UPDATE: Metropolis in the Space Between (3/1/04; 6/3/04-6/5/04)

From: Phyllis Lassner (phyllisl@northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 13:50:04 EST


Please post the following as we have extended the deadline for this conference:

                                         Extended deadline: March 1, 2004

                                         Call for Papers

                          METROPOLIS IN THE SPACE BETWEEN

                                 The sixth annual conference

         THE SPACE BETWEEN: LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1914-1945

         Exploring the myriad and often conflicting meanings of "the city"
as expressed in literature, film, photography, theater, creative reportage,
history, and art history. Inspired by Fritz Lang's film, we are calling
for papers that examine relationships between the many written and
pictorial forms that represent the city and its artistic, rhetorical, and
symbolic meanings, in a given moment or as reflecting cultural and
historical change and crisis.

         From Lang's Weimar to Mina Loy's Paris, from the Harlem
Renaissance to Leni Reifenstahl's Berlin, and from Martha Gellhorn's
Barcelona to Elizabeth Bowen's Blitz and Marguerite Duras's "Hiroshima Mon
Amour," and beyond, we will examine the construction and deconstruction of
such terms as habitat, haven, ghetto, and muse as well as Metropolis as the
center and periphery of civilization, as the inspiration for an idealized
Rural, and even as anti-Metropolis.

         The conference will be held at the Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
                                  June 5-6, 2004.

         Please send 300 word abstracts or 10 double-spaced papers
by March 1, 2004 to:

                  GOTOBUTTON BM_1_ Rissler.1@osu.edu

         Email submissions are preferred, but hard copy proposals may be
sent to:
         Robin Rissler, Dept. English, Ohio State University, 461 Denney Hall,
         164 West 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43202

For inquiries only, please contact :
Phyllis Lassner: GOTOBUTTON BM_2_ phyllisl@northwestern.edu
Kristin Bluemel: kbluemel@monmouth.edu
For information about our journal and membership in The Society for the
Space Between, please visit our website: www.precursors.org/home.htm

Phyllis Lassner
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
phyllisl@merle.acns.nwu.edu

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