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Beginning with the Spring, 2010 issue, The Victorian Newsletter will offer a
new column featuring reviews of films, televised series (novel adaptations,
for example), art exhibits, musical and stage adaptations, and web resources
relevant to Victorian texts and contexts. Such recent films as ‘Creation’,
‘Young Victoria’, and ‘Sherlock Holmes’ come most readily to mind; other
extra-literary treatments of Victorian literature and culture are most
welcome. Please address electronic
submissions (approx. 1500-2500 words) to: deborah.logan@wku.edu or victorian.newsletter@wku.edu. |
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Calls for Papers once e-mailed to and by the University of
Pennsylvania are now only to be found on-line. Instead of emailing cfp@english.upenn.edu, see the web
form submission at http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/submit.html.
Submissions will appear on the website archive within 24 hours. Links to the archive and more information
are on the main CfP page http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/. Announcements will be made on the
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The English Subject Centre at Royal Holloway College
administers a JISCmail service called LIT-LANG-CULTURE-EVENTS@jiscmail.ac.uk.
One can join LIT-LANG-CULTURE-EVENTS by visiting http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/LIT-LANG-CULTURE-EVENTS.html. (One must be a list member in order to
post.) Announcements sent to LIT-LANG-CULTURE-EVENTS will be
distributed to members once they have been approved. If you have any
enquiries please email esc@rhul.ac.uk. |
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Calls here are posted in a rolling list, in chronological
order of deadline, with the Table of Contents in alphabetical order of
subject, linked directly to each CfP. Calls are removed on expiry. The
list will run three months ahead. Those without deadline have the month of
entry printed and will remain posted for three months. The Conferences to
which they refer will in turn be listed when their programmes are published,
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British Studies (1) |
Order and Chaos |
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British Studies (2) |
Oscar Wilde
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British Studies (3) |
Popular Sex: Media and Sexuality in Germany in the
Early 20th Century |
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Contemporary British
Theatre: Towards a New Canon |
Queer Manifestations |
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Cultural History |
Reading and Writing in Prison |
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Culture, Theory
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Henry James |
Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific |
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Irish Identities
Inside & Outside the Island |
Specters Of Utopia |
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James Joyce |
Steampunk! The Popular Version of Neo-Victorianism
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Literature
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Transgressions |
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Modernist Wilde |
Vexed Encounters |
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Nineteenth Century
Feminisms: Press and Platform |
Victorians and Continental Politics |
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Nineteenth Century
Photographs of Architecture |
Victorians and the East |
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Numbering the
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Victorian Forms and Formations |
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Oscholars
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The Soul of Man: Oscar Wilde and Socialism
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H.G. Wells once wrote that Oscar Wilde’s 'The Soul of Man
Under Socialism' offers ‘an artist’s view of socialism, but not a
socialist’s.’ George Orwell, reviewing
the essay in 1948, called Wilde’s vision of socialism ‘Utopian and
anarchistic.’ So was Oscar Wilde a
socialist? an anarchist? An ‘individualist’? or politically
unquantifiable? He was acquainted with
the leading socialists of the time, from William Morris to G. B. Shaw, his
sympathy for socialist and anarchist ideas was well known, and 'The Soul of
Man' attained great popularity with the radical movements of Central and
Eastern Europe and the USA. This
refereed special issue of Oscholars, a widely read electronic journal devoted
to Wilde and the fin de siècle, solicits essays on any aspect of 'The Soul of
Man' or, more broadly, Wilde in relation to socialism and anarchism. |
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The deadline for submission of completed essays to Anna
Vaninskaya at av323@cam.ac.uk (1500-2500
words) was 15th December 2009, but after publication the Issue will accept
submissions for possible later inclusion. |
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consult http://www.oscholars.com/ |
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James Joyce
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On behalf of the International James Joyce Foundation, we invite you to
the XXII International James Joyce Symposium in the ‘Golden City’ of Prague,
13th–18th June 2010. |
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Proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes duration are welcome on
any aspect of Joyce studies, especially those that focus on the relationship
of Joyce to Prague and the heritage of Central European modernism in the
arts, philosophy and theory–particularly the legacies of structuralism and
the Prague linguistic circle. |
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Deadline for submission of proposals: 1st March 2010 |
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Prague is at the centre of Europe as Joyce is at the centre of the
tradition of European modernism, and it is fitting that the major European
author of the twentieth century be honoured in the city that is the very
heart of modern Europe. |
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Historically, some of the earliest translations of Joyce's work
appeared in Prague, and the first President of the Czechoslovak Republic,
T.G. Masaryk, was even believed to have annotated a first edition of Ulysses, although only the first
French edition survives in the Masaryk archive today. |
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Nowadays the work of Joyce represents a major focal point of
philological research at Charles University, where the first electronic
journal of Joyce scholarship was founded in 1994: Hypermedia Joyce Studies. Since 2003 a biannual Joyce colloquium
has taken place in Prague, augmented by a series of book publications through
the Litteraria Pragensia imprint. |
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Charles University is itself one of the oldest universities in Europe,
having been founded in 1348. Moreover, the Department of Anglophone
Literatures and Cultures was the original home of Prague Structuralism, whose
legacy–through the work of Rene Wellek and Roman Jakobson–has had an enduring
impact on Joyce scholarship internationally. It is only fitting that Joyce's
work be celebrated in such an environment, in a country that was also the
homeland not only of Kafka, but of Freud, Mahler and Husserl. |
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Patron: We are proud to announce that the patron of the XXII
International James Joyce Symposium is the former Czech President, dissident
and playwright, Vaclav Havel. |
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Dedication: It is the wish of the host committee to dedicate the 2010
Symposium to the memory of Prof. Donald F. Theall (1928-2008). |
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More Information: Symposium website http://www.jamesjoyce.cz |
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Annual Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland 12th–14th November, 2010 |
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The NACBS and its Mid-Atlantic affiliate, the
MACBS, seek participation by scholars in all areas of British Studies for the
2010 meeting. We solicit proposals for panels on Britain, the British Empire,
and the British world. Our interests range from the medieval to the modern.
Though primarily a conference of historians, we welcome participation by
scholars across the humanities and social sciences, especially on
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We invite panel proposals addressing selected
themes, methodology, and pedagogy, as well as roundtable discussions of
topical and thematic interest, including conversations among authors of
recent books. North American scholars, international scholars, and graduate
students are all encouraged to submit proposals to the NACBS Program
Committee. |
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Strong preference will be given to complete panel
or roundtable proposals that consider a common theme. Panels typically
include three papers and a comment; roundtables customarily have four
presentations. Individual paper proposals will also be considered in rare
cases. Those with single paper submissions are strongly encouraged to search
for additional panelists on lists such as H-Albion or at venues such as the
NACBS Facebook page. Applicants may also write to the Program Chair for
suggestions (nacbsprogram@gmail.com). |
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Committed to ensuring the broadest possible
participation of scholars in British Studies, the Program Committee will give
priority to those who did not read papers at the 2009 meeting. Panels that
include both graduate students and established scholars are especially
encouraged, as are submissions with broad chronological focus and
interdisciplinary breadth. In order to encourage intellectual interchange, we
ask applicants to compose panels that feature participation from a range of
institutions. Single-institution panels are not encouraged; similarly,
graduate supervisors are discouraged from appearing on panels with their own
students and very recent graduates. No participant will be permitted to take
part in more than one session except in exceptional circumstances cleared by
the Program Committee, and no more than one proposal will be considered from
each applicant. |
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All submissions must be received by 1st March 2010.
For details, directions, and online submission (to be posted soon), see www.nacbs.org/conference.html. |
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Please send questions about panel requirements and
suggestions about program development to Lara Kriegel, NACBS Program Chair
Department of History, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 nacbsprogram@gmail.com |
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Reading and Writing in Prison
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An interdisciplinary
conference Edinburgh Napier University, 4th–5th June 2010 |
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This conference aims to bring together scholars, writers and
practitioners to share their perspectives on the significance of reading and
writing in prisons. Writing about imprisonment raises key issues that go
beyond an immediate concern with incarceration and its institutions,
involving notions of subjectivity, citizenship and nationhood. Scholars and
practitioners alike have long been arguing that opportunities for reading and
writing in prisons can become a dignifying tool for prisoners to re-evaluate
and reconstruct their lives, with positive impact on recidivism rates. The
conference will act as a platform for exchange about existing scholarship and
practice in the area, with the long-term goal of facilitating future research
networks, publications and practical projects. |
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This event explicitly seeks conversations across the disciplines and
between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’. Contributors are invited to address reading,
writing and imprisonment in any geographical location, in both historical and
contemporary contexts. Some of the questions this conference wishes to
address are: what defines the genre of prison literature or prison
autobiography and how has it changed historically? How do institutional
contexts and penal policies impact on reading and writing in prison? What effect
do creative practice, prison education and reading groups have on groups of
offenders and, conversely, society at large? What is the role of researchers
and universities in contributing to debates around narratives of
imprisonment, reading and writing in prison? |
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* Prison literature and prison (auto)biography as a genre * The history and publishing context of prison
writing * Representations of prison
reading and writing experiences * Gender, class, ethnicity/race and age and their impact on reading and
writing in prison * Writing and political imprisonment * Prison libraries and reading groups * Creative writing in prisons: practice and problems |
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Invited speakers who have agreed to participate (subject to funding)
include: Ed Wiltse on student-prisoner reading groups and the object(s) of
literary studies; Gowan Calder and Caspar Walsh on creative writing; Jenny
Hartley and Rosalind Crone on prison reading in the nineteenth century; Sarah
Turvey on prison reading groups; Bashabi Fraser on the imprisoned writer and
the nation. |
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Contributors should submit an abstract of their proposed paper (250
words) and a brief biographical statement to a.schwan@napier.ac.uk by 1st March 2010. |
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For further information, please contact the organiser: Dr Anne Schwan,
School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University
Craighouse Campus, Craighouse Road, Edinburgh EH10 5LG, Scotland. Email: a.schwan@napier.ac.uk Phone: (0044) (0)131 455 6131 |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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The 6th biennial conference on Robert Louis Stevenson will be held 8-10
July 2010, at the University of Stirling. Confirmed speakers include Laura
Marcus and James Robertson. |
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A full Call for Papers can be found at this link: http://www.rls2010.stir.ac.uk/call-for-papers/ |
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Full details of the conference (including the social programme and
registration details) can be found at the conference website. Please submit
your proposal by 1st March 2010. |
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Please note that a discounted conference fee is available for those
whose register early. |
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Dr Scott Hames, University of Stirling |
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Henry James Review
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The Women |
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Thirty years ago, the new fields of Women’s Studies and Feminist
Criticism looked with interest at the fiction of Henry James. For many, his
work offered an exception to the general misogyny of American male writing;
for others, the Master’s œuvre was irredeemably patriarchal. Those early
studies re-oriented our critical understandings of Henry James. Recent
archival, biographical, critical, and creative work have again shifted how we
understand James’s life and writing and re-opened this
topic. The Fall 2010 special issue of the Henry
James Review seeks to explore, broadly, how we read James with women in
the twenty-first century. |
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* Women’s Studies; * Henry James vs. Gender Studies; * Henry James ; * Letters to, from, and about women ; * Women; *s love, loving women ; * Female bodies: beauty, sex, motherhood, health, disability ; * James and female writers: predecessors,
contemporaries, and followers; borrowings, criticism, influence, depictions ;
* Women artists; * James/James’s women artists: depiction, criticism, translation
; * Fashion, clothing,
interior decoration, objects ; * Gendered politics: suffrage, nationalism, feminism, the law ; * Women and money: work, consumption, inheritance,
gifts, ownership, commodification ; * Actresses: depictions, correspondence, casting,
performances ; * Hospitality: hostesses, salons, visits, parties ; * Female family: mothers, sisters, aunts, nieces. |
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Contributions should be submitted in duplicate and produced according
to MLA style. Please enclose a cover letter identifying your manuscript as a
Forum submission. Also include return postage. One-page proposals or short
(10-12 pages) essays should be sent by 1st March 2010, to: |
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Susan M. Griffin, Editor, Henry
James Review, Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville,
KY 40292 USA |
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Queer Manifestations:
Literature, History, Theory, Culture
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'Queer
Manifestations', a one-day conference at the University of Chester. [‘It's
not just for Victorianists but previous Victorian conferences have had a
strong queer showing!’] |
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Saturday 26th June
2010. |
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Munt (University of
Sussex). |
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This interdisciplinary one-day conference seeks to
explore the burgeoning field of queer studies, with particular emphasis on
its impact upon literary histories, theories, and cultures. How influential
is heteronormativity in culture today, or in the past? Is it true, as Sharon
Marcus claims, that ‘queer theory often accentuates the subversive dimensions
of lesbian, gay, and transgender acts and identities’? Do readers force
heteronormative readings onto queer texts, or vice versa? Must literary
readings always focus upon ‘secrecy, shame, oppression, and transgression’?
What has it meant to be ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the literary closet? |
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We welcome papers on any aspect of queer culture,
theory, or history. Postgraduate students or early career researchers are
especially welcomed. |
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Possible topics may include: |
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Queer
Relations; * Queer figures in history: authors,
protagonists, people; * Queering history: Medieval, Renaissance,
Restoration, Romantics; * Queer genres: neoVictorianism,
postcolonialism, Modernism, postmodernism; * Apparitional Lesbians or Closeted Men; *
Closeted space: the legacy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; *
Crossdressing, Genderblending, Camp, and Transvestism; * Queer
space; *
Current debates in queer media |
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Please send proposals (250 words max) for 15-20
minute papers to Louisa Yates (l.yates@chester.ac.uk)
by Friday 5th
March 2010. |
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Louisa
Yates, University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ, Room CPA004
Ext: 1617 Tel: 01244 511617 |
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Modernist Wilde
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The Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century English
Literature Division would like to
announce a call for papers for the next MLA. ‘ |
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Where is Wilde in modernism? Where is modernism in Wilde?
Wildean relation to modernist expressive culture, style, and sexual or artistic identities. |
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Submission Requirements: 250–300-word abstracts and brief vitae Deadline: 8th March 2010 Organizer: Talia C. Schaffer ,Associate Professor of English Co-General Editor, WSQ talia.schaffer@qc.cuny.edu; English Department Queens College, CUNY Flushing, NY 11365 (718) 997-4675; English Department Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 |
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‘Brandan
Rising!’ Irish Identities Inside & Outside the Island
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IX International
Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies |
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University of La Laguna,
28th April–1st May 2010 |
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The Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI) is pleased to
announce the organization of its IX International Conference, which will be
convened by the English Department at the University of La Laguna. |
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There is a legend in the Canaries which can be traced back to the early
moments of the conquest: that of the isle of San Borondón (or St Brandan),
which appears and disappears in the sea, changing from location and form.
Situated by 17th century sailors and cartographers in between the islands of
La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, it is filled with splendorous gardens,
birds and trees, to the point that it could be seen as a correlate of
paradise on earth. It is also connected to the pseudo-historical Celtic
figure of Abbot Brendan of Clonfert, named ‘the traveller’, who lived in the
6th century. In one of his journeys he came across a piece of land that
proved to be instead a gigantic whale which moved slowly and peacefully
through the Atlantic Ocean (as it appears in Navigatio Sancti Brandani, a
medieval text dated 10th/11th century). This fascinating syncretism shows us
how a specific culture or tradition is influenced and transformed by others
and how identities are the result of general/personal experiences that
transcend the national milieu. All this cultural hybridization surpasses
frontiers, borders and limits and enriches the countries involved. Bearing
the classic representation of Mother Ireland as a unitary identity in mind,
we welcome papers that peep into the ways in which Ireland (and the Irish
symbols) are represented, melted, used or abused, hybridized or bastardized,
integrated or detached; as well as those which explore the ‘Other’ Irelands
that may arise out of the distance, be it spatial and/or ideological, caused
by a forced or by a voluntary exile (as James Joyce would put it). Aspects
such as the following will also be of primary interest: |
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- Cultural contamination: Shadows of Ireland in the folklore and
traditions of other countries. - Cultural Appropriation: the Re-Writing, fake
or authentic, of the Irish essence. - ‘Othering’ Ireland: The role of
dissidence and alternative voices in the Irish canon. - 'Ireland in mind':
Narrating the country from the distance; ‘Imaginary homelands, Irelands of
the mind’ (as Salman Rushdie stated, in reference to India). |
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We invite papers for a twenty-minute delivery, in English or Spanish,
which might approach the main theme of the conference from an array of
theoretical frameworks and fields of knowledge: linguistic, literary,
historical, sociological, gendered, cultural, musical or visual. |
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Confirmed plenary speakers: - Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)
- Laura Izarra (University of Sao Paulo) |
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Confirmed keynote writers: - Jamie O'Neill - (to be confirmed) |
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Scientific Committee: - Ruth Barton (Trinity College Dublin) - Rui
Carvalho Homem (U Oporto) - Rosa González Casademont (U Barcelona) - José
Francisco Fernández (U Almería) - Luz Mar González Arias (U Oviedo) -
Patricia Lynch (U Limerick) - Marisol Morales Ladrón (U Alcalá) - Munira H.
Mutran (U Sao Paulo) - Inés Praga Terente (U Burgos) - Eibhear Walshe (U
College Cork) |
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Organising Committee: - Aída Díaz Bild - Marta González Acosta - Mª Luz
González Rodríguez - Manuel Augusto Hernández Hernández - Leonor Ruiz-Ayúcar
Bello |
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Organiser: - Juan Ignacio Oliva (jioliva@ull.es) |
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Submission of proposals: Abstracts of around 250 words should be
e-mailed to Juan Ignacio Oliva by Friday 12th March 2010. For reasons of
homogeneity, please add a brief cv (5-10 lines) together with your
Institution, and e-mail address. Please, do not send it as an attached
document but rather include it in the body of the mail. And do not hesitate
to contact the organisation for whatever query you may have. |
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Victorian Forms and Formations
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British Association for
Victorian Studies 2010 Conference |
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The 2010 BAVS conference seeks to address the question of
‘form’, in all its varied meanings, in Victorian culture. We invite papers
that address the topic of literary form, and that engage with current debates
in the field over the return to form in literary criticism, but also wish to
broaden the topic to encompass forms and formations in other disciplines,
including but not limited to art history, science, architecture, politics,
religion and history of the book. Papers might consider the role of different
social and political groupings and institutions in the Victorian period, or
the formation of a particular idea or discipline. They might deal with
wide-ranging debates over varied attempts at reform in the nineteenth
century, or could focus on the formation or reformation of the individual.
Papers considering material forms, including the fashioning of the body in
medical and other discourse, are welcome, as are papers on the physical
features of the Victorian landscape: urban and rural spaces, natural forms
and the built environment. We also invite papers that are concerned with the
reworking of Victorian forms in twentieth and twenty-first century literature
and culture. |
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Plenary speakers : James Eli Adams, Matthew Campbell,
Margaret Macdonald, Catherine Robson |
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A number of postgraduate bursaries will be available for
postgraduate students presenting a paper at the conference or acting as a
conference reporter. Please check this site in spring 2010 for details of how
to apply. |
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Deadline for submission of abstract: 15th March 2010. Please send a
200-word abstract to bavs@arts.gla.ac.uk |
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Suggested topics for consideration: *
Poetic form; * Narrative form; * Generic formation; *
Neoformalism; * Political formations; * Social reform; *
Educational reform; *
Scientific formations; *
Geological forms; *
Religious formations; * Imperial
formations; * Urban forms; * Architectural form; *
Sculptural form; * Domestic
design; * Intellectual formations; * Forms of publication; *
Bodily formations; * Gendered
forms; * Forms of conduct; * Forming identities; *
Moral forms; *Neo-victorian forms. |
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Dr Christine Ferguson Department of English Literature
5/302 University Gardens University of Glasgow G12 8QQ c.ferguson@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk |
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Victorians and Continental Politics |
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Proposals are being accepted for a Special Session at MLA 2011. How did Victorian writers respond to such Continental political events as the revolutions of 1848, the Risorgimento, and the Commune? Papers on Continental political figures also welcome. Please email 300-word abstracts by 15th March, 2010, to Lanya Lamouria (llamouria@missouristate.edu). |
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Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the
Pre-Raphaelites
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University of
Delaware, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware Art Museum |
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7th-9th October
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"Useful and Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of
William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites" will be the subject of a
conference and related exhibitions to be held 7-9 October 2010 at the
University of Delaware (Newark, DE) and at the Delaware Art Museum and the
Winterthur Museum and Country Estate (Wilmington, DE). Organized with the
assistance of the William Morris Society, "Useful and Beautiful"
will highlight the strengths of the University of Delaware's rare books, art,
and manuscripts collections; Winterthur's important holdings in American
decorative arts; and the Delaware Art Museum's superlative Pre-Raphaelite
collection (the largest outside Britain). All events will focus on the
multitude of transatlantic exchanges that involved Morris, the Pre-Raphaelites,
and the Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic movements of the late nineteenth
century. |
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We seek 250- to 500-word proposals for short papers (15
minutes reading time, maximum) that explore relationships and influences–whether
personal, intellectual, political, or aesthetic–connecting William Morris,
his friends, associates, and followers in Britain and Europe with their
contemporaries and successors in the Americas. The "arts" will
include not merely those at which Morris himself excelled–i.e., literature,
design, and printing–but also painting, illustration, architecture,
performance, and anything related to print culture in general. Papers that
examine transatlantic politics, social movements, and environmental issues in
light of Morrisian, Pre-Raphaelite, and Arts and Crafts perspectives are also
welcome. |
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Possible topic areas include: William Morris's Influence
in and on the Americas • The American Ruskinians • Transatlantic Arts and
Crafts Architecture • British Connections to the American Aesthetic Movement
• Designers Traveling, East to West or West to East • Arts and Crafts Places,
Real and/or Imaginary • British Aesthetic Ideals and American Domestic
Interiors • The Kelmscott Press and Transatlantic Print Culture • Aesthetic
Periodicals and/or Little Magazines Crossing the Atlantic • Publishing the
Pre-Raphaelites in the Americas • American Book Illustrators and
Pre-Raphaelite Influences • The Transatlantic Poster Craze • Exhibiting the
Pre-Raphaelites in the Americas • Americans Collecting Morris and the
Pre-Raphaelites • Selling Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts Goods Across the
Atlantic • Pre-Raphaelite Imagery and American Advertising • The Morris Chair
as a Transatlantic Object • Morris and American Needlework • American Dress
Reform and Pre-Raphaelite Influence • The Pre-Raphaelites and the Literature
of the Americas • Oscar Wilde Visits America • Whitman and the
Pre-Raphaelites • Morris and American Socialism • Morris & Co. Stained
Glass in the Americas • American Drama and Pre-Raphaelite Figures • Pre-Raphaelitism
and American Art Education • Photography and the Circulation of
Pre-Raphaelite Images • Pre-Raphaelitism and American Music |
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The deadline for 250- to 500-word proposals is 15th March 2010.
Please forward electronic submissions to: Mark Samuels Lasner, marksl@udel.edu. |
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Limited funding may be available for speakers whose papers
focus specifically on William Morris and who are in need of financial
assistance. To be considered for support, explain your circumstances when
submitting your paper proposal. |
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In addition to conference sessions, there will be a
keynote lecture, demonstrations by leading practitioners who make and design
Arts and Crafts objects, special exhibitions, and related film, theater, and
musical performances. The following exhibitions are anticipated at the time
of the conference: Delaware Art Museum ("May Morris," also
permanent display of the Samuel and Mary Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite collection);
University of Delaware Library (American literature, 1870-1916 exhibition and
"William Morris"); University Gallery, University of Delaware
("Ethel Reed: Transatlantic Artist of the 1890s"); Winterthur (Arts
and Crafts archival resources); and Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
("David Mabb: The Morris Kitsch Archive"). |
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For more information go to www.morrissociety.org or contact
Mark Samuels Lasner, (302) 831-3250, marksl@udel.edu. |
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"Useful and Beautiful" is supported by the
Delaware Art Museum, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, the William Morris
Society in the United States, the William Morris Society (UK), and the
following University of Delaware departments and programs: College of Arts
and Sciences, the University of Delaware Library, Art, Art Conservation, Art
History, English, History, and Material Culture Studies. |
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Popular Sex: Media and Sexuality in
Germany in the Early 20th Century
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To be held at the
University of Calgary, January 7-8, 2011 (tentative dates) |
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Organized by: - Annette Timm (Associate Professor of
History, University of Calgary) - Michael Thomas Taylor (Assistant Professor
of German, University of Calgary) - Rainer Herrn (Institut für Geschichte der
Medizin, Charité, and Magnus Hirschfeld Society) |
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Due date for
submission of abstracts: 15th March 2010. |
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Please submit
abstracts jointly to all three organizers at atimm@ucalgary.ca, mttaylor@ucalgary.ca, rainerherrn@gmx.de |
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We envision a workshop of 8-12 people meeting over the
course of two days. Papers will be pre-circulated and presentations brief to
foster discussion. We welcome contributions from across disciplines in the
social sciences and humanities. The language of the conference will be
English. |
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Around the turn of the
nineteenth century in Germany, sex got popular. Emerging social movements for
sexual reform, for women, homosexuals, and transvestites made demands that
increased public awareness of previously ignored social realities and drew
attention to diverse ‘sexual’ topics. And both the science of sexology
(Sexualwissenschaft) and psychoanalysis accorded sexual discourse – in the
form of intimate confessions – a public circulation and legitimacy unlike
that evinced by earlier forms of pornography, titillating wares, or published
discussions of sex. New themes included the emancipation of women, the
decriminalization of homosexuality and transvetitism, new concerns about
birth rates and education about venereal disease, the legalization of
abortion, and not least of all sexually charged, eugenic notions of race and
the Volk. These controversial public discussions formed the horizon for
political scandals, for public accusations and trials, for political
agitation and scientific propaganda, and for the commercialization of sex.
Although governments continued to regulate the popularization of sex, it
transformed notions of public and private, of sexual behavior and health, and
of gender norms, and thus decisively contributed to the development of modern
popular culture. |
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We contend that a
re-examination of this new popularity of sex in Germany will contribute
significantly to understanding the origins of popular culture as a concept
that is as ubiquitous in contemporary society and academic discourse as it is
difficult to define. A growing body of recent work on the history of
sexuality in Germany suggests the questions that we will ask. How did the
popularization of sex both create and constrain possibilities for sexual
expression and control? What role did it play in implementing policies in the
spheres of eugenics, reproductive medicine and family welfare? |
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Our focus will be on forms
of public representation and media as vehicles of this popularization. This
includes the question of how newspapers, journals, fiction, propaganda,
public lectures, radio, and films popularized new categories of sexual
identity and expression. But we also want to know what role the
popularization of sex played in the development of these forms of public
representation. While our main focus will be on the period around 1900 and
the following decades, we are also interested in understanding how public
discourse about sex before and after this period relate to the popular
significance of sex in Germany. Our approach will be inter-disciplinary: we will
attempt to foster a dialogue between approaches concerned with cultural
history, with visual arts and film, with the history of science, and with
media theory. |
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Possible questions: |
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– How did the increasingly visual culture of this period
relate to the mainly literary history of autobiography and confession out of
which modern categories of sexuality emerged? – How did movements for
political emancipation and the new visibility of sexual subcultures, as well
as the political reactions they provoked, alter or influence the development
of public representation? – What modes of censorship developed to regulate or
prohibit the public representations of sex? Does this censorship redefine,
challenge, or influence practices of censorship in general? – How did
conceptual analogies shared by discourses of sexuality and media – such as
production and reproduction or circulation and contact – structure the
sexualization of public representation and the popularization of sexual
discourse? – How did new discourses of sexuality in Germany influence
advertising and commerce? What exactly does sex sell? – Does this history of
sexuality and popular culture offer a new perspective on the power of Fascist
aesthetics and politics? – In conclusion, how did the significance of sex for
the development of public representation influence or change the meaning and
function of ‘popular’ culture itself? |
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– Dr. Annette F. Timm Department of History University of
Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada Tel:
403.220.6411 Fax: 403.289.8566 E-mail: atimm@ucalgary.ca. |
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THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH
STUDIES 2010 MEETING
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The Southern Conference on British Studies solicits
proposals for its 2010 meeting to be held 5–7 November 2010 in Charlotte,
North Carolina. The SCBS will meet in conjunction with the _Southern Historical
Association_ (http://www.uga.edu/sha/)
. |
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The SCBS construes British Studies widely and invites
participation by scholars in all areas of British history and culture,
including the Empire or Commonwealth and the British Isles. Interdisciplinary
approaches and proposals which focus broadly on teaching British studies are
especially welcome. Proposals may consist of individual papers or of papers
grouped for a session. For session proposals, two, or, preferably, three
papers should relate to a common theme, not necessarily bound by the usual
chronological framework. |
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For each paper proposed, please submit an abstract of 200
to 300 words, indicating the thesis of the paper, the sources and methodology
employed in research, and how it enhances or expands knowledge of its
subject. Papers should have a reading time of 20–25 minutes. Also, please
submit a curriculum vitae for each participant. PROPOSALS SHOULD BE POSTMARKED BY 15 MARCH
2010 AND MAILED TO: |
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Dr. William Anthony Hay, Department of History, P.O. Box
H, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762. Inquiries are
welcome at _wilhay6248@aol.com_ (mailto:wilhay6248@aol.com) , but please
do not send proposals by email or fax. |
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Victorians and the East
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15th Annual
Visawus |
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The conference will focus on the complex
relationships between the Victorians and the East, including India and China,
Malaya and the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand, and the South Sea
Islands. This international conference will bring together specialists in
Asian and Victorian art history, literature, gender studies, science,
history, literature, politics, and biographical studies, among others, to
explore how the Victorians perceived the East, and how they were perceived in
the East. We invite paper proposals (300 word abstract plus 1-page CV) on political,
cultural, social, religious, artistic, scientific, economic, agrarian, and
other aspects of this rich interaction. |
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Possible topics include (but are not limited to): |
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Investors and the East Indigenous Women and
English Men; * Australia in literature
Art and the South Seas; * South
Seas and Paradise The marketing of Australia; *
Malays and the Anthropologists The East and the Crystal Palace; * The East and the Military Clash of Cultures
and Ecological Destruction; * Settling
in the South Seas The South Seas and World Naval Politics; * Cannibals and Paradise The Empire in
Australian Schools; * Sex and
the Sailor Imperial Vision of the Maori; * Island
Kings and the British Empress Women Travelers in Oceania and the East; * Robert Louis Stevenson and Hawaii The Scots
in the Islands; * For a
complete CFP and more information about the conference and visawus, please
see our web site at www.visawus.org. |
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Deadline for abstracts to be emailed to Richard
Fulton at Fulton@hawaii.edu is 19th March, 2010 |
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Robert Louis Stevenson in the
Pacific
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I’m seeking paper proposals from scholars in art
history, ethnography, gender studies, history, literature, politics, and
science for a panel on Robert Louis Stevenson, and his life and writings in
the Pacific Islands. This panel forms part of the conference on ‘Oceania and
the East in the Victorian Imagination,’ organized by the Victorian
Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, taking
place on 28th–30th October 2010 in Honolulu, HI. |
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Papers might treat topics including, but not
limited to, the following: |
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*
Postcolonial Stevenson; *
Stevenson and the Feminine; * Pacific
Writings and Stevenson’s Critical Reputation; *
Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century Racial Theory: *
Serialization, Periodicals, and Stevenson’s Pacific Writings; * Stevenson’s Representations of Indigenous
Peoples; * Pacific Eden: Romance vs.
Realism; * Exploration Narratives and
Stevenson’s Pacific; *
Non-Fiction Illustrations of Stevenson’s Works; *
Stevenson and the Literature of the Sea; *
Photographs of Stevenson’s Pacific; *
Stevenson as Ethnographer; * Literary
Collaboration and Stevenson’s Writings; *
Stevenson as Travel Writer |
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KEYNOTE
SPEAKER: Jane Samson, History, University of Alberta, author of Imperial Benevolence: Making British
Authority in the Pacific Islands, Race and Empire, editor of The British Empire, British Imperial
Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900 and Pacific Empires. |
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Pacific
Beach Hotel, 2490 Kalakaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815 http://www.pacificbeachhotel.com |
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Email
300-word abstracts and one-page vitas (with name and email address on both
documents) to Arnold Anthony Schmidt at aschmidt@csustan.edu
by 19th March
2010. For additional information, visit www.VISAWUS.org. |
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Arnold Anthony Schmidt, Ph.D. Professor of English
California State University http://www.csustan.edu/ENGLISH/schmidt/schmidt.htm |
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Transgression and its Limits
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29-30th May 2010
University of Stirling |
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Plenary Speaker:
Professor Fred Botting Reading followed by Q&A Session: Iain Banks |
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To discover the
complete horizon of a society's symbolic values, it is also necessary to map
out its transgressions, its deviants ~ Marcel Détienne. |
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Rule-breaking has always been a central aspect of literary
and cultural development. The works of Marquis de Sade, William Burroughs and
Kathy Acker help define the canon of transgressive fiction, while Bakhtin,
Bataille and Foucault have become its philosophers and apologists. From the
law-breaking obscenity of D.H. Lawrence's Lady
Chatterley's Lover to the immorality of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, transgressive art
has offended the old order for the sake of a new. |
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The commodification of extreme horror in recent movies and
the faux- antagonism of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk both reveal the
paradox of a transgression which has now established its own conventions. Is
transgression more than the tradition of subverting tradition? Have the conditions
of post-modernity exhausted our ability to be shocked? |
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The aim of this conference is to provide an
interdisciplinary forum to consider transgressive tactics in literature,
film, critical theory and other cultural productions. To what extent has transgression
helped shape sexual, cultural and artistic landscapes of its own period? We
invite abstracts for 20-minute papers focusing on transgressive,
taboo-breaking and politically resistant acts in literature and the arts. |
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Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): §
Violence § Profanity § The Sacred § Sexuality and the body § Obscenity and
pornography § Aberrance, Fetish, Perversion § The New Horror - 'torture porn'
§ Avant-garde cinema, Cinema of Transgression § The Carnivalesque § Gender roles
§ Censorship - cultural reactions to transgressive texts § Violence against
the text - formal/textual transgression § Postmodernism's transgression of
the high/low cultural divide |
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Please send a 300-word abstract and a 50-word biography to
Aspasia Stephanou, Matthew Foley and Neil McRobert at transgression@stir.ac.uk by 19th March 2010. |
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Culture, Theory & Critique : Interdisciplinarity
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In recent years interdisciplinarity has become a key
dimension in the formulation and assessment of research. And indeed one of
the main elements in Culture,
Theory and Critique’s statement
of aims is the exploration of the interface between disciplines. It is
therefore opportune to devote an issue to what is meant by and what is at
stake in the notion and practice of interdisciplinarity. In autumn 2010 we
intend to publish a number of essays on the topic and suggest various
questions amongst others which might be considered: |
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· What are the factors which explain the
recent surge of interest in interdisciplinarity in the humanities? Why has it
become a significant part of the discourse not only of researchers themselves
but also of research managers and funders? |
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· What is the relationship between
distinct disciplines and interdisciplinarity? |
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· How stable are the existing disciplines
and how do they respond to the interest in interdisciplinarity? Are there
serious risks of incoherence deriving from the opening of disciplinary boundaries? |
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· References to ‘interdisciplinarity’
often mean expanding the realm of objects that a discipline can treat without
expanding the parameters of the discipline’s theory and methodology. How can
an interdisciplinarity that truly challenges disciplinary assumptions be
articulated and what is the status of the object of study in such a
programme? |
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· Can interdisciplinarity really operate
in between disciplines or is it only ever a term used to account for work
which draws from more than one disciplinary field? |
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· What are the benefits of
interdisciplinary research? Is it in any sense inherently more probing and
comprehensive simply because it combines different angles of analysis? |
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· What are the conceptual and
institutional differences between interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity
and transdisciplinarity? |
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· How does interdisciplinarity function
in different research domains? Do the sciences and humanities conceive the
practice differently and what might these broad domains learn from the
other’s approach? |
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Culture, Theory and
Critique welcomes theoretical essays on the theme
of interdisciplinarity and critical analyses of particular examples of its
practice. Essays should be submitted for consideration by the end of March 2010. |
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For further information about the journal visit: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RCTC and click on the
Instruction for Authors tab. |
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Contemporary British
Theatre: Towards a New Canon
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16th October 2010 |
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Hosted by the School of English, Birmingham City
University |
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Confirmed speakers
include: Prof. Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, University of
London); Dr Chris Megson (Royal Holloway, University of
London); Dr Graham Saunders (University of Reading); Dr Aleks Sierz (Rose Bruford College, Boston
University London branch) |
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The conference
seeks to address representational trends and practices in post-1995 British theatre.
It will examine the work of playwrights who produced their most influential
plays during the last fifteen years and changed the face of contemporary
British theatre, contributing to the development of new playwriting
traditions in the UK. The conference will shed light on how these playwrights
can be seen as belonging to a new canon, which is redefining extant notions
of theatre and representation. |
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Proposals for papers are now invited. Topics
may include (but are not limited to): |
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·
Influential plays
and playwrights |
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Responding to social
change: new issues for British theatre |
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Renegotiating form,
content and genre: testing the boundaries of representation |
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·
New political
theatre(s) |
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·
Contemporary British
theatre and Europe: influences, exchanges, aesthetics |
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·
Contemporary British
theatre and gender |
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·
Contemporary British
theatre and national identity |
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·
Specific theatres,
artistic directors and repertoire choices |
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Proposals of
250-300 words should be sent to Dr Vicky Angelaki, conference organizer, at vicky.angelaki@bcu.ac.uk, by 31st March 2010. |
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Dr Vicky Angelaki, Lecturer in English and Drama,
School of English, Faculty of Performance, Media and English, Birmingham City
University |
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Note: Paper proposals dealing with Oscar Wilde as a vehicle for
the ideas of Stoppard, Ravenhill, Eagleton, Hare etc are expressly welcome,
Dr Angelaki writing as follows: |
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Thank you very much
for your e-mail and this very interesting take on the conference subject.
I appreciate your help with circulating this CFP and shall definitely
write to you should I receive paper proposals with content related to
the one you mention. It would be wonderful to have scholars working in these
areas present at the conference. Details regarding registration etc.
will be communicated in due course. |
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By the Numbers
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The Victorians Institute, NINES, and the University of
Virginia Department of English announce a call for papers for By the Numbers,
a conference to be held October 1-3, 2010 in Charlottesville at the
University of Virginia. The deadline is 31st March, 2010. The keynote speaker will be
Daniel Cohen. |
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Please see the website at http://www.nines.org/VIC2010/ for
details on the conference, the theme, and the way to submit proposals. |
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Alison Booth Department of English University of Virginia |
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Utopian Studies Society
(Europe) 11th
International Conference |
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7-10 July 2010 |
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THE SPECTERS OF UTOPIA
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Proposals
are invited for papers of 20 minutes on different aspects of utopias, dystopias,
utopianism, and anti-utopianism as they manifest themselves in politics,
society, economics, art, and culture. The conference language is English. Sessions conducted in other
languages are also
possible (minimum 2 papers). Submit abstracts (approx. 250 words) by e-mail as file attachments
in MS WORD to L.Gruszewska-Blaim@ug.edu.pl. These should include: 1. name and affiliation
2. e-mail address,
title of paper 3. abstract 4. 3 keywords 5. multimedia requirements 6. schedule restrictions Deadline
for abstracts: 31st March 2010 |
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Lublin
lies in the southeastern Poland a hundred miles from Warsaw. The campus is situated very
close to the city's historic centre. The nearest international airport is
Warsaw. Trains run every two hours from Warsaw Central Railway Station to Lublin (journey time 2.5
hrs). There are also inexpensive bus services from the center of Warsaw to
Lublin. We may provide a shuttle from Warsaw Airport to the campus on the day
before the conference. |
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The
registration fee will be 190 Euro, to include tea, coffee, buffet lunches and two evening
receptions. Details of hotels will be available nearer the conference
date. The Utopian Studies Society has limited funds available to assist
post-graduates with the expenses of attending the Society’s annual
conference. If we accept your paper, and you would like more details or an
application form, please contact the USS Secretary, Lorna.Davidson@newlanark.org. |
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Deadline
for registration: 30 May 2010. Late registrations will be accepted up to 7 days prior to the
conference at additional cost of 40 Euro. |
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Arrangements
for registration will be announced in due course. |
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The
conference website: www.utopia2010.umcs.lublin.pl |
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April
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Reweaving the Rainbow: Literature
and Philosophy 1850-1910
|
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University
of Exeter, 10th - 11th September 2010 |
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Confirmed keynote speaker:
Prof. Michael Wood (Princeton) |
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Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings |
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Conquer all mysteries by rule and line |
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Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -- |
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Unweave a rainbow... |
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–(Keats, Lamia, 229-237) |
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John Keats' famous indictment
illustrates the historically ambivalent encounter between literature and
'cold' philosophy. In the decades that followed, this relationship was to
enter a new phase, as each field sought to redefine itself to befit the emerging
conditions of modernity. Yet even as the endeavour to explore philosophical
issues and the influence of philosophical discourses burgeoned in novels,
poetry and essays, the separate institutionalisation of philosophy and
English literature in universities from the early 1890s pulled these most
intimately related 'disciplines' apart. |
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This interdisciplinary
two-day conference will explore the vicissitudes of influence, appropriation,
interaction and disciplinarity in 'English literature' and 'philosophy'. It
will address the ways in which literature is philosophical and philosophy is
literary, and how their interactions evolved in the course of this period. We
are seeking to raise a range of issues including, but not limited to: |
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How novels and poetry exploit the philosophical potentialities of literary
form, including the treatment and expansion of philosophical issues such as
ethics and epistemology in literary works (e.g. Henry James' empiricism,
Wilde's aphorisms) |
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*
The influence of philosophers on literary writers (eg. Feuerbach and Eliot,
Ancient Greek philosophy and Arnold, Nietzsche and Vernon Lee) |
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*
Intellectual and literary culture in Britain (eg. the Classics in Oxford, the
British Hegelians, the rise of Positivism, the persistence of Romantic
philosophies) |
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*
The philosophy of literature and the arts (eg. Ruskin, George Moore, Arthur
Symons) |
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*
The way that science influenced philosophical discourses in essays, novels
and poetry (eg. evolution and ethics, Hardy and social Darwinism) |
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The deadline for submission
of abstracts is 2nd April 2010. Please send an abstract of
around 300 words and a brief biography to Dr. Kate Hext and EII Research
Fellow Alice Barnaby at k.hext@ex.ac.uk
no later than this date. Questions and comments are also welcome! |
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Documenting History,
Documenting Progress : Nineteenth Century Photographs of Architecture
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International
Symposium |
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3rd–4th October,
2010 |
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Held during the
exhibition of Snite Collection photographs of nineteenth century architecture
at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame (September 5 – October
31, 2010) |
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This symposium is a collaboration between the Snite Museum
at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Notre Dame School of
Architecture, and Indiana University South Bend. It will bring together
scholars who study nineteenth century photography of architecture. |
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Heavily represented in collections of nineteenth century
photographs, architectural photography provides inroads into major themes of
the period: industry and technology, exploration and exoticism,
documentation and preservation, history and nationalism, etc. However,
most histories of photography use the progressive development of the medium
as the organizing structure for the presentation of the material.
Architecture lent itself to the long exposure times required by the early
photographic processes and was used extensively as subject by the first
generation of photographers. A genuine understanding of the first decades of
architectural photography needs to account for the relevant technical
parameters of production but also demands that each photographic image of
architecture be studied as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object.
It is the investigation of this multi-faceted enquiry that is invited in this
symposium on nineteenth-century architectural photography. |
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Abstracts for papers with a thematic approach to the study
of nineteenth century photography of architecture are invited from
established and junior scholars. Authors of selected papers will have the
opportunity to participate in the publication of the symposium proceedings.
Some assistance with travel expenses and a modest honorarium are funded for
symposium speakers. |
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Please send a 400-word abstract and a short CV (up to 3
pages) to Micheline Nilsen, Indiana University South Bend, NS033E, 1700
Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN 46634-7111 USA, 001-574-520-4277, e-mail: mnilsen@iusb.edu. Electronic
submissions are preferred. Deadline: 15th April 2010. Notification to speakers will
be made by May 15, 2010. Final drafts of papers will be requested by
September 1, 2010. |
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This project is partially supported by Indiana
University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program, funded by
the Office of the President and administered by the interim Vice President
for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and by the Snite
Museum of the University of Notre Dame. |
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Micheline Nilsen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History, NS033E, Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, Indiana University South Bend, 1700 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN 46634-7111. 574-520-4277. mnilsen@iusb.edu. |
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Midwest Conference on British
Studies 56th Annual Meeting
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October 8-10, 2010,
Cleveland |
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The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to
announce that its fifty-sixth annual meeting will be hosted by
Baldwin-Wallace College at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. |
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The MWCBS seeks papers from scholars in all fields of
British Studies, broadly defined to include those who study England,
Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's empire. We welcome scholars from the
broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to history,
literature, political science, gender studies and art history. Proposals for
complete sessions are preferred, although proposals for individual papers
will be considered. |
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Especially welcome are roundtables and panels that: |
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·
offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on
topics in British Studies |
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·
discuss collaborative or innovative learning
techniques in the British Studies classroom |
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·
situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a
British cultural context |
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·
examine representations of British and
imperial/Commonwealth national identities |
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·
consider Anglo-American relations, past and
present |
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·
examine new trends in British Studies |
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·
assess a major work or body of work by a
scholar |
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The MWCBS also invites submissions for a special panel
engaging David Cressy’s work on religion and ritual in early modern England.
Professor Cressy will serve as respondent for this session. |
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The MWCBS welcomes papers presented by advanced graduate
students and will award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize at its plenary luncheon
for the best graduate student paper(s) given at the conference. |
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Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each
paper and a brief, 1-page c.v. for each participant, including chairs and
commentators. For full panels, please include a brief 200-word preview of the
panel as a whole. In addition, please place the panel proposal, and its
accompanying paper proposals and vitas in one file. Please make certain that
all contact information, particularly email addresses are correct and
current. All proposals should be submitted online by 15th April 2010, to the Program
Committee Chair, Rick Incorvati, at rincorvati@wittenberg.edu
<mailto:rincorvati@wittenberg.edu>. |
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Carol Engelhardt Herringer Associate Professor of History
Director, Social Science Education Program Wright State University Dayton, OH
45435 USA 937-775-3869 |
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ANGLES 2: INTERDISCIPLINARY
POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL HISTORY
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Birkbeck,
University of London Saturday 19th June 2010 |
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Following the success of the first Angles conference in
2009, we are returning in 2010 with another one-day event and the launch of
an online network for research students working in the field of cultural
history. |
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The aim of the conference is to bring together a range of
postgraduate perspectives on cultural history from across the disciplinary
spectrum. The focus will be on unusual topics or unconventional approaches to
otherwise familiar topics. For instance, papers might deal with cultural
practices that have been neglected by traditional history, or engage with
emerging fields, trends or themes that may have been overlooked by existing
scholarship. We would especially welcome papers that reflect on the
challenges of dealing with discipline-specific responses to the way in which
you approach your topic, or the particular advantages or limitations of
taking on an unusual topic. |
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We invite all interested contributors to submit proposals
for 20 minute papers. Please send a 200 word abstract, including your name,
designation, institutional affiliation and thesis title (if applicable) to angles.postgrad@gmail.com
no later than Saturday 17th April 2010. |
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Thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research
Council (AHRC), we are able to offer six travel bursaries of up to £50 each
to enable research students from outside London to attend the conference. We
will be receiving applications for the bursaries when registration for the
conference opens in May. |
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The online network will launch in late April 2010. |
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Co-organisers: Rachel Richardson, Thomas Turner, James
Emmott (Birkbeck) |
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School of Arts,
Birkbeck, University of London / www.bbk.ac.uk/arts
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology / www.bbk.ac.uk/hca London
Consortium / www.londonconsortium.com |
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Angles is supported
by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
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Each year the AHRC provides funding from the
Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and
humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance. Only
applications of the highest quality and excellence are funded and the range
of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides
social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of
the UK. For further information on the AHRC, please see www.ahrc.ac.uk |
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ORDER AND CHAOS
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SDN Postgraduate
Conference |
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Saturday, 18th
September 2010, |
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Maison Française
d’Oxford |
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We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers, in either
English or French, 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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-Forming the Canon /
marginal writing -The carefully crafted text / the chaos of writing
(including genetic criticism) |
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Keynote speaker:
Professor Mary Orr, University of Southampton; ‘Ordering Chaos:
Intertextuality and the Natural Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France’ |
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Proposals (200-250 words) should be sent to the conference
organiser: manon.mathias@trinity.ox.ac.uk,
by 30th April
2010. |
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L’ORDRE ET LE DÉSORDRE |
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SDN Postgraduate Conference |
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Samedi, le 18 septembre 2010, |
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Maison Française d’Oxford |
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La conférence
doctorale de la Société des dix-neuviémistes est de retour cette année avec
un colloque sur le thème de « L’ordre et le désordre », qui
aura lieu le samedi 18 septembre 2010 à la Maison Française d’Oxford.
Nous invitons les doctorants à soumettre des propositions pour des
communications de 20 minutes, soit en anglais, soit en français. Les sujets
abordés pourront relever de toute approche des études sur le dix-neuvième
siècle français et francophone. La liste suivante peut servir de point
de départ: |
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-La
construction du canon / l’écriture marginale |
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Intervenante
principale: Professor Mary Orr, University of Southampton ‘Ordering
Chaos: Intertextuality and the Natural Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France’ |
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Les
propositions (de 200 à 250 mots) doivent être envoyées à l’organisatrice du
colloque: manon.mathias@trinity.ox.ac.uk, avant le 30 avril 2010. |
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L'adresse
administrative: k.s.griffiths@swansea.ac.uk |
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Nineteenth Century Feminisms: Press and Platform |
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Special Issue on ‘Nineteenth Century Feminisms: Press and
Platform’ in Nineteenth Century Gender
Studies (www.ncgsjournal.com) |
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Guest Edited by Susan Hamilton (University of Alberta) and
Janice Schroeder (Carleton University). |
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Deadline for completed submissions: 1st May 2010 |
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Historian Barbara Caine has
suggested that women's political writing - from speeches and platform
addresses to essays, newspaper editorials, and broadsheets – tends to be
assessed primarily as part of specific political campaigns rather than
approached as specific forms of writing. Recent scholarship on women's
political work as journalists, including writers such as Elizabeth Banks,
Frances Power Cobbe, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Oliphant, and Eliza Lynn
Linton, has begun to address this oversight, paving the way for new
contributions to this field. At the same time, broadly-based research on
women and the literary politics of anonymity and signature, women's work as
editors of both large and small-scale publications, and accounts of
individual periodicals and the production of ‘women's space,’ suggests the
need for more investigations into the gendered culture of nineteenth-century
print journalism. This special issue calls for papers addressing the
relations between nineteenth-century feminisms (broadly defined) and the
press, including the public culture of speaking, clubbing and organizing
which often turned to the press as a critical tool. Possible questions
include: |
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* How do
we define what counts as ‘political’ when we approach women's contributions
to the nineteenth century press? * How did
the press help make modern feminism? How did modern feminism help make the
press? * How does the multiple serial
forms of the 19thC press shape feminist argument and strategy? * How did women's writing for the press help
to re-shape the emerging profession of journalism but also public culture in
a broad sense? How did women's journalism help shape what counts as ‘the
public,’ or as ‘a public?’ * How were
nineteenth-century gender politics, or specifically a feminist politics,
continually reimagined in and by the press? *
What kinds of ‘female spaces’ were created within the larger networks of
print journalism? * What
kinds of feedback loops existed between women's writing for the press and
other forms of public engagement, such as public speaking, clubbing,
teaching, missionary work, and political organizing? *
Who were the women readers of nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines?
How did their acts of reading help make the press and nineteenth century
public culture? * What is
the relationship between women's writing, feminist politics, and mass and/or
popular culture? What can we learn about this relationship from the Victorian
press? * What was the role of male
editors, journalists, and mentors in shaping a feminist press and a feminist
public? |
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Complete submissions (full length manuscripts between 5000-8000 words following MLA style; no abstracts please) and one-paragraph bios should be emailed as Microsoft Word attachments to: Dr. Susan Hamilton (susan.hamilton@ualberta.ca) or Dr. Janice Schroeder (janice_schroeder@carleton.ca) by 1st May 2010. To facilitate the review process, please send two files-one with your article absent of all identifying information and another with your brief biographical note. |
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vexed encounters
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Novels, says Samuel Johnson in an essay in The Rambler, ‘are written chiefly to
the young, the ignorant, the idle, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct,
and instructions into life.’ Nineteenth-century novels shouldered that
didactic mission with particular force and authority. To what extent do they
still exert that authority over us today? |
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We are seeking 300-500-word abstracts for personal essays
about vexed encounters with nineteenth-century fiction. Specific examples
might include over-identification with a particular character;
internalization of a particular character or plotline as a cautionary tale; a
sense of being rebuked or oppressed by a particular novelist; a sense of reverence
that's deeply entangled with frustration at a novel's sexism, racism, or
classism; or a sense of having been groomed by nineteenth-century fiction to
inhabit a world that simply doesn't exist. |
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While scholarly approaches to the novels themselves are
welcome, these should be first- person essays, more in the style of creative
nonfiction than traditional scholarship. For a sample, see http://www.thecommonreview.org/fileadmin/template/tcr/pdf/EdWatch64.pdf. |
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We welcome abstracts from scholars, creative writers, and
others. Send abstracts by 1st May to Leslie Haynsworth at haynswor@mailbox.sc.edu and Maria
LaMonaca at m_lamonaca@hotmail.com. |
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Steampunk! The Popular Version of
Neo-Victorianism
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A One-Day
Conference hosted by the Victorian Steampunk Society, |
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11th September,
2010 |
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Lincoln Castle and
Lawns, Lincoln, England |
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The Conference aims to explore the rising popularity of
Steampunk and to consider its place in the wider field of Neo-victorianism
and Neo-Victorian Studies. |
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This conference is unique in that it takes place alongside
the ‘Weekend at the Asylum’ festival which will attract up to one thousand
active steampunks to the beautiful and historic City of
Lincoln. This makes it the perfect opportunity to meet and talk to
some of the leading figures in this aspect of Neo-Victorianism. The
conference will run from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 11th September and will be
held in the Victorian Annex of Lincoln Castle. There will be an
opportunity for delegates to explore the Victorian Courtroom and cell block
which are preserved there as well as the rest of the Castle itself. |
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The conference will begin with a chance to meet and chat
with other delegates before an introductory address by John Naylor, Chair of
the Victorian Steampunk Society. The day will consist of five
panels. Each panel will have two speakers and a chair. Speakers
are asked to offer a fifteen to twenty minute presentation allowing time for
questions from the floor and further discusssion. |
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The organisers are seeking six speakers for the three
afternoon panels. We solicit proposals of not more than 250 words
to be submitted to John Naylor (majortinker@aol.com) by 1st May 2010.
Possible topics might include: |
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Steampunk fiction and
poetry — Steampunk in popular film and media — The aesthetics of steampunk —
Steampunk and Neo-Victorianism — International Steampunk — The politics of
"techno-anachrofetishism" — Steampunk and DIY — Nostalgia,
re-enactment and remembrance — Steampunk and science fiction — Steampunk and
music — Steampunk, gender and Class — Steampunk manifestoes. |
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The conference will be brought to a close with a short
plenary session and finish at 5pm. |
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Light refreshments will be provided but the conference
does not plan to include lunch since we suspect delegates will want to
explore some of the steampunk features which will be in the castle over the
festival weekend. There are of course catering facilities in the
Castle. Registration is free but places are very strictly limited to
just fifty. Delegates are strongly advised to book their place as
quickly as they are able. Delegates will also be able to purchase
subsidised tickets for the Asylum Steampunk Festival although several
features will be open to delegates at no charge . We hope that this
will be the first in a series of annual conferences on Steampunk and
Neo-Victorianism and look forward to welcoming you to Lincoln. |
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Dr Christine Ferguson, Department of English Literature, 5/302 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, c.ferguson@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk, |
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2010 College Art
Association Conference |
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Women, Femininity, and Public Space
in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
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Chairs: Temma Balducci, Arkansas State University and
Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University |
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It is tantamount to
scripture that genteel women of the nineteenth century were associated
exclusively with the spaces of domesticity. While recent scholarship on the flâneuse has gone some way toward
challenging this assumption, our session is premised on the notion that the
descriptor flâneuse does not adequately
capture the myriad positions available to bourgeois women vis-à-vis the
public sphere. We are seeking proposals that engage with the specificity of
women’s activities outside the home and other conventional spaces of
femininity. What venues and mechanisms facilitated women¹s participation in
public culture? In what ways did their activities shape notions of gender and
public space? From a historiographic standpoint, what is the continued lure
of the separate spheres ideology for art historians? |
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Please submit an abstract and CV by 8th May 2010 by email to both tbalducci@astate.edu and heather_jensen@byu.edu or by mail to: Heather Belnap Jensen 3122 JKB Department of Visual Arts, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 |
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