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> >From: Gerrit-Jan Berendse <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Made in the GDR - CFP visual culture conference at Cardiff > >CALL FOR PAPERS >Please submit your abstract not later than 15 March 2008 (sorry!) > >One-Day Conference: Made in the GDR - Visual Culture in the Other Germany >Date: 4 April 2008 > >Location: Cardiff School of European Studies / Cardiff University > > >>From 1949 until 1990, the eastern part of >>today's Germany constituted a separate state >>from that >in the West; it had its own vibrant culture with >distinct conditions of artistic production and >reception. Amongst several research strengths of >the German Department at Cardiff University is a >focus on that culture and its historical context. > >On 4 April 2008, the department is hosting a >one-day conference on GDR visual culture. We look >forward to welcoming speakers examining >instances of film, painting, sculpture, >monuments and >graphics, created in the GDR. The term 'visual >culture' is meant in a wide sense and could >embrace such fields as architecture and design. > >The conference will be interested in encouraging >interdisciplinary discussion about how and why >certain images were created in GDR culture and >how they came to bear upon that culture in turn. >Aspects for discussion include, but are not confined to: > >appropriations of literary culture in GDR visual culture >relationships between the state's cultural policy and the visual arts >comparisons between different generations of visual artists in the GDR >dialogues with West German visual culture and/or a common heritage >reception of GDR visual culture after 1990 > >Invited speakers include: >Tilo Köhler (Berlin) >Jonathan Osmond (Cardiff) >David Clarke (Bath) >Ute Wölfel (Reading) >Helen Hughes (Surrey) >Marc Schweissinger (Cardiff) > >Contact >Professor Gerrit-Jan Berendse >Email: [log in to unmask] > > > >--------------------------------------------------------- >Professor Gerrit-Jan Berendse >Head of Department >Department of German >Cardiff School of European Studies >Cardiff University >65-68 Park Place >Cardiff CF10 3AS >United Kingdom >Tel. ++44-29-20874534 >Fax ++44-29-20874946 >www.cardiff.ac.uk/euros/contactsandpeople/profiles/berendsegj.html ******************* 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