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>CFP and Final Announcement:
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>              'Siegfried Kracauer', 13-14 September 2002
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>                     University of Birmingham, UK
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>                           Plenary Speakers:
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>               Gertrude Koch, Thomas Levin, Tom Gunning
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>Siegfried Kracauer is currently undergoing a renaissance as a
>hugely  significant cultural and critical theorist of the twentieth
>century, and his broad  thinking on issues, forms and topics of
>mass culture being recognised as  extremely relevant to our
>contemporary modernity. Gathering both leading  and new
>scholars, this conference aims to provide a much-needed forum
>for  the rediscovery and analysis of Kracauer and his work. For
>further  information please see the conference website at:
>http://www.bham.ac.uk/CulturalStudies/kracauer.html
>There are still some spaces for panel papers remaining.
>Abstracts are invited  on any aspect of Kracauer's life and work.
>Please send to Dr Jan Campbell,  Dept of English, University of
>Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15  2TT
>[log in to unmask], or Dr Deborah Parsons, Dept of
>English, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
>2TT,  [log in to unmask]
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