The Departments of English, Political Science, and Sociology invite young scholars to participate in the third interdisciplinary, international (post)graduate conference at Erlangen University (Germany).

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• political economy of the sign
• discourse between region and globalization
• Marxism and postmodernism
• postindustrial societies, post-Fordism and late capitalism
• space, power, economy
• social inequality and symbolic violence
• postmodern and post-structuralist theories
• modernity, postmodernity, postModernism?
• crisis of representation: literature, culture, and difference
• between avant-garde and academia: Cultural Studies between disciplinarity and anti-disciplinarity
• postModern productions in art, architecture and music
• hybridity and queer studies
• feminism
• postmodern histories
• mass media between language and power
• and many more

Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

The conference papers will be posted on our web page by October 15, 2000 in order to facilitate discussion and scholarly exchange. Each panel will consist of three to five speakers and will last 2 to 2.5 hours. The allotted time for each paper is about 12 minutes, which is meant to provide much space for discussion.

Closing date for paper proposals: September 15, 2000 (other participants may register until shortly before the conference starts)

Please register on our online submission form.

Deadline for turning in the short paper (just for our web page, not for the conference proceedings): October 15, 2000.

All information (registration form, program etc.) is available on our web page: http://www.gradnet.de

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Katharina or Johannes: info@gradnet.de

Organizers: Johannes Angermüller (Sociology), Katharina Bunzmann (American Studies), Martin Nonhoff (Political Science), Christina Rauch (English)