The Graduate Association of French and Italian Students (GAFIS), Department of French and Italian – University of Wisconsin-Madison, announces the Call for Papers for its 28th annual Graduate Student Symposium:
CONSTRAINTS – March 20-21, 2015
Keynote Speaker: Douglas Hofstadter, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the inner dynamics of constraints in art, literature, sciences and any field of human knowledge that involves a creative act.
We invite abstracts from any field of research (deadline for submissions is December 20, 2014). For more information, please visit http://gafis.frit.wisc.edu/.
Inquiries and abstracts may be directed to Paola Villa and Sara Mattavelli, Symposium co-chairs, at gafis.symposium.2015@gmail.com.