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From: Gudrun Finn <[log in to unmask]>
Call for Papers
Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the
University of California at Berkeley
March 17-18, 2001
SELF-MADE GERMANS: AUTHENTICITY, AUTHORITY AND SELF-
FASHIONING
This conference aims to explore constructions of the self within the
German cultural context throughout the centuries. Who or what
authorizes a subject? How is the self fashioned as an individual
and/or social agent? How is this self-fashioning dependent on an
Other? How do discursive practices determine the shaping of a
self? What strategies of representation have been used to affirm or
challenge dominant forms of selfhood? Do conflicting identities
demand negotiation? How is subject unity acknowledged or
disavowed?
We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit paper proposals
that respond either to these questions and/or ones related to “Self-
Made Germans” and the possibility of their construction(s).
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- the national subject
- selfhood as performance
- agency and the subject position
- the autobiographical self in text
- singularity and exemplarity
- the multicultural subject and identity politics
- the role of memory in re-membering self
- post-unification identities
- selfhood and morality
- gender subjectivations and subjectivities
- the role of space in the mediation of the subject
The language of the conference is English, but submissions in
German are also welcome. Please send a 1-2 page anonymous
abstract with a separate cover sheet indicating the author’s name,
affiliation, address, phone number and e-mail address to:
Gudrun Finn
Department of German
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2001
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