CALL FOR PAPERS
Peacemakers and Warmongers
An international
conference, organised by the Department of German of the University of Leeds, to be held at *Bodington Hall*, Leeds,
from 11-14 April 2002.
*NB: change of
venue*
Please click here for important practical information
(getting to the venue, travel arrangements, etc.)
Over some fifteen years, Leeds University has developed a distinctive profile in Anglo-German relations. With an MA cultural programme, and a successful conference on the Novel in its Anglo-German Context under its belt, it is not surprising that this subject has become a central focus for fruitful collaborative work between Departments.
Papers are now invited for a conference on Anglo-German interactions in literature and politics in the period preceding the First World War. A broad spectrum of topics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, intellectual and political history as well as cultural studies is envisaged, and the following ideas may serve as guidelines for possible topics:
Splendid
isolation or balance of power?
Representations of Mitteleuropa
Ideas of 1914: timely predictions or
self-fulfilling prophesies?
Civil society in Britain and Germany
Liberalism: free trade in ideas?
Colonial perspectives
Issues of gender and generation
Scholars, scholarship and politics
Religion and politics: God and godlessness
Men of letters / men of action
Rewriting history / Historismusdebatte
Rewriting history (Klassikerlegende;
Romantik als deutsche Bewegung)
Utopian thinking: political aspiration and
literary phantasies
Apocalyptic visions
Politicising aesthetics / aestheticising
politics: war by other means
Papers may be in English or German, and we are currently negotiating their eventual publication. Short abstracts and contact details should be sent by 30 June 2001 to: Dr Helena Ragg-Kirkby/Dr Fred Bridgham
Department of German, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
The conference enjoys the generous support of the
el: 0113 233 3502 / e-mail: gllhrork@leeds.ac.uk