Postgraduate Forum: Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce this call for papers for a postgraduate forum (PGF) that will take place as part of the international conference “Liminality and the Short Story” to be held at the University of Wuerzburg from March 7-10, 2013.
The conference “Liminality and the Short Story” will address the generic liminality of the short story as well as the moral transgressions, heterotopic orders and forms of self-reflection negotiated within its confines. It will feature papers on the liminality of the short story as well as on liminality in the short story. The PGF offers young scholars (doctoral candidates and recent post-docs) the opportunity to present and discuss their work (preferably their graduate thesis) on liminality and the short story. It is primarily devoted to discussions of the American short story but also invites comparative and non-American perspectives. Those interested should submit an abstract of 200-300 words outlining their dissertation project. We would especially like to encourage those with little or no conference experience to present their work. Applications may be submitted until November 9, 2012. Invitations will be sent out beginning December 19, 2012. Invited speakers will be required to send a two-page summary of their 20 min-talk, which will then be forwarded to all participants of the workshop and form the basis of our discussion.
Paper topics can include, but are not limited to:
 the short story as a liminal genre
 short story cycles and collections of short stories
 themes related to liminality or describing liminal conditions, for example conflicts between competing ethical norms, initiation, multiple identities, third sex and third gender, transgression, third spaces, border crossings, cultural mobility, cultural in- and exclusion, etc.
Abstracts of 200-300 words should be sent to Liminality@uni-wuerzburg.de by November 9, 2012.