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> >Other Movements: Public Transportation and the >Modernist City (4/01/04; MSA 10/21/04-10/24/04) > >Theorists of movement through the modernist city have >focused almost entirely on the flaneurís stroll and >the motoristís drive. This proposed panel for the >Sixth Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference >in Vancouver will explore how public transportation >offers alternative figures for the modernist self in >motion, alternative histories of the city, and >alternative metaphors for modernity. How do modernist >writers use images of public transportation to tell >other stories of modernism? What new models of >community do the omnibus, elevated train, or subway >offer? How is the subject on public transportation >ěpublicî (or not)? What metaphorical modes of >ětransportationî accompany the literal ones? What >visual, material, and social histories do different >forms of public transportation tell? Papers are >welcome from all disciplines. > >Please email a 300-word abstract, 1-page CV, and >contact information in the body of an email (no >attachments please) to: >[log in to unmask] >by April 1, 2004 > >Sunny Stalter > > >===== >Teaching Assistant >Department of Literatures in English >Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey >510 George Street >New Brunswick, NJ 08901 >[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