[Discussion] CFP: Money and Culture (Ireland) (1/31/05; 5/6/05-5/8/05)

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Call for Papers
Money and Culture
XIII Annual Conference=20
on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts 2005
An Scoil Teanga agus Litr=EDochta / School of Language and Literature
National University of Ireland, University College Cork, 6-8 May 2005

Organisation:
Dr Fiona Cox, Dept. of French, UCC
Dr Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Dept. of German, UCC

Keynote Speakers: Jochen H=F6risch (Mannheim),  Marc Shell (Harvard)

Money rules the world. It is ubiquitous and it is on our minds as often
as sex and food. Money has shaped cultures from the birth of
civilisation on.
For some a necessary evil, for others a god, it creates power structures
and underpins all areas of creativity. However, this has been
surprisingly unacknowledged in literary and cultural studies.
The aim of this conference is to study diverse aspects of money as a
cultural phenomenon. We invite colleagues working in all academic
disciplines to submit proposals focusing on the following areas (which
are not intended to be exclusive):=20
1. Representations of money: money in literature, art, film, music, =
opera,
folklore, and myth. This section could include studies on money-related
motifs and figures (gifts, treasures, debt, heart of stone, Midas, =
Judas,
the miser, the spendthrift, the usurer, the merchant, the gambler, the
pawnbroker, the criminal etc), and on the iconography of money.
2. Money and Language: the vocabulary of money, including sayings, =
idioms,
metaphors.=20
3. Discourses on money: in literature, philosophy, sociology, =
economics,
theology, law, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics.
4. The Cultural history of money: forms of money from the origins of =
the
first legal tender to cybercash, money as a medium, cultural practices,
customs, habits, rites, superstitions, money and gender, money and =
power,
money and institutions (banks, stock exchanges).
5. European dimensions: the Euro, money and (national) identity,
intercultural comparisons, money and politics, money in European =
history.
It is expected that selected papers from the conference will be =
published.=20
Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes. Please submit abstracts of
approximately 300 words by 31 January 2005 to one of the organisers:

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Dr. Fiona Cox
Department of French
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Email: FCox@french.ucc.ie

or

Dr. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa
Department of German
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Email: h.schmidthannisa@ucc.ie


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