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http://german.berkeley.edu/news/conferences.html
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Call for Papers
Tenth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
at the University of California at Berkeley
April 5-6, 2002
FINITE SUBJECTS:
MORTALITY AND CULTURE IN GERMANY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SLAVOJ ZIZEK
This year's conference will examine the role of mortality and the
consciousness of finitude in German culture and history. Death
generates an array of responses, both creative and destructive, and
plays a crucial role in the history of German thought and artistic
practice. The graduate students of the German Department at the
University of California at Berkeley welcome scholars from across
the disciplines to submit proposals that address the intersection of
mortality, culture and intellectual history in Germany. We are open
to submissions in any time period from the medieval to the present.
Possible areas of investigation include but are not limited to:
- Aesthetics and mortality
- Cinema, mummification and death
- Tragedy
- Apocalyptic narratives
- Death and transcendence in the visual arts
- Metaphor and euphemism
- The sublime
- Death on screen
- Commodity and death
- Black humor
- Vampirism
- The death drive
- Finitude and transcendence in philosophy
- Romanticism and German idealism
- Phenomenology and death
- Ideology and finitude
- Utopia and finitude
- Mortality and subject formation
- Mortality and ethics
- War, mass death and trauma
- Memory and memorial
- Decadence and decay
- Medical and scientific discourses on death
The language of the conference is English, but submissions in
German are also welcome. In some cases we may be able to
provide a travel subsidy. Please mail or e-mail a one page
anonymous abstract with a separate cover sheet indicating your
name, affiliation, address, phone number and e-mail address to:
Joel Freeman Department of German University of California at
Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 [log in to unmask]
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2002
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