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From: Gordana-Dana Grozdanic <[log in to unmask]>
CALL FOR PAPERS
"From Gutenberg's Printing Press to Everyone's Cyber Space.
Media and the Arts from 1500 to the Present."
The Seventh Annual Intersections Conference
Sponsored by the Graduate Students of Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures and Department of the History of Art at
the University of Pennsylvania
Saturday, March 3 & Sunday March 4, 2001
Possible topics include:
- literary genres and media (novel & printing press; Hörspiele &
radio, Fernsehspiele & TV)
- ideology/propaganda and media: from the Reformation to
globalization
- nation/nationalism and media
- theorizing the relationship between media and the arts (Benjamin,
Adorno, Kracauer, Kluge, Habermas, Kittler, Ronell, A. Assmann
etc.)
- the dichotomy of low/high culture and media
- newspapers and journals, writers as journalists from the Baroque
to the present
- American cultural influence through mass media in German-
speaking countries
- the interplay of literature/the arts and media in the formation and
function of the public sphere
- film and literature (film adaptations of literary works and the
collaboration between writers and film directors, e.g. Wenders and
Handke, Schlöndorff and Grass etc.)
- gender and media
- photography and literature
- beyond Lessing: theorizing differences between media (W. J.
Mitchell, M. Jay etc.)
- performing arts and media (cabaret, theater, installations, dance)
- the relationship between censorship in literature/the arts and the
emergence of new media
- books on tape; books on the Internet
- establishment of copyright in the 18th century and the question of
copyright in the age of the Internet
Please send a one-page abstract to:
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or
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by January 15, 2001
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/german
http://www.arth.upenn.edu/arth
Please note: Housing with graduate students can be arranged for
the speakers.
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