ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS: ART, ARTEFACT AND ANALYSIS

An international, interdisciplinary, virtual conference organised by the
AHRC-funded ‘Original Cast Recordings: Musical Theatre and/as Sonic Heritage’ Network

Tuesday 5th - Wednesday 6th September 2023

Online platform to be announced

Keynote speaker: Professor Laurence Maslon (Tisch, New York University)
Author of Broadway to Main Street: How Showtunes Enchanted America (Oxford University Press)

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CFP: MLA Annual Convention 2024 (4-7 January)

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference 

Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

DePaul University, Chicago, IL 
DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 362-8000

The Philosophy and Popular Culture Subject Area welcomes submissions to the 2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference.

Over the centuries, there has been a connection between pessimism and poetry/song. We invite proposals examining this connection sent to jdailey@gts.edu. Include your name, phone number and e mail in an e mail--not as attachments.

This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of care; the various ways bodily ability are articulated in different spaces within the early Francophone world. We especially welcome papers engaging with these topics from global and/or intersectional perspectives, as well as those considering diachronic and transtemporal approaches.

There is a common adage that labour is invisible in Victorian literature. From Bruce Robbins’s discussion of the servant’s spectral “hand” to Carolyn Lesjak’s claim that labour is often hidden in the Victorian novel, scholars have often asserted that labour is rarely made visible. Yet, in the Victorian period itself, as Tim Barringer suggests, certain types of labour were made increasingly visible through aesthetic means. Whether it was paintings of farmers and other agricultural workers, Ford Madox Brown’s painting “Work,” or the Great Exhibition “of the Works of Industry of All Nations,” where audiences watched printmakers and seamstresses create new pieces and engineers fine-tune machines, labour was something highly visualized.