CFP: '14 ICR "Romantic Reflections" (4/21/2014; 9/25-28/2014)

“Romantic Reflections”

2014 International Conference on Romanticism

Minneapolis, Minnesota

September 25-28, 2014

Deadline: April 21, 2014

The 2014 meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the heart of downtown on the banks of the Mississippi river September 25th-28th. In keeping with the spirit of the ICR, the conference organizers wish to focus on the cross-disciplinary and international aspects of Romanticism. The theme will be Romantic Reflections, which should be interpreted in its broadest context. Possible topics could include but should not be limited to:

• Reflections in the arts
• Reflections in the sciences
• Romantic reflections
• Sociological reflections
• Cross-national echoes
• Colonial reflections
• Reflections in nature
• Gothic appropriations
• Intertextual echoes
• Boundary and border crossings
• Romantic collaborations
• Interdisciplinary Romanticism
• Aesthetic reflections
• Romantic appropriations of archetypes and myths
• Environmental reflections
• Romantic Others
• Class reflections
• Gender reflections
• War and Peace
• Critical reflections
• Philosophical reflections
• Traveling reflections
• Economic echoes

Abstract for complete panels and individual papers are welcome. Please send 250 word abstracts to icr2014@stthomas.edu. The deadline for submissions is April 21, 2014.

Reminder: NCSA 2014 Urbanism and Urbanity "British and Continental European Romantic-era Writers" (9/30/2013;3/20-22/2014)

Urbanism and Urbanity

Chicago, IL
March 20-22, 2014

Deadline: September 30, 2013

Maria K. Bachman and Maria Gindhart, Program Co-Chairs, ncsa2014@gmail.com

http://www.ncsaweb.net/

As part of the 2014 Nineteenth Century Studies Association gathering in Chicago, Arnold Schmidt is seeking papers for panels on British and Continental European Romantic-era writers treating the conference theme of the “Urban and Urbanity.” Related themes might include the following:

• the Romantic city
• the city and fashion
• the city and education
• the city and commerce
• the city as utopia or dystopia
• the city as nation
• the city and the citizen
• the city and the social season
• the city and the demi-monde
• the city and spectacle
• the city and popular entertainment

Papers might consider the “Urban” in writers including, but by no means limited to Coleridge, De Quincey, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charles Lucas, Harriet Martineau, Hannah More, Amelia Opie, Sydney Owenson, Frances Trollope, Helen Maria Williams, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth. 

Scholars might also treat the theme of "urbanity" and hence focus on novels of manners and/or Romantic satirists like Austen, Byron, Edgeworth, Peacock, among others. These panels are not limited to British writers and particularly welcome papers about Continental European Romantics. 

Email 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers, as well as one-page vitae, to my attention at aschmidt@csustan.edu by the deadline of September 30, 2013.  Please feel free to contact Arnold Schmidt with questions about the appropriateness of possible paper topics.

Graduate students and international scholars may compete for partial travel funding.  For more information, see the general call for papers below.

CFP: NASSR "Romantic Connections" (11/30/2013;6/13-15/2014)

“Romantic Connections”

NASSR supernumerary conference, supported by BARS, GER, and JAER

University of Tokyo, June 13–15, 2014

www.romanticconnections2014.org

The NASSR committee invites proposals for a major international Romanticism conference, to be held at the University of Tokyo on June 13–15, 2014.

This unique event will bring together four scholarly societies from three continents: it is a supernumerary conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), also supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), the German Society for English Romanticism (GER), and the Japan Association of English Romanticism (JAER).

Over the last two decades, there has been sustained scholarly interest in the connections between European Romanticism and the peoples, cultures, and literatures of the rest of the world. In addition to discussing representations of the “East” by Romantic authors, there has been a growing trend towards viewing Romanticism itself in a global context, as a movement shaped by wider eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century forces of trade, migration, material circulation, intellectual exchange, slavery, and colonialism. 

While the conference's approach will be informed by the legacy of Saidian “Orientalism,” the committee is particularly interested in models of intercultural connection which refine or challenge totalising models of domination and subordination. Papers are welcome that shed light upon the question of “connection” from the broadest range of perspectives: imaginative, linguistic, material, social, sexual, scientific, economic, and political.

Drawing on the conference's location in Tokyo, this conference will consider the broader task of forging connections between Eastern and Western literature and scholarship. In a Japanese context, the idea of interpersonal “connection” (kizuna) takes on a different resonance, because of its close connection to the project of recovery (saisei) following the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. This conference wishes to explore how such acts of cross-cultural translation offer the possibility of reciprocal transformations of meaning.

The conference welcomes explorations of the reception of European Romanticism in Asia and other regions of the world, as well as discussions of the future status of Romanticism studies in a geographically diverse and technologically connected scholarly world.

Topics for papers may include:

• Romantic and Romantic-period representations of Asia, Africa, or South America
• material, scholarly, scientific, and literary exchanges between European and non-European cultures
• trade and travel accounts
• connections with past civilizations or imaginary worlds
• sympathetic, imaginative, and psychological models of interpersonal or intercultural “connection”
• sociability, civility, ritual, and diplomacy
• intimacy, romance, sexuality, and gender
• bodily encounters, disease, and medicine
• race, colonialism, and slavery
• refugees, renegades, migrants, and exiles
• transatlantic, expatriate, or transcultural identities
• trade routes, technology, infrastructure, and modes of transport
• language, translation, interpretation, and linguistic barriers
• cosmopolitanism and the creation of a “global consciousness”
• pessimism, skepticism, and resistance to metropolitan or colonial narratives
• culture shock and challenges to national or personal identity
• comparative models of connection (such as Japanese ideas of kizuna, or bonds)
• Romantic reception and afterlives in different regions of the world
• the future of Romanticism studies in a global university context
• advances in technology, critical theory, and pedagogy

Send proposals for papers (200–300 words) to submissions@romanticconnections2014.org. The deadline is November 30, 2013. The committee will contact all participants by mid-December. 

For more details about the conference and our location in Tokyo, see our website: www.romanticconnections2014.org.

A limited number of travel bursaries may be available for graduate students. If you wish to apply for one, please include a CV and a brief statement of your current research (around 300 words) with your proposal.

CFP: NCSA 2014 Urbanism and Urbanity "British and Continental European Romantic-era Writers" (9/30/2013;3/20-22/2014)

Urbanism and Urbanity

March 20-22, Chicago IL

Deadline: September 30, 2013

Maria K. Bachman and Maria Gindhart, Program Co-Chairs, ncsa2014@gmail.com

http://www.ncsaweb.net/

As part of the 2014 Nineteenth Century Studies Association gathering in Chicago, Arnold Schmidt is seeking papers for panels on British and Continental European Romantic-era writers treating the conference theme of the “Urban and Urbanity.” Related themes might include the following:

• the Romantic city
• the city and fashion
• the city and education
• the city and commerce
• the city as utopia or dystopia
• the city as nation
• the city and the citizen
• the city and the social season
• the city and the demi-monde
• the city and spectacle
• the city and popular entertainment

Papers might consider the “Urban” in writers including, but by no means limited to Coleridge, De Quincey, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charles Lucas, Harriet Martineau, Hannah More, Amelia Opie, Sydney Owenson, Frances Trollope, Helen Maria Williams, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth. 

Scholars might also treat the theme of "urbanity" and hence focus on novels of manners and/or Romantic satirists like Austen, Byron, Edgeworth, Peacock, among others. These panels are not limited to British writers and particularly welcome papers about Continental European Romantics. 

Email 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers, as well as one-page vitae, to my attention at aschmidt@csustan.edu by the deadline of September 30, 2013.  Please feel free to contact Arnold Schmidt with questions about the appropriateness of possible paper topics.

Graduate students and international scholars may compete for partial travel funding.  For more information, see the general call for papers below.

Conference: Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle (6/14-15/2013)

Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle
An international conference on collecting, editing, performing, producing, reading, and reviving Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle.
Trinity College Oxford, 14-15 June 2013

Keynote Speaker: Professor Joseph Bristow (UCLA)

Registration: You can register online for this conference here: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&catid=22&modid=2&prodid=167&deptid=110&prodvarid=0

This conference places Romanticism at the core of the British Fin de Siècle. As an anti-Victorian movement, the British Fin de Siècle is often read forwards and absorbed into a long twentieth century, in which it takes the shape of a prehistory or an embryonic form of modernism. By contrast, Fin-de-Siècle authors and critics looked back to the past in order to invent their present and imagine their future. Just at the time when the concept of Victorian crystallized a distinct set of literary and cultural practices, the radical break with the immediate past found in Romanticism an alternative poetics and politics of the present.

The Fin de Siècle played a distinctive and crucial role in the reception of Romanticism. Romanticism emerged as a category, a dialogue of forms, a movement, a style, and a body of cultural practices. The Fin de Siècle established the texts of major authors such as Blake and Shelley, invented a Romantic canon in a wider European and comparative context, but also engaged in subversive reading practices and other forms of underground reception.

The aim of this conference is to foster a dialogue between experts of the two periods.

Conference organisers: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck) and Stefano Evangelista (Oxford)

This conference is co-organised by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the English Faculty of Oxford University with the support of the MHRA.

For more information or to download the conference poster, please visit the website at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_cncs/our-events/romanticism-at-the-fin-de-siecle

CFP: Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle (1/15/2013; 6/14-15/2013)

Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle

an international conference on collecting, editing, performing,

producing, reading, and reviving Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle

Trinity College Oxford, 14-15 June 2013

Keynote Speaker: Professor Joseph Bristow (UCLA)

Call For Papers:

This conference places Romanticism at the core of the British Fin de Siècle. As an anti-Victorian movement, the British Fin de Siècle is often read forwards and absorbed into a ‘long twentieth century’, in which it takes the shape of a prehistory or an embryonic form of modernism. By contrast, Fin-de-Siècle authors and critics looked back to the past in order to invent their present and imagine their future. Just at the time when the concept of ‘Victorian’ crystallized a distinct set of literary and cultural practices, the radical break with the immediate past found in Romanticism an alternative poetics and politics of the present.

The Fin de Siècle played a distinctive and crucial role in the reception of Romanticism. Romanticism emerged as a category, a dialogue of forms, a movement, a style, and a body of cultural practices. The Fin de Siècle established the texts of major authors such as Blake and Shelley, invented a Romantic canon in a wider European and comparative context, but also engaged in subversive reading practices and other forms of underground reception.

The aim of this conference is to foster a dialogue between experts of the two periods. We welcome proposals for papers on all aspects of Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism, especially with a cross-disciplinary or comparative focus. Topics might include:

• bibliophilia and bibliomania
• collecting
• cults
• editing
• objects
• performance
• poetics
• politics
• print culture
• sociability
• continuities and discontinuities
• Romanticism and Decadence
• Romantic Classicism
• European Romanticism and the English Fin de Siècle

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2013

Please email 300-word abstracts to romanticfin@bbk.ac.uk

Conference organisers: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck) and Stefano Evangelista (Oxford)

This conference is co-organised by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the English Faculty of Oxford University with the support of the MHRA.

CFP: Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle (1/15/2013; 6/14-15/2013)

An international conference on collecting, editing, performing, producing, reading, and reviving Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle

Trinity College Oxford, 14-15 June 2013

Keynote Speaker: Professor Joseph Bristow (UCLA)

Call For Papers

This conference places Romanticism at the core of the British Fin de Siècle. As an anti-Victorian movement, the British Fin de Siècle is often read forwards and absorbed into a ‘long twentieth century’, in which it takes the shape of a prehistory or an embryonic form of modernism. By contrast, Fin-de-Siècle authors and critics looked back to the past in order to invent their present and imagine their future. Just at the time when the concept of ‘Victorian’ crystallized a distinct set of literary and cultural practices, the radical break with the immediate past found in Romanticism an alternative poetics and politics of the present.

The Fin de Siècle played a distinctive and crucial role in the reception of Romanticism. Romanticism emerged as a category, a dialogue of forms, a movement, a style, and a body of cultural practices. The Fin de Siècle established the texts of major authors such as Blake and Shelley, invented a Romantic canon in a wider European and comparative context, but also engaged in subversive reading practices and other forms of underground reception.     

The aim of this conference is to foster a dialogue between experts of the two periods. We welcome proposals for papers on all aspects of Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism, especially with a cross-disciplinary or comparative focus. Topics might include:

• bibliophilia and bibliomania
• collecting
• cults
• editing
• objects
• performance
• poetics
• politics
• print culture
• sociability
• continuities and discontinuities
• Romanticism and Decadence
• Romantic Classicism
• European Romanticism and the English Fin de Siècle

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2013

Please email 300-word abstracts to romanticfin@bbk.ac.uk

Conference organisers: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck) and Stefano Evangelista (Oxford)

This conference is co-organised by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the English Faculty of Oxford University with the support of the MHRA