Call for papers - National Bodies in Eastern Europe, Wellington, New Zealand 28-29 August, 2010

[Evgeny Pavlov]

Call for Papers:
National Bodies in Eastern Europe

Conference to be held 28-29 August 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand

Several scholars have explained the rise of nationalism as the
consequence of "modernization," variously understood as some combination
of secularization, industrialization, rising literacy, increasing
technological sophistication, and similar factors. National ideologies
transformed political life, as they seized European imaginations, but
also affected how people viewed each other in everyday circumstances.
The experience of life in Eastern Europe, a region where the impact of
nationalism proved particularly explosive, has included the experience
of being stereotyped and classified in terms of nationalist fantasy.
 
We wish to explore the spread of nationalized thinking as it relates to
the body. How did people in central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the
Balkans classify each other in terms of national concepts? What
characteristics supposedly distinguished the Czech from the German, the
Jew from the Ukrainian, the Romanian from the Hungarian, the Turk from
the Greek, and so forth? How did these fantasies of the national body
emerge, and how did they affect human interactions? Other topics of
possible interest include: national bodily practices, literary concepts
of national bodies, national sexuality or sexualities, national clothing
or accoutrements, sporting nationalism, or eugenics.
 
We are initially soliciting papers for a conference hosted by the
Antipodean East European Study Group at Victoria University and the
Russian Programme at the University of Canterbury. The conference will
take place on the weekend of 28-29 August  in Wellington, New Zealand.
We welcome scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology,
literary studies, film studies, and other related disciplines. The
conference organizers then intend to publish selected papers either as
an edited volume, or a special edition of a relevant journal. Final word
lengths are flexible at this stage, but we suggest contributors aim for
6,000 words.
 
Interested parties contact Alexander Maxwell at
alexander.maxwell at vuw.ac.nz

Antipodean East European Study Group (Victoria University)
Russian Programme (University of Canterbury)

Dr Evgeny Pavlov
Senior Lecturer in Russian and German
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand
ph. +64-3-366-7001, x8526
fax: +64-3-364-2522


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