9th Annual German Graduate Studies Conference
Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
and by the Corcoran Department of History
of the University of Virginia
March 1-3, 2002
CONFINEMENT
Panels include:
Institutions of Confinement
Real and Imagined
Physical institutions
Orphanages, poor houses, prisons
Social institutions
Concepts of honor, gender roles
Internal Constructs
Psychological confinement, religion, morality, sexuality, ideology>br>
Constraints of the Written Word
of genre
of the narrative
of the reader
of the archive
Writing through Boundaries
from behind bars
from behind walls
from the unconscious
Confinement
in images
in frames
in diagonals
Beyond the Bounds:
Exiles and Outcasts
Exiles
Refugees
Desertion
Vagrancy
Breaking through the Barriers:
Destruction and Deliverance
Liberation
Suffrage
Revolution
Claustrophobia
Please submit a one-page abstract by December 17, 2001
Presentations should be no longer than 15-20 minutes.
Travel grants will be awarded and housing will be provided.
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