 |
 |
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:06:24 CDT From: Jennifer Creech <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Call for Papers/Performances ** The Politics of Pop: Popular Culture in German-speaking countries ** ***** Graduate Conference at the University of Minnesota ***** Date: March 2-4, 2000. Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2000. Key-note speaker: Professor Arlene Aikiko Teraoka, from the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. The distinction between High and Low Culture has always been an inherent aspect of defining Kultur in German-speaking areas. Pop culture can be understood in the contexts of its production; its popular, critical, and academic reception; as well as its appropriation by the academy. We would like to invite critical analyses of popular culture in any of its contexts, including but not limited to: science fiction; popular representations of Ostalgie; magazines (Stern, Bravo, Bunte, Brigitte, Spex); examples of pre-twentieth century popular culture; comics; film; sports; music (Schlager, Neue Deutsche Welle, Hip-Hop/Sprechgesang); television; advertising and the media; and the internet superhighway. We would also like to encourage critical contributions by those not affiliated with the academy. Such contributions might include readings from work in progress, creative writing, acting, dance, musical performance, and film showings. Theoretical approaches might include: theories of difference; feminist theories; psychoanalytic theories; reception theory; Marxist theory; and the use of popular culture in the classroom. Your presentation/performance should be in either English or German and should be limited to 20 minutes. Please submit a 1-2-page abstract of your paper/performance piece either in the form of a hard copy or electronic attachment to one of the following addresses: Jennifer L. Creech Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch University of Minnesota 205 Folwell Hall 9 Pleasant Street, SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 *** or *** [log in to unmask] The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2000. For further information on the conference, please visit our department website at www.folwell.umn.edu/gsd/. If you have additional questions, you may contact our conference secretary, Jennifer Creech, at [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%