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2004 Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Forgetting and Remembering –
Memory Discourse in German Literature
The German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of
Cincinnati
and the editors of the graduate student journal
Focus on German Studies
invite abstracts for the
Ninth Annual Focus Graduate Student Conference
held on October 29th and 30th, 2004
at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA).
We welcome papers that explore the acts of forgetting and remembering
within the current memory discourse in German Literature. What are the
effects and significance of political and social movements in regards to
cultural memory? What kinds of narrative techniques are used to forget
and remember? What do German authors find worth remembering/forgetting
and why? What new discourses are emerging?
Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:
Memory Development and Change through Narrative Construction and
Discourse,
Forms and Functions of Memory, Fate and Forgetting, Memory in Poetics,
Ostalgie/Nostalgia, Sites of Memory, Gender-based Memory, Memory and
History,
Memory and the Holocaust, War and Modern Memory, Image and Memory,
The Changing Media of Cultural Memory, Social Memory, Identity
Construction,
Memory Boom/Memory Crisis, Art and Memory - the Art of Memory,
Metaphors of Memory, City and Memory, Language and Memory,
Memory-Narration-Identity
One page abstracts should be submitted as an MSWord email attachment by
August 31st, 2004. Papers presented at the conference will be considered
for publication in Focus on German Studies 12 (2005).
Please send abstracts and inquiries to:
University of Cincinnati
Department of German Studies
Focus on German Studies
Att’n: Julia Baker
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372
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Aine Zimmerman, Editor-in-chief
Julia Baker, Book Review Editor
Focus on German Studies
University Of Cincinnati ML 0372
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372 USA
(513) 556-2752 Fax (513) 556-1991
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