CFP: Siegfried Kracauer (UK) (no deadline noted; 9/13/02-9/14/02)

From: Deborah L. Parsons (PARSONDC@hhs.bham.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 05:36:58 EDT


CFP and Final Announcement:
 

             'Siegfried Kracauer', 13-14 September 2002
 
                    University of Birmingham, UK
 

                          Plenary Speakers:
 
              Gertrude Koch, Thomas Levin, Tom Gunning
 

Siegfried Kracauer is currently undergoing a renaissance as a
hugely significant cultural and critical theorist of the twentieth
century, and his broad thinking on issues, forms and topics of
mass culture being recognised as extremely relevant to our
contemporary modernity. Gathering both leading and new
scholars, this conference aims to provide a much-needed forum
for the rediscovery and analysis of Kracauer and his work. For
further information please see the conference website at:
http://www.bham.ac.uk/CulturalStudies/kracauer.html
There are still some spaces for panel papers remaining.
Abstracts are invited on any aspect of Kracauer's life and work.
Please send to Dr Jan Campbell, Dept of English, University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
J.Campbell.1@bham.ac.uk, or Dr Deborah Parsons, Dept of
English, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
2TT, d.l.parsons@bham.ac.uk
 

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