Each spring semester, Romance Studies doctoral students organize an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, with a new theme chosen annually. The conference attracts participants from across the country, and from abroad as well.

The latest information about the conference can be found below.

• RS Grad Conference: Mobility & Mutability

  November 24, 2020

  Boston University Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference April 17th, Spring 2021 - Virtual format Mobility/Mutability "Isn’t it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself... [ More ]

• RS Grad Students Hold Conference Online

  April 13, 2020

  Every year in the spring semester, the Romance Studies graduate students organize a conference around a theme pertinent to the study of literature. This year, impacts of Covid-19 forced them... [ More ]

• 2020 RS Graduate Student Conference Schedule

  March 25, 2020

• March 24, 2020

  Due to the coronavirus, the 2020 graduate student conference is being transitioned to an online format. More details to come, will be posted on this page!

• BU Romance Studies – Seeking Voices/Seeking Silences

  November 5, 2019

  SEEKING VOICES / SEEKING  SILENCES Boston University Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference - Call for Papers   Saturday, April 4th “Speech and silence are instruments of power, of self-assertion and self-definition:  they take part... [ More ]