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34th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century
Studies Association
Fresno, California
March 7-9, 2013
Panel: Nineteenth-Century
Studies on the Move in the 21st Century
In recent years the field of public humanities has created
new ways of building connections among scholars, arts and cultural heritage
institutions (libraries, historic sites, archives, museums, etc.), and
individuals who have a shared interest in preserving, creating knowledge about,
and studying people or cultures. Some are turning to social justice
causes or environmental reform as an outgrowth of their scholarship, while
others are collaborating with local museums or communities to educate and preserve
the cultural institutions they write about in their work.
This panel will look at the movement of our field out of the
tower and onto the street, to address the intersection of scholarship and civic
engagement. Papers might consider any of the following: How has
public humanities moved interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies in new
directions? How might nineteenth-century scholarship transform, reform,
preserve, or better serve the world in which we live? How might our
collaborations with non-academic institutions and people help to reinvigorate
the humanities and/or nineteenth century studies scholarship for the 21stcentury?
Please submit 300 word abstracts for 20 minute papers and a
short CV (2 pages) to Heidi Kaufman at kaufman@udel.edu no later than September 6, 2012.
