Dear All,
this is a 2nd call for papers for our very own international conference this
September in Bath. Please consider offering a paper and/or attending.
Best wishes,
Andrea
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Dr. Andrea Reiter
School of Modern Languages
The University
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel. +44 (23) 80593830
Fax +44 (23) 80593288
> Women in German Studies 2003
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> Local Narratives/ Global Narratives of Identity
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> A WIGS conference to be hosted by the University of Bath
> Open to non-members
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> September 1-3, 2003
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> In the last decade Germany has experienced a period of political and
> cultural turbulence which many attribute to the combined challenges of
> unification and globalisation. The response to this growing exposure to
> global markets, politics and migration in a period of national
> reconstruction has been a renationalisation of dominant discourses. At
> the same time Germany (and German Studies) has seen a renewed interest
> in the regional and global as a space for the construction of
> identities. This conference sets out to explore these contradictory
> trends with particular emphasis on developments in Germany since the
> 1970s, although papers treating earlier periods as well as other
> German-speaking
> countries are also included. The three main strands of the conference,
> reflected in the research interests of the invited keynote speakers,
include
> an exploration of
> identities in Eastern Germany since unification, a reassessment of
> 'Heimat' in a global context, and migrant identities in Germany today.
> It is hoped that a selection of papers will be published in a special
> edition of German Monitor.
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> Invited keynote speakers include:
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> Chris Weedon, Professor of German Cultural Studies, Cardiff [Author of
> 'Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World']
> Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College [Author of 'Writing outside the Nation']
> Daphne Berdahl, University of Minnesota [Author of 'Where the World
> Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland']
> Gisela Ecker, Universität Paderborn [Editor of the volume 'Heimat
> weiblich']
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> The Romanian author Carmen-Francesca Banciu will be reading from her
> recent literary work on Berlin as her adopted 'Heimat'. This reading is
> generously supported by the Goethe Institute, London.
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> This conference is open to non-members of WIGS and abstracts are still
> being accepted on any aspect of this topic and should be sent to either
> Karoline von Oppen [[log in to unmask]] or Renate Rechtien
> [[log in to unmask]] at the University of Bath.
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