Keynote speaker:
Jonathan Freedman
University of Michigan
author of The Temple of Culture

This conference addresses the history, representation or self-representation, and interpretations of those exiled, refugee, and migrant “Others” created between 1914-1945 by two world wars and the reformation of national, ethnic, racial, classed, and gendered identities and cultures.

We welcome paper proposals that address national and exile literatures, and other art forms such as film, photography, architecture, painting and sculpture, dissident political and sexual expression, cultural and ethnic mythologies, environmental and geographical interventions, and revivals and interpretations of such cultural artifacts as ancient languages, national dress, dance, folklore, music, and oral traditions. Please send 300-word abstract and brief CV to Phyllisl@northwestern.edu by Dec 1, 2007.