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Fin-de-Siècle Cosmopolitanism: A workshop conference
Monday 4 July 2011
The Leeds Humanities Research Institute
University of Leeds
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds is organising a one-day workshop conference on the subject of fin-de-siècle cosmopolitanism, supported by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute and the British Comparative Literature Association.
We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers on any subject relating to the concept of cosmopolitanism in late 19th-century literature, especially with regard to different European literatures.
Possible topics might include, but are not restricted to:
Internationalism and trans-national literature /
Cosmopolitan networks /
The modern Republic of Letters /
Cosmopolitan politics /
The gender of cosmopolitanism /
Cosmopolitan style(s) /
Cosmopolitanism and canon formation
Please send abstracts (300 words), contact details and institutional affiliation (if appropriate) by Monday 31 January 2011 to the conference organisers:
Stefano Evangelista ([log in to unmask])ý
Richard Hibbitt ([log in to unmask])
Selected papers from the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of Comparative Critical Studies, to be published in 2013.
The conference fee will be £20 (salaried) and £10 (postgraduate / unwaged), to cover registration, a buffet lunch and refreshments.
We are very grateful to the British Comparative Literature Association for their support of this event.
Dr Richard Hibbitt
Lecturer in French
Department of French
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
tel: 0113 343 3495
fax: 0113 343 3477
email: [log in to unmask]
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