CFP: Civil Order and Its Breakdowns (grad) (2/1/06; 4/1/06)
full name / name of organization:  Patrick Gallagher contact
email:  To whom it may concern:   Paper proposals are being
accepted for the upcoming Graduate Student Conference "Alles in
Ordnung?", to be held April 1st, 2006, at Columbia University's
Germanic Languages Department. The organizers would be most
appreciative if you would post the following on your graduate
student list-serve. The deadline for abstract submissions is
February 1st, 2006.  For further information, please contact
Patrick Gallagher at  *Grad Student Conference*  *Columbia
University, April 1st, 2006*  *"Alles in Ordnung?" : Civil Order
and Its Breakdowns*   History bears witness, again and again, to
the collapse of the public sphere and the outbreak of civil
disorder on a mass scale. In recent times, a grotesque mix of
natural disaster, official incompetence, socioeconomic
inequality, and racism has made the fragility of civil order,
even in the most superficially developed-l