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“Human Rights in German-Speaking Lands during the Romantic Period,” Open Panel at NASSR, “Romanticism and Rights,” Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 13-16, 2015. Human rights became significant issues among artists and intellectuals in early nineteenth-century “Germany.” This panel intends to address most broadly literary, historical and political writing produced during the Romantic period regarding rights (or the lack thereof) in German-speaking lands. Please submit (by January 17, 2015, to the conference organizers at [log in to unmask] ) a brief c. v. and an abstract of 300 words, addressing issues of rights such as: - Reception of revolutions in America and France, and human rights. - Human rights in Romantic art, letters and thought: from Herder through Novalis, the Schlegels & the Grimms to Nietzsche and Wagner. - Expressions of human rights in women’s writing of the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth century in German-speaking lands. - Literary responses to forms of oppression: censorship, exile, and imprisonment in Romantic literature. - The literary and judicial writings of E. T. A. Hoffmann and human rights. - Treatment of other(s): defining “otherness,” treatment of specific groups, anti-Semitism, misogyny, etc. - Representations of Napoleon / French occupation in the literature of the period. - Grass-roots responses: the *Burschenschaften*, the *Turnvereine*, and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, in the history and literature of German Romanticism. - Heinrich Heine and human rights. Please send inquiries to Chris Clason at [log in to unmask] . Conference Website at http://nassr2015.wordpress.com/ -- Christopher R. Clason Professor of German Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Department of Modern Languages and Literatures 352 O'Dowd Hall Oakland University Rochester, Michigan 48309-4486 [log in to unmask] (248) 370-2063 http://www.oakland.edu/~clason ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Olaf Schmidt Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://grs.missouri.edu/resources/gerlistserv.html