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Carl Einstein and the European Avant-Gardes An International Conference Thursday, 16 - Friday, 17 September 2010 Under the auspices of the Carl-Einstein-Gesellschaft/Société Carl Einstein in association with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London Co-Ordinators: Nicola Creighton (Queen's University Belfast) and Andreas Kramer (Goldsmiths, University of London) CALL FOR PAPERS The next Carl Einstein Colloquium will take place in September 2010 in London, moving for the first time to an English-speaking location. We would like to invite contributions on Einstein's life and work in the context of the European Avant-gardes. Topics to be considered include: * Einstein's relationship with individual writers and artists of the European Avant-Garde * Einstein's relationship with European Avant-Garde movements (Futurism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, etc.) * Einstein and national and international networks of the Avant-Garde, such as those that emerged around the journals Die Aktion, Documents and transition * 'Europa' discourses and other national or international discourses in the work of Einstein and other Avant-Gardists, especially in the context of Einstein's Europa-Almanach * The Avant-Garde and the visual arts, or 'seeing' as international visual communication, i.e. not requiring translation * Forms of translation, transmission and reception among the European Avant-Gardes * The role of geographic/cultural spaces and conceptions of space in the European Avant-Garde * Einstein and the 'sociology of the European Avantgarde' Please send proposals half-a-page in length to both organisers by 31 July 2009. The co-ordinators will draft the programme in association with the Committee of the Carl-Einstein-Gesellschaft/Société Carl Einstein. Papers should be in German, English or French and of max. 40 minutes' duration. By post to: Dr Nicola Creighton, School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts (German), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN AND Dr Andreas Kramer, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, London SE14 6NW By email to: [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask] Jane Lewin Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University of London School of Advanced Study Room ST 272, Senate House Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966 Website www.igrs.sas.ac.uk