Call for Papers

International Symposium

 Form — Violence — Meaning

Two Hundred Years

 Heinrich von Kleist

 

Vanderbilt University · Nashville, Tennessee

April 7-10, 2011

 

To Mark the 200^th Anniversary of the Renowned Author’s Death the Symposium Endeavors to Bring Together Scholars from Around the World

 

Presentations in German or English

Topics:

·       Kleist and His Time

·       Reading Kleist

·       Why Kleist Today?

·       Violence and Terrorism

·       Form and Language

·       The Reception of His Works

·       Kleist on Stage and in Film

·       Kleist and the Sciences

·       Intertextuality of His Oeuvre

 

Early Abstract Submission is Highly Encouraged

    Please send a one page abstract to:

Professor Dieter Sevin, Chair       

Department of German                  

    P.O. 1567, Station B

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN. 37235-1565 USA

 

Fax: (615) 343-7258 

Tel: (615) 322-2611  

 

    E-mail: dieter.h.sevin@vanderbilt.edu

    Web:  www.vanderbilt.edu/german