Announcements 2002
(UW, Winnipeg)
Report of the 2002 LCMND
Business Meeting:
LCMND Web-Visibility
LCMND e-Journal plans
Minot State University (MSU) to host Annual
Conference [in 2005]
New Name for the LCMND?
Second Volume of the
LCMND's Full-Text Proceedings
published & available:
see Contents & Order
Information
The First Volume was
issued in 1996
"Call for Papers "
to present at the 2002 LCMND Conference
hosted by the University of Winnipeg
2002 LCMND Conference Program
October 18 &19, 2003, Grand Forks [hosted by UND
November 1, 2002:
Report of October 2002 Business Meeting, Winnipeg, Holiday Inn South
At the Circle's 2002 Annual Conference which was
hosted by the University of Winnipeg at the Holiday Inn South, Winnipeg,
members gathered on Saturday, October 19, 2002 for a combined Luncheon
& Business Meeting which was chaired by incoming Vice-President
Enrique Fernandez (UM).
It was decided that Minot State University would
host a LCMND Meeting in the near future. The closest date will probably
be in 2007, if all the institutional members of already scheduled
conferences -- at the UND (2003, Grand Forks), UM (2004, Winnipeg),
NSDU (2005, Fargo), and the UW (2006, Winnipeg) -- insist on maintaining
their turn. Minot Professors Robert Kibler & Michelle Sauer are
to investigate if their two North Dakota sister institutions would
relinquish their slot at an earlier date.
Minot State University has been an institutional member of the Circle
since the late 1980s, and the -- so far -- one & only LCMND Conference
took place there in early November 1995. It was unfortunately somewhat
under-represented due to the unusually late date, and a severe snow-storm
which made travel outside of Winnipeg hazardous & nearly impossible.
Neither 1995 LCMND Vice-President Gaby Divay (UM), nor 1995/96 LCMND
Secretary/Treasurer Malcolm (UW)
The Circle's web-visibility has been much improved
at the University of Manitoba main website at:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/
AND, more appropriately, but also more convolutedly & therefore
not easily found, at the UM Faculty of Arts Research Corner at:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/deans_office/research/centres.shtml
The possibility of establishing an electronic LCMND
journal was discussed:
Past Presidents Constance Cartmill (2000) & Gaby Divay (1996)
will explore various options & report at the Circle's next Meeting
at the UND, Grand Forks, in October 2003.
Incoming Presidents Enrique Fernandez (UM, 2004) & Chandice Johnson
(NDSU, 2005), who is also the accomplished editor of the venerable
LCMND Proceedings since 1996, will certainly be involved in
the exciting new venture. This excellent idea must be credited to
Brian McLean, UMInfo, who proposed it on occasion of linking the
LCMND Site -- which really put the existing [since 2000/2001!] LCMND
web-pages on the map -- to the UMInfo Outreach Site in September
2002.
Not for the first time, the possibility &
perhaps even necessity of RENAMING the Circle in a less misleading
manner was addressed.
Vice-President Enrique Fernandez strongly argued for a new name
by the LCMND's 50th Anniversary five years from now, in 2009.
Gaby Divay advised equally strongly against it: from an academic
librarian's point-of-view, it is advisable to maintain the main
part of the LCMND Title, and to come up with a more explicit subtitle.
Otherwise, both online (electronic, by key-word) AND alphabetical
(as in traditional print tools) retrieval options would be jeopardized.
Members were encouraged to send in their opinions, suggestions,
and questions.
May 2002:
The Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota
(LCMND) has just published its second full-text volume of selected
papers from those presented at the Circle's Annual Conferences between
1994 & 2000.
Unlike its predecessor, which covered the years 1989-1993 & was
published in 1996, this
new volume is grouped around the following two themes of the LCMND
2002 Conference: Women's Writing and Exploration Literature:
CONTENTS (see also Full-Text
Proceedings v.2):
Views of Polygamy in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre
and Un chant écarlate / (Sherrie M. Fleshman)
La métaphore filée du sacrifice dans Noces de Colette
/ (Anne Sechin)Battle Fronts: The Rhetorical Spaces of Marion Mahony
Griffin's Magic of America / (Elizabeth Birmingham)
La problématique de l'écriture chez Gabrielle Roy dans
Alexandre Chenevert / (Vincent Schonberger)
Humour et philosophie dans L'Amérique au jour le jour
de Simone de Beauvoir / (Louise Renée)
Encounters Beyond the Horizon: Mungo Park's Changing Native Perceptions
While on Expedition Down the River Gambia, 1795 / (Robert E. Kibler)
De la putain à la sainte, entre le noble et l'ignoble: l'épisode
historique des filles du roi dans Les Nouveaux voyages de Lahontan
et le récit utopique de Mlle du Clos dans le roman Beauchene
de Lesage / (René Brisebois)
The Spiritual Journey of Jack Kerouac's On the Road / (Gordon
Beveridge)
Le massacre au Lac des Bois: analyse d'une étape décisive
dans la découverte de l'Ouest canadien / (Alan MacDonell)
Explorateurs, Soldats, Marchands, Anthropologues / (Alexandra Kinge)
Seneca, Boswell, & Lear on Corsica: The Eye of the Beholder /
(John Gahan)
Physics in Verse: Lucretius' Contribution to Epicurean Philosophy
/ (Daniel N. Erickson)
Linguistic Fingerprints: Phasal Analysis of the Ramsey Ransom Note
/ (Barbara J. Becker)
Wrestling with the Under Toad in The World According to Garp
/ (Bill Cosgrove)
TO ORDER THIS VOLUME or THE 1996 VOLUME:
Send a cheque of $ 10 CA / $ 6.50 U.S. per copy payable to
The Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota
to
Enrique Fernandez
LCMND Secretary-Treasurer (2001/2)
& LCMND Vice-President (2002/3)
Department of French, Spanish & Italian
421 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
CANADA R3T 5V5
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