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Call for Papers "Constructing Nation: From Modernity to the New Millennium" Interdisciplinary Conference Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO (USA) 13-14 March 2009 __________________________________________________ The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder invites abstracts for papers on the topic: Constructing Nation: From Modernity to the New Millennium To focus possible approaches to the nexus of problems associated with this topic, we call for papers for the following panels: - The EU and Other Configurations - Nations and Security - Imagined Communities - Nation, Utopia, and Dystopia - Nations, Borders, Frontiers - Transnational Contexts - Gendered Constructions of Nation - Queering Nation - Nations and Othering - National Cinema(s) - National Mythologies - Migration and Nation - Nations and Modernities - Imperial/Colonial Imaginations - Violence in the Name of Nation Please send a 250-word abstract (no finished papers please) and a 2-page cv to <[email protected]> as a Word or RTF document no later than October 15, 2008. The organizing committee will send notification of accepted papers by November 15, 2008, together with symposium registration materials and general information. We intend to publish the edited conference proceedings in an academic press. Papers should be limited to twenty minutes presentation time; the published version maximum length remains to be decided. Please indicate the panel for which your paper is intended. Keynote Speakers - Professor Sara Lennox (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Professor Paul Lützeler (Washington University) - Professor Edith W. Clowes (University of Kansas) - Professor Eliot Borenstein (New York University) The University of Colorado at Boulder is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system. Located at the base of the Flatirons, Boulder is minutes away from the mountains and Rocky Mountain National Park. Denver is located only forty-five minutes away by bus or car. Contact: Organizing Committee "Constructing Nation" Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Colorado 276 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0276 USA Tel: +1 (303) 492-7404 Fax: +1 (303) 492-5376 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.colorado.edu/germslav/GSLL%20Symposium/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org

