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Amateur Performance in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Money/Myths
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American Literary Tourism |
Naples Crucible of the World |
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Anarchism |
Nineteenth-Century Literature |
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Between Light and Darkness – International Symposium on
Fin-de-siècle Symbolism |
Representations of Age in European Literatures |
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British women poets and their experimentations |
Revisiting the Past, Recasting the Present: The Reception
of Greek Antiquity in Music, 19th Century to the Present |
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Carmen and her others |
Queer History |
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Cultural Identities in the Victorian Periodical Press |
Shaw |
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Decadent Poetics |
Social History |
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Dirt and Debris |
Systems and Archives |
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Disability and the Victorians |
Taking Care of Business: Money, Property and Victorian
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The Female Performer in European fiction (1780-1914):
gender issues |
Theatricality and Performance in Victorian Literature and
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French
Historical Studies |
The Trollope Family and Tuscany |
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Future Wars, Imagined Wars |
Victorian Bodies and Machines |
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Gissing |
Victorian
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Imaginary Artists |
Victorian Epidemics |
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Katherine Mansfield and her Contemporaries |
Walter Pater's Poetics |
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I Trollope: una famiglia di scrittori e la Toscana |
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Fondazione Michel de Montaigne |
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Il convegno I
Trollope: una famiglia di scrittori e la Toscana (23-24 ottobre
2010), organizzato dalla Fondazione Montaigne con il contributo
scientifico delle Università di Pisa e Venezia Ca’ Foscari, nonché della
“Trollope Society” londinese, si propone di studiare i rapporti di una
famiglia di letterati inglesi con la nostra regione e, in particolare, Bagni
di Lucca. L’iniziativa è la continuazione ideale di precedenti convegni di
vasta risonanza, dedicati negli anni scorsi a Montaigne e Lever, a Ouida e ai
Browning, solo alcuni dei personaggi che scelsero la località termale per i
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Frances “Fanny” Trollope, nata nel 1780 a Bristol, visse a lungo a Firenze, dove morì nel 1863, e
dove rimasero famose le sue réunions settimanali, nel “Villino
Trollope” dell’attuale Piazza Indipendenza, cui partecipavano esponenti di
spicco della cultura anglo-fiorentina. Grande viaggiatrice in Europa e in
America, Fanny Trollope ebbe sei figli, due dei quali, Anthony e Thomas
Adolphus, furono anch’essi scrittori di fama; ma anche altri membri della
famiglia si dedicarono alla scrittura. |
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Una sua
esperienza negli Stati Uniti le permise di pubblicare un volume assai
caustico, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), che divenne ben
presto un best-seller. Fra i suoi numerosi lavori - oltre una
quarantina fra romanzi e libri di viaggio - si ricordano The Widow Barnaby
e Petticoat Government, oltre a The Vicar of Wrexill del 1837,
suo contributo alle controversie religiose del periodo, e The Life and
Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy del 1840, uno dei
primi romanzi vittoriani che trattano di problematiche sociali, legate
all’impatto della Rivoluzione Industriale. |
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Nel primo volume di A Visit to Italy, un libro di
viaggio in forma epistolare, pubblicato a Londra, da Richard Bentley, nel
1842, la scrittrice dedica numerose pagine alla Toscana. |
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Thomas Adolphus
Trollope (1810-1892) fu educato alla Harrow School e al Winchester
College. Tra il 1840 e il 1890
produsse una sessantina di volumi di letteratura di viaggio, storia e
narrativa, oltre a una grande quantità di articoli in periodici. Trascorse in
Italia la maggior parte della sua vita, per tornare nel 1890 in Inghilterra,
dove morì due anni dopo. Le sue memorie, pubblicate in tre volumi fra il 1887
e il 1889, contengono ampie sezioni sui nostri luoghi. |
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Anthony Trollope
(1815–1882), il più famoso esponente della famiglia - riformatore del sistema postale britannico e inventore
della pillar box, la colonnina postale di colore rosso che
caratterizza città e villaggi britannici –
fu, al pari di Lever, Collins e Dickens, uno dei romanzieri più
prolifici e amati dell'epoca vittoriana. I suoi capolavori, noti come Chronicles of Barsetshire, ambientati
nell’immaginaria Contea del Barset, affrontano importanti tematiche politiche
e sociali dell'epoca. La sua Autobiografia è stata tradotta lo scorso
anno per l’editore Sellerio il quale, oltre ai “romanzi giudiziari” Orley
Farm e Lady Anna, ha pubblicato recentemente anche L’amministratore,
Le torri di Barchester, Il dottor Thorne, La canonica di
Framley, La casetta ad Allington. Altri titoli sono a disposizione
dei lettori italiani presso le edizioni Passigli. |
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Contributi su
ogni aspetto della vita e delle opere della famiglia Trollope saranno prese
in considerazione. Particolarmente graditi saranno argomenti come “I Trollope
e l’autobiografia”, “I Trollope e la narrativa popolare”, “I Trollope: legami
con l’Italia / con la cultura fiorentina / con Bagni di Lucca”. Si prega di
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Representations of Age in European Literatures
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Forum for Modern
Language Studies Special Issue: Call for articles |
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In her 1970
work about perceptions and representations of age in different cultures and
literatures, 'La Vieillesse', Simone de Beauvoir remarked that ‘le vieillard
n’est pas un bon héros de roman; il est achevé, figé, sans attente, sans
espoir; pour lui les jeux sont faits’.
Thinking more specifically about old women and the ways in
which aging is different for them, Anne-Marie Houdebine-Gravaud has said that
‘le mot “vieillard” existe mais non le terme “vieillarde” [...] C’est qu’une
femme ne devrait jamais vieillir’ (1999).
Many writers have however quite deliberately placed older characters
at the centre of their work and in 2006 two such novels in French met with
commercial success (Benoite Groult, 'La Touche étoile', Héléna Marienské,
'Rhésus'). In this context, this
Special Issue seeks to look at the ways in which age has been perceived and
represented, both negatively and positively in European Literatures. Was Beauvoir right? What stereotypes about
older people have been attacked or reinforced in literature? Have writers
often seen age as a barrier between generations and how has the ‘generation
gap’ been represented? What place is there/has there traditionally been in
European literatures for older people? How is old age different/perceived as
different for women? Have different cultures approached it in noticeably
diverse ways? |
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Proposals for articles in English (300 words) should be
sent to the guest editor Joy Charnley (j.charnley@phonecoop.coop)
who will be happy to respond to any queries.
Completed
articles will need to be submitted by September 2010 and
publication is planned for April 2011.
Articles should be up to 5,000 words, including endnotes, and must
conform to the FMLS stylesheet (see the FMLS website). |
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French Historical Studies
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The 57th
Annual Society for French Historical Studies conference will be held at the
Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina from Thursday, February
10, through Saturday, February 12, 2011 and will be hosted by The
Citadel. Featured speakers include
Dena Goodman (University of Michigan) and Sylvain Venayre (Université de Paris
I). Featured events include a plenary
session and reception Friday evening at The Citadel and a banquet on Saturday
evening. Additional outings on Sunday
morning February 13 to Fort Sumter and Drayton Hall Plantation, will be
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The
program committee will make every effort to combine single papers into
coherent panels, but we encourage individuals to organize complete panels
composed of two or (preferably) three papers, with a chair and
commentator. Roundtables and other
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not send proposals for papers that have already been presented or that are
scheduled for presentation at other conferences, or that have already been
published. All conference participants
must be members in good standing of SFHS at the time of the conference. |
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All
sessions will be held at the Francis Marion Hotel in downtown
Charleston. The hotel is steps away
from restaurants, historical sites and museums. The special hotel rate will be $145.oo per
night. |
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Please
send proposals for panels or individual papers as MS-Word attachments to
Joelle Neulander, President and chair of the program committee (joelle.neulander@citadel.edu) Proposals should include the following
items, integrated into one file: an abstract (no more than 1 page) for each
paper; a CV (no more than 1 page) for each presenter, including contact
information; and the proposed chair’s and commentator’s name, affiliation,
and email address. |
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Revisiting the Past, Recasting the
Present: The Reception of Greek Antiquity in Music, 19th Century to the
Present
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BASEES Study Group for
Russian and Eastern European Music Polyphonia Journal Hellenic Music Centre |
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Athens (Michael
Cacoyannis Foundation), 1-3 July 2011 |
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Conference website: www.athensconf2011.gateweb.gr |
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Greek antiquity has proved an inexhaustible source of
inspiration throughout the history of Western ‘art’ music, endowing composers
with a plethora of themes from its mythology and literary tradition; at the
same time it has had a distinct impact on musical creativity itself through
its cultural products: ancient Greek tragedy, poetry, as well as ancient
Greek music itself (mainly, but not exclusively, through the study and use of
its modes). The engagement with and interpretation
of elements of ancient Greek culture in and through music reflect the
specific historical, cultural and social context in which they have taken
place; thus these mechanisms enable us to decode the particular relationships
between the receiving audiences (artists, critics, listeners), their times
and Greek antiquity. In this respect,
the period stretching from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the
present is a most inviting case study, encompassing extensive historical,
socio-political and cultural developments.
During a period extending roughly from the Renaissance through to the
Enlightenment, neo-classical themes had played a decisive role in the
formation of modern European culture.
However, the advent of Romanticism, with its apparent emphasis on
vernacular themes, radically reframed the classical legacy. The beginning of the nineteenth century
marked a new phase in Western perceptions of Greek antiquity, shaped by a
number of historical, ideological and artistic factors, such as: the
intensification of philhellenism in the wake of the Greek struggle for
independence against the Turks; radical developments in archaeology,
philology and the study of ancient history; the growing philhellenism in arts
and literature; and the evocation of Greece in the narratives of national
self-determination.. Likewise, the
twentieth century has looked on the classical past with different eyes,
whether through modernism’s search for the universal, post-modernism’s
complex attitude to tradition and the inherited narratives of canonicity, or
post-colonialism’s critique of myths about national identity and
origins. The reception of the ancient
Greek world has undoubtedly not been homogeneous throughout the centuries
under consideration. This conference
aims to explore the complex set of processes by which ancient Greek culture
has been approached, (re)discovered and (re)interpreted in and through music,
from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The conference invites the widest possible range
of musicological approaches (including ethnomusicological and anthropological
ones). Interdisciplinary papers –
which may refer to literature, the arts, cinema, theatre, and so on – are
especially encouraged. Although the
conference addresses the reception of Greek, rather than Roman, antiquity, we
welcome papers that would highlight the connection and dialogue between these
two cultures, as well as between ancient Greek and other cultures. Similarly, papers that involve ancient
Greek music should contribute to the exploration of the conference’s focus on
modes of reception. We particularly
encourage proposals on Greek music since the nineteenth century, and papers
exploring the reception of Greek antiquity in Russian and Eastern European
music. Nineteenth-century Russian
theories of music that referred to ancient Greek modes, Symbolism,
neo-classicism, as well as the employment of ancient Greek themes by
composers such as Taneyev, Szymanowski and Enescu are only a few examples of
the points of contact between Russian and Eastern European music with ancient
Greek culture. |
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- The study
and reception of Greek antiquity by composers, musicians, music theorists,
artists in general, critics, audiences, institutions - Historical, social, cultural,
political, ideological, religious and artistic factors that have shaped
various cases of reception of Greek antiquity - Mythological references, their
symbolisms and interpretations -
The role of tradition and innovation in the reception of Greek
antiquity - Nostalgia in the
reception of Greek antiquity -
Exoticism in the reception of Greek antiquity - Issues of identity construction
(national, Greek, European, Western, Eastern) - Devotion to or imitation of Greek
antiquity and classical ideals associated with ancient Greece (‘Hellenism’)
but also criticism or the rejection of the ancient Greek past - The reception of Greek antiquity
with reference to philosophy (e.g.
Nietzsche, the Apollonian, the Dionysian elements) - Greek antiquity on stage and
screen: the ballet, opera, musical theatre, film - The reception of Greek antiquity in
theories of music - Archaisms
in compositional practice (e.g.
modality) - The
reception of Greek antiquity with reference to traditional and popular music
- Issues of sexuality
pertaining to the study of Greek antiquity and its reflection in music |
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The conference’s official language is English. Proposals for 20-minute papers (of no more
than 300 words) and short biographical notes (of up to 200 words) should be
sent toathensconf2011@gateweb.gr
by 1st
September 2010 (receipt of proposals will be acknowledged by
e-mail). Abstracts will be reviewed
and results will be announced by 30 October 2010. A selection of papers will be considered
for publication in a book form.
Conference fee: 50 Euros (Students are exempted. Efforts will be made by the conference
organisers to secure funding that will allow us to waive the fee). |
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Keynote speakers: Prof. Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford),
Dr Marina Frolova-Walker (University of Cambridge) |
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Confirmed speakers: Prof.
Jim Samson (Royal Holloway, University of London) Prof. Ion Zotos
(University of Athens) |
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Conference Committee: Dr Rosamund Bartlett, Dr Philip
Bullock, Dr Katerina Levidou, Prof. Katy Romanou, Yannis Sabrovalakis, Dr
George Vlastos |
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Money/Myths
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32nd
Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association |
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3-6 March
2011 at Arizona State University, Tempe & Phoenix, Arizona |
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How was
money understood in the nineteenth century? in its global context? by
laborers? How did the ideation of money evolve around and through art, music,
race, nation, and empire? How did the stories told about money influence
people and practices? What role do myths play in comprehending money? How
were relations between people mediated by narratives of money? relations
between nations? This theme would invite papers and panel proposals
concerning |
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any
aspect of money/myth during the long nineteenth century, including, but not
limited to the “myths” or “realities” of trade, debt, industry and
investment, economics, money-lending, poverty, consumer culture, class
relations, race relations and their economic implications, gender politics,
masculinity and femininity as shaped by/of money, sexual politics, sexuality
and the law, aesthetics, art and art collecting, theater and performance
politics, religion and wealth, |
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social
service programs, education, travel, entertainment, sporting, financing and
producing wealth through science, international connections and compacts,
public/private divide, differential health care, class mobility, marriage,
widowhood, inheritance, prostitution, |
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child
rearing, infanticide, property politics, movements motivated by money
(Chartism, socialism, communism, trades unions, reform), immigration, empire,
war, and slavery. Equally welcome are
paper and panel proposals concerning the processes of creating mythic
structures around money including governmental campaigns, the publishing
industry, legal processes, military campaigns, advertising, propaganda, and
novelizations. |
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Abstracts
(250 words) for 20 minute papers, author’s name and paper title in heading,
with one page c.v. by 15th September 2010: Marlene Tromp, Program Chair,
Denison University: nsca@denison.edu |
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Presenters
will be notified by 15th December 2010. |
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Graduate
students whose proposals are accepted can at that point submit a full-length
version of the paper to compete for a travel grant to help cover
transportation and lodging expenses.
Registration and accommodation information available 15th November
2010 at http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html. |
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Keynote
Speaker: Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities,
Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge and Department of
English, New York University. |
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Future
Wars, Imagined Wars: Towards a Cultural History of the pre-1914 Period.
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Conference organized by the Centre
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the German Historical Institute, Paris |
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9th–10th November 2011 |
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Proposals are invited for papers to be given at the above
conference. They should be no more than one page in length and sent to the
Director of the Centre International de Recherche, Mme Caroline Fontaine (research@historial.org),
by Monday,
13th September 2010. Proposals may be in English or French. |
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This conference stands at the crossroads of three trains
of thought concerning the history of the Great War, each of them at once
conceptual and empirical. |
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1. The cultural approach to the history of the war
initially sought to recover the experiences of the conflict itself – its
violence, its hidden dimensions (invasions, atrocities, occupations,
prisoners-of-war, etc.). This involved dismantling the retrospective myths of
the war in order to reconstitute the main experiences of the conflict in all
their complexity – entries into war, life at the front, and so on. This same
approach has also been applied to the consequences and legacies of the war,
such as trauma, memory, commemoration, cultural demobilizations and
remobilizations, etc. However, a cultural historical approach has not
yet been applied systematically to the pre-war period. The latter thus
represents the last significant terrain to be explored from this point of
view. |
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2. The pre-war period leading up to 1914 raises important
conceptual questions. Because of the gulf between the immediate political and
diplomatic causes of the Great War and the war’s unforeseen consequences,
pre-war perspectives bore little relationship to the eventual experiences of
the war, despite being a major determinant of them. Reconstituting the
multiple senses of a future war, or wars, which existed before 1914 would
thus contribute the final panel to an interpretative triptych of the Great
War as a fundamental rupture in modern history – the future war, the war
experienced, the war in retrospect. |
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3. For a long time the pre-war period dominated the
historiography of the war in the form of the “responsibilities” question.
Reactivated by the Fischer thesis in the 1960s and the debates to which that
gave rise, this question has never entirely disappeared even if it ran out of
steam in the 1990s by comparison with the dynamism of the new questions being
proposed by the cultural history of the conflict. The “responsibility” for
the outbreak of the war is a prime example of the classic tradition of
military and political history, focused on questions of cause and
consequence. Since cultural history has concerned itself more with experience
and the multiple ways in which experience is constituted and transmitted, it
has had less to say about causality, without ever totally ignoring it. |
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The reintegration of cultural with political and military
history is currently emerging as one of the main challenges of historical
writing and it poses precisely the question of the causal weight to be
assigned to questions of experience, the imaginary and representations. A
conference on the pre-war period is thus an ideal vehicle for addressing this
challenge in its more general implications. What was the precise historical
relationship between the causes of the war and these imagined future wars
that never came about? |
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In order to explore these three lines of reflection, it is
necessary to take into account the entire spectrum of possible causalities.
The mental horizons and cultural and political assumptions of the principal
actors (generals, political leaders) are firmly on the agenda. So, too, are
the wars of the future as they were imagined by major literary figures and by
the press. Equally important are the ways in which contemporaries understood
the conflicts of the pre-war period, including the colonial dimension as a
terrain for imagining future European conflicts, and the lessons they drew
from them for future wars. The conference would also provide an opportunity
to revisit the place of war in the imagined futures of different kinds of
activist – nationalists, feminists, socialists, etc. |
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The nature of the subject (notably the importance of the
Balkan Wars and Russia) offers the opportunity to include specialists of
Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe and Russia. The same is true for Italy,
given the significance of Futurism and the Italian-Turkish War of 1911-12.
Countries such as Spain, which participated fully in the “pre-war” period
(crisis and “generation” of 1898), though remaining neutral during the war
itself, equally come within the ambit of the conference. |
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1. Introduction: What is a “pre-war” period? What was the
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6. Epilogue: the arrival of the future, August-December
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CONTRIBUTIONS |
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Colloque
organisé par le |
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Centre
International de Recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre |
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en association
avec l’Institut Historique Allemand de Paris |
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et la participation du Centre for First World War Studies,
University of Birmingham |
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Les
propositions de communication, d’une page maximum, accompagnées d’un court
curriculum vitae, devront être envoyées à la Directrice du Centre
International de Recherche, Mme Caroline Fontaine (research@historial.org) avant le lundi
13 septembre 2010. |
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Les
propositions sont acceptées en français et en anglais. |
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Ce colloque se
situe au croisement de trois réflexions sur l’histoire de la Grande Guerre,
toutes trois d’ordre conceptuel et empirique à la fois. |
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1. L’approche
culturelle de l’histoire de la guerre s’est distinguée initialement par le
souci de retrouver les expériences du conflit – ses violences, ses faces
cachées (invasions, atrocités, occupations, prisonniers, etc.). Ainsi a-t-il
fallu démanteler les mythes rétrospectifs afin de reconstituer dans toute
leur complexité les expériences majeures du conflit - entrées en guerre,
expériences combattantes, etc. Cette même approche a été appliquée aux
conséquences et aux héritages de la guerre - traumatismes, mémoire,
commémoration, démobilisations et remobilisations culturelles, etc. En
revanche, l’approche par l´histoire culturelle n’a pas encore été appliquée
de manière systématique à l’histoire de l’avant-guerre de 1914. Celle-ci
constitue en effet le dernier grand terrain à défricher sous cet angle. |
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2. L’avant-guerre
de 1914 pose des questions importantes, d’ordre conceptuel. Du fait de
l’écart entre les causes immédiates, politiques et diplomatiques de la Grande
Guerre avec les conséquences de celle-ci, les perspectives portant sur
l’avenir avant 1914 ont peu en commun avec les expériences ultérieures du
conflit. Et pourtant, elles ont lourdement pesé sur elles. Reconstituer les
sens multiples de la guerre future ou des possibles guerres futures avant
1914 serait donc le dernier panneau du triptyque à mettre en place pour
saisir la Grande Guerre en tant que rupture historique fondamentale (la
guerre future, la guerre survenue, l’après-guerre). |
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3.
L’Avant-guerre de 1914 a longtemps prédominé sur l’historiographie de la
guerre elle-même, sous l’angle de la question des « responsabilités ».
Réanimé par la thèse de Fritz Fischer dans les années 1960, le débat ne s’est
jamais estompé complètement, même si à partir des années 1990 il a perdu son
dynamisme face, précisément, aux nouvelles questions proposées par l’histoire
culturelle du conflit. La question des « responsabilités » était l’exemple
même de la tradition classique de l’histoire militaire et politique (causes
et conséquences). L’histoire culturelle en revanche, en se concentrant sur
l’expérience et les divers moyens par lesquels l’expérience se constitue, se
transmet etc., s’est beaucoup moins posé la question de la causalité, sans
cependant s’en désintéresser totalement. |
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Actuellement,
la réintégration de l’histoire culturelle dans l’histoire politique et
militaire se révèle l’un des défis historiographiques majeurs. Elle pose
précisément la question du poids de l’expérience, de l’imaginaire et des
représentations dans la causalité historique. Un colloque sur « l´Avant
1914 » présente donc une occasion idéale pour relever ce défi d´une
manière générale. Dans les causes de la guerre, quel fut donc l’impact de ces
avenirs imaginés, et jamais advenus ? |
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Pour explorer
ces trois axes de réflexion, il faut envisager toute la gamme des causalités
possibles. En font partie les horizons mentaux et les présupposés culturels
et politiques des grands acteurs (généraux, hommes politiques), tout comme la
guerre future imaginée par les écrivains ou la grande presse. Egalement
importantes sont les lectures contemporaines des conflits de l’avant-guerre,
ainsi que la dimension coloniale en tant que terrain imaginaire des avenirs
européens, anticipations guerrières comprises. Le projet fournit l’occasion
de revisiter aussi la place de la guerre dans les visions de l’avenir au sein
de minorités agissantes (nationalistes, féministes, socialistes). |
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La nature du
sujet (notamment l’importance des guerres balkaniques et le poids de la
Russie) offre la possibilité d’inclure des spécialistes de l’Europe de l’Est,
du Sud-Est et de la Russie. Il en va de même pour l’Italie autour du
Futurisme et de la guerre italo-turque de 1911-12. Des pays comme l’Espagne,
qui ont participé pleinement à « l’avant-guerre » (crise et « génération » de
1898) sans pour autant participer à la Grande Guerre, se trouvent également
dans le périmètre du colloque. |
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Programme.
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1.
Introduction: Qu’est-ce qu’un « avant-guerre » ? Qu’est-ce
qu´un « avant-guerre de 1914 » ? |
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2. Les longs
passés de la guerre future. |
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3. La guerre
dans le proche avenir, 1899-1914. |
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4. Crises
internationales et imminences de guerre, 1911-1913. |
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5. La Crise de
Juillet 1914 |
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6.
Epilogue : Le futur advenu, août-décembre 1914. |
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Dr Pierre Purseigle, Director, Centre for First World War
Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England. p.purseigle@bham.ac.uk
; http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk |
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Victorian Epidemics
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Victorian Studies
Association of Western Canada Banff, Alberta April 29-30, 2011 |
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Keynote speaker: Pamela Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor of
English, University of Florida. Dr.
Gilbert has published widely in the areas of Victorian literature,
cultural studies and the history of medicine.
Her first book, Disease, Desire
and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels, was published by
Cambridge University Press in 1997, followed by Mapping the Victorian Social Body (SUNY Press, 2004) and The Citizen’s Body (Ohio State
University Press, 2007), and Cholera
and Nation (SUNY Press, 2008). |
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This international conference will bring together
specialists in Victorian art history, history, gender studies, science, and
literature to contemplate the theme of disease in Victorian England and its
colonies. Papers will address medical
and social histories of disease, literary and artistic representations of
disease, and disease as metaphor in Victorian culture. |
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Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-Victorian plagues: cholera, TB, venereal disease, influenza, smallpox
-histories and narratives of disease -identity and pathology -disease and the
body -disease as metaphor, languages of disease, contagion, illness -disease
and colonization, disease and globalization -art as disease, mass culture as
disease -the spread of commercialism -visual and literary representations of
disease and illness -sewers, filth, miasma -slums, prostitution -health and
hygiene -representations of illness -mental illness -imperial anxiety and
disease |
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Please submit a 500 word abstract and short (50-75 word
bio) by 15th
September to Kristen Guest, Program Chair, kguest@unbc.ca |
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The conference will take place in Banff, Alberta in the
heart of the Canadian Rockies. The
town of Banff is surrounded by the spectacular scenery of Banff National
Park, which offers excellent opportunities for both hiking and downhill
skiing in late April. Banff is
approximately one hour from Calgary and is easily accessible by car or air
(regular and reasonably priced shuttles are available from Calgary
International Airport). |
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Accommodations and sessions will be held in the Banff Park
Lodge. |
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Dr. Kristen Guest, Associate Professor, University of
Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9. kguest@unbc.ca. |
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Naples Crucible of the World
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The initial conference
(April 2010) was rescheduled due to the volcano ashes. |
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This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore
Neapolitan culture from Sixteenth century to present time. Fields of studies are: theatre, cinema, music,
literature, politics, philosophy and more.
Through such a comparative approach we intend to highlight the great
contribution provided by Neapolitan culture to the world. We invite papers (in Italian or English)
from scholars in any field of study linked to Neapolitan culture. The new deadline for submissions is 15th September
2010. Please e mail your
abstacts (200 words) to mariano.damora@gmail.com
The conference will be held in London on 29th and 30th October 2010. |
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PLEASE NOTE: As we established a partnership with the University of Naples "Parthenope", this conference will be hosted by such University in Naples in May 2011. Speakers who have the opportunity to participate in both conferences (but with different papers) or indicate in which conference they prefer to participate. |
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Selling Culture?: Cultural
Identities in the Victorian Periodical Press
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20 – 21 November 2010 |
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(in association with
the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and the Association for
Research in Popular Fictions) |
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Keynote Speaker: Dr Jim Mussell (Birmingham University) |
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You are invited to contribute proposals on the theme of
“Cultural Identities in the Victorian Periodical Press”, for a parallel
strand that will run at the Annual Association for Research in Popular
Fictions conference. The conference’s main theme is “Popular Fictions:
Selling Culture?”. The strand co-ordinators, Dr Clare Horrocks and Dr
Amber Regis, on behalf of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, are
keen to attract papers which focus specifically on how culture was both marketed
and commodified in the Victorian Periodical Press – whether that was through
the identity of an author, editor, region or even a periodical itself. |
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Suggested themes include, but are not limited to: |
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How readers are interpellated – Specific strategies for
negotiating new cultural texts and formations – Periodicals and newspapers as
a ‘brand’ – Use of illustration – Religious, regional, class and gendered
narratives – Editorials and opinion pieces – Feuds, scandals and conflicts –
Autobiography and life-writing – Controversies and discoveries – Secrecy and
sensation. |
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Please send abstracts of 250 – 300 words to Dr Clare
Horrocks by Friday
16th September 2010 at C.L.Horrocks@ljmu.ac.uk.
Alternatively please write to Dr Clare Horrocks and Dr Amber Regis at Dean
Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University, St James Road, Liverpool,
L1 7BR |
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Dr Clare Horrocks, Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture,
Communication, Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University, St
James Road, Liverpool L1 7BR. C.L.Horrocks@ljmu.ac.uk |
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Shaping Modernism: Katherine
Mansfield and her Contemporaries
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Faculty of English, University of Cambridge on 25th-26th
March 2011. This two-day residential
conference will focus on Mansfield and modernism, exploring the exchanges and
dialogues between Mansfield and her contemporaries, and the interchange
between her writing and other disciplines. |
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We invite papers from anyone with an interest in Katherine
Mansfield and/or modernism. Professor
Laura Marcus is confirmed as a keynote speaker, and will be discussing
Mansfield and cinema. The author Ali
Smith has kindly agreed to present a 'discursive short story'. |
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Announcements on further keynotes and speakers will be
coming soon! |
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Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Patron of the Katherine Mansfield
Society, will be giving our post-dinner talk, following dinner in Newnham
College. |
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Please see our webpage for more details: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/cambridge-2011/ |
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The deadline for submitting an abstract is 20th September 2010. |
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Amateur Performance in the Long
Nineteenth Century
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42nd Annual Convention,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-10, 2011 New Brunswick,
NJ – Hyatt New Brunswick Host Institution: Rutgers University |
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The ubiquity of amateur performance in the long nineteenth
century (1780-1914) is often peripherally mentioned but rarely made the
primary focus of scholarship on the period.
Because non-professionals participated in the mechanics of dramatic
representation, inhabiting famous dramatic roles instead of observing them in
performance, this leisure practice has considerable cultural, political, and
aesthetic significance for our understanding of how drama was experienced in
the nineteenth century. Amateur performance
is a general term for a wide variety of performance scenarios, and proposals
are invited that consider country home theatricals, toy/puppet theatricals,
performance aboard naval and merchant vessels, middle-class parlor
theatricals, school and university performances, amateur benefit productions,
and anything in-between. Particular
attention to genre is also invited, as texts for amateur performance included
fairy tales, burlesques, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, and scenes from
Shakespeare. The panel will ideally
cover diverse practices in England and America, though papers considering the
practice outside England and America are also welcome. |
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Please submit a proposal of 250-500 words electronically
(.doc or .pdf) to Mary Isbell (mary.isbell@gmail.com) |
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Deadline: 30th September 2010 |
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Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation
Email address Postal address Telephone number A/V requirements (if any; $10
handling fee with registration) |
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The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 360
sessions, as well as pre-conference workshops, dynamic speakers and cultural
events. Details and the complete Call
for Papers for the 2011 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org. |
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Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than
one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or
seminar). Convention participants may
present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. Do not
accept a slot if you may cancel to present on another session. |
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Mary Isbell Ph.D.
Candidate in English University of Connecticut 215 Glenbrook Road,
U-4025 Storrs, CT 06269 860.486.2859 |
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The female performer in European
fiction (1780-1914): gender issues
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42nd Annual Convention,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) SESSION ID : 11267 Areas:
Women’s and Gender Studies; Comparative Languages April 7-10, 2011 New
Brunswick, NJ. Hyatt
New Brunswick. Host Institution: Rutgers University |
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Between 1780 and 1914, the ‘theatre woman’ (including all
female performers: actresses, singers, or even dancers) gradually
achieved everything : first of all,
the female performer upgraded her male
counterpart in terms of wages and fame; and secondly she became a fictional heroine. During the period indeed the female
performer truly bewitched European authors.
One can even suggest the gradual emergence of several sub-genera --
the ‘actress novel’, (see The Tragic Muse, Graf Petöfy, La Faustin), the ‘dancer
novel’ (see La Fanfarlo), or even the
‘female singer novel’ (Consuelo).
One could even go as far as suggesting a whole network of genera, with
for instance, the ‘female dancer poetry’ (Paul Verlaine or Arthur Symons), or
the ‘actress play’ (Tosca and Adrienne Lecouvreur). This «upgrading» first bears testimony to
the growing popularity of the theatre,
the actor, and, more significantly, the actress, in the society of the time; it also points to the
widespread interest shown in fiction for the feminine as a whole. We would like to investigate the haunting
presence of the ‘female performer’, in
late 18th, 19th and early 20th century European fiction (plays, novels,
poetry). We would like to see, for
example, whether the female performer figure is different in ‘Latin’ or
‘Germanic’ countries. We would also like to raise some questions
about gender: does the actress embody
womanhood as a whole? In which terms? And is
the writing of the female performer ‘gendered’, that is to say, can
we notice differences between male and
female writers writing about female players? |
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Please submit 300-word abstracts in English or French to
Corinne François-Denève, corinne.francois@uvsq.fr
Publication of the proceedings of the conference is possible. Corinne François-Denève, UVSQ, corinne.francois@uvsq.fr, CHCSC, EA 2448, Université de
Versailles-Saint-Quentin. |
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Deadline: 30th September
2010 |
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42e convention
annuelle de la Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) SESSION ID :
11267 Domaines : études féministes, études de genre, littératures comparées
7-10 avril 2011 New Brunswick, NJ. Hyatt
New Brunswick. Institution d’accueil:
Rutgers University |
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La femme de
spectacle dans la fiction européenne (1780-1914) : questions de genres |
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La période
couvrant la période des années 1780-1914 marque l’irrésistible ascension de la femme de
spectacle (le terme est assez large
pour englober les actrices, les chanteuses et les cantatrices, et même les danseuses) : la femme de
spectacle finit par surpasser, en
termes de gloire et de salaire, ses collègues masculins ; et elle devient une héroïne de fiction. Tout au long de cette période en effet la
femme de spectacle fascine les auteurs
européens. On peut même suggérer
l’émergence graduelle de sous-genres
(roman de l’actrice (avec The Tragic Muse, Graf Petöfy, La Faustin?), roman de la danseuse (La
Fanfarlo) et même roman de la
cantatrice (Consuelo)). On
pourrait même aller plus loin et évoquer
l’existence d’une multiplication de genres croisés, avec par,
exemple, la poésie de la danseuse
(Paul Verlaine et Arthur Symons) ou le
théâtre de l’actrice (Tosca et Adrienne Lecouvreur). Cette promotion de l’actrice en fiction est
un indice évident de la popularité grandissante
du théâtre, des acteurs, et, plus précisément, des actrices, dans la société du temps ;
mais elle indique aussi un intérêt
plus général et non démenti pour le « féminin ». Nous voudrions ici questionner la présence
de la femme de spectacle dans la
fiction européenne (théâtre, romans, nouvelles) de la fin du XVIIIe au début du XXe siècle. Nous voudrions par exemple nous demander si la femme de spectacle est
dépeinte différemment dans les pays
dits latins ou dans les pays dits germaniques. Ce panel sera aussi le lieu d?une interrogation sur le «
genre ». L’actrice incarne-t-elle la
féminité, et si oui, selon quels termes ? Et
l’écriture de la femme de spectacle est-elle « genrée » --
peut-on voir des divergences
significatives entre les hommes et les femmes de plume qui écrivent sur les femmes de
spectacle ? |
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Envoyez vos
propositions, en français et en anglais (300 mots) à Corinne François-Denève,
corinne.francois@uvsq.fr. |
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Une publication peut suivre la
conférence. |
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Date limite: 30 septembre 2010 |
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-- Corinne
François-Denève, Maître de conférences en littérature française, Université
de Versailles, Saint Quentin en Yvelines. |
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Between Light and Darkness -
International Symposium on Fin-de-siècle Symbolism
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The symposium Between
Light and Darkness will take place 9th and 10th December 2010 at the Ateneum
Art Museum - Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland. |
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The focus of the symposium is on religion, mysticism, and
subjectivity in Symbolist art and theory, and on the fin-de-siècle
relationship between art and science, considering also the ways in which the
Symbolist influence has continued after the fin-de-siècle period. The purpose is to bring together scholars studying
Symbolism and related subjects and to shed new light on the
interconnectedness of esoteric thought and the discourses of Modernity. |
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Between Light and Darkness is organized as collaboration
by the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, the Department of Art History at the
University of Helsinki, and the Ateneum Art Museum - Finnish National
Gallery, which hosts an important collection of Symbolist art mainly by
Finnish artists, such as Magnus Enckell, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Hugo Simberg,
and Ellen Thesleff. The symposium is
supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. |
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The symposium wishes to pay tribute to the Finnish art
historian Salme Sarajas-Korte who was among the first researchers to initiate
a discussion on the relations between artistic and mystical discourses. Her doctoral dissertation on Symbolist art,
published in 1966, for which she did extensive archival work at the
Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, is still unparalleled in its understanding
of the interconnectedness of Symbolist art with the broader cultural field of
literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. |
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Professor Lynn L. Sharp of Whitman College, author of the
2006 book Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in
Nineteenth-Century France, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker. Further information about speakers,
sessions, and the program will be announced later on the symposium web page http://www.ateneum.fi/default.asp?docId=13811. |
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The organizers of the symposium invite paper proposals
from scholars of art history, literature, music, cultural history, religion,
etc. The presentations may cover any
topic relating to the theme of the
symposium. Presenters are asked
to prepare a 20 minute talk and allow 10 minutes for discussion. |
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Those interested in presenting a paper at the symposium
should send an abstract in English (max.
400 words) to Marja Lahelma (marja.lahelma@helsinki.fi) by 30th September 2010. |
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Victorian Bodies and Machines
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42nd Annual Convention,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-10, 2011 New Brunswick,
NJ – Hyatt New Brunswick Host Institution: Rutgers University |
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This panel will examine representational and material
relations between bodies and machines in the Victorian era. Papers may approach this topic from the
direction of industrialization and economics to examine labor power; the
laborer’s body as machine or appendage of the machine; or the effects of
machine labor on the worker’s body, including factory accidents and
developmental deformities. Specific
Victorian technological innovations may be addressed through examination of
scientific texts (or science fiction) and the ways new technologies are
figured in relation with (or as extensions of) human bodies, including
networks and human communications; prostheses and appendages; or robots and
automatons. Papers may also examine
the connections between machines and specific kinds of bodies (classed,
gendered, etc.) or forms of embodiment (for example: How does the worker’s
relation with the machine construct a specifically gendered and/or classed
body?). In addition to texts of the
Victorian era, the panel welcomes papers that examine relations between
Victorian bodies and machines in Steampunk texts and contexts. |
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Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Jessica Kuskey jekuskey@syr.edu.
Deadline: 30th September 2010. |
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Please include with your abstract: |
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Name and Affiliation – Email address – Postal address –
Telephone number – A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with
registration). |
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American Literary Tourism
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42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language
Association (NeMLA) April 7-10, 2011 New Brunswick, NY – Hyatt New Brunswick
Host Institution: Rutgers University |
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American Literary Tourism From visits to the grave of the
fictional eighteenth-century Charlotte Temple, to the restoration of Salem’s
House of the Seven Gables at the turn of the century, to competing
twentieth-century Faulkner Festivals, literary tourism is ingrained in
American culture. We invite
submissions from scholars interested in any aspect of American literary
tourism, from the creation and maintenance of sites and events, to
interpretations and experiences of them, and beyond. Send 300-500 word proposals and brief
bio/CV to Jennifer Harris (jharris@mta.ca). Deadline: 30th September 2010. |
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Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation
Email address Postal address Telephone number A/V requirements (if any; $10
handling fee with registration) |
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The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 360
sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers
for the 2011 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org. |
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Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than
one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or
seminar). Convention participants may
present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. Do not
accept a slot if you may cancel to present on another session. |
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Jennifer Harris, Associate Professor, Department of
English, Mount Allison University, Canada http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts-letters/english/faculty/harris/index.htm |
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October
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Disability & the Victorians:
Confronting Legacies
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30th July-1st August
2012, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, England |
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Announcement and First Call for Papers
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The nineteenth century was the period during which
disability was conceptualised, categorised, and defined. The industrial
revolution, advances in medicine, the emergence of philanthropy and the
growth of asylums all played their part in creating what today's society
describes as the medical model of disability. |
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Disability can be traced through many forms: in material
culture and literary genres; scientific, medical and official inquiries; art;
architecture; the history of disabled charities; disabled people's
experiences; the legacy inherited by disabled people today of phrenology and
physiognomy; events such as the 1880 Milan Conference, and the taxonomies and
categories of disability - the handicapped; the deaf and dumb; the feeble
minded; the blind; the imbecile and the cretin. The legacy of the
relationship between the body, the scientific and the literary text; the
intersection of disability, theories of evolution and anthropology, gender
and degeneration. How can we draw disabled voices and testimonies together to
construct 'the long view'? What are the advantages and the challenges of teaching
about disability and the disabled in the Victorian period? |
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Proposals for papers, panels, posters and other forms of
presentation (e.g. creative writing) are invited that open up new lines of
research and inquiry relating to any aspect of Disability in the Victorian
period. Possible themes might include: |
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* Resistance, conformity, subversion, transgression. *
Freak shows and circuses. * The visibility and invisibility of disability:
beggars, street sellers, hawkers; Victorian institutions, charities, asylums,
schools and clubs. * Taxonomic practices. * Disabled heroes and villains;
male vs. female invalidism; the school of pain. * Victorian technologies,
prostheses, the emergence of audiology, the development and spread of
Braille. * The revival of folkloric changelings. * Portrayals of children and
childhood. * Disability as a moral force for improvement, theology and
spiritual enlightenment/development. * The formation of Victorian national
identity and national efficiency, empire, 'race' and colonialism. *
Disability and the fear of loss, eugenics and degeneration. * The medical and
scientific text. * Victorian social
policy and legal frameworks. |
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Those with an involvement in disability, either through
work, teaching or direct experience, and papers that adopt a comparative
frame, shifting across the normal boundaries of history, literary studies,
the history of medicine, the history and philosophy of science, art history,
etc. are especially sought, but studies with a narrower focus seeking to
challenge Victorian legacies in this field are also welcome. |
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The deadline for the submission of proposals for panel
sessions (no longer than 500 words) and proposals for individual 20-minute
papers and presentations (200-250 words) is 4th October, 2010. At this stage
your proposal/enquiry may be exploratory. A second and final call for papers
will be issued in June 2011. |
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Please send a short biographical note together with your
proposal. Prospective panel organisers should also send the panellists'
names, paper titles, and a short biographical note for each panellist and
their contact details. |
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Support workers and carers are exempted from the
conference registration fees. Papers will be circulated in advance of the
conference. Please indicate by July 2011 if you would like LCVS to supply a
sign language interpreter. Please indicate by April 2012 if you would like
LCVS to supply an escort or support worker. All assistance dogs are welcome.
If you have any enquiries regarding facilities and services for disabled
people, or would like this Call for Papers in large print, please contact Joy
Hamblin. |
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Proposals, or enquiries relating to these, should be sent
to Karen Sayer k.sayer@leedstrinity.ac.uk |
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General enquiries to: |
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Karen Sayer, Senior Lecturer in History, Leeds Centre for
Victorian Studies, Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Leeds,
LS18 5HD; e-mail k.sayer@leedstrinity.ac.uk;
tel. 0113 2837212 |
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Or, Joy Hamblin, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Leeds
Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Leeds, LS18 5HD j.hamblin@leedstrinity.ac.uk;
tel. 0113 2837305 <mailto:m.hewitt@tasc.ac.uk;>
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Social History
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The 2011 annual
conference of the Social History Society will take place at the University of
Manchester from Tuesday 12 to Thursday 14 April 2011. |
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The Society's conference has no single theme. It is
organised in six strands (full details on the website) |
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— Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion — Life-cycles and
Life-styles — Markets, Culture and Society — Political Cultures, Policy and
Citizenship — Narratives, Emotions and the Self — Spaces and Places |
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Please submit proposals for papers via the Social History
Society website http://www.socialhistory.gellius.net/annualconference.php.
The deadline
is 4th October 2010. |
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We encourage submissions of panels of up to 4 speakers.
Proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes are, of course, also
welcome. Details of each strand are available on the conference website. |
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Postgraduate students are encouraged to offer papers.
Details of bursaries and the postgraduate paper prize are available on the
conference website. Papers presented at the conference can be submitted to
the Society¹s journal, Cultural and Social History, to be considered for
publication. For details, see http://www.socialhistory.gellius.net/Journal.php. |
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General enquiries should be sent to: Mrs. Linda Persson,
Administrative Secretary, Social History Society, Furness College, Bailrigg,
Lancaster, LA1 4YG (01524 592547; l.persson@lancaster.ac.uk). |
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Dr Katrina Navickas Lecturer in History, School of
Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, De Havilland Campus, Hatfield,
Herts, AL10 9AB. |
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CARMEN AND HER OTHERS
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Confirmed speakers include Ann Davies (Newcastle) and Jean
Andrews (Nottingham). |
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The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to conduct
an in-depth study of Carmen in her various manifestations. By exploring Carmen in text, opera, film,
dance and theatre, the conference hopes to trace various incarnations of the
work across time and space. By
juxtaposing multiple versions, we will explore issues of inter-cultural and
inter-medial translation and adaptation. |
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The most famous versions of Carmen are the Merimee novella
(1845) and Bizet’s opera (1875).
Subsequently, the story proliferated into over eighty films and
numerous re-stagings, including notable versions such as those by Cecille
DeMille (1915), Otto Preminger (1954) and Carlos Saura (1995). More recent interpretations include Karmen
Gei (2001, Senegal); U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha (2005, South Africa); and a
television remake starring Beyonce Knowles (Carmen: A Hip Hopera, 2001). |
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In addition to these, there are other lesser-known
versions of the work. For example, the
film The Wild, Wild Rose (1960, Hong Kong); a manga version produced for the
Vancouver Opera; and a Danish staging as 2200 Carmens at the Nørrebro Teater
with the rapper Isam B in 2009. There
have also been numerous uses of the figure of Carmen as an archetype: for
example, by the Symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok and the director Petr
Chardyninin late Tsarist Russia.
Moreover, there have been countless references to Carmen in films such
as Mr X, Part 1 (1967, Egypt) and Love Drives Them Mad (1946, Mexico). |
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The conference invites papers dealing with any version of
Carmen in any culture, form and language (including, but not limited to,
those mentioned above). We
particularly welcome papers that address non-European adaptations or
lesser-known re-workings. The papers
should address issues such as: * Genre and media and their impact on
representation; * Cultural adaptability of stories and archetypes; * Issues
of translation across cultures and media; * The configuration and
representation of issues of gender, race and criminality; * Dissemination and
migration of cultural tropes. |
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Presenters will have 30 minutes for their papers. In addition, each presenter will be asked
to respond (in less than 10 minutes) to one other paper. Therefore, all presenters will be also
asked to circulate a draft of their paper to their ‘partner’ a week in
advance of the conference. It is hoped
that this activity will encourage debate across discipline, culture and
media. |
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A book proposal will be drafted once the conference
programme is finalised. |
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Two evening events related to the conference will be held
at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 11 and 12 February including a concert version
of Carmen with video projections, and a performance with the multimedia
artist, Robin Storey (Rapoon). |
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Please send your proposal (no more than 500 words) by 8th October 2010
to: carmenandherothers@gmail.com. |
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Please direct any questions to: Dr Mi Zhou (UCL Mellon
Programme) zhou.mi@ucl.ac.uk. |
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Walter Pater's Poetics
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Decadent Poetics, a
conference at the University of Exeter (1st-2nd July 2011) |
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I am soliciting abstracts on Walter Paters Poetics to propose
a panel for the conference on Decadent Poetics, next summer. The general conference CFP can be found
here: http://www.essenglish.org/cfp/conf1103.html
The confirmed keynote speakers are Stephen Arata (Virginia), Joseph Bristow
(UCLA), Regenia Gagnier (Exeter), Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, London). |
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This panel aims to draw out the ambivalent dynamics
between Pater and 'Decadence'. It is
with this and the conference's larger concerns in mind that proposals could
consider: * How Pater's poetics influenced Decadence * Pater's resistance to
and relationship with Decadent forms * Pater's mode of composition * The
roots of Pater's style * The symbolic significance of Pater in Decadent
culture * The relationship between form and thought in Pater's work |
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Of course, there are many more issues and approaches, and
I'm very open to suggestions. |
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To submit a proposal for this panel please e-mail an
abstract of 300-500 words, and a 1- page CV to me, Dr. Kate Hext, at k.hext@ex.ac.uk and/or kjhext@gmail.com by Friday 15th October 2010. Questions and expressions of interest also
welcome! |
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The Institute of Macedonian Literature and the
Macedonian Comparative Literature Association are pleased to announce the
Fourth International Congress of the RÉSEAU EUROPÉEN D'ÉTUDES LITTÉRAIRES COMPARÉES /
EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES |
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LITERARY DISLOCATIONS
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1st-3rd September 2011, Skopje-Ohrid, Republic
of Macedonia |
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The Organising Committee of the Conference is composed of
Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser (Co-ordinator), Vladimir Martinovski (Co-ordinator),
Loreta Georgievska-Jakovleva (Director of Institute of Macedonian
Literature), Natasa Avramovska, Jasmina Mojsieva-Guseva, Anastasija
Gjurcinova, Lidija Kapusevska-Drakulevska, Ana Martinoska and Goce Smilevski
(Members) and Nele Bemong (Belgium), Marko Juvan (Slovenia), Brigitte Le Juez
(Ireland), Roumiana Stantcheva (Bulgaria) |
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Recently, the predominance of the spatiality as a
dimension of the human world has become evident in the humanities. Ever since
the influential works written by Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze
and Félix Guattari, Edward Soja, Homi Bhabha and many
others, comparative literature, too, has become fully aware that location is
a very complex notion, which combines many different aspects and approaches
to the human existence and creativity. If we consider this fact in relation
to current relevance of concepts, such as movement, motion, transfer, and
transformation of identities, we can speak about a range of different
dislocations that are inherent to the culture. Geopoetics and geocriticism
can provide important methodological tools for discussions related to such
movements in the frames of literature. Moreover postcolonial criticism,
feminist theory, cultural geography and other cultural approaches can also
significantly contribute to highlighting other relevant aspects connected to
the problem of removing, changing, crossing boundaries, transferring. This
dynamic is absolutely relevant for comparative literary studies as well. |
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This conference aims to examine the multiplicity of
literary and cultural representations and other phenomena that implicate
spatiality, movement and unstable locations which are considered as points of
dynamic processes. Dislocation emerges as a notion that traverses various
disciplines and different textual and artistic practices and at the same time
it amplifies its relevance in the exploration of the current cultural
production. The conference papers can analyze the theoretical implications of
dislocation or they can focus on dislocation as referential content (the
dislocation of travel, migration and exile, urbanization etc.). |
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Many issues are expected to be discussed, such as: How are
dislocations represented, produced or defined in literature and other media?
Are there any media or genre-specific concepts of transgressive spaces? Which
are other literary functions of the topos beside its primary function as a
container for the plot? How is it possible to use the notions of space and
spatial practices as analytic tools in and across disciplines? In which way
is identification related to dislocation? How can geography and history,
language and cartography help us to better understand literary creations and
cultural contexts? |
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Possible topics may include but are not limited to: |
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Spatio-temporal dislocation aesthetic strategies and
expressions of dislocation – |
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poetics of exile, nomadism, travelogue,
migratory identities and topographies, articulations of not-being in place,
dislocation of literary genres, imaginary landscapes, flaneurism, dislocation
of the authorial voice, mobility and projected spaces (utopia, dystopia,
limbo, paradise, hell), space metaphors and mapping, alternative maps |
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(Dis)locations as cultural phenomena |
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·
cultural geography, tourism, ecotourism, urban
dislocations, diaspora cultural dislocation, intercultural communication,
changing identities, transformation of identities, (hybridization,
creolization and metissage), liminality, border studies, migrations,
global/local/glocal, third space, transcending the boundaries of public and
private space |
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Linguistic and semiotic transfers as dislocations |
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·
translation studies, plurilinguistic phenomena, dislocation of
texts, rewriting, translation as trade and exchange between cultures,
displayed texts, interlinguistic quotations |
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Note: As part of the Congress some special activities will
take place: a special roundtable on ‘Cultural Saints of Europe’ which is
connected to a current project in comparative literature, meetings of the
REELC/ENCLS members and other cultural events (further details will be posted
on the website of REELC/ENCLS). |
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Conference official languages and papers |
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Official working languages of the conference are English
and French. |
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(Only in special cases Macedonian language can be
accepted, but translation into English or French must be provided by the
speaker). |
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Upon arrival, all the participants will receive a booklet
of abstracts in the official languages. |
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The length of the presentations is limited to max. 15
minutes. |
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Venue and accommodation |
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The conference will take place on Thursday-Saturday,
1st-3rd of September 2011. The opening ceremony will take place at the
University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje on 1st of September. The
following working sessions will take place on 2nd and 3rd of September at the
Congress Centre in Ohrid. The transportation from Skopje to Ohrid and back
will be arranged by the organizers. |
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The registration fee is 50 EUR or equivalent in Denars
payable upon arrival in cash (at the registration of the conference). The fee
includes cocktails during the conference and organized transportation
Skopje-Ohrid-Skopje. |
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Participants of the conference book and pay for their
hotel accommodations themselves. The organizing committee will release a list
with addresses and prices of available hotels by 15th of November 2011. |
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Two sightseeing tours will be organised, one of Skopje and
one of Ohrid. These will be free of charge, but participants will need to
confirm their interest for either one or both of them. |
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Schedule: |
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By 15th of October 2010 (deadline for paper
proposals): Please fill in the
registration form with your info, the title of your paper and the abstract,
and send to congress.encls@yahoo.com |
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Contact persons: Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser (elzeser@sonet.com.mk), Vladimir
Martinovski (martinovski@gmail.com)
and Ana Martinoska (martinoska@yahoo.com). |
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By 15th of November 2010: The Organising Committee will
inform you by e-mail whether your paper has been included in the conference
program. You will also receive practical information on the hotel
accommodations, transfer from the airport and the sightseeing tours. |
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Publication of papers |
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A peer-reviewed selection of papers will be published in
separate printed edition, sponsored by the Institute of Macedonian
Literature, by the end of 2012. The deadline for submission of the papers
(max. 30,000 characters with spaces) is by 15th of November 2011. |
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British women poets and their
experimentations
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British Women Writers
Conference Panel Proposal: “Formal Curiosities.” |
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Conference: March
31-April 3, 2011 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
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Paper proposals are invited for a panel-submission on
18th- and 19th-century British women poets and their experimentations with
poetic form. How did women poets
negotiate form as self-exploration and (how) was form gendered? Papers may
examine a single work, the formal development of a single poet or the
evolution of a form in the hands of several poets. 500-word abstracts due 15th October 2010; email to Prof.
Noah Comet, comet.2@osu.edu. Please submit proposals in .doc format and
attach a c.v. Note that paper
selections will be made very soon after the 10/15 deadline so that papers not
accepted for this panel may still be submitted to the general BWWC call
(deadline 1st November). |
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NVSA 2011: SYSTEMS AND ARCHIVES
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds
itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after
generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought
can grow no farther, but must give place to another. |
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–Thomas Carlyle (1841) |
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University of Maryland,
College Park: April 15—17, 2011 |
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The Northeast Victorian Studies Association calls for
papers considering the ways Victorians organized information, knowledge,
concepts, phenomena, and materials. They classified, categorized, connected,
synthesized, and unified; they constructed technological, conceptual, and
theoretical systems; they archived historical records and artifacts. This
year’s conference will take up that Victorian systematizing, its forms of
organization and its explanatory structures. What kind of systems and
systematic thinking were developed in the period? What is distinctive about
Victorian approaches to systems? How and why did Victorians arrange, record,
and store information? What are the metaphors of systems? What kind of
subjects generated archives and what were the principles of organization?
What constitutes an archive and is an archive always a system? And how and
why were systems resisted? We especially seek papers that reflect upon the
nature, conceptions, and representation of systems and archives. |
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Institutional, Political, and Social Systems — Class —
Education — Political economy — Imperial systems — Religion — Finance and
Banking — Penal systems — Corporations — Parliamentary system — Judicial
systems — Land tenure system — Systematic Theology — The Poor Law — Moral
systems and systems of belief — Resistance to such systems |
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“Mamma, whose views on education are remarkably
strict, has brought me up to be extremely short—sighted; it is part of her
system.” |
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—Oscar Wilde (1895) |
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Technological Systems — Railway — Sewage — Electrical
system — Mechanical systems — Telegraph |
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Disciplines and/as Systems — Systems in sociology: Herbert
Spencer — Anthropology systems, e.g. kinship, — Mathematics — Psychology and
systematic understandings of the mind |
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Systems in the sciences: Electro-magnetic systems |
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Biological systems: Bodily systems, e.g. nervous system,
neural system, digestive system, reproductive system, the human as system |
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Solar and stellar systems: Medical systems |
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Environmental systems: Systems of natural
formations—glacier, geological, etc. |
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Motion of material systems—dynamics |
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Zoological systems—Chemical systems—Botanical
systems—Thermodynamics— |
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We are slowly beginning to recognise that there may be
a science of History, a science of Language, a science of Religion, and, in
fact, that all knowledge may be systematised on a common Method. |
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—George Henry Lewes (1878) |
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Literary Systems:
Versification — Systems of classifying fiction; realist, sensation,
etc. — Philology — Linguistics |
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Systems of Representation and the Representation of
Systems: — Numerical systems — Braille — Linguistic systems — Shorthand
systems — Monetary systems — Systems of logic — Chemical notation — Diagrams
and charts — What are the metaphors of systems? —e.g., organicist and
mechanical, equilibrium, and entropy. — What role did the natural
sciences play in Victorian
conceptualizing of systems? |
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Many things which were before lying separate have
fallen into their places as harmonious parts of a system that admits of
logical development from the simplest general principles. |
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—Herbert Spencer (1904) |
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Systematic Theorists and System Builders |
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e.g., J. S. Mill, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, George Henry
Lewes, William Whewell, Henry Mayhew, John Henry Newman, Bernard Bosanquet ,
Auguste Comte. |
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Paranoia and conspiracy — Design vs. coincidence — Anarchy
— Satires of systematic thinking, e.g. Dickens |
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Victorian Archives |
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— Who had archives and why? — What did the Victorians
collect and how did they organize those materials? — Zoos and gardens as
imperial archives — The archive of others/the other as archive — The
relationship between museums and archives |
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Consult the archives, first—/ Then, fortified with
knowledge, seek the Hall! |
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—Robert Browning (1844) |
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Contemporary Archives and the Victorian Period |
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— How do we organize, collect, and store Victorian texts?
How do our archives affect our understanding of the period? — Electronic
archives and systems, e.g. ProQuest, Google Books. |
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Archives and History/Archives and Theory |
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— The rise of archival research in history: what is
specifically Victorian about archival systems? — What did Foucault do to our
notion of archives and knowledge systems and what does a post Foucauldian
notion of the archive look like? |
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The Media of Archives |
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— What counts as archival evidence? — Permanent versus
ephemeral archives — Sound technology — Photography |
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Proposals (no more
than 500 words) by 15th October 2010 (e-mail submissions only,
please): |
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Professor Tanya Agathocleous, Chair, NVSA Program
Committee, (tagathoc@hunter.cuny.edu). |
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Please note: all submissions to NVSA are evaluated
anonymously. Successful proposals will stay within the 500—word limit and
make a compelling case for the talk and its relation to the conference topic.
Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on the
proposal. |
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Please do include your name, institutional and email
addresses, and proposal title in a cover letter. Papers should take 15
minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to provide ample time for discussion. |
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The Coral Lansbury Travel Grant ($100.00) and George Ford
Travel Grant ($100.00), given in memory of key founding members of NVSA, are
awarded annually to the graduate student, adjunct instructor, or independent
scholar who must travel the greatest distance to give a paper at our
conference. Apply by indicating in your cover letter that you wish to be
considered. Please indicate from where you will be travelling, and mention if
you have other sources of funding. |
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Suzy Anger, President, NVSA, Department of English
University of British Columbia 397 — 1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T
1Z1 |
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Society of
Dix-Neuviémistes Ninth Annual Conference |
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University of Birmingham 7 - 9 April 2011. |
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Dirt and Debris
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We invite proposals for papers treating aspects of the
conference theme in relation to nineteenth-century French and Francophone
culture, history and art history. Suggested topics include, but are not
limited to: |
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Gossip, scandal and dishing the dirt — Personal disgrace and stained reputations — Pornography and erotic literature — Wrecks and ruins — Scents and smells — Textual debris (pre-texts, discarded work,
uncompleted manuscripts) — Crime and underworlds — The earth/soil and its products — Innocence, virtue and purity — War debris and the aftermath of battle — Diseases, infections and bodily dirt — Flotsam, jetsam and marine debris — Hygiene obsessions — Clean slates: generosity and forgiveness |
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Proposals for individual papers or for panels should be
addressed by email, by 31st October 2010,
to Dr Andrew Watts, SDN Conference Organiser, at the following address: sdn.proposals@yahoo.co.uk |
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Please indicate your audio-visual requirements. |
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NOVEMBER
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2nd Annual North American Anarchist
Studies Network Conference
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Toronto, Canada January 15-16, 2011 |
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Deadline for Proposals: 1st
November 2010 |
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The North American Anarchist Studies Network is currently
seeking presentations for our second annual conference to be held at the
Steel Worker's Hall in Toronto, Canada.
We are seeking submissions from radical academics, independent
researchers, community activists, street philosophers and students. We invite those engaged in intellectual
work within existing institutions, such as universities, but also those
engaged in the production of knowledge beyond institutional walls to share
their ongoing work. From the library
stacks to the streets, we encourage all those interested in the study of
anarchism to submit a proposal. |
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In keeping with the open and fluid spirit of anarchism, we
will not be calling for any specific topics of discussion, but rather are
encouraging participants to present on a broad and diverse number of themes-
from the historical to the contemporary to the utopian. For inspiration, we have included a number
of suggested themes that have been of interest us; we invite you to suggest
and submit your own topics, papers, themes, panels and workshops: |
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Theorizing Anarchism: Perspectives on Anarchist
Studies — Greening Anarchy: Anarchism and the Environment — Bridging the
Marxist/Anarchist Divide: Is Black and Red Dead? — Race, Class &
Solidarity: Migration Politics — Indigenous Rights and Politics in (Occupied)
North America — Expanding the Anarchist Canon: Non-Western Anarchism(s) — The
South American 'New Left' and Anarchism — 'Queering' Anarchy: Anarchism and
LGBTQ Issues — 'Revolution' in the 21st Century: The Meaning of Social Change
Today — Militant Research: Connecting Activism and Academia — Practicing Anarchy:
Organization, Insurrection and Anarchist Social Movements — Envisioning
Alternatives: Anarchist Utopias — Anarchism and Radical (Dis)ability Politics
— The Greek 'Crisis' and Anarchist Responses — Post-G20 Toronto: Learning
from Toronto's G20 Mobilizations — Anarchist Cultural Perspectives and
Practices — The Post-Anarchist Challenge? — Anarchists and Academia: The
Perils, Pitfalls and Potentialities of the University |
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It is our sincere hope that this conference will, to the
greatest extent possible, accurately represent the diversity of North
American anarchist politics and thought; to that end, we encourage
submission(s) in English, French, Spanish and in any other language or on any
other topic you feel relevant to this experience and this community. |
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Send your proposal, including a short abstract, a working
title and three keywords that describe your project to the Toronto NAASN Crew
at naasntoronto@gmail.com. |
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For more information on the North America Anarchist
Studies Network check out our website at www.naasn.org. |
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We look forward to hearing from you, organizing with you
and, of course, learning from you! |
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Theatricality and
Performance in Victorian Literature and Culture
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The fourth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by
Dr. Beth Palmer (University of
Surrey), will explore the various ways in which the Victorians related to
concepts of performance and theatricality.
The theatre held a central place in the Victorian imagination. Nineteenth-century investments in theatrical
culture, as well as in theatrical modes of marketing and consuming literature,
reflect in particularly interesting ways on the diverse performances – of
class, gender, racial and national identities etc. – which shaped Victorian everyday
life. We are therefore inviting
submissions of no more than 7000 words investigating any aspect of this
theme. A prize of £50, which we
reserve the right to withhold, will be awarded for the best paper submitted. |
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A liberal approach to the topic is encouraged, and
prospective contributors may wish to consider, among other things: |
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The permeation of theatrical tropes and attitudes into
non-literary areas of society (science, politics, religion etc.) – Theatrical
performances of authorship – Actors, actresses and Victorian celebrity
culture – Spaces and politics of Victorian theatrical performances – Victorian
popular culture and the theatre – Victorian theatre’s interfaces with written
culture – The effects of the physical and technological limitations of
performance – The role played by the theatre in forging a distinctly
Victorian culture – The effects of performance culture on the practice of
reading – Precedents set by the Victorians for our own theatrical culture. |
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All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions
and the in-house submission guidelines.
The deadline for submissions to our next issue is 1st November 2010. Contact: victoriannetwork@gmail.com. |
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Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 14: Victorian Ecology
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Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the
journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and the
Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the
natural and built environment.
Submissions are invited for our spring 2011 edition which will focus
on ecological themes in Victorian Literature and Culture. |
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Submissions may focus on any literary or cultural
figures, or genres, either in or related to the Victorian period or the
nineteenth-century. Examples might
include, but need not be limited to the following themes: Victorian
literature and science, post-Romanticism, cultural criticism (e.g. Ruskin, Carlyle, Morris), Victorian gothic,
the realist novel, evolutionary theory and/or the new physics, key scientific
figures (Darwin, Wallace etc), the industrial or urban landscape, Victorian
poetry, literature and ‘early green politics’. Articles that relate to nineteenth-century
literature within other cultures, especially European cultures, will also be
considered. While we do not specify
any particular themes, articles should have a broad ecocritical flavour, be
informed by ecocritical theory, and seek to establish, where appropriate,
connections or divergences with contemporary ecological thinking. |
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Green Letters is a
peer-reviewed journal. Manuscript
length should be between 4000 and 6000 words.
Eventual submissions should be made via email with a MS Word
attachment of the document. If you
would like to contribute to this issue, please send an abstract
(approximately 500 words) to the editor j.parham@worc.ac.uk by the
end of June. The deadline for
submissions will be Monday 1st November 2010. |
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Imaginary Artists
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AAH Annual Conference
2011 31 March - 2 April, University of Warwick, England |
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In 1957 Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges started
working on the Book of Imaginary Beings
in it he describes mythical beings extracted from literature and popular
culture. The session of imaginary
artists will take on his idea and methodology to attempt a compendium of
artists that exist in a different layer of reality. From alluring Rrose Selavy to Media artist
Roberta Breitmore the history of art is widely inhabited by alter egos that
bring into art yet another dimension apart from the traditional interactions
between the artist, the work and the spectator. Partly as a reaction to the machinery of
art and partly as a way of obtaining a sense of freedom artists have created
other selves that challenge traditional ways of studying and showing
art. This session will elaborate on
the history of artists that do not exist and their works of art if any. More than a question of pseudonyms this
session will try to reconstruct the history of the artist as a work of
art. It could also be thought of as an
attempt to reconstruct the biography of artists that are a figment of another
artist’s imagination. |
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Deadline: 1st November 2010. Convener: Maria Clara Bernal mariaclara.bernal@gmail.com |
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British queer history
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The Journal of
British Studies is calling for papers on all aspects of British queer
history. Articles can be from the
medieval period to the present day.
This is for a special issue to be published in late 2011 or early
2012, to be guest edited by Brian Lewis (McGill University). Articles should be 10,000-12,000 words
long, follow the JBS format, and be submitted by 1st November 2010. |
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For more information, see http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JBS/instruct.html or contact the editors at jbs.history@mcgill.ca or Brian Lewis at brian.lewis@mcgill.ca. |
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Decadent Poetics
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Centre for Victorian
Studies | University of Exeter | 1st – 2nd July 2011 |
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Keynote speakers:
Stephen Arata | Joseph Bristow | Regenia Gagnier | Catherine Maxwell |
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CALL FOR PAPERS The initial reception of ‘decadent’
writing in both France and England was characterised by a focus on form and
the importance of the poets of the late Roman Empire. From Theophile Gautier’s Preface to the
1868 edition of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal to Arthur Symons’s ‘The
Decadent Movement in Literature’ and Paul Bourget’s famous delineation of
decadent writing attempts to articulate a ‘decadent poetics’ were central to
the definition of this new literature.
Yet in recent years our understanding of decadence has been, arguably,
occluded by the focus on cultural politics and sexual transgression, which
continue to dominate academic criticism of the fin de siècle. This conference seeks to return to the
Victorian interest in language, poetics and form as the key to understanding
decadence and aestheticism as literary phenomena. The focus here will be on both poetry and
prose of the period and we particularly encourage those interested in
marginal and forgotten writers, along with the debates on the relationship
between poetics and a culture in decline.
We also welcome those interested in the intersection between literary
form and other cultural mediums such as visual art. In an attempt to outline a decadent
poetics, we also seek to expand and complicate the canon of ‘decadent’
writers who dominate prevailing versions of the Victorian fin de siècle. |
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Possible topics include, but are not limited to: |
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education and language • Victorians and Roman
literature • Decadent prosody • Decadent and Modernist poetics • Aestheticist
poetics • transatlantic Decadence • fin-de-siècle philology/linguistics •
politics of Decadence and Aestheticism • satires of Decadent form •
print/visual cultures of Decadence • Decadence and new technologies • genetic
readings of Decadence • archival Decadence • material Decadence |
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Abstracts of 300-500 words should be sent to Dr Alex
Murray and Dr Jason Hall via email at decadent-poetics@exeter.ac.uk
by 10th
November 2010. Proposals
for panels (comprising three speakers) are also welcome—please submit the
title and a brief description of the panel as well as abstracts for the
individual papers. Speakers (whether
part of a proposed panel or not) are asked to include a one-page CV with full
contact details, institutional affiliation (where applicable) and a list of
relevant publications. Please bear in
mind that final papers should take between 15 and 20 minutes (maximum) to
deliver. |
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George Bernard shaw
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The 34th Annual Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles,
CA, sponsored by Loyola Marymount University, will occur from 24 to 26 March
2011, at which at least one Shaw session will be held. Topic is open, except that Shaw must be
some part of it. The deadline for
250-word abstracts (with title) and CV is 15th
November 2010, preferably sent by
email attachment to tstaffor@utep.edu or tnyorzb@sbcglobal.net or by mail to Dr.
Tony Stafford, Department of English, University of Texas at El Paso,
El Paso, TX 79912. Information about
the conference in general (registration and the like) may be obtained from
Kevin Wetmore at kwhetmore@lmu.edu.
Please check www.shawsociety.org
for links to the conference, when they become
available. |
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Taking Care of Business: Money, Property and Victorian Culture |
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Joint NAVSA/ACCUTE
panel at the 2011 Conference of ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and
University Teachers of English), Fredericton, NB, Canada (May 28-31,
2011). Organizer: Mary Rimmer
(University of New Brunswick, Fredericton) |
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In Past and Present
(1843), Thomas Carlyle has his fictional alter-ego Sauerteig identify the
"Hell of the English" as "not making money": this
sardonic view of materialism and the pursuit of wealth finds a variety of
echoes across the spectrum of Victorian literature. Yet at the same time, money and wealth had
a certain fascination for writers, many of whom built economically successful
careers around literary work. This
call invites proposals for papers on "Money, Property and Victorian
Culture." Possible topics include metaphorical uses of wealth and
money-making; literary/cultural framings of business, industry and property;
periodical debates over political economy; Victorian theories of wealth and
capital; the roles of money in the courtship plot; the business of literature
(e.g. copyright law, serialization,
circulating libraries, the changing literary marketplace); the debates over
women's rights to earn, own and control money; the intersections between
religious and economic discourse.
Additional topics within the general theme are welcome. |
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Following ACCUTE's guidelines for submissions (available
at http://www.accute.ca/generalcall.html
[Option I]), send proposals by 15th November to Mary Rimmer (mrimmer@unb.ca). |
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Dr M. Rimmer, Dept.
Chair and Co-Director of Majors and Honours (A-K), Department of
English, University of New Brunswick,
P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, Canada
E3B 5A3. TEL 506 458 7393/FAX 506 453
5069 |
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Gissing’s World within the World:
Art and the Artist
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Fourth International
George Gissing Conference |
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Monday 28 to Wednesday 30 March 2011 |
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University of York, UK |
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With the support of
CECILLE Research Centre, University of Lille |
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The specific focus of the York Gissing Conference will be
an often-overlooked aspect of Gissing’s artistic philosophy. While many readers have emphasized Gissing’s
almost sociological engagement with material conditions, Gissing saw himself
as a more detached devotee of art “pure & simple.” In a famous letter to
his brother Algernon (22 September 1885), he observed that the artist should
“keep apart, & preserve [his] soul alive” because the natural environment
of the artist is “the shade,” where he “can make a world within the world.”
Papers are therefore particularly sought on all aspects of Gissing as an
artist, notably his engagement with late Victorian aesthetics and obsessive
“detachment from the vulgarities of the day.” Topics may also include, but
are not limited to the following: |
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Absorbing non-verbal aesthetics into the
fictional constructs: the world as picture; ekphrasis; the visual arts in
Gissing |
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Artistic leanings, amateur and professional:
representational strategies |
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Gissing and Æstheticism |
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Exploring generic boundaries: Gissing and the
Künstlerroman |
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Not his line of work? Gissing, drama and
poetry |
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Classical Gissing |
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Gissing as Critic |
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This conference will feature a session on “Teaching
Gissing in the Twenty-first Century.” If you are interested in participating
in this panel, please provide the organiser with a brief description of your
particular approach to teaching Gissing.
You may apply both to deliver a paper and to participate in the
teaching session. |
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Please submit abstracts of 300 words for 20-minute papers
with a brief biographical note and/or applications to be involved in the
Teaching panel to Nicky Losseff, University of York (nl5@york.ac.uk)
no later than 15th
November 2010. Please
include the following personal details with your abstract: name and
institutional affiliation, email address, postal address, telephone and
mobile phone numbers, and A/V requirements (if any). |
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Participants will be notified of their acceptance by 15th
January 2011 (or earlier, for those who require official letters of
invitation for the purpose of obtaining support from their home
institutions). Further details about
registration costs, travel arrangements and accommodation (ensuite single
bedrooms available on campus) will be available on the conference website after the
summer: |
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Conference highlights: |
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Conference dinner to be followed by a piano
concert (by students from the Music Department of the University of York -
Gabrielle Fleury repertoire) |
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An optional excursion to the nearby city of
Wakefield, birthplace of the author.
Anthony Petyt, of The Gissing Trust, will organise a visit to the
Gissing Centre and a tour of Gissing’s Wakefield. |
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Gissing-related book stalls (notably The Idle
Booksellers) |
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Conference Organiser: Dr Nicky Losseff (University of
York) |
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Advisory Committee: Prof M.D. Allen (University of
Wisconsin-Fox Valley); Prof Maria-Teresa Chialant (University of Salerno);
Prof Pierre Coustillas (University of Lille); Prof Constance Harsh (Colgate
University); Dr Christine Huguet (University of Lille); Dr Simon J. James
(Durham University); Anthony Petyt (The Gissing Trust, Wakefield); Dr Bouwe
Postmus (University of Amsterdam). |
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