Source: <http://german.berkeley.edu/news/conferences.html>.
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UC Berkeley Department of German
Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
Each year the graduate students of the department organize and host a
two-day conference on a specific interdisciplinary theme. The
conference offers students and faculty from the U. S. and abroad an
opportunity to present their research on such diverse topics as:
"Finite Subjects: Mortality and Culture in Germany" (2002), "Self-Made
Germans: Authenticity, Authority and Self-Fashioning" (2001), "The
German Soldier" (2000), "Reading Turn-of-the-Century Culture at the
Turn of the Century" (1999), "Building Memory: City Space and Urban
Experience" (1998), and "Conquering Women: Gender and War" (1997). Our
recent conferences have received great praise from faculty and students
both at Berkeley and around the country. They familiarize students with
all phases of the conference process and provide unique insight into
what constitutes an effective abstract and academic presentation.
Call for Papers
Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
at the University of California at Berkeley
March 13-14, 2004
Germany and the Imagined East
This conference will examine the German notion of the East as something
that denotes merely a geographic location but also connotes a wide
array of varying ideas. Whether it is the nineteenth-century "Orient"
somewhere in the modern Near East or the distant islands of Japan in
the Far East, the vast expanse of Russia or the immigrants living next
door, the East can be found at once everywhere and nowhere
specifically. The graduate students of the Department of German at the
University of California at Berkeley invite scholars from across the
disciplines to submit proposals that both attempt to define and explode
the concept of East-West discourse.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
- The Orient,Geographic or Cultural Construct?
- The Colonial East
- Gender Perspectives on the "Easterner"
- Eastern Empires (Prussia, Austria)
- Conflicting or Complementary Philosophies?
- Literary East-West Parallels
- East-West Musical, Religious, etc. Influences
- Tropes of a Feared East
- The "East" within the "West" (diaspora)
- Indo-Germanic Connections
Deadline for submissions: January 5, 2004
The language of the conference is English, but submissions in German
are also welcome. Please send a one-page anonymous abstract with a
separate coversheet indicating the authoršs name, affiliation, address,
phone number and email address to:
Lee M. Roberts
Department of German
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
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