THE AESTHETICS OF CRISIS; CRISES IN AESTHETICS, 1688-1840.

Graduate Conference, Faculty of English, Cambridge University
To be held on the 3rd and 4th of May, 2002 at Trinity College,
Cambridge.
External Observer:  Professor Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck College
Please remember that the deadline for the submission of abstracts for
the above conference
is the 31st of March 2002. Proposals (maximum 500 words) should be
sent, preferably
as an email attachment, to Sarah Johnson, St John's College, Cambridge
([log in to unmask])
or Jane Slinn, King's College, Cambridge ([log in to unmask]).
The conference will be held on the afternoon of 3rd May, and all day
4th May. The
entry fee will be £5, payable in advance by cheque to Andrew Rudd,
Trinity College,
Cambridge, or £6, payable on arrival. It is intended that there will be
a dinner
(details to be finalised) on the evening of the 3rd,
and to aid organisation of this, and of refreshments provided by
Trinity College,
we would be grateful if all those wishing to attend the conference
could let us know by the 31st of March. Advance payment for the dinner
is required
(estimated £15-20), and additional information will be provided as
requested. We
may be able to offer some ideas about accommodation in Cambridge:
please email Jane
Slinn or Sarah Johnson (details above) as soonas possible.
If you have any queries about any aspect of the conference, please do
not hesitate
to email Sarah or Jane.

Below is repeated the conference Announcement / Call for Papers first
circulated
in January:THE AESTHETICS OF CRISIS; CRISES IN AESTHETICS, 1688-1840.
Faculty of English, Cambridge University
To be held on the 3rd and 4th of May, 2002 at Trinity College,
Cambridge.
     External Observer:  Professor Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck
College
This period has come to be seen as one defined by momentous political
change and
social and intellectual upheaval. The conference aims to examine
the relationship between discourses about the properties and functions
of art works
- discourses which were not known by the now familiar term 'aesthetics'
until the
early nineteenth century - and the various political, religious and
cultural changes
or 'crises' of the age.
We invite papers which analyze how 'aesthetic' discourses influence and
are
influenced by, for example, encounters with the exotic and/or
picturesque or by emerging
knowledges of political economy, the natural sciences, psychology and
literary criticism.
We ask participants to consider the ways
in which such discourses challenge and reformulate accepted notions of
artistic taste
or experience. By exploring the relationship between 'aesthetics' and
'crisis', we
aim to provoke questions regarding, in particular, forms of
representation, affect,
subjectivity and the nature ofchange itself during the period.
The focus on discourses in and of crisis in the long eighteenth century
will, we
hope, result in a deeper understanding the ways in which the key term
'aesthetics'
is implicated in the wider intellectual concerns of the age. This
conference also
sets out to place the 'aesthetic' concerns of the
long eighteenth century in fruitful dialogue with contemporary critical
discourses
of, for instance, Frankfurt School critical theory, deconstruction,
feminism and
psychoanalysis.
     This is a graduate student conference for students working within
the period 1688-1840.
All papers will be given by students, with English faculty members
chairing sessions
of three 20 minute papers. Isobel Armstrong will act as an external
observer and
will comment on all the papers given at the conference. Although the
conference is
to be held under
the auspices of the English Faculty we would welcome contributions from
students
working in any relevant discipline.
Proposals in the form of a title with abstract (up to 500 words) should
be submitted
as a word attachment (preferred format) or on disk/ hard copy (2
copies) by 31st
March 2002. These and any queries or requests for further information
should be addressed
to:Sarah Johnson, St John's College, Cambridge ([log in to unmask])
or Jane Slinn, King's College, Cambridge ([log in to unmask])

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