[Bilimsel Haber] International Network on Intimacy / Call for Online Papers

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*International Network on Intimacy / Call for Online Papers*

	

	

International Network on Intimacy / Call for Online Papers

Given the changing cognition of borders, spheres and spaces it is
becoming more pertinent to investigate interpersonal relationships and
the production of intimacy or proximity. The research project „Intimate
Texts, Intimate Spaces: Intimacy and Proximity in Russian Culture" at
the Slavic Studies Department of the University of Tübingen in Germany
(Prof. Schamma Schahadat; Dr. Nadezda Grigor'eva; Sandra Evans, M.A.) is
dedicated to investigating the production of intimacy and proximity in
literary texts and cultural spaces in Russian culture, e.g. in letters
of friendship, in platonic dialogue that was conceptualized in texts and
put into action in cultural performances, in literary salons in the
early 19th century as well as in communal living spaces ranging from the
radical 1860s to the postrevolutionary Avantgarde utopias that
culminated in the Soviet communal apartment. Here intimacy is understood
to be a discursive phenomenon, something that is produced rhetorically
and/or contextually, transcending its usual associations with physical
intimacy to include intellectual and emotional intimacy. For more
information go to:
http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/schamma.schahadat/Intimitaetsprojekt/

Within the framework of this research project we would like to initiate
an international interdisciplinary network of researchers from Europe,
North America and Russia who are working on topics connected in some way
with the concept of intimacy and proximity (not limited to Russian
philology). The primary goal of this informal network would be to
promote the exchange of information across borders and disciplines with
individual researchers, projects and intitutions, yet collaborative
activities in the future might include conferences, workshops, book
publications and other cooperative projects -- we are open to
suggestions and ideas. We would like to inaugurate the network with an
online publication of selected papers that deal with intimacy and
related topics. Papers can be submitted in English, German or Russian in
order to make this online publication and the network in general
accessible to a greater audience. If you would like to join the network
or publish a paper or both, be sure to contact Sandra Evans
(sandra.evans at uni-tuebingen.de). Please forward this announcement to
others who might be interested in participating. We look forward to
hearing from you.

	Sandra Evans
Slavisches Seminar
Universität Tübingen
Wilhelmstr. 50, Zimmer 240
D-72074 Tübingen
Germany

Tel. 07071 – 29-7 4323
Fax-Nr. 07071 - 295924
Email: sandra.evans at uni-tuebingen.de <mailto:sandra.evans at uni-tuebingen.de>

Visit the website at
http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/schamma.schahadat/Intimitaetsprojekt/project.html