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> > >Subject: CfP deadline approaching: Revisiting the Past in >ContemporaryLiterature and Film > >WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY >Thirty-Second Colloquium on Literature and Film >Sept. 11-13, 2008 > >CALL FOR PAPERS > >Revisiting the Past >in Contemporary Literature and Film > >Submissions are invited on the many ways that contemporary authors >and filmmakers find their inspiration in history. Topics include, >but are not limited to the following: > > >Historical Novels >Writing Colonial History >Comparative Perspectives on Historical Events >Constructing the Present by Interpreting the Past >Rereading History through New Eyes and Ideologies >Cinematic Versions of Epics >Dramatizing History >HerStory: Re-Placing Women in History >Literary and Cinematic Subversions of History >Minority Writers and History >Science Fiction and History >History in Popular Culture >History as Theater for the Present >Literary Representations of Pre-History >Theories of the Historical Novel >Teaching History through Film >Historical Novels into Film >Historical Events Across Genres >Cross-Cultural Readings of the Past >Literature and Cinema: Filling the Silences of History > >Please submit 300-word proposals for papers and/or panels by May 15, 2008 to >WVUCOLL@ MAIL.WVU.EDU. The program will allow twenty minutes for >the reading of each paper. Include a cover letter containing the >proposal's title, complete contact information, and institutional >affiliation. > > >A limited number of papers read at the Colloquium and submitted to >the Editorial Board after their delivery will be considered for >refereed publication in the West Virginia Philological Papers. > Papers may be read in English, French, German, or Spanish, but only >manuscripts submitted in English can be considered for publication. > > > > ******************* 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