Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence (UMN MIMS/CSCL conference)
Call for Papers:
Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature / Moving Image & Media Studies Conference
October 12th-13th, 2018
Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Michigan State University)
Professor Joel Burges (University of Rochester, NY)
Call for Applications: Transforming Environments in Europe and North America: Narratives, Histories, Cultures
Applications are invited for a Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute (TASI) to be held 18-29 June 2018 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, on the subject of “Transforming Environments in Europe and North America: Narratives, Histories, Cultures.” The institute is designed to help graduate students in German and European Studies frame and develop their dissertation projects to better address the past, present, and future of global environmental problems, along with the discourses and cultures that shape and are shaped by these problems.
Applications are due March 1, 2018.
