call for papers

[Mark N Leiderman]

  Could you please post the following CFP? Thank you!

  Call for Papers

  The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and
  Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder
  invites abstracts for papers on the topic:

  Constructing Nation: From Modernity to the New
  Millennium

  March 13-14, 2009

  To focus possible approaches to the nexus of
  problems associated with this topic we call for
  papers on the following topics:

  -        The EU and Other Configurations

  -        Nations and Security

  -        Imagined Communities

  -     Nation, Utopia, and Dystopia

  -        Nations, Borders, Frontiers

  -        Transnational Contexts

  -        Gendered Constructions of Nation

  -        Queering Nation

  -        Nations and Othering

  -        National Cinema(s)

  -        National Mythologies

  -        Migration and Nation

  -        Nations and Modernities

  -        Imperial/Colonial Imaginations

  -        Violence in the Name of Nation

  Please send a 250-word abstract (no finished papers
  please) and a 2-page cv to gsll at colorado.edu as Word
  or RTF document no later than November 1, 2008. The
  organizing committee will send notification of
  accepted papers by December 1, 2008, together with
  symposium registration materials and general
  information. We intend to publish the edited
  conference proceedings in an academic press. Papers
  should be limited to twenty minutes presentation
  time; the published version maximum length remains
  to be decided. Please indicate the panel for which
  your paper is intended. GSLL will pay lodging
  expenses for presenters, and most meals will be
  provided.

  The University of Colorado at Boulder is the
  flagship university of the University of Colorado
  system. Located at the base of the Flatirons,
  Boulder is minutes away from the mountains and Rocky
  Mountain National Park. Denver is located only
  forty-five minutes away by bus or car.

  GSLL houses programs in German Studies, Russian
  Studies, Nordic Studies, and Hebrew.

  For registration information visit:
   http://www.colorado.edu/germslav/GSLL%20Symposium/index.htm
  .

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MARK LIPOVETSKY [Leiderman]
Associate Professor of Russian Studies and Comparative Literature,
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Office Address:
CU-Boulder, 276 UCB, Boulder CO 80309
Fax: 303-492-5376
Tel: 303-492-7957

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