We are seeking two papers to join two on Woolf and on Stein for the MSA
Conference on the theme of "Modernist Citizens." The annual conference will
be held from Oct. 21 to Oct. 24 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The ramifications of modernist citizenship have been carefully considered in
the negative: discussions of nationalism, state repression, and revolution
are well known. Modernist texts, however, also offer positive
considerations of citizenship, including suggestions of how to survive or
transform modernity, reformulations of subjectivity and "rights," the
horizon of culture in relation to the state, etc.
Topics for the panel could include modernist reconceptions >of the public
sphere, changing definitions of the meaning of citizenship, modernist
experiments in education and citizenship, the role of the unconscious in
rethinking political subjectivity. Our work draws from insights ranging from
Simon Schama to Jean-Joseph Goux; other approaches are welcome.
Please send abstracts of not more than 400 words to both Jeanette McVicker
(mcvicker@fredonia.edu) and Chris Leslie (cleslie@gc.cuny.edu) by April 25.
Please DO NOT send attachments; send the text in the body of your email
message. Append your name, paper title, institutional affiliation,
discipline or department, and contact information to the abstract.
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