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Sculpture and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

A one-day interdisciplinary conference on Saturday 25th April 2009

Hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University
of London in association with the Henry Moore Institute

Keynote speakers: Professor Peter Read (Kent), Dr Jane Thomas (Hull)

40th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Boston MA

At the beginning of the 19th century, when it was common for European
countries to assert hospitableness as a defining national characteristic,
their proclamations were often accompanied by a violent countervailing
impulse. This panel will explore hospitality, that is, the dynamic
encounter between host and stranger, when the boundary separating known and
unknown is brought into sharp relief.

Call for Papers

Gothic Excess

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

The deadline for submissions to UNCG's Graduate conference, Writing into
the Profession, has been extended to June 30th.

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
November 20â€"23, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Conference Theme: "Appetite, Desire, and Gargantuan Pleasures"

I am seeking papers for the following panel:

Excess of the Imagination

Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies--Fifteenth Annual Meeting
November 20-23, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

GEMCS was formed in 1993 to promote the study of culture from the
Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century (and sometimes later), in its
various forms and across disciplinary boundaries. We are comprised of
people working in a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited
to literature, history, art history, music, and film, and we welcome a
wide variety of disciplinary approaches, in an attempt to promote and
provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among junior as well as more
senior scholars.

Kamille Stone Stanton is inviting contributions for a new collection of
essays on the representation of Africans in the long Eighteenth century.
This selection of essays seeks to contextualize fictional and
biographical representations of Africans within the historical framework
of the abolitionist movement of eighteenth-century Britain. This volume
promises to be broad in scope but with an emphasis on exploring the
particularity of the past rather than undertaking an essentialist search
for “the African” in literature. Article submissions of no more than
7000 words in length in Chicago style (endnotes) should be sent to
Kamille Stone Stanton stonek_at_savstate.edu any time before January 1,
2009.

Call for Papers
THE GREEN NINETEENTH CENTURY

30th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Milwaukee, Wisconsin March 26-28, 2009

The English Graduate Organization of Western Illinois University invites
submissions to our fifth annual conference, “The Body: Images,
Perceptions, and Representations.” The human body is a topic of both
significance and curiosity amongst various disciplines and discourse
communities. In history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, rhetoric and
literature, the body serves as a symbol, metaphor, and inspiration for
many larger aspects of human nature. For this reason, we will be hosting
our annual conference November 8, 2008 to consider the roles of the body
in literature and the overall fascination with the human form. Our
keynote speaker will be Martha Stoddard Holmes, Assistant Professor and

Please submit abstracts for a one-day seminar on 'Romantic Science'.

The Research Centre for Literature, Arts, and Science (RCLAS) at the
University of Glamorgan (South Wales, UK) will host the next meeting of
the Wales and the West Romanticism Seminar, on 12 September 2008. This
will be on the subject of ROMANTIC SCIENCE. We are delighted to announce
that the plenary speaker will be Prof. Anne Janowitz, who will be
speaking on ’“Longing for Other Worlds”: The Plurality of Worlds Debate
and the Sciences of Infinity’.

        ICONOGRAPHY OF DEATH

        Call for Papers
        The John Douglas Taylor Conference, Oct. 24-25, 2008
        McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Organizers: Mary Silcox and Peter M. Daly

International Conference on Romanticism, Oct 16-19, at Oakland
University, Rochester, Michigan.

The Work of Reading: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Difficulty

Benjamin Robert Haydon, Romanticism, and the Visual Arts:
Romantic Painting, Romantic Writing

Plenary speaker: Professor Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Date: November 7-8, 2008

The importance of Mary Shelley as a woman writer during the Romantic period
has been firmly established over the last two decades. In confirming her
significance, scholars have moved "beyond _Frankenstein_" to examine her
numerous works in a variety of genres, including the novel, short story,
drama, poetry, and literary biography. This collection will seek to
continue this effort by including papers discussing Shelley's importance to
the Romantic period, hopefully discussing both her better known and her
lesser known works, and exploring the complex relationship between her
works and the writings of her contemporaries--as well as her relationships