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CONFERENCES

CROSSING THE LINE: AFFINITIES BEFORE AND AFTER 1900

An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference to be held at the University of Liverpool and the Victoria Gallery & Museum

Thursday 28th – Friday 29th January 2010

Keynote Speaker: Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Publishing Workshop: ‘The Future of Academic Publishing’ with Paula Kennedy (Palgrave Macmillan)
Plenary Lecture: ‘Funding for Postgraduate Researchers’, Dr Mark Llewellyn (University of Liverpool)

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘We live in a world that they [the Victorians] built for us, and though we may laugh at them, we should love them, too.’ –Times Literary Supplement (16th May 1918)

Crossing the Line is a student-led postgraduate conference that will explore and interrogate the multifarious affinities between Victorian and Modernist cultures. It focuses on the cross-currents of attraction and repulsion at the turn of the century. This event asks whether affinities exist innately in the body as psychological and emotional connections, and investigates those affinities which are cultural constructions. It questions whether affinities are permanent or can be eroded by the passage of time.

We invite research students from the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to present papers considering affinities across the threshold of the Victorian and Modernist worlds.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Intellectual partnerships and borrowing
• Historical / political affinities: Does history repeat itself?
• Colonial / Post-colonial / Trans-cultural affinities
• Alliances and conflicts within and between social classes
• Sexual attractions and repulsions
• Dealing with inheritances: the Victorian legacy and shaping of Modernism
• Afterlives: rereading, rewriting, revisioning Victoriana

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 15th September 2009

We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers that demonstrate a clear interdisciplinary focus. Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words to: organisers@crossing-the-line.org.uk

The latest information can be found at the conference website: www.crossing-the-line.org.uk

UTOPIAN SPACES OF BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE, 1890-1945

A One-Day Conference at the University of Oxford, 18th September 2009

From the fin de siècle to the Second World War, the construction of alternative social and private spaces exerted a peculiar fascination for many British writers. The cataclysmic historical events of the period stimulated Utopian thinking and feeling even as they seemed to make them problematic or impossible. At the same time radical demands for new spaces, whether political, religious or aesthetic, also generated new ways of reading and writing the familiar urban and domestic spaces of everyday life.

NOTE: The call for papers has been extended until 15 July. Registration will open after this date.
The registration form will be available on this website.
For further information please contact:
utopianspaces[at]ell.ox.ac.uk
Conference Organisers:

OSCHOLARS SPECIAL ISSUE SPRING 2010

The Soul of Man: Oscar Wilde and Socialism

H.G. Wells once wrote that Oscar Wilde’s 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism' offers ‘an artist’s view of socialism, but not a socialist’s.’ George Orwell, reviewing the essay in 1948, called Wilde’s vision of socialism ‘Utopian and anarchistic.’ So was Oscar Wilde a socialist? an anarchist? An ‘individualist’? or politically unquantifiable? He was acquainted with the leading socialists of the time, from William Morris to G. B. Shaw, his sympathy for socialist and anarchist ideas was well known, and 'The Soul of Man' attained great popularity with the radical movements of Central and Eastern Europe and the USA. This refereed special issue of Oscholars, a widely read electronic journal devoted to Wilde and the fin de siècle, solicits essays on any aspect of 'The Soul of Man' or, more broadly, Wilde in relation to socialism and anarchism.

Please submit 300-word proposals to Anna Vaninskaya at av323@cam.ac.uk by 15th July 2009.

The deadline for submission of completed essays (1500-2500 words) is 15th December 2009.

HENRY JAMES’S CHILDREN

41st Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (Nemla)

7-11 April, 2010

Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

For this panel, I invite paper proposals on representations of children in Henry James’s fiction. Readings are invited from all perspectives. Papers should be about 15 minutes in length. Deadline: 30th September 2009. Please email your submission as a word attachment to elaine.pigeon@sympatico.ca.

Please include with your abstract:

• Name and Affiliation
• Email address
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee will be required)

Elaine Pigeon, PhD
Concordia University

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING OSCAR [WILDE]: PLAYS, STORIES, LETTERS, AND LECTURES

I am seeking paper proposals for my 2010 panel for NeMLA in Montreal is ‘The Importance of Studying Oscar [Wilde]: Plays, Stories, Letters.’ This panel offers an opportunity to analyze the role Oscar Wilde has played and continues to play in literature, theater and other aspects of culture. Focus can be on his influential wit and wisdom and/or techniques used to present Oscar in the classroom. This topic calls for a diversity of approaches. Please send 200-400 word abstracts to Annette Magid at a_magid@yahoo.com.

Deadline for submission of paper proposal is 10th September 2009.

THE 18th ANNUAL 18th and 19th CENTURY BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS CONFERENCE
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

"Journeys"
April 8-11, 2010

Call for Papers

This year's conference will explore the abundant varieties of journeys found in 18th- and 19th-century British women's writing. We encourage interdisciplinary considerations of topics such as migration, travel, exile, exploration, tourism, border crossing, religion, travel writing, art, fantasy, children's literature and more.

We are pleased to announce that our speakers will include Kate Flint, Felicity Nussbaum, Mary Fissell, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, and Erika Rappaport.

Proposals for panels and individual papers might consider, but are not limited to, the following issues:

• Travel writing/art
• Biographical narratives
• Marriage/Honeymoon
• Continental tours
• Motherhood/Childhood
• Colonialism and Empire
• Philosophical investigations
• Scientific inquiry
• Religious explorations
• Spiritual awakenings
• Transatlantic movement of persons, ideas, and/or goods
• Immigration/Emigration
• Memory as travel
• Dreams
• Re-envisioning the past/future
• Mapping the body
• Rites of passage
• Crossing class boundaries
• Movement between private and public spheres
• Exile (Social, Political, Familial)
• Women and work
• Education
• Intertextuality

Individual proposals should be two pages: a cover sheet including name, presentation title, university affiliation, address, email address, phone number, and brief biographical paragraph; and a 500-word abstract. Please do not include any identifying information on the abstract.

Panel proposals should include a coversheet--containing panel title, presenters' names, presentation titles, university affiliations, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, brief biographical paragraphs, and the name of the moderator--followed by separate abstracts (500-word) that describe the significance of the panel topic and each presentation. Please do not include any identifying information on the abstracts.

Proposals must be submitted electronically as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format by October 15, 2009 to the conference email address: BWWC18@tamu.edu.

For more information and updates, please visit our conference website