Call for papers - Ding, ding, ting: Objects as cultural mediators. German, Dutch and Nordic language areas

colloqium in Paris Sorbonne (Paris University)

From 11/04/2013 to 13/04/2013

The deadline for submission of paper proposals for a 30-minute talk is June 30th, 2012.

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Your abstract should not exceed 300 words, working languages are French, English and any language of the Dutch, German and Nordic language areas. Please send your abstract in French or in English and a short CV (10 lines max.) to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  Refereeing of papers will be processed by members of the scientific committee by the end of September 2012. After completion of the conference a volume of selected papers will be published. The organisers will pay a flat rate for travelling and accommodation expenses depending on the sum total of grants received from third parties.

The papers may consider material things from a historical/ cultural/ ethnological/ anthropological/ literary/ linguistic/ philosophical/ aesthetic point of view and will analyze their concrete expressions and discursive, visual, plastic or textual representations, as long as these objects travel across several cultures, across two (or more) countries of the Dutch, Nordic or German language areas, from the Middle Ages to the present time.