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------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: germconf <[log in to unmask]> CALL FOR PAPERS Grenzen: Charting Boundaries in German Culture, Language, and Literature Keynote Address by Susanne Zantop (Dartmouth College) Indiana University, Bloomington 23-25 February 2001 Indiana Memorial Union "Der Wunsch wird in uns wach, die Grenzen zu ueberschreiten, die uns gesetzt sind." (Ingeborg Bachmann, 1959) This conference aims to consider questions such as the following: What types of boundaries exist within the context of German culture, language, and literature? What functions are served by the creation or determination and possible transgression of boundaries? By whom are boundaries set? On what basis do these boundaries found their legitimacy? To what extent is the notion of boundary itself a theoretical construct? We invite contributions that explore thresholds, boundaries, and borders in all their manifestations (theoretical, geographical, temporal, sexual, technological, linguistic, cognitive, religious). The conference welcomes papers from all areas of Germanic Studies - all genres, periods, and approaches - that explore these issues, especially with regard to interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship that places German and Germanic Studies in a larger context. Possible topics for panels include, but are not limited to: Bridging Theory and Praxis Canonization and Periodization Fin(s)-de-siecle, Stunde Null, die Wende Public / Private, Inside / Outside National and Ethnic Boundaries (Post)modernity Body, Text, and Technology Gender Studies Queer Theory Totems and Taboos Please submit 1-2 page abstracts by NOVEMBER 17, 2000 to Graduate Student Conference Department of Germanic Studies Ballantine Hall 644 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%