>From: Edition Reichenberger <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Lauer, A Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 04:13:21 -0500
>Subject: Conference__Travels Between Europe and the Americas (Berlin 2009)
>Thread-Topic: Conference__Travels Between Europe and the Americas (Berlin
>  2009)
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>International and Interdisciplinary Conference
>Alexander von Humboldt, 2009:
>Travels Between Europe and the Americas
>
>at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany,
>July 27-31, 2009
>
>Call for Papers
>Researchers from all disciplines, professors and
>graduate students interested in travels between
>Europe and the Americas are invited to submit
>abstracts of their papers for consideration.
>
>Topics
>- Alexander von Humboldt
>- Travels Between Europe and Latin America (15th through 21st centuries)
>- Travelling in Dictatorships: Colonialism, Caudillismo, Fascism, Communism
>- Travel and Science: Measuring, Collecting, Imagining the World
>- Contemporary Travel Writing
>- Emigration and Exile
>- Travelling, Gender, Sexuality
>- Travel Cultures, Practices and Economies: Discoveries, Expeditions,
>Tourism
>- Global Environments: Travels and Ecology
>- Narrating Voyages: the Scholar-Traveller
>- Theories of Mobility and Travel Literature
>
>Additional Program
>- In special sessions, travel writers and
>correspondents will read from their work.
>- Cultural activities, excursions to historic
>sites and a guided tour in Berlin will be offered.
>- The conference will end with an optional trip to Weimar.
>- Papers will be considered for publication.
>
>Languages
>- Papers may be presented in English, German or Spanish.
>- Participants who wish to speak in German or
>Spanish are asked to provide English versions of
>their papers to be projected onto screens during
>their talk.
>
>Submission
>- Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes
>(approximately 8 pages double-spaced, 2.000
>words).
>- Abstracts may be submitted in English, German or Spanish (250 words
>maximum).
>- Please submit your abstracts online via www.humboldtconference2009.de.
>- If you would like to suggest a panel, please
>send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] with the
>title of your panel, the chair (name and contact
>information) and the titles and reference numbers
>of each of the presentations which were submitted
>separately under "additional panels" in the
>online abstract system.
>- The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.
>
>Registration Fees
>- 100 Euros for North American and European participants.
>- 50 Euros for graduate students and Latin American participants.
>
>Contacts & Information
>- Dr. Lilianet Brintrup, Conference President: [log in to unmask]
>- Dr. Oliver Lubrich, Conference Vice President: [log in to unmask]
>- For detailed information please visit our
>website at www.humboldtconference2009.de
>
>Organisers
>
>Freie Universität Berlin
>Peter Szondi Department of Comparative Literature
>Habelschwerdter Allee 45
>14195 Berlin, Germany
>www.complit.fu-berlin.de
>
>Humboldt State University
>Department of World Languages and Cultures
>Arcata, California 95521, USA
>www.humboldt.edu

Prof. A. Robert Lauer
The University of Oklahoma
Dept. of Modern Langs.,  Lits., & Ling.
780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall, Room 206
Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032, USA
Tel.: 405/325-5845 (office); 405/325-6181 (OU 
dept.); Fax: 405/325-0103 (OU dept.)
Vision: Harmonious collaboration in an international world.
Mission: "Visualize clearly and communicate promptly"
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