Call for papers
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>IMAGINING THE CITY
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>International interdisciplinary conference to be held at St John's College,
>Cambridge, UK, 30 July-2 August 2004.
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>Urban culture, its impact on the creative imagination, and the
>representation of both individual cities and the general nature of life in
>cities have provided a rich seam of inquiry in recent years for those who
>work in literary and cultural studies as well as in sociology, geography,
>and architectural history. The purpose of the conference is to provide a
>forum for experts in these fields to compare notes on the role of the
>imagination in conceiving the city as a symbolic place for the intersection
>of historical and cultural identities, and in representing the city through
>the media of literature, art, film and performance. The organizers are keen
>to develop a programme which will look beyond the familiar images of cities
>in antiquity, the Renaissance, the industrial and the post-industrial world,
>and focus rather on such aspects of the city as the following:
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>- the city as a place of utopia, dystopia and myth
>- the cultural effects of the social, political and spatial organization of
>the city
>- the city as a historical and/or symbolic space for the formation of the
>political imaginary
>- the relation between the human and the technical in urban space
>- the role of time, emotion and affect in the city
>- scenes of cultural exchange and intercultural tension
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>Papers may be in English, German or French. The organizers expect to publish
>a selection of the papers in a volume or volumes designed to exemplify
>current thinking on the issues concerned in the series Cultural History and
>Literary Imagination, published by Peter Lang, of which they are the
>editors. Further information on this series and the activities associated
>with it can be found on the following website:
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>http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/researchgroup/intro.html
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>Please send your proposal (title and short summary of content) by Friday 16
>January 2004 to either of the following:
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>Dr David Midgley, Director of Studies in Modern Languages, St John's
>College, Cambridge CB2 1TP, United Kingdom
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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>Dr Christian Emden, Assistant Professor of German, Department of German &
>Slavic Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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