2004 SAMLA Convention 12-14 November 2004 Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA Session Title: "Figures of Desire in 19th and 20th Century German Cultural History" Proposed Session Topic: Literary characters and/or rhetorical figures taken to embody/express some facet of desire in relation to larger forces, trends, or movements in 19th and 20th century German cultural history Program Chair 2004: Dr. Kelly S. Meyer Program Secretary 2004: Dr. Karen Eng Topic: This panel invites papers on "figures of desire" as they appear in German cultural history over the course of the last two centuries. Possible topics might include (though certainly are not limited to) analyses of literary characters and/or rhetorical figures taken in some sense to embody desire. Presentations should offer reflections on the source, nature, and object of desire within a given text/theoretical framework, as well as their relationship to larger movements, trends, or forces characteristic of the 19th and/or 20th Century in German-speaking countries (e.g.: Romanticism and Romantic longing; industrialization, proletarian revolution, and dreams of a better, even utopian, future; the rise of a German middle class, Biedermeier/Victorian moralism, and the drive to consume; German women's movements/nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminism(s); homoeroticism and culture; the beginnings of modern consumption; German imperialism, colonial aspirations, and wars for European hegemony; post-war influence of the United States and American consumerism, etc.). Submission Deadline: Please submit a 300-word abstract to Kelly Meyer by 31 March 2004. Address: Dr. Kelly S. Meyer Dept. of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Washington College 300 Washington Avenue Chestertown, MD 21620 [log in to unmask] ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Karen Eng Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html --