2017 International Conference on Life Writing: Self-Representation, Medical Narrative and Cultural Memory
Deadline for Abstracts: September 15, 2016
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Deadline for Abstracts: September 15, 2016
In contemporary studies of the Middle Ages, questions of visuality have increasingly dominated analyses of artistic production, in part because of the central role of vision in medieval theological and scientific discourse. This session seeks to broaden the conversation around medieval visuality by asking not only what it meant to see in the Middle Ages, but also what it meant to be seen, and how these networks of viewership could be depicted in the pictorial arts, literature, architecture, music, and drama.
I seek two other papers for a panel on the alternately symbiotic and antagonistic relationship between Broadway and Hollywood--as entertainment industries, cultural destinations, and/or aesthetics. The circulation of talent and content between Broadway and Hollywood obviously has a long and complex history, from Hollywood's poaching of Broadway talent during the early sound era to its bankrolling of Broadway shows as early as the 1930s.
The End: Theories and Practices of narrative endings
Graduate Student Conference
Department of German Studies
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
November 11-12, 2016
Keynote Speaker: Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University Bloomington
“A whole is that which has a beginning and middle and end.” (Aristotle, Poetics)
CEDAW and religious texts: paving the way beyond gender oppression and misogyny.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, and can be seen as an international bill of rights for women. All countries that have accepted the Convention are compelled to follow up with a series of measures that would end all forms of discrimination against women. Any country that has ratified or acceded to the Convention, is legally and morally obliged to ensure that women are not discriminated against, or oppressed.