[Discussion] CFP: Money and Culture, 6–8 May 2005 Un iversity College Cork

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http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/academic/langlit/cfpmoney.html

XIII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the
Visual Arts

organized by the School of Language and Literature,
University College Cork

Money and Culture
An interdisciplinary conference
to be held 6–8 May 2005

Call for papers

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):

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.

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.

Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes. Please submit abstracts of
approximately 300 words by 31 January 2005 to one of the organisers:

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

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