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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
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