Call For Papers on: "Walls, Borders, and Boundaries"
German Studies Association Conference
October 8-11, 2009, Washington D.C.
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2009
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To highlight the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
interdisciplinary committee of the German Studies Association invites
proposals for papers and panels that explore walls, borders, and
boundaries across a wide range of temporal, political, geographical,
aesthetic, and cultural perspectives. Possible topics may consider:
- Crossings: permeations of political and cultural boundaries; movements
away from violence and warfare; transnational and migratory identities;
- Controlling Borders: architectures of division and exclusion; techniques
of surveillance and biopolitics;
- The Walling of Cities and Extraterritorial Spaces: ghettoes, enclaves,
citadels; concentration camps, military islands, extralegal refuges;
competing topographies of memory;
- Un/Bounding Visual Cultures: performances, structures, and scenes by
artists and activists that bridge, zipper, mirror, and suture;
- Border Lines in Flux: temporalities of human and more-than-human
territories, histories, and geographies; confrontations that mark limits
yet invite transgressive agendas.
This series of panels is organized by:
Marc Silberman
(University of Wisconsin Madison; [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> ),
Karen Till
(Virginia Tech; [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> ), and
Janet Ward (University of Nevada Las Vegas; [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]> ).
Applicants are requested to indicate in their GSA online submissions
whether the abstracts are intended for the above series of panels.
Please see the GSA website (www.thegsa.org) for general information about
the online submission process, which opens on January 5, 2009. The deadline
for proposals is February 15, 2009.
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