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From: Deborah L. Parsons <[log in to unmask]>
CFP and Final Announcement:
'Siegfried Kracauer', 13-14 September 2002
University of Birmingham, UK
Plenary Speakers:
Gertrude Koch, Thomas Levin, Tom Gunning
Siegfried Kracauer is currently undergoing a renaissance as a hugely
significant cultural and critical theorist of the twentieth century, and his broad
thinking on issues, forms and topics of mass culture being recognised as
extremely relevant to our contemporary modernity. Gathering both leading
and new scholars, this conference aims to provide a much-needed forum for
the rediscovery and analysis of Kracauer and his work. For further information
please see the conference website at:
http://www.bham.ac.uk/CulturalStudies/kracauer.html
There are still some spaces for panel papers remaining. Abstracts are invited
on any aspect of Kracauer's life and work. Please send to Dr Jan Campbell,
Dept of English, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
[log in to unmask], or Dr Deborah Parsons, Dept of English,
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT,
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