KulturPoetik Calls for Papers


Masculinites, Feminities and Hybrites in US Culture
CfP der Spanish Association for American Studies zur VII. Tagung in Jaén (Spanien) vom 16.-18. März 2005

Dazu: CfP speziell zum Panel Male, Female and Hybrid Bodies: The body has been seen as an extremely cultural artifact and as a site for cultural challenge as well. It has been approached variously since the Renaissance. Either viewed as a machine by scientists or as a model for social organization, the body has been understood as existing simultaneously in the natural and the cultural worlds. It has been theorized as a body-machine, or as artificial or fantastic creatures such as werewolves, golems, and vampires among others. From the scholar’s point of view this raises two questions: How has the body been configured historically? What does it mean for bodies to be treated in this fashion? The panel invites proposals that study how the human body has been represented in Literature, Arts, Cinema, and Culture. Possible topics, though not restricted to, are: male and female identity as inscribed in bodies, representations of new creatures that challenge traditional concepts of masculinity and femininity, the gendered grotesque, representations of male and/or female non-human creatures, "The New Flesh" in Cinema and/or Literature, representations of freaks and other marginal creatures. Please, send your proposed abstract directly to: Panel Chair: Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan University of Valladolid guerrero@fyl.uva.es


Money and Culture XIII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts 2005 An Scoil Teanga agus Litríochta / School of Language and Literature National University of Ireland, University College Cork, 6-8 May 2005 Organisation: Dr Fiona Cox, Dept. of French, UCC Dr Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Dept. of German, UCC Keynote Speakers: Jochen Hörisch (Mannheim), Marc Shell (Harvard) Money rules the world. It is ubiquitous and it is on our minds as often as sex and food. Money has shaped cultures from the birth of civilisation on. For some a necessary evil, for others a god, it creates power structures and underpins all areas of creativity. However, this has been surprisingly unacknowledged in literary and cultural studies. The aim of this conference is to study diverse aspects of money as a cultural phenomenon. We invite colleagues working in all academic disciplines to submit proposals focusing on the following areas (which are not intended to be exclusive): 1. Representations of money: money in literature, art, film, music, opera, folklore, and myth. This section could include studies on money-related motifs and figures (gifts, treasures, debt, heart of stone, Midas, Judas, the miser, the spendthrift, the usurer, the merchant, the gambler, the pawnbroker, the criminal etc), and on the iconography of money. 2. Money and Language: the vocabulary of money, including sayings, idioms, metaphors. 3. Discourses on money: in literature, philosophy, sociology, economics, theology, law, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics. 4. The Cultural history of money: forms of money from the origins of the first legal tender to cybercash, money as a medium, cultural practices, customs, habits, rites, superstitions, money and gender, money and power, money and institutions (banks, stock exchanges). 5. European dimensions: the Euro, money and (national) identity, intercultural comparisons, money and politics, money in European history. It is expected that selected papers from the conference will be published. Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes. Please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words by 31 January 2005 to one of the organisers:
Dr. Fiona Cox Department of French University College Cork Email: FCox@french.ucc.ie	Dr. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa Department of German University College Cork Email: h.schmidthannisa@ucc.ie

Money and Culture