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> >>> >>>Subject: CFP: K: Kafka Revisited - Yale Grad Student Conference >>>(3/30/07-3/31/07) >>>From: Brangwen Stone <[log in to unmask]> > >CALL FOR PAPERS > >K: KAFKA REVISITED > >18th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Germanic Languages & >Literatures at Yale University > >March 30-31, 2007 >Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut > >Kafka is of perennial interest to scholars in areas extending far >beyond German literature. He has been read and interpreted by >luminaries such as Benjamin, Arendt and Adorno, has gone on to >influence a vast range of literature, theatre, cinema and theory, >and has left his indelible mark on everyday culture with the >ubiquitous term 'Kafkaesque'. In the midst of an abundance of >scholarship we hold that Kafka, his milieu and his work continue to >merit analysis, discussion and debate. > >We will accept papers from across the disciplines, including but not >limited to German and Comparative literature, visual arts, >performing arts, film studies, history, architecture and musicology. >A list of suggested topics follows, but papers pertaining to any >other topic relating to Kafka will also be gladly considered: > >- Kafka and the body, gender, sex and sexuality > >- Kafka's humor > >- Adaptation and appropriation - whether in the form of film, >literature, theatre or music > >>> >>>- Kafka and America >>> >>>- Kafka and space - architecture, cityscape etc >>> >>>- Kafka and travel >>> >>>- Kafka in the 21st century >>> >>>- Kafka and the Austro-Hungarian Empire >>> >>>Keynote Speakers: >>>Henry Sussman, State University of New York at Buffalo, Visiting >>>Professor in Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at Yale >>>Leo Lensing, Professor of German Studies at Wesleyan University >>> >>>Please send one page abstracts in English or German, to Laura >>>Bohn, Jonas Karlsson and Brangwen Stone, at >>><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] by >>>February 1, 2007. >>>Laura Bohn, Jonas Karlsson & Brangwen Stone >>>Yale University >>>Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures >>>Conference Organizers >>>18th Annual Graduate Student Conference ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html