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We have had requests
to extend the deadline, so you (and all your friends and colleagues!) now have
until January 1st to submit an
abstract to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers
Conference April 4-6, 2013 in Albuquerque, NM.
The English department at the University of New Mexico is
pleased to host the 2013 British Women Writers Conference. The conference will
be April 4-6, 2013 at the Hyatt in downtown Albuquerque, NM. The conference
theme is “Customs,” and we look
forward to a wide range of unique presentations on the topic. In fact, we have
several potential publication opportunities for those who present at the
conference! In addition, we are excited that our brilliant lineup of speakers
includes:
Keynote Speakers
Devoney Looser and Pamela Gilbert
Plenary Panel
Diane Long Hoeveler, Kathy Psomiades, Linda Troost
Customs are often thought of as the habits or social norms
that dictate behavior, sometimes so rigidly that they appear to be laws.
Conversely, though, “custom” can refer to a product or service tailored to the
“customer’s” individual specifications, or the taxes or duties on
imports/exports, the governmental department charged with implementing such
fees, or the place in which all items entering a country from foreign parts are
examined for contraband. Regardless of its particular connotation,
“custom” denotes a sense of rigidity, restriction, or control; it is these
forms of social, economic, and/or personal limitations that we wish to explore
with this year’s conference. Prospective panelists are encouraged to think of
“customs” broadly as the term might apply to British and Transatlantic women
writers and their often-underrepresented contributions to literary studies.
Potential topics related to this theme might include but are not limited to the
following themes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women’s writing:
- Habits, practices, and routines
- Fashions and manners
- Rituals and ceremonies (religious, political, social, and cultural)
- Trade issues in the local and/or global economy
- Business and mercantile transactions and expansion
- Trade and exchange (economic, cultural, philosophical, or trade in knowledge and ideas)
- Issues of circulation (monetary as well as other goods and services in the social, political, global, or domestic spheres)
- Debt and credit
- Traditions and conventions (how they are established as well as how they are upheld or subverted, modified, or re-imagined)
- Customers and patronage
- Taxation, duties, and tributes
- Law and legal systems
Please send abstracts of 250 words for individual paper
presentations by January 1, 2013 to BWWC2013@gmail.com.
