As announced in 1998, the North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism and the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers
of English are cooperating in the form of a series of joint sessions at
ACCUTE's annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences Federation of Canada. The Congress brings together a wide variety
of scholarly organizations for their annual conferences.
Submissions are now invited for next year's joint NASSR/ACCUTE sessions.
The 2002 HSSFC Congress will be held at the University of Toronto; the
ACCUTE conference will take place 25-28 May 2002. This year's sessions are
being organized by Angela Esterhammer and Steven Bruhm; their Calls for
Papers are attached below. Please note that all submitters must be current
members of ACCUTE; those included in the panel must also be members of
NASSR for 2002.
1. "Cross-Cultural Performances in European Romanticism" (joint
NASSR/CCLA/ACCUTE session)
Papers and proposals are invited on diverse performances and
quasi-performances (including theatre, pageants, exhibits, private
theatricals, public lectures, etc.) during the period 1790-1830, especially
ones that involve the crossing of national and/or cultural boundaries. How
did these events contribute to the formation and consolidation of national
identity, images of alterity, prejudices about nationality, or
cross-cultural understanding?
Please send papers or proposals by 7 January 2002 to: Prof. Angela
Esterhammer, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, The University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7; <[log in to unmask]>.
2. The Depressions of Romanticism (joint NASSR/ACCUTE session)
For all its emphasis on the creative possibilities of an excited
imagination, Romantic literature is also often marked by an acute sense of
depression. The result is a seemingly ubiquitous feeling among the
Romantics of ennui, exhaustion, satiety, indolence, listlessness, solitary
confinement, loneliness, and sexual disinterest. Indeed, one might say that
Romanticism is characterized by melancholy. The recent return in critical
theory to issues of melancholia (Freudian, Kristevan, and other types)
offers special purchase on representations of the Romantic subject. This
panel proposal invites papers on any aspect of melancholia in the
literature, philosophy and prose of Romanticism. Essays might consider the
melancholy of particular authors or texts, and wider cultural melancholy
that finds its way into much of the literature, or later reactions to the
Romantic tradition (including our own at the current moment) that are
conscious of the impossibility of Romantic idealism.
10-page essays or 2-page abstracts should be postmarked no later than Dec.
1, 2001 and mailed to Steven Bruhm, Department of English, Mount St.
Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3M 2J6. Electronic submissions
are acceptable; please send as a Word document in a format no later than
Windows 98 to <[log in to unmask]>.
For further information about NASSR, please see the society's website
<http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~jmwright/nassr.html>; for more information
about ACCUTE, please see its website <http://www.laurentian.ca/accute>.
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Julia M. Wright
Department of English
University of Waterloo
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~jmwright
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