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MMLA Panel on English Literature 1800-1900
The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio
November 8-11, 2007
UPDATE: deadline for proposals extended until April 16
Fragments in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
**CFP: DRESS & FASHION IN LITERATURE**
We are looking for two essays to complete a manuscript under contract
for publication.
*An essay on dress/fashion in Renaissance literature.
*An essay on dress/fashion in Romantic literature.
Issues under consideration include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Special Issue of *Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net*
Science and the Senses (1789-1914)
Workshop: The Poetics of Globalisation=20
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May 2, Centre for Contemporary Writing, University of Southampton
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The implications of the ubiquitous languages of 'globalization' for literar=
y and cultural critique are far from clear. The term is deeply ambivalent, =
suggesting both a political critique of the neo-liberal agenda and an acces=
sion to the universalizing assumptions of its corporate entities. This work=
shop offers literary critics the opportunity to assess and openly debate th=
e significance of the theoretical and political frameworks of globalization=
for the study of literature.=20
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Specific issues to be addressed include:=20=20
CFP, Keats-Shelley Association, MLA (Chicago) 2007
Title: Romanticism and the Transatlantic Contract
Description: Abstracts invited for papers on the legal, economic, and
representational "agreements" that constituted transatlantic
relations for Romanticism and the (broadly construed) Keats-Shelley
circle. Topics might
include the social contract; trade, finance, and commodity history;
slavery and abolition; piracy; copyright; emigration and the
regulation of national identity. Abstracts by March 15 to Tilar
Mazzeo, Colby College, tjmazzeo_at_colby.edu
Submissions are requested for a collection of essays focusing on the work of
Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. This collection is developing out of
two panels from this year's and last year's NEMLA conference, and there is a
publisher interested in possibly producing the collection.
Now Accepting submissions for a Special Session on ?William Blake and
Authority? for the Modern Language Association?s (MLA) convention in
Chicago, December 2007.
Seeking submissions for a proposed panel on the topic of William Blake
and how he and his work engages with and/or confronts authority.
?Authority? can be interpreted in a variety of ways:
Romantic Objects
The 2007 International Conference on Romanticism
October 18-21, 2007
Baltimore, MD
*General Call for Papers*
This year's International Conference on Romanticism invites
participants to consider the objects of Romantic study. "Romantic
objects" may include the goals of our own academic inquiry, the pursuits
(literary, philosophical, political, theological, ecological, aesthetic,
and so on) of Romantic period authors, and the material things that
provoke these goals and pursuits.
Preliminary topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Please note that the deadline for submission of proposals has been=20
extended to March 1, 2007.
Keynote speakers: Professor Christopher Ricks, Professor Jerome McGann,=20=
and Professor Tilottama Rajan
Submissions are invited for =93Byron and Modernity=94 an international=20=
conference, sponsored by the University of British Columbia, to be held=20=
Call for Papers:
"The Atlantic in Transatlantic Romanticism" (Special Session Topic)
RMMLA Conference
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
October 4-6, 2007
The Atlantic in Transatlantic Romanticism
Papers sought examining literatures in English relating to transatlantic
Romanticism. Subjects might include (but are not limited to):
cross-cultural influences, early globalization, human rights,
colonialism, the slave trade, the environment. Imaginative responses to
the ocean and/or seagoing are also encouraged. Send 300-word abstracts
via email to Jeff Miller (millerj3_at_gonzaga.edu) or Brian Cooney
(cooney_at_gonzaga.edu).
*Books on the Battlefield: the reception, use, and appropriation of
books in warfare, 1450 to the present day*
3rd November, 2007, King's Manor, University of York.
Please Distribute
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Call for Proposals
for a collection
Women and Things: Material Culture, 1750-1950
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin , editors
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We invite proposals for essays for a collection titled Women and Things:
Material Culture, 1750-1950. This collection invites scholars to
consider women's engagement with the material world, from the most
ordinary, mundane daily practices and objects to the most extraordinary,
life-altering practices and objects, over the two-hundred-year period of
1750 to1950.=20
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Paper proposals (15-20 minutes) are invited for the Nineteenth-Century
British Literature and Culture session of the Pacific Ancient and Modern
Language Association (PAMLA) conference at Western Washington University in
Bellingham, WA, Nov 2-3, 2007. Please send 1-2 page proposals and short
curriculum vitae to Leila May: leila_at_ncsu.edu.
Leila S. May
Associate Professor
Department of English
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-1910
leila_at_ncsu.edu
(919) 345-0190
CFP: From Ettrick to Empire: New Perspectives in James Hogg Studies,
University of Stirling, 7-9 August 2007. Deadline 30 April 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS
FROM ETTRICK to EMPIRE: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN JAMES HOGG STUDIES
Conference hosted by the Department of English Studies, University of
Stirling, 7-9 August 2007
Plenary Address: Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley)
Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature
Children's Literature Discussion Circle =97 Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia
In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia,
possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:
'BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT': CONVERSATIONS IN LITERATURE, LAW AND PHILOSOPHY
FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT DAY
7TH - 9TH SEPTEMBER 2007
FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Convenors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji, Jan-Melissa Schramm
PLENARY SPEAKERS
John Bender
Peter Brooks
Leo Damrosch
Kathy Eden
Lorna Hutson
Ian Ward
Luke Wilson
CFP: Romantic Shakespeare. (3/1/07; MLA '07)
In conjunction with the theme of a future issue of the Shakespeare
Yearbook, "Romantic Shakespeare" the journal seeks abstracts for a
proposed Special Session at the 2007 Annual meeting of the MLA in
Chicago. Proposals are welcome that explore the editing or
interpretation of Shakespeare and early modern literature in the
Romantic period, as well as the impact of early modern literature on
the literary production of writers associated with the English
Romantic Movement.
Please note that the keynote speakers for the Byron and Modernity=20
conference will be Professor Jerome McGann (John Stewart Bryan=20
Professor at the University of Virginia), Professor Tilottama Rajan=20
(Canada Research Chair in Theory and English at the University of=20
Western Ontario), and Professor Christopher Ricks (Warren Professor of=20=
the Humanities at Boston University). Below is the previously posted=20
call for papers.
Submissions are invited for =93Byron and Modernity=94 an international=20=
conference, sponsored by the University of British Columbia, to be held=20=
in Vancouver at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites October 25-28, 2007 . =20=
UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07
Alternative Gothic (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)
This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel asks how we might consider the Gothic in forms other
than the novel.
UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07
19th-Century British Masculinities (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions,
4/6/07-4/7/07)
This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore the various and often conflicting
configurations of British masculinity that appeared during the nineteenth
century. Papers from all historical and theoretical perspectives are
welcome.
Suggested topics in masculinity include
Proposed panel for the North American Conference on British Studies
(November 9-11, 2007; San Francisco)
Material Exchanges: Britain and East Asia in the Nineteenth-Century
Spring Cleaning:
Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact
University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference
16-18 March 2007
Calgary, Alberta
For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca
Poetics of the Artifact
Papers are invited for the Mary Shelley session held every year at RMMLA
(to be in Calgary, Alberta in 2007). All submissions will be
considered, but papers addressing Mary Shelley and the Arts (music,
literature, painting, etc)will be especially welcome.
Please submit one-page abstracts along with a one-page CV or brief
biographical statement no later than 1st March, 2007; please indicate
whether AV equipment will be needed too. Accepted presenters will need
to be current in their RMMLA dues by 4/1/2007.
The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its 2007
Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British
Studies (PCCBS), in San Francisco, California, from Friday, November 9 to
Sunday, November 11, 2007.
Romantic and Victorian Entertainments
(UPDATE: Deadline Extension)
Graduate Student Literature Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia
March 23-24, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Barry J. Faulk, Associate Professor of English, Florida State University, author of Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture
Plenary Speakers: David S. Shields, Professor of English and McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina
Anthony Jarrells, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina
Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
The Gothic and the Sublime: Romanticism and Reason
As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their Proverbs. – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790
How should we read these famous lines from Blake's masterpiece? What is the place of Reason in religion? Passion in morality? The Gothic in the Sublime – and vice versa?
British Association for Romantic Studies Postgraduate Conference
University of Leeds, 10 March 2007
Romanticism and Heroism
Call for Papers
I want a hero: an uncommon want
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan.
Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, (ll.1-6)
MMLA Panel on English Literature 1800-1900
Cleveland, Ohio
November 8-11, 2007
Fragments in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
Call for papers
Byron at the Theatre
Friday-Saturday 11th-12th May 2007
Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University
A one-and-a-half day conference held by the English Department, Nottingham Trent University, in association with the Newstead Abbey Byron Society, and the Midlands Romantic Seminar.
"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting"
Of the Romantics, Byron was the most committed to writing plays: Manfred; Marino Faliero; Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain; The Deformed Transformed, to name but a few. We welcome papers addressing any aspect of Byron at the Theatre. Subjects could include
Blake at 250: Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of William Blake
The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, The King's Manor, University of York
30 July—1 August 2007
First Call for Papers