Update: deadline extended
Call for Papers
Tenth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
at the University of California at Berkeley
April 5-6, 2002
FINITE SUBJECTS:
MORTALITY AND CULTURE IN GERMANY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SLAVOJ ZIZEK
PLENARY SPEAKER: ERIC SANTNER
NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2002
This year's conference will examine the role of mortality and
theconsciousness of finitude in German culture and history. Death generates
an array of responses, both creative and destructive, and plays a crucial
role in the history of German thought and artistic practice. The graduate
students of the German Department at the University of California at
Berkeley welcome scholars from across the disciplines to submit proposals
that address the intersection of mortality, culture and intellectual
history in Germany. We also encourage submissions that treat German thought
in English or that examine representations of Germany in English literary
and intellectual traditions.
We are open to submissions in any time period from the medieval to the
present. Possible areas of investigation include but are not limited to:
… Aesthetics and mortality
... Cinema, mummification and death
… Tragedy
… Apocalyptic narratives
… Death and transcendence in the visual arts
… Metaphor and euphemism
… The sublime
… Death on screen
… Commodity and death
… Black humor
… Vampirism
… The death drive
… Finitude and transcendence in philosophy
… Romanticism and German idealism
… Phenomenology and death
… Ideology and finitude
… Utopia and finitude
… Mortality and subject formation
… Mortality and ethics
… War, mass death and trauma
… Memory and memorial
… Decadence and decay
… Medical and scientific discourses on death
The language of the conference is English, but submissions in German are
also welcome. In some cases we may be able to provide a travel subsidy.
Please mail or e-mail a one page anonymous abstract for a twenty minute
paper with a separate cover sheet indicating your name, affiliation,
address, phone number and e-mail address to:
Joel Freeman
Department of German
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
thelon@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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