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From: anke finger <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Monday, October 04, 1999 8:41 PM
Subject: fng-l: Call for Papers/ISSEI
>CALL FOR PAPERS:
>ISSEI CONFERENCE, BERGEN, NORWAY, AUGUST 14-18, 2000
>http://www.uib.no/issei2000/
>
>Deadline for proposals: December 1, 1999
>
>European Arts in National and Ethnic Contexts
>
>Current scholarship focusing on nationalism, ethnicity, post-colonialism
>and the construction and re-construction of identities so far has only
>begun to investigate artistic participation in community-building. The
>multiple
>historical and political intersections among the individual and his or her
>national, ethnic, and cultural contexts, however, manifest themselves quite
>perceivably in the creative output of artists, writers, musicians, and
>others.
>Of course, critical accounts of the individual artists' works have explored
>possible linkages to a political, social, or cultural agenda. But how are
>these
>agendas generated and carried out and by whom? Supposing that artistic
>production originates from a specific context, it is not always the artist
who
>promotes this context or who interprets and imagines its past or future.
>Following the breakdown of the communist states in Eastern Europe in
>conjunction with increased demands by the economically advanced nations to
>clarify the implications of multi-cultural societies - troubled, even
>bewildered, at conflicts such as Yugoslavia - we continue to face repeated
>inquiries into who we are and what holds us together or tears us apart.
>The arts may provide us with answers to as of yet unasked questions.
>
>This workshop proposes to place works of art, including architecture, the
>visual arts, music, literature, crafts, etc., at the center of their
European
>national and/or ethnic contexts to explore the collaborative political,
>social, or
>cultural endeavors in which they have engaged or which they have rejected.
>Encouraged are interdisciplinary contributions that involve political
agendas
>such as right-wing extremism or "racial" purity and the constructs of
>homogeneity; subnational minorities and hybridity; gender; comparative
>approaches to groups and societies; theoretical investigations of ideology
>and art(s).
>
>Questions to be addressed in this workshop include:
>· How do the arts express and symbolize national and/or ethnic identity,
>cultural affiliation, and territorial propriety?
>· What elements contribute to the emergence of (a) national and/or ethnic
>art(s)?
>· Are there conflicts and/or commonalities between the nation and/or ethnic
>group as political entities and art as a cultural one? If so, what are
>they?
>· What art(s) have certain political and/or ethnic groups identified with
>and why?
>· Ultimately, given globalized economic structures and shifting population
>demographics at the turn of the millenium, what role(s) will the arts play
>in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and democratic Europe?
>
>Please send proposals (ca. 500 words) to the address below.
>Anke Finger, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature
>Department of Modern and Classical Languages
>Texas A&M University
>College Station, TX 77843
>Ph: 409-845-4742
>Fax:409-845-6421
>
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