***Call for Papers***
Rutgers University, Program in Comparative Literature
The New Europe: Reconfiguring Ethnicity, Gender, and Culture
Part Six in the Series, “Doing Comparative Literature”
*Description
In light of continuing ethnic conflicts, economic and political upheaval,
as well as the geopolitical restructuring of boundaries in Europe after
the fall of the Berlin Wall and the emergence of the European Common
Market, this one-day graduate student conference will open a space for
discussion on the emergence of Others within Europe and how they have
transformed the face – and the core – of post-WWII European culture.
*Suggested Topics
a) Ethnicities and literature: literatures by and about Gypsies/Roma
peoples; Turkish peoples in Germany; East/West Germany; Algerians in
France; the African/Caribbean diaspora in France and throughout Europe;
Scottish, Welsh, and other emerging "national identities" in England and
elsewhere; South Asians in England and France; the Hong Kong/England
cultural axis; other Asian diasporas in the European context; Eastern
European and Post-Soviet literatures.
b) Gender and Contemporary Europe: identity and difference, construction
of otherness, representational practices, human rights, migration,
nationalism, citizenship, (ethnic/racial) violence and resistance,
body/politic, religion. As with all of the conferences in this series, the
organizers welcome interdisciplinary approaches, and hope to draw
submissions from such related fields as anthropology, history, art
history, cultural studies, gender studies, and music history.
*Date and Format
The conference will take place on Friday, March 3rd, at Rutgers' New
Brunswick campus, and will consist of panels organized thematically,
rather than along national lines or by time periods.
*Deadline & Contact Information
The deadline for 250-word abstracts has been extended to February 1, 2000.
Please e-mail abstracts to Michael Hill <mghill@eden.rutgers.edu> or send
by regular mail to:
Graduate Student Conference Committee
Department of Comparative Literature
131 George St.
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1414
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