[ALBSA-Info] CfP: Cultural Exchanges between Central/Eastern Europe and America, Frankfurt May 30 - June 2, 2002

[Agron Alibali]

East-West American Studies Conference:
Cultural Exchanges between Central/Eastern Europe and America

Call for Papers

This conference intends to recover the exchanges of people and ideas between
America and Eastern Europe. Possible topics include the similarities and
differences in common utopian visions, in ideas of Modernism and technology,
in aesthetic and social experiments, but also the experiences of visitors and
emigrants as mediators between East and West. Moreover, we wish to
illuminate the revisions and blind spots in cultural and literary
historiography which have long concealed the intense relations between
Central/Eastern Europe and America before the Cold War.

>From May 30 to June 2, 2002, the Center for North American Studies and
Research (or Zentrum fuer Nordamerika-Studien - ZENAF) at the Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, will host an American Studies
conference based on these questions. This is to invite those of you
(preferably junior scholars) who are at present working on a research project
in American Studies (a dissertation, a "habilitation", or any other
book-length research) and are willing to present it as work in progress and
discuss it with a group of colleagues from Eastern and Western European
countries. Projects from various fields (Literature, Culture, History) are
welcome if they deal with an aspect of cultural exchange between Eastern
Europe and America.

In order to allow for lively debates the number of participants will be kept
small, i.e. up to 14-16. Everyone will be asked to present their projects in
written statements of 10 to 15 pages, which could be either representative
chapters and/or the outlines of the project. This statement, sent to all
participants before the beginning of the conference, will be the basis of
discussions. At the conference, each participant will summarize his or her
argument in a 10 to 15 minute talk. The following discussion will be chaired
by Prof. Werner Sollors, Harvard University and Prof. Christa Buschendorf,
ZENAF Frankfurt.

If you are interested in presenting your work in progress and also prepared
to engage in the projects of your colleagues, please send a short (one page)
proposal introducing your research. You may send your proposal either by mail
or email, in either case it should arrive no later than January 18, 2002 at
the address given below.

Looking forward to your letter

East-West American Studies Conference: Cultural Exchanges between
Central/Eastern Europe and America

Prof. Dr. Christa Buschendorf, Dr. Astrid Franke
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt a.M.
Zentrum fuer Nordamerikaforschung (ZENAF)
Robert-Mayer-Strasse 1
60054 Frankfurt
Germany
Email: A.Franke at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Time: May 30 - June 2, 2002
Place: Frankfurt am Main
Accomodation (bed and breakfast) and travel expenses paid by the organizer
Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2002







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