Dear colleagues,



The MLA Executive Committees on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

Literature and Screen Arts and Culture invite proposals for the panel

series:







*Monuments and Monumentality. Museums, Media, Memory*



In 2019, the Humboldt Forum is slated to open as a multiplex museum in the

city castle, reconstructed as a monumental marker at the heart of Berlin.

By virtue of its scale, this project joins a contested history of museums,

monuments and counter-monuments, through which Germany has negotiated

questions of patrimony from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first.

This series of panels interrogates forms of monumentality across the media

of film, literature, museums, and architecture, and asks how these have

shaped the discourse on monuments in turn.





         How have curators, film and visual artists, writers, and

architects engaged with, countered, or reinforced monuments, museums, and

their histories? How do particular media and genres (re)mediate monuments?

How does monumentality negotiate temporal and spatial boundaries? How do

the histories of colonialism, fascism, and war challenge contemporary

notions of monumentality?





Papers are invited from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: literature,

film and media studies, museum studies, art and architecture. Please send

your 250-word abstract to Kerstin Barndt ([log in to unmask]) by March 15,

2018. The MLA will be held in Chicago from January 3-6, 2019.





Christina Gerhardt, Associate Professor,

<http://manoa.hawaii.edu/llea/german/faculty/christina-gerhardt/>University

of Hawai'i at Mānoa

<http://manoa.hawaii.edu/llea/german/faculty/christina-gerhardt/>

Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018 - UC-Berkeley

<https://ies.berkeley.edu/visiting-scholars>

https://berkeley.academia.edu/ChristinaGerhardt



Recent guest-edited special issue, forthcoming book and co-edited volumes:



*1968 and West German Cinema*

<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17541328.2017.1327749>. Guest

editor. *The Sixties* 10.1 (2017).



*Screening the Red Army Faction

<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/screening-the-red-army-faction-9781501336690/>

*(Bloomsbury, 2018). - “This informative and well-documented study of the

changing representations of the Red Army Faction is a welcome model for how

to go about de-provincializing our understanding of the post-war German

experience more generally.” –  Kristin Ross, Professor emeritus of

Comparative Literature, New York University, USA



*1968 and Global Cinema

<http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/1968-and-global-cinema>. *Co-edited

with Sara Saljoughi (Wayne State UP, 2018).



*Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties. *Co-edited

with Marco Abel (Camden House, 2019).



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