Extended Deadline: INCS 2014 "Nineteenth-Century Energies" (12/6/2013; 3/27-30/2014)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies

University of Houston

March 27-30, 2014

New Deadline: December 6, 2013

Featuring Keynote Speakers

   Tom Gunning: Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History and Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
   Tim Morton: Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English, Rice University

“We do not exactly know what energy is, but we recognize it,” wrote engineer William Carpenter in 1883. For INCS 2014, the committee solicits proposals that recognize nineteenth-century energies in all their multiple, mutable forms. What made the nineteenth century move, tick, and turn? How were its energies instigated, exchanged, conceived, and converted? Who was most animated, and who sought lethargy? What shapes—literal, figurative, material, textual, painted, embodied—did its energies assume? And how were nineteenth-century energies contained? Proposals might focus on the following topics, but are not limited to these:

• Currency and currents
• Hurricanes, storms, and weather
• Evolution and devolution
• Eruptions, real and imagined
• Electromagnetism and wave theory
• Dynamism and cosmology
• Photosynthesis
• Environmental effects and anthropocenic ages
• Geography and geology
• Fossil fuels
• Radiation
• Conservation
• Narrative rhythms
• Prosodic energies
• Punch cards and digitized text
• Time and temporality
• Cartography and mapping
• Circuitry
• Rain, Steam, and Speed (Turner or otherwise)
• Circulation: of people, of molecules, of money
• Diasporas
• Technologies of vision
• Political energies
• Sweated labor and radical movements
• Steam(punk) and industry
• Urban construction and destruction
• Architectural tensions
• Bodies in motion: working, exercising, performing
• Protoplasm and vital energies
• Libido
• Virility and vigor
• Lassitude, ennui, paralysis, inertia
• Opiates and opioids
• Stimulants and tonics
• Animal magnetism, mesmerism, sensations
• Telekinesis, spiritualism, mental telepathy
• Enervation and innovation
• Sleep

For individual papers, send 500-word proposals; for panels, send individual 500-word proposals for each paper plus a 250-word panel description.

Please include a one-page cv and your name, affiliation, and email address on your proposal. Proposals that are interdisciplinary in method or panels that involve multiple disciplines are especially welcome. Submit proposals at incs2014.org; send questions to info@incs2014.org.

Travel subventions are available for graduate students; please contact Chris Vanden Bossche, INCS Executive Director (cvandenb@nd.edu), for further information.

Final Call: INCS 2014 "Nineteenth-Century Energies" (11/15/2013; 3/27-30/2014)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies

University of Houston

March 27-30, 2014

Deadline: November 15, 2013

Featuring Keynote Speakers

   Tom Gunning: Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History and Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
   Tim Morton: Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English, Rice University

“We do not exactly know what energy is, but we recognize it,” wrote engineer William Carpenter in 1883. For INCS 2014, the committee solicits proposals that recognize nineteenth-century energies in all their multiple, mutable forms. What made the nineteenth century move, tick, and turn? How were its energies instigated, exchanged, conceived, and converted? Who was most animated, and who sought lethargy? What shapes—literal, figurative, material, textual, painted, embodied—did its energies assume? And how were nineteenth-century energies contained? Proposals might focus on the following topics, but are not limited to these:

• Currency and currents
• Hurricanes, storms, and weather
• Evolution and devolution
• Eruptions, real and imagined
• Electromagnetism and wave theory
• Dynamism and cosmology
• Photosynthesis
• Environmental effects and anthropocenic ages
• Geography and geology
• Fossil fuels
• Radiation
• Conservation
• Narrative rhythms
• Prosodic energies
• Punch cards and digitized text
• Time and temporality
• Cartography and mapping
• Circuitry
• Rain, Steam, and Speed (Turner or otherwise)
• Circulation: of people, of molecules, of money
• Diasporas
• Technologies of vision
• Political energies
• Sweated labor and radical movements
• Steam(punk) and industry
• Urban construction and destruction
• Architectural tensions
• Bodies in motion: working, exercising, performing
• Protoplasm and vital energies
• Libido
• Virility and vigor
• Lassitude, ennui, paralysis, inertia
• Opiates and opioids
• Stimulants and tonics
• Animal magnetism, mesmerism, sensations
• Telekinesis, spiritualism, mental telepathy
• Enervation and innovation
• Sleep

Deadline: November 15, 2013. For individual papers, send 500-word proposals; for panels, send individual 500-word proposals for each paper plus a 250-word panel description.

Please include a one-page cv and your name, affiliation, and email address on your proposal. Proposals that are interdisciplinary in method or panels that involve multiple disciplines are especially welcome. Submit proposals at incs2014.org; send questions to info@incs2014.org.

Travel subventions are available for graduate students; please contact Chris Vanden Bossche, INCS Executive Director (cvandenb@nd.edu), for further information.

Reminder: INCS 2014 "Nineteenth-Century Energies" (11/15/2013; 3/27-30/2014)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies

University of Houston

March 27-30, 2014

Deadline: November 15, 2013

Featuring Keynote Speakers

   Tom Gunning: Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History and Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
   Tim Morton: Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English, Rice University

“We do not exactly know what energy is, but we recognize it,” wrote engineer William Carpenter in 1883. For INCS 2014, the committee solicits proposals that recognize nineteenth-century energies in all their multiple, mutable forms. What made the nineteenth century move, tick, and turn? How were its energies instigated, exchanged, conceived, and converted? Who was most animated, and who sought lethargy? What shapes—literal, figurative, material, textual, painted, embodied—did its energies assume? And how were nineteenth-century energies contained? Proposals might focus on the following topics, but are not limited to these:

• Currency and currents
• Hurricanes, storms, and weather
• Evolution and devolution
• Eruptions, real and imagined
• Electromagnetism and wave theory
• Dynamism and cosmology
• Photosynthesis
• Environmental effects and anthropocenic ages
• Geography and geology
• Fossil fuels
• Radiation
• Conservation
• Narrative rhythms
• Prosodic energies
• Punch cards and digitized text
• Time and temporality
• Cartography and mapping
• Circuitry
• Rain, Steam, and Speed (Turner or otherwise)
• Circulation: of people, of molecules, of money
• Diasporas
• Technologies of vision
• Political energies
• Sweated labor and radical movements
• Steam(punk) and industry
• Urban construction and destruction
• Architectural tensions
• Bodies in motion: working, exercising, performing
• Protoplasm and vital energies
• Libido
• Virility and vigor
• Lassitude, ennui, paralysis, inertia
• Opiates and opioids
• Stimulants and tonics
• Animal magnetism, mesmerism, sensations
• Telekinesis, spiritualism, mental telepathy
• Enervation and innovation
• Sleep

Deadline: November 15, 2013. For individual papers, send 500-word proposals; for panels, send individual 500-word proposals for each paper plus a 250-word panel description.

Please include a one-page cv and your name, affiliation, and email address on your proposal. Proposals that are interdisciplinary in method or panels that involve multiple disciplines are especially welcome. Submit proposals at incs2014.org; send questions to info@incs2014.org.

Travel subventions are available for graduate students; please contact Chris Vanden Bossche, INCS Executive Director (cvandenb@nd.edu), for further information.

CFP: INCS 2014 "Nineteenth-Century Energies" (11/15/2014; 3/27-30/2014)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies

University of Houston

March 27-30, 2014

Deadline: November 15, 2013

Featuring Keynote Speakers

   Tom Gunning: Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History and Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
   Tim Morton: Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English, Rice University

“We do not exactly know what energy is, but we recognize it,” wrote engineer William Carpenter in 1883. For INCS 2014, the committee solicits proposals that recognize nineteenth-century energies in all their multiple, mutable forms. What made the nineteenth century move, tick, and turn? How were its energies instigated, exchanged, conceived, and converted? Who was most animated, and who sought lethargy? What shapes—literal, figurative, material, textual, painted, embodied—did its energies assume? And how were nineteenth-century energies contained? Proposals might focus on the following topics, but are not limited to these:

• Currency and currents
• Hurricanes, storms, and weather
• Evolution and devolution
• Eruptions, real and imagined
• Electromagnetism and wave theory
• Dynamism and cosmology
• Photosynthesis
• Environmental effects and anthropocenic ages
• Geography and geology
• Fossil fuels
• Radiation
• Conservation
• Narrative rhythms
• Prosodic energies
• Punch cards and digitized text
• Time and temporality
• Cartography and mapping
• Circuitry
• Rain, Steam, and Speed (Turner or otherwise)
• Circulation: of people, of molecules, of money
• Diasporas
• Technologies of vision
• Political energies
• Sweated labor and radical movements
• Steam(punk) and industry
• Urban construction and destruction
• Architectural tensions
• Bodies in motion: working, exercising, performing
• Protoplasm and vital energies
• Libido
• Virility and vigor
• Lassitude, ennui, paralysis, inertia
• Opiates and opioids
• Stimulants and tonics
• Animal magnetism, mesmerism, sensations
• Telekinesis, spiritualism, mental telepathy
• Enervation and innovation
• Sleep

Deadline: November 15, 2013. For individual papers, send 500-word proposals; for panels, send individual 500-word proposals for each paper plus a 250-word panel description.

Please include a one-page cv and your name, affiliation, and email address on your proposal. Proposals that are interdisciplinary in method or panels that involve multiple disciplines are especially welcome. Submit proposals at incs2014.org; send questions to info@incs2014.org.

Travel subventions are available for graduate students; please contact Chris Vanden Bossche, INCS Executive Director (cvandenb@nd.edu), for further information.

Reminder: INCS Annual Essay Prize (1/10/2013)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies invites nominations for its annual essay prize. The $500 award recognizes excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship on any nineteenth-century topic. We encourage members of INCS to nominate an essay written by a current member of INCS or to submit their own work. Articles published in a journal or an edited collection dated 2012 are eligible. The winning essay will be announced at the 2013 conference, to be held at the University of Virginia, March 14-17, 2013.  The winner is invited to put together a panel for the 2014 INCS Conference. 

Please send an electronic copy of the nominated essay to Professor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (LSU) at incsprize2012@gmail.com no later than January 10, 2013. For more details about the essay competition, the conference, or the organization, we invite you to visit the INCS website at http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/. 

Frequently Asked Questions about eligibility for this prize:  

1)  Are unpublished essays eligible?  

No.

2)  Are essays appearing in 2012 in a journal that is behind schedule, so that they have an earlier date, eligible?  

Yes, if it is demonstrable that the journal is behind in its publication schedule and the essay actually appeared in the year 2012, it is eligible even if the date on the publication is earlier than 2012.  If this is your situation, be sure to contact me at incsprize2012@gmail.com to explain.

3)  Are essays published in early 2013 eligible?

No, only essays appearing in 2012 are eligible for this year's competition.  Essays published in early 2013 will be eligible next year.

4)  Are online publications eligible?

Yes,  essays from peer-reviewed online scholarly journals are eligible.

5)  Are individual chapters from a single-authored book eligible?

No, only stand-alone essays from a scholarly journal or essay collection are eligible.

If you have questions about the prize competition that are not answered here, please feel free to email Sharon Aronofsky Weltman at incsprize2012@gmail.com.

Reminder: Leisure! Enjoyment! Fun! (11/1/2012; 3/14-17/2013)

Leisure! Enjoyment! Fun! 

INCS 2013 Conference 

University of Virginia

March 14-17, 2013

“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” It was the age of pleasure. It was the age of atonement. It was any place in the nineteenth century. The scope is global, the approaches, cross-disciplinary. What pleased the palate and tickled the nose? What roused the senses and deepened joy? What thrilled the body and inspired the mind? What did they do besides work? What diversions (respectable or otherwise) did they seek? How did they think about the enjoyments they sought? These are some of the questions to address at INCS 2013, which is devoted to ‘Leisure, Enjoyment, and Fun.’

Consider all forms of enjoyment desired, sought, anticipated, or suppressed. Of course what constitutes enjoyment was widely contested ‘then’ as it is ‘now,’ and just what the relation between enjoyment and happiness is has never been clear. The task we set ourselves this year is an examination of various pleasures, thoughts about fun and leisure, expressions or reports of enjoyment, and what these experiences tell us about the nineteenth century. Definitions of enjoyment are themselves numerous and contrasting, and we will keep the field broad so as to draw a wide catch. Enjoyment may be associated with entertainment, amusement, comfort, satisfaction, happiness, absence of pain, etc. We are interested in how enjoyment is experienced, what function it serves, how it can be legislated or monitored, if it can be exhausted, repeated, repelled, and whether individual enjoyment differs from enjoyment shared.

Topics are not limited to, but might include:

• Ambivalence towards . . .
• Theories of leisure
• Enjoyment, guilt, atonement
• License and restraint
• Sport, games, and races
• Music, music halls, music boxes
• Festivals, street entertainments
• Pleasure gardens
• Illicit fun
• Design, fashion, shopping
• Gustatory delights
• Trade in exotics
• Hobbies
• Weddings, parties, picnics
• Spectacle
• Dance
• Cartoons, comic periodicals
• Sunday papers and other popular reading
• Pets, animal fighting
• Experimentation, invention
• Gardens and horticulture
• Collecting
• Museums, exhibitions
• Training for fun
• Medical tourism

Deadline: November 1, 2012. For individual papers, send 250-word proposals; for panels, send individual 250-word proposals for each paper plus a 250-word panel description. Please include your name, affiliation, and e-mail address on your proposal. Send questions and proposals to Karen Chase (ksc3j@virginia.edu).

Website: http://incs2013.nines.org

INCS 2012 "Picturing the Nineteenth Century" (3/22-25/2012)

You are invited to attend the 2012 conference of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies association, "Picturing the Nineteenth Century," to be held in Lexington KY, March 22-25. The conference features three keynote speakers:

• Shawn Michelle Smith (Art Institute of Chicago), "Visions of the Nineteenth-Century Nation: Augustus Washington and the Civil Contract of Photography"
• Julie Codell (Arizona State University), "Victorian Portraits: The Material Culture of Identity"
• Nancy Armstrong (Duke University), "The Victorian Archive and Its Secrets"

 In addition, it includes a lecture and exhibit by photographer/daguerrotypist  Jerry Spagnoli and the inimitable Victorian Theatrical Society of the University of Virginia, which will perform H. J. Byron's 1858 play The Maid and the Magpie; or, The Fatal Spoon!

The complete conference program, the registration form, and travel and accommodation information can be found on the conference website: http://incs.as.uky.edu. Deadline for the advanced registration fee and the conference banquet is March 5; deadline for receiving a reduced rate at the conference hotel (Lexington Downtown Hilton) is March 1, though the hotel will honor the rate after the deadline if rooms are available.

Last Call: INCS 2011 Essay Prize Nominations (1/15/2012)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies invites nominations and submissions for its annual essay prize.  The $500 prize recognizes excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship on any nineteenth-century topic or world region.  We encourage members of INCS to nominate an essay written by a current (2011) member of INCS  or to submit their own work.  Articles published in a book or journal dated 2011 are eligible.  The winner will be announced at the 2012 conference (to be held at the University of Kentucky, March 22-25) and invited to put together a panel for the 2013 INCS Conference.  Please send three paper copies of the nominated essay to Professor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Department of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 no later than January 15, 2012. For more details about the essay competition, the conference, or the organization, we invite you to visit the INCS website at http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/ .

CFP: INCS Essay Competition (1/15/2012)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies invites nominations and submissions for its annual essay prize.  The $500 prize recognizes excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship on any nineteenth-century topic or world region.  We encourage members of INCS to nominate an essay written by a current member of INCS or to submit their own work.  Articles published in a book or journal dated 2011 are eligible.  The winner will be announced at the 2012 conference (to be held at the University of Kentucky, March 22-25) and invited to put together a panel for the 2013 INCS Conference.  Please send three paper copies of the nominated essay to Professor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Department of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 no later than January 15, 2012.

For more details about the essay competition, the conference, or the organization, we invite you to visit the INCS website at http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/.  

Reminder: INCS 2012 "Picturing the Nineteenth Century" (10/17/2011; 3/22-25/2012)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies:

2012 Conference

University of Kentucky - Lexington, KY

March 22-25, 2012

A quick reminder that the deadline for submitting a proposal for the INCS 2012 conference, “Picturing the Nineteenth Century,” is October 17. You can find out more about the conference and submit your 250 word proposal at the website: http://incs.as.uky.edu/. 

INCS 2012 "Picturing the Nineteenth Century" - Ready for Submissions (10/17/2011; 3/22-25/2012)

The 2012 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies conference, "Picturing the Nineteenth Century," will be held March 22-25 at the University of Kentucky, Lexington Kentucky. Keynote speakers include Nancy Armstrong (Duke University), Julie Codell (Arizona State University), and Shawn Michelle Smith (Art Institute of Chicago).  We define the topic broadly and welcome submissions from all disciplines.

To find out more about the conference and submit a proposal, go to http://incs.as.uky.edu/. For more information, contact incs2012@uky.edu.

Updated CFP: INCS 2012 "Picturing the Nineteenth Century" (10/17/2011; 3/22-25/2012)

INCS 2012: Picturing the Nineteenth Century

March 22-25, 2012, University of Kentucky

Update: The website for the INCS 2012 Conference, "Picturing the Nineteenth Century," is  now available at http://incs.as.uky.edu/. 

CFP: Though its title foregrounds art and visual culture, this conference will treat "picturing" in all its many senses: imagining, representing, framing, mapping. We invite papers and panels that consider how the nineteenth century represented itself to itself – through depictions of subjectivity, history, and culture; through emerging technologies and disciplines; through self-conscious "meta" attempts to understand methods of representation. We also encourage papers that consider how our own technologies and disciplines create multiple pictures of "the nineteenth century." Interdisciplinary papers and panels are especially welcome.

Featured speakers include Nancy Armstrong (English Department, Duke University), Julie Codell (Art History Department, Arizona State University), and Shawn Michelle Smith (Visual & Critical Studies, Art Institute of Chicago).

Themes include but are not limited to

• "The visual turn" and its technologies
• Display, exhibition, and spectatorship
• Cartographies, real and imagined
• Modes of representation: narrative, image, statistics, chronology
• Urban geographies and ethnographies; mapping and tracking people
• Imperialism as visual practice; global mappings and re-mappings
• Representations of selves and bodies; life writing
• Canons, institutions, and practices of art and literature
• The materiality of the literary: illustrations, cover designs, advertising, publication
• Archives, libraries, and their histories
• Digitizing the nineteenth century
• Teaching the nineteenth century

Deadline: October 17, 2011. For individual papers, send a 250-word proposals; for panels, send individual 250-word proposals for each paper plus a 250-word panel description. Please include your name, affiliation, and e-mail address on the proposals. Accepted papers will be due in early 2012.

Contact incs2012@uky.edu for more information.

CFP: Picturing the Nineteenth Century (10/17/2011; 3/22-25/2012)

INCS 2012

Picturing the Nineteenth Century

March 22-25

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

Though its title foregrounds art and visual culture, this conference will treat "picturing" in all its many senses: imagining, representing, framing, mapping. We invite papers and panels that consider how the nineteenth century represented itself to itself – through depictions of subjectivity, history, and culture; through emerging technologies and disciplines; through self-conscious "meta" attempts to understand methods of representation – and how our own technologies and disciplines create multiple pictures of "the nineteenth century." Interdisciplinary papers and panels are especially welcome.

Featured speakers include Nancy Armstrong (English Department, Duke University),  Julie Codell (Art History Department, Arizona State University), and Shawn Michelle Smith (Visual & Critical Studies, Art Institute of Chicago).

Themes include but are not limited to

•  "The visual turn" and its technologies
• Canons, institutions, and practices of art and literature
• The materiality of the literary: illustrations, cover designs, advertising, publication
• Display, exhibition, and spectatorship
• Cartographies, real and imagined
•  Urban geographies and ethnographies; mapping and tracking people
• Imperialism as visual practice; global mappings and re-mappings
• Representations of  selves and bodies; life writing
• Modes of representation: narrative, image, statistics, chronology
• Archives, libraries, and their histories
• Digitizing the nineteenth century
• Teaching the nineteenth century  

Deadline: October 17, 2011. For individual papers, send a 250-word proposals;  for panels,  send individual 250-word proposals for each paper plus a 250-word panel description. Please include your name, affiliation, and e-mail address on the proposals.

Contact incs2012@uky.edu for more information.

http://nd.edu/~incshp/

INCS 2011 Conference "Speaking Nature" (3/31 - 4/3/2011)

The Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) 2011 conference "Speaking Nature" will take place next week at Pitzer College, in Claremont, California. Registration is now open.  Please check the the conference website for the program and further details: http://www.pitzer.edu/incs/

Keynotes and featured presentations include:

• Reading by Anca Vlasopolos, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Wayne State University, From the "Isles of the Blessed" (Thursday, March 31)
• Talk by Laura Skandera Trombley, President of Pitzer College (Friday, April 1), "Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them": Mark Twain's America"
• Talk by Robert Polhemus, Professor Emeritus of English, Stanford University (Friday, April 1), "God Defying in Paint and Poetry: the 'Speaking Nature' of Orozco's Prometheus
• and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound"
• Talk by James Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California (Friday April 1), "The Laborious Construction of the Natural Child"
• Talk by Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts, Institute of Technology (Saturday, April 2)
• Roundtable: Sustaining the Profession (Saturday, April 2), James Kincaid, Teresa Mangum, Helena Michie, Susan Morgan, Deborah Denenholz Morse, Robert Polhemus, and Harriet Ritvo