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Northeast Modern Language Association
2004 Convention
March 3-7, 2004
Pittsburgh, PA
Call for Papers
The 2004 NEMLA convention will be held in Pittsburgh, PA at the Omni
William Penn Hotel, March 3-7. All participants in a session must be
NEMLA members and registered for the convention by December 1, 2003;
membership forms for the coming year and conference registration forms
will be available soon (check back here regularly for links). Chairs
are responsible for responding to all inquiries. Members may present
only ONE paper and they may participate in another session in another
capacity (i.e. organize and chair, serve as a respondent on a panel).
Chairs may present a paper on any panel that they chair.
The deadline for submissions to Panel Chairs is September 15, 2003.
Completed Panel Forms (also available soon) must be submitted to the
Executive Director by October 1, 2003 via email or regular post.
Chairs are responsible for making AV requests with the hotel, as NEMLA
will no longer cover AV costs. All panel participants must be NEMLA
members and must be registered for the convention by December 1, 2003
or they will be removed from the final program.
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Germanic Studies
(Ms)Use?: Questioning the Representation of Disabled Women in German
Literature
Claude P. Desmarais; DLLL, Ross S567;York University; 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON; Canada M3J 1P3; phone: (416) 736-2100, x. 6291
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
This panel will deal with the representation of disabled women in
literature, particularly in light of a critique of "normalcy." It seeks
to work out relations between present-day disability theory and
representation in order to question whether women's bodies become the
object of discriminatory politics - for example through the use of
metaphor -, or the extent to which they are given the chance to
exercise their body politics. Can German literature be disabled, that
is, can disability give it a particular awareness of its body politics?
World War II and its Aftermath: New Literary Reflections and
Refractions
Herbert A. Arnold; Dept. of German Studies; Fisk Hall; 262 High Street;
Wesleyan University; Middletown,CT 06480
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Guenter Grass--Crabwalk appears to mark a new departure for him and his
stance on Germany's guilt in relation to World War II. But he is not
alone. Several other, younger writers have begun to re-assess German
suffering in and after the war. How is this new theme addressed and
what does it mean for the standard "coming to terms with the past"
position most literary and other commentators employ ? Is this a
paradigm shift? Papers on Grass, Jirgl, and others are invited.
German Literature and Healing
Ingrid Rieger; Oakland University; Department of Modern Languages &
Literatures; 418 Wilson Hall; Rochester, MI 48309-4486
Phone: (248) 370-2050; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
This call welcomes papers that explore healing in its physical,
emotional, and spiritual dimensions. The question of how healing
relates to reading and writing is of particular interest.
Orientation Processes in German Literature(s) after Unification
Barbara Mabee; Oakland University; Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures; Rochester, MI 48309
Phone: (248) 370-2099; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
This panel will focus on representative texts in post-unification
Germany that discuss orientation processes, construction in identity,
German-German discourses, and writing from the margins. Individual
texts or comparative studies are welcome.
Collectors, Collecting, and Collections in the German Speaking World
During the Long 18th Century
Clark S. Muenzer; Department of Germanic Languages and Literature; 1409
Cathedral of Learning; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: (412) 624-5909; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Collectors, collections, and sites of collecting in their
historical/theoretical contexts or as literary motifs: aristocrat,
connoisseur, patron, and scientist; Wunderkabinett, gallery, library,
and modern museum; art history, natural history, and science
(physiognomy, classification, experiment); literature and publishing
(collected and collaborative works, anthologies, editing,
correspondences).
Männlichkeitssysteme 1800-1900: Discourses on Masculinity in German
Literature 1800-1900
Michael Boehringer; Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies;
University of Waterloo; Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
Phone (519) 749-0372; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
The panel invites papers or paper proposals that explore the
construction of masculinity/ties in German & Austrian literature from
the turn of the 19th to the turn of the 20th century, and its
intersections with the discourses of law, science, medicine, history,
etc.
Umkehrung, Verkehrung, Wende: The Construction of Turning Points in
Germanophone Cultures
Prof. Jennifer William; 804 Rose St.; West Lafayette, IN 47906
Phone (765) 743-3161; e-mail: [log in to unmask] or
[log in to unmask]
We invite papers which address, and particularly those which challenge
and critique, the construction of historical turning points and of
scholarly paradigm shifts (e.g. modernism/postmodernism) in German-
speaking cultures.
“Empires” in 20th Century German Literature
Erik Grimm; Department of German; Barnard College; Columbia University;
3009 Broadway; New York, NY 10027-6598
Phone (212) 854 5415; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Focus on “empire” as a trope in literary texts dealing with the “clash
of civilizations” (S.Huntington), the influence of global “economic
postmodernisation” (P.Negri/M.Hardt), or the analogy of the Roman
“empire.”
Re-membering Germany in Textual and Visual Representations Published in
the Past 10 Years
Susanne Rinner; Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Allegheny
College, Meadville, PA 16335
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
This panel invites papers investigating journalistic, literary, and
visual representations of post-WWII political turning points in Germany
published in the past ten years, seeking the implications of such texts
for identity construction in 21st century Germany.
Swiss (German) Authors and their German and Austrian Counterparts: A
Comparative and/or Cross-Cultural Study
Margrit V. Zinggeler, Eastern Michigan University, Department of
Foreign Languages and Bilingual Studies, 219 Alexander Music Bldg.,
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Phone (734) 487-1995; e-mail [log in to unmask]
Papers on comparative studies juxtaposing Swiss German texts and
authors to their Austrian and German counterparts will focus on
national differences and European similarities with a historical and
contemporary perspective.
Faces of Berlin: Identity and the Metropolis
Cynthia Chalupa; 145 South High St. #1; Morgantown, WV 26501
Phone: (304) 296-4728; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
This panel will examine aesthetic representations of Berlin at the turn
of two centuries and the city's role in shaping the identities of
persons, places, and cultures of the metropolis.
The Post-Wende Everyday and the Utopian Impulse in Recent German
Literature and Film
Helga Druxes, Professor of German and Comparative Literature; Williams
College; 14 Fairview St.; Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: (413) 597-3316; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Literary and filmic strategies for defamiliarizing dailiness in
contemporary post-unification Germany with the intent performing a
social critique, informed by theoretical approaches to everyday life.
Native and Non-Native Authors Writing Across National Boundaries: Inter-
Cultural Perspectives in Literary Texts from Austria, Germany and
Switzerland
Richard R. Ruppel; Professor of German and Chair; Department of Foreign
Languages; 490 Collins Classroom Center; University of Wisconsin-
Stevens Point; 2100 Main Street; Stevens Point, WI 54481
Phone (715) 346-4410; fax (715) 346-4214; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
This panel invites proposals that interpret inter-cultural perspectives
of authors, be they native or non-native speakers of German, whose
fiction focuses on depicting the cross-cultural fertilization between
the home culture and the respective German culture.
Bleibt Wien Wien? History, Memory and the Politics of Place in
Contemporary Viennese Culture
Dr. Christina Guenther;Department of German, Russian, E. Asian Langs;
Bowling Green State University; Bowling Green, OH 43403
Phone: (419) 372-7589; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
"Wien bleibt Wien" has long been the slogan with which Vienna calls
attention to its imperial and modernist past. How does contemporary
Viennese culture reflect and critically engage these pillars of
Viennese identity?
Gender and Its Visualization in Fin-de-siecle and Weimar Culture
Esther Bauer; 70 Livingston Street #3G; New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: (203) 562 4590; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
This panel invites abstracts that analyze structures of gender and the
gaze and their visualization in German and Austrian literature, the
performing and visual arts, and film between 1880 and 1933.
Non-Native Writing in Contemporary Germany I, II, and III
Changing demographics and an increasing awareness of the social reality
of Germany as a multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual society
are reflected in the significant number of texts published in German by
non-native writers. Since 1985, the Adalbert-von-Chamisso-Preis,
awarded by the Robert Bosch Foundation, has recognized outstanding
literary achievements among presently about 400 intercultural writers.
Those writers provide perspectives that are productive for innovations
in language, forms, and even epistemologies. This panel, organized in
three sessions, invites proposals tracing important changes in the
contemporary German cultural-literary landscape. Papers could explore
texts by non-native writers who negotiate a space between their
languages, cultural heritages, pre- and post-migration biographies,
geographies, and identities. We are interested in theoretical
approaches and in the diversity of ways in which the ambiguity of being
included and excluded, familiar and foreign at the same time, is
expressed in themes, literary language, and forms.
The three sessions each provide a specific focus:
I--- Positions: between languages, cultures, borders, ethnicities;
II --- Representations: moods, modes, memories; use of language/s;
III--- Approaches: theoretical frame works; relationship to other
interlingual or intercultural literatures; globalization.
Please send abstracts (about 300 words) to all organizers.
E-mail attachment preferred.
I : Positions
Dagmar Voith-Leeman; Lerchenstrasse 4; CH-4059; Basel; Switzerland;
phone: ++ 41 (61) 361 7083; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
II: Representations
Susan Anderson; Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; 1250
University; University of Oregon; Eugene, OR 97403-1250
Phone (541) 346-4056; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
III: Approaches
Erika Berroth; Department of Modern Languages; 227 Armstrong Hall;
Minnesota State University, Mankato; Mankato, MN 56001
Phone: 507 344 0445; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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