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Rutgers British Studies Center, April 12, 2013
The potential for discovery of what is or was “interior”
fires the curiosity of scholars of British history and culture, whether the
subject of investigation is the parlor of a middle-class Victorian family or
the emotional life of an eighteenth-century Methodist. The Rutgers British Studies Center will hold
a one-day interdisciplinary conference on April 12, 2013 at Rutgers University
in New Brunswick, New Jersey on interiority in eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Britain. Broadly
understood, "interiority" might include any topic that concerns
mental or material phenomena that are conceived to be interior, internal,
inner, or inward, often but by no means always in explicit distinction from
what is exterior, external, outer, or outward. We encourage topics that in some
fashion reflect on historical changes in the concept of interiority.
Below we suggest five broad topics that should provide a
general sense of the range of papers that are relevant to the theme of the
conference. In two or three weeks we’ll issue a second call for papers with an
extended list of suggested sub-topics that fall under these broad ones. Alternatively, this can be accessed by
visiting http://britishstudies.rutgers.edu/events/2012-2013/details/96-interiority-in-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-britain-beyond-subjectivity.
Why “beyond subjectivity”?
A great deal of excellent work has been done in these period fields on
the idea of interiority as psychological subjectivity. We value this work. At
the same time—and with no intention of proscribing papers that thoughtfully extend it —we’re especially interested in papers that go
beyond this focus and that allow relations and correlations to be drawn between
different senses of interiority. In this spirit we also aim to bring together a
range of interdisciplinary scholarship.
We invite those interested to submit proposals of about 250
words by December 15, 2012 to Kathryn
Yeniyurt at kathryn.yeniyurt@rutgers.edu.
Interiority:
- Emotional/Experiential
- Persons and the Interpersonal
- Bodily/Physical
- Architectural Spaces
- Geographical Spaces
