CALL FOR PAPERS
A Moveable Feast?
Translation of Literary, Cultural, and Political Capital
Modern Languages Graduate Colloquium
The Catholic University of America
Saturday, April 6, 2002
National literature is now a rather meaningless term
-Goethe
For its Annual Colloquium, the Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures at the Catholic University of America is soliciting
abstracts
dealing with the circulation, translation, and displacement of cultural
and
literary capital. We especially welcome proposals exploring
globalizations
and the fatidic question "What does globalization mean for literary,
cultural,
linguistic studies?" Proposals might include, but should not be limited
to:
Millennialism-Global Anxieties-Inclusion/Exclusion-Metaphor-
Adaptation-Migration-Nostalgia-Translation-Militants/Terrorists-Hybridit
y-
Exile-Desire/Gratification-Tourism-Economies of Circulation-Food-
Consumption/Consumerism-Transatlanticisms-Revisionism-Cannibalism-
Linguistic Minorities-Identity Politics-Rewritings-Exoticisms
Please submit a 200-word abstract in English with title and a brief
vitae to:
Graduate Colloquium
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
McMahon Hall
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
Or by email to: cua-colloquium@cua.edu
For more information:
http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/ml/faculty/shoemaker/colloquium/colloq.html
Deadline for submissions: Abstracts must be received by February 28,
2002