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Subject: [balkans] CfP: National Bodies in Eastern Europe, Wellington/New
Zealand, 28-29.8.2010
From:    "Balkan Academic News" <balkans la gmx.net>
Date:    Thu, January 21, 2010 13:22
To:      balkans la yahoogroups.com
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Subject: CFP "National Bodies in Eastern Europe"
From:    "Alexander Maxwell" <Alexander.Maxwell la vuw.ac.nz>
Date:    Wed, January 20, 2010 2:50 am

Call for Papers:
National Bodies in Eastern Europe

Conference to be held 28-29 August 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand

Several scholars have explained the rise of nationalism as the consequence
of "modernization," variously understood as some combination of
secularization, industrialization, rising literacy, increasing
technological sophistication, and similar factors. National ideologies
transformed political life, as they seized European imaginations, but also
affected how people viewed each other in everyday circumstances. The
experience of life in Eastern Europe, a region where the impact of
nationalism proved particularly explosive, has included the experience of
being stereotyped and classified in terms of nationalist fantasy.

We wish to explore the spread of nationalized thinking as it relates to
the body. How did people in central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the
Balkans classify each other in terms of national concepts? What
characteristics supposedly distinguished the Czech from the German, the
Jew from the Ukrainian, the Romanian from the Hungarian, the Turk from the
Greek, and so forth? How did these fantasies of the national body emerge,
and how did they affect human interactions? Other topics of possible
interest include: national bodily practices, literary concepts of national
bodies, national sexuality or sexualities, national clothing or
accoutrements, sporting nationalism, or eugenics.

We are initially soliciting papers for a conference hosted by the
Antipodean East European Study Group at Victoria University and the
Russian Programme at the University of Canterbury. The conference will
take place on the weekend of 28-29 August  in Wellington, New Zealand. We
welcome scholars working in history, anthropology, sociology, literary
studies, film studies, and other related disciplines. The conference
organizers then intend to publish selected papers either as an edited
volume, or a special edition of a relevant journal. Final word lengths are
flexible at this stage, but we suggest contributors aim for 6,000 words.

Interested parties contact Alexander Maxwell
alexander.maxwell(at)vuw.ac.nz

Antipodean East European Study Group (Victoria University)
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/antipodean/index.aspx
Russian Programme (University of Canterbury)

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