Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:39:58 +0200
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: PostModern Perspectives (graduate conference, Germany, 10/1, 


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CFP
PostModern Perspectives: Culture, Literature, Society

2nd interdisciplinary, international (post)graduate conference
at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen/Nürnberg
Erlangen (Bavaria, Germany)
November 19 - 21, 1999

The Departments of English and Sociology invite young scholars to
participate in the second interdisciplinary, international
(post)graduate conference at Erlangen University (Germany).

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· postmodern and poststructuralist theories
· literature, culture, and difference
· Cultural Studies
· postmodern stories and histories
· Feminism
· gender- and transgender issues
· minorities
· hybridity and globalization
· mass media between language and power
· social inequality and symbolic violence
· Marxism and postmodernity

Conference languages are English and German.

Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Deadline for proposals:
1 October, 1999 (please include rtf-formatted (IBM) 150-word abstract
with title of presentation; short CV; phone number, email and postal
addresses). If possible, please use the registration form on our web
page and/or email.

We plan to post all papers in advance on the conference web page in
order to encourage exchange and discussion before the conference starts.

For further information (registration form, program etc.), please visit
our conference homepage at
http://www.fen.baynet.de/johannes.angermueller

Address: Katharina Bunzmann, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik,
Bismarckstr. 1c, D - 91054 Erlangen;  Email address: fp321-AT-fen.baynet.de