[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--CFP Minority Reports - University of Pennsylvania Graduate Student Conference--Yiddish submissions

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January 15, 2015

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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:26:14 -0500
From: Sonia Beth Gollance <gollances at gmail.com>
Subject: CFP Minority Reports - University of Pennsylvania Graduate 
Student Conference CFP - Yiddish-related submissions encouraged

Minority Reports: Representing Social Identity in (New) Media

February 24, 2012
NEW DEADLINE: January 15, 2012

KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCED: Martha Helfer (Rutgers University)

New modes of mass communication stimulate evolution in non-dominant group 
identity while also fostering innovation in minority 
(self-)representation.  This has been the case for centuries: from 
depictions of "das boese Weib"  in 17th century broadsheets to the 
emergence of Yiddish-language Facebook groups, technological progress 
alters the landscape of language and identity.  Our conference aims to 
investigate the specific ways in which new media engender new visual and 
textual representations of minority status. We will focus on material from 
across the Germanic languages from the Early Modern period to the present 
day. We invite submissions that may engage with, but are not limited to, 
the following topics:

  *        Legal implications of minority status in moments of transition 
to new(er) media
  *        Censorship
  *        Immigration
  *        Minor Germanic languages in transition
  *        Creation of new minorities within existing ones or within 
previously homogeneous populations
  *        Changes in representation of and by minority groups in the 
digital age
  *        Interactions between minority and majority groups
  *        Gender, race, and class as minority terms
  *        Political cartoons/ broadsheets



Please send your 250-300 word abstracts in both in the body of the e-mail 
and as a *.doc or *.docx attachment to Sonia Gollance and Maya Vinokour
at minorityreports12 at gmail.com by January 15, 2012. Submissions should 
include the paper title, author~Rs name, affiliation, and e-mail address.

Sonia Gollance
Germanic Languages and Literatures
University of Pennsylvania
435 Williams Hall, 255 S. 36th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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