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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
- Open Topic
Please send a 250-word abstract (no finished papers please) and a 2-page cv to gsll@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.
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