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From: Renate Rechtien <[log in to unmask]>
WOMEN IN GERMAN STUDIES 2003
Local Narratives/ Global Narratives of Identity
An interdisciplinary conference to be hosted by the University of
Bath.
September 1-3, 2003
In the last decade Germany has experienced a period of political and
cultural turbulence which many attribute to the combined challenges
of unification and globalisation. The response to this growing
exposure to global markets, global politics and migration in a period
of national reconstruction has been a renationalisation of discourse
amongst many elites. A key consequence of this national
[re]orientation has been a shift away from the local and global as
spaces of identity negotiation and construction. This conference
sets out to explore the role of the local and the global in the
construction of identities with emphasis on developments in Germany
since the 1970s, although papers treating earlier periods and/or
representations from other countries in the German speaking world are
also welcome. Papers exploring examples of resistance to the
national through recourse to the local and/or global are particularly
welcome. The organisers understand the process of globalisation as
one that can also be emancipatory and seek to move the debate beyond
the more negative responses typical of German public debate.
Papers are invited on any aspect of this topic, and it is hoped that
a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas will be
represented including literary, cinematic, historical,
anthropological as well as political science approaches. Gendered
readings of the local/global problematic will form a main strand of
the conference. Panel topics will focus on narratives of travel and
migration, constructions of Self and Other in the global/local
encounter, migrant literatures, and narratives of 'Heimat'.
Other proposal topics might include but are not limited to:
- Women and globalisation
- Legacies of the GDR in a unified Germany
- Production of localities [cityscapes as a space of local/global
encounter; the urban-rural divide]
- German literature in a global marketplace
- Cross-cultural narratives of Self and Other
- Debates about ownership of culture and memory
[Leitkultur/Holocaust]
- Linguistic globalisation
- Germany's political role in the New World Order
- Promoting German culture and language abroad
It is hoped that a selection of papers will be published in a special
edition of 'German Monitor'.
Abstracts of no more than 200-400 words should be sent to either
Karoline von Oppen [[log in to unmask]] or Renate Rechtien
[[log in to unmask]] at the University of Bath by February 1, 2003.
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Dr. Renate Anna Rechtien
Lecturer in European Studies and German
The University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
Dr. Karoline von Oppen
Lecturer in European Studies and German
The University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
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