UPDATE: Stato di eccezione: Cultural Responses to the Rhetoric of Fear (2/23/05; 4/21/05-4/23/05)

CALL FOR PAPERS
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>Deadline for submissions extended to February 23, 2005
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>
>Stato di eccezione :
>Cultural Responses to the Rhetoric of Fear
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>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 21-23 April, 2005
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>A Conference Sponsored by the Department of Italian
>Studies
>and the Dean’s Office of the Graduate School of Arts &
>Sciences of New York University
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>Guest speaker
>
>Karen Pinkus ?
>University of Southern California
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>Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
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>the Middle Ages and the Renaissance:
> -religion and the question of the apocalypse
> -male and female mysticism and the fear of God
> -the crusades and the clash of civilizations
> -alterity and the fear of the Other (i.e.
>Inquisition, fear of female sexuality)
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>seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century:
> -paradigm shifts and cultural crises (i.e. the
>scientific revolution)
> -man and nature: skepticism and nihilism
> -Risorgimento and xenophobia
> -la questione della lingua and national identity
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>twentieth century and contemporaneity:
> -Modernity and new forms of anxiety produced by mass
>culture
> -the role of intellectuals under Fascism
> -war and Holocaust representations
> -cold war and the fear for the Communist revolution
> -gli anni di piombo
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>A 250-word abstract and cover letter with name,
>academic affiliation and contact information should be
>sent via email to the Conference Committee at:
>igsa.conference_at_nyu.edu
>
>Or via post:
>Italian Graduate Student Association
>Casa Italiana-Zerilli Marimò
>24 West 12th Street
>New York, NY 10011
>Attn: Conference Committee
>
>Extended deadline for submissions is February 23,
>2005.
>Participants will be notified by March 9th.
>
>*Dr. Pinkus is Professor of French, Italian, and
>Comparative Literature;
>Chair, Department of French and Italian, University of
>Southern California
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