Call for Papers

Society for German-American Studies

31st Annual Symposium

April 26-29, 2007

The University of Kansas

Max Kade Center for German-American Studies

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

One-page abstracts of scholarly papers dealing with any aspect of German-American Studies should be submitted by November 1, 2006 to:

                        Professor William Keel

                        Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

                        The University of Kansas

                        1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Room 2080

                        Lawrence, KS 66045-7590

                        Telefax:            785-864-4298

                        E-Mail:            wkeel@ku.edu

Paper topics should address the purpose of the Society for German-American Studies to study the history, language, literature and culture of the German element in North America, including the immigrants and their descendants from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other German-speaking areas of Europe.

                        Special Panels Anticipated:

                        German-American Speech Islands

                        German Settlement and Abolitionism in Kansas

                        German Influence on American Landscape Architecture

                        Ernst Moritz Arndt and the German-Americans

                        North American Exile Studies

                        Alexander von Humboldt in the United States