36thGAFIS Symposium, Living the Land. Global and Local (Trans)Formations.
The symposium will take place on March 31 and April 1, 2023, at the Pyle Center.
The Living the Land. Global and Local (Trans)Formations Symposium will be focusing on the theme of the land; it will encourage the exploration of past and contemporary understandings of the land, and its relationship with human beings over time, up to an era marked by constantly raising social concerns about the global environmental crisis. GAFIS proposes to analyze the representations of these connections and how they are shaped by current studies, involving the works of graduate students from multiple fields of study.
GAFIS is thrilled to announce that the keynote speaker will be Dr. Candace Fujikane (University of Hawai’i). Dr. Fujikane’s research focuses on Hawai’i literatures, Asian American Literature and Theory, Kanaka Maoli and critical settler cartographies, Indigenous knowledges and climate change, decolonial and abolitionist futures, critical ethnic studies, ecocriticism, and cultural studies. She has recently published Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi (Duke UP, 2021). She is currently working on her new book, Elemental Cartographies for a Changing Earth.
Graduate students can submit an abstract by filling out a form at this link. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2023.
More information is available on the GAFIS Symposium website and on the flier.