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From: "Renate Rechtien" <[log in to unmask]>
Women in German Studies 2003
Local Narratives / Global Narratives of Identity
A WIGS conference to be hosted by the University of Bath
Open to non-members
September 1-3, 2003
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.
Invited keynote speakers include:
- 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']
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.
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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