Source: <http://depts.washington.edu/uwgerman/conf/cfp.html>.
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Trading in the Past:
Imagining Identity Across Time
Graduate Student Conference
University of Washington (Seattle)
Simpson Center for Humanities
April 3, 2004
This interdisciplinary graduate student conference explores the ways in
which the past obtains a currency in negotiating the present--and
imagining the future. Even in revolution, there is no such thing as a
clean break from history. How has history been functionalized to serve
political ends? Does technological innovation eradicate or manufacture
tradition? How does cultural inheritance enable the preservation of
traditions or the invention of identity? What counts as historical in
literary or cultural history and what gets overlooked? What means are
available for marking time? To what degree is the German past still a
burden?
Deadline for submissions (in English or German): January 20, 2004
Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Boundaries: as defined in national, linguistic or cultural terms
- Minorities and migrations, centers and peripheries across time
- Literature and tropes of reunification and “Ostalgie”
- Religious and cultural artifacts
- Cinema, history, memory
- Media, modes of authorship, literary authenticity
- Germanistik and German cultural studies
- Vergangenheitsbewältigung and memorializing the past
- Patterns of denial and erasure of history
- “Family moments” as familial identity and memory
- Heritage and enterprise
- The limits of New Historicism
Please send a one-page abstract to: [log in to unmask], submit
electronically by clicking "Submit" from the menu, or mail to:
“Trading in the Past” Conference
Department of Germanics
340-C Denny Box 353130
Seattle WA 98195-3130
All abstacts will be read anonymously.
Limited travel funding available.
This event has been made possible by support from the following
organizations:
The Max Kade Foundation
DAAD
UW Graduate School Fund
UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate
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