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*** > >From: "Elisabeth Herrmann" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP: Conceptualizations, Representations, and Social > Practices of [In]Tolerance in German Culture and Literature > >Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Seminar: A Journal of >Germanic Studies > >"Embracing the Other: Conceptualizations, Representations, and Social >Practices of [In]Tolerance in German Culture and Literature" > > >Guest Editors: > >Florentine Strzelczyk, University of Calgary, Canada > >Elisabeth Herrmann, University of Alberta, Canada > > >We are inviting submissions for a special theme issue of Seminar: A >Journal of German Studies that will explore the concepts and practices >of tolerance in German culture and cultural history. > >Since the era of Enlightenment, concepts and practices of tolerance have >been linked to ideals of justice, equality, and political acceptance. >But as the German philosopher Rainer Forst has recently argued, the >history and definitions of tolerance have also been inextricably beset >by conflict. Is tolerance one of the essential pillars of the liberal >state, a principle for the peaceful coexistence of differing beliefs, >norms, practices, and identities? Or, as critics have argued, is it no >more than a haughty and tenuous concession from those in power toward >those regarded as different? As Goethe wrote in 1829: "Tolerance should >be a temporary attitude only: it must lead to recognition. To tolerate >means to insult." These fundamental disagreements persist within the >recent renaissance in "tolerance talk" that has been noted by the >American political philosopher Wendy Brown. German culture and cultural >history - from debates about tolerance in the eighteenth century to >Germany's descent into destructive intolerance during the Third Reich - >provide a context that is both especially grim and productive for >exploring the conflicts, impossibilities, and potential of tolerance. > >Multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives are particularly encouraged. >Contributions may address, but are not limited to one or more of the >following topics: > >- Theoretical Approaches to the Discourse of Tolerance > >- Philosophical, Religious, Social and Political Concepts of Tolerance > >- Freedom of Conscience and Religious Practice > >- Representations of Tolerance in Specific Cultural Periods and Eras >(such as the Enlightenment, Nineteenth Century, Holocaust and WWII, >German Unification) > >- Sexual Expression and Orientation, Gender Identity and >Intergenerational Relationships > >- Identity, Alterity and Otherness and their Relation to Tolerance > >- Globalization, Migration, Inter- and Transculturality > > > >Manuscripts (max. 6000 words including Work Cited) may be submitted in >German or English. They must conform to Seminar guidelines, which can be >accessed at: > >http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/Seminar/submissions.htm ><http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/Seminar/submissions.htm> > >All articles will be anonymously peer-reviewed. > >The special issue will likely appear in 2011. > >Submission due date: March 1, 2010. > >Submissions and Inquiries to: > >Florentine Strzelczyk Elisabeth >Herrmann > >Associate Professor of German DAAD Associate >Visiting Professor of German > >University of Calgary University >of Alberta > >[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > *** -- Laming Junior Fellow The Queen's College Oxford OX1 4AW