Appel à contributions : International Colloquium of Romance Philologies for Students (CIFRE),
16-17 octobre, République tchèque

Full Title: V International Colloquium of Romance Philologies for Students
Short Title: CIFRE
Theme: In Search of (Un)certainty and Challenges

Date: 16-Oct-2025 – 17-Oct-2025
Location: Olomouc, Czech Republic
Web Site: https://cifre.upol.cz/esp/

Call Deadline: 07-Sep-2025

Preserving the original idea, the fifth edition of CIFRE is also organized by doctoral and postdoctoral students of the Department of Romance Languages, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Our objective is to provide a safe and inspiring space for the students of Master’s and Doctor’s degree of Romance Philologies where they can gain experience with presenting and defending their research topics in an international environment. It is also an opportunity to make contact with colleagues from other, not only European universities with prospect of collaboration in future projects. This being the case, CIFRE also aims to make use of the interdisciplinary approaches provided by the participants as well as by the invited keynote speakers (academics, writers, translators, etc.). CIFRE connects the foundation stones of Philology, Linguistics and Literature, creating a whole spectrum of approaches. And it is preciously this not so strictly defined horizon that is the general topic of CIFRE’s fifth edition: In Search of (Un)certainty and Challenges.

Every field of study is nowadays challenged by the need for innovations and interdisciplinarity, nonetheless, it is equally important to keep in touch with the basis and traditions that after all enabled the rise of innovative theories and even protests. By the same token CIFRE invites speakers to work with these antipoles and the spectre between them:
– In search of individual/collective identity
– In search of balance/transgression
– In search of roots and memory
– In search of culture transfer
– In search of the self/otherness
– In search of intimacy/exposure
– In search of tradition/innovation
– In search of the classics: Boccaccio and His Legacy in European Literatures
– In search of the author/reader
– In search of the digital/human
– In search of indifference/initiative

To enter the registration form please consult the CIFRE website: https://cifre.upol.cz/esp/

The fifth edition of CIFRE, furthermore, hosts a specialized panel titled “In search of the classics: Boccaccio and His Legacy in European Literatures”. This section is organized under the patronage of the Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio and The American Boccaccio Association. We invite researchers and scholars dedicated to Boccaccio and his works to take a look to the dedicated call for papers on the CIFRE website and to register for this section: https://cifre.upol.cz/ita/