CALL FOR PAPERS
Friendly Enemies: Blake and the Enlightenment
International Conference, University of Essex, Colchester UK,
August 24-26 2000
We want to discuss old and new debates about modernity, its
inheritors and antagonists, at the start of the new millennium. This
is an interdisciplinary conference. Key speakers are John Gray on
'Blake, Nietzsche and the Enlightenment'; Jon Mee on 'Enthusiasm';
Joseph Viscomi on 'Illuminated Books and New Technologies'; and
J. Hillis Miller on 'Digital Blake: Effects of New Communication
Technologies on Literary and Art Historical Studies'. This is 'not just
a Blake conference,' however Blake's writing and art in its historical
context and later influence will be a focus for discussion. Papers are
invited up to mid-May 2000.
There will be an exhibition in the Albert Sloman Library of the
University's considerable collection of Blake facsimiles and other
material. An exhibition is also being planned on an aspect of local
history related to Blake and Swedenborg: the history of the 'New
Church' in this area. Receptions are at Wivenhoe House and
Colchester Castle, with musical entertainment. We expect to
publish a major book based on conference contributions.
Areas proposed:
- The Intellectual and Historical Contexts
- Late Twentieth Century Views of Blake's Art and Writing
- Art and the City, From the Eighteenth to Twenty-first Centuries
- Rhetorics of Enlightenment and Romanticism
- Religion and the Sciences
- Millennial / Millenarian Prophecy
- Blake / Feminism / Women
For further details, please contact:
Noreen Harbut
Centre for Theoretical Studies
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Telephone: 01206 872178
Fax: 01206 873598
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.essex.ac.uk/literature/friendlyenemies.htm
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