fifth annual graduate romanic association u penn call abstracts university pennsylvania department romance languages fifth annual graduate romanic association colloquium edge margins marginalities brink new millenium march 27 1999 accepting abstracts presentations graduate students hispanic portuguese italian french francophone literatures romance philology works historical linguistics relevant area studies welcome year encourage papers dealing conference theme broad range perspectives obvious perspectives time space gender certainly possibilities possible topics might include limited synchronicities diachronicities cutting edges borders crossings frontiers limits transgressions shifts changes transformations margins marginalities papers english french italian portuguese spanish able read 20 minutes approximately eight ten doublespaced pages accepted papers may eligible publication working paper series submit anonymous abstract separate selfaddressed stamped envelope cover sheet following information title paper presenter name address telephone number email address academic affiliation deadline submission abstracts january 30 1999 send submission graduate student colloquium reading committee department romance languages 521 williams hall university pennsylvania philadelphia pa 191046305 information call 215 8987429 leave message linda grabner coronel email lgrabner mail sas upenn edu visit website http www sas upenn edu lgrabner 99colloq html please feel free repost call abstracts lists know whose members might interested thank