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Various calls for papers for sessions at the New York MLA Convention (27-30
December 2002). Deadlines 1 March or 15 March.
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From: Gundolf Graml <[log in to unmask]>
Special session at MLA 2002, New York.
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2002
Postcards from Within: Nation, Narration, Travel and Tourism in Germany,
Austria and Switzerland
This panel will explore the various roles that tourism and travel play in the
development of nations. We are interested in how tourism/travel as a
discursive construct has helped shape (emerging) national identities, how
this discourse became the carrier of changes in gender and class relations
and how it interacted with or even sparked particular technological
developments. Papers should employ interdisciplinary approaches,
comparative perspectives are encouraged. Contributions may address, but
are not limited to, the following questions/topics:
Tourism and travel: different forms of experiences?
Tourism, national identity, and the European Union
Travel/Tourism and its influence on class, gender, ethnicity
Travel/Tourism as works of memory
Travel/Tourism and (in)authenticity
Imaginary travel
Travel, technology, means of transportation
Tourists, travelers, guest workers and asylum seekers: questions of
citizenship and belonging Travel/Tourism and the Public/Private Sphere
Travel Writing
Travel Documentaries
Travel and Leisure/Work
Travel Advertising (Postcards, Posters, Guidebooks)
Gundolf Graml ([log in to unmask])
Beth Muellner ([log in to unmask])
Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch
University of Minnesota
205 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St. S.E.
Mpls., MN 55455
Please send 200-400 word abstracts no later than March 1, 2002 to BOTH
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preferred).
[Realization of the panel dependent on decision by MLA convention
committee after April 7, 2002. In order to participate in this session, potential
panelists must be listed on MLA membership roles by April 1, 2002 (further
information in MLA newsletter, Winter 2001, p. 10).]
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Call for Papers - MLA 2002 in New York
Culinary Narratives as Cultural Memory - Session sponsored by the
Coalition of Women in German
This panel invites participants to explore culinary texts in German Cultural
Studies. Its particular focus will be on how texts about food are intertwined
with questions of identity and memory. As books such as In Memory's
Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin impressively underline,
writings about food can serve as vehicles in constructing and preserving a
social and cultural identity. We are particularly interested in examinations of
how cookbooks and culinary memoirs open up insights into the complex
cultural meaning of food and how culinary narratives represent and reflect on
conceptualizations of gender, domesticity, and history.
Please send 1 page abstracts by March 15, 2002 to:
Katrin Voelkner
2712 W Greenleaf Ave #C
Chicago, IL 60645
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and
Lisabeth Hock
German/Slavic Studies
Wayne State University
443 Manoogian Hall
906 West Warren Avenue
Detroit, MI
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From: Rachel Freudenburg <[log in to unmask]>
Female Friendships in the German-speaking world: Reality and
Representation.
In the western philosophical tradition, male friendship and the creation of
knowledge go hand in hand. Yet women have cultivated their own friendships
and have sought out other women with whom they could engage in the
project of understanding themselves and their environment.
The aim of this panel is to explore and recover a female tradition of friendship
through an examination of literary works, personal narratives, letters, and
other documents attesting to the nature of female friendship. Questions
considered here include:
* How have women's lives and women's writing created a discourse of female
friendship that supports and justifies knowledge, cultural traditions and
institutions created by women?
*Is there a disparity between the way women crafted actual friendships and
how they depicted female friendship in literature, art and philosophy?
*How did women respond to male friendships? What are the connections
between the repression of women in society at large and the construction of
female friendship at any particular historical moment?
Once papers are selected, this panel will be proposed as a special session
at the 2002 MLA conference in New York. Note: If your paper is selected for
the panel, this does not automatically guarantee that the panel will be
accepted for the MLA conference - but we'll do our best and keep our fingers
crossed!
Please submit one-page abstracts for 20-minute talks to:
Marjanne E. Goozé
Germanic and Slavic Languages
201Joseph E. Brown Hall
University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602
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and
Rachel Freudenburg
German Studies Department
Lyons 201F
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
North American Heine Society Session, MLA Conference
New York, Dec. 2002
"Heine and Biography"
Possible topics: Theoretical challenges posed by the particular relation of
Heine's life and work. How the resurgent interest in Heine's Jewishness has
reshaped his biography. The significance of Heine's biography for other
biographies--German-Jewish and beyond. Immanent hermeneutics: Heine on
biography.
Abstracts should be no longer than 150 words.
Send abstracts by March 15 to:
Paul Reitter
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From: Jane Brown <[log in to unmask]>
18th-early 19th Century German Literature Division
1. The Emergence of Psychoanalytic Paradigms
2. The Rise of the Renaissance: Interest in the Renaissance and the
Underpinnings to the Emergence of the Concept "Renaissance"
3. After the Family: Alternative Models to the Family of Bourgeois
Tragedy
Please send 1-page abstracts for any of these three proposed sessions
by March 1, 2002 to
Jane K. Brown, Professor
Dept. of Germanics,
Box 353130
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3130
Phone:(206)543-8097
Fax: (206) 685-9063
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Source: <http://www.goethesociety.org/pages/panels.html>
Special Session at the MLA Convention
New York City, NY
27-30 December 2002
Goethe and the Islamic World
The GSNA invites proposals for a panel on "Goethe and the Islamic World" at
the Annual MLA Meeting in New York (December, 2002). Papers should
address the construction of the Islamic world by Goethe and his
contemporaries, as well as the reception of "Goethezeit" writers by modern
Islamic thinkers. Critical, theoretical, and/or historical perspectives are
welcome. Please submit two-page proposals by March 1, 2002 to
Clark Muenzer
Department of German
1409 C.L.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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