CFP: RLS 2013 "Stevenson, Time and History" (2/15/2013; 7/8-10/2013)

RLS 2013: Stevenson, Time and History

8-10 July 2013

University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Keynote Speaker: Professor Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge

Topics for discussion include: 

• History and historiography
• The historical novel
• Theories of evolution
• The ideas of progress
• Generation and degeneration
• Narrative temporalities
• Genealogy and ancestry
• Stages of life: childhood, youth, age
• Memory and nostalgia
• Change

Proposals for papers (250 words) should be emailed to Roslyn Jolly (r.jolly@unsw.edu.au) or Chris Danta (c.danta@unsw.edu.au). Deadline extended to 15 February 2013.