Dear Wiggies
The first of these might be a bit Anglo-centric, but both look interesting!
Apologies for cross-posting
best
Jo
Jo Catling / Richard Hibbitt, eds.,
Saturn's Moons: W. G. Sebald - A Handbook (Legenda, 2011)
http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781906540029
Dr J M Catling
German and Comparative Literature
School of Literature Drama and Creative Writing
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ / GB
Dear all,
Two really interesting CFPs came through today from BAMs: " MOVING
DANGEROUSLY: WOMEN AND TRAVEL, 1850-1950", and "Taking Liberties: Sex,
Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928)". Both copied below for your interest and to
circulate to contacts.
Best,
Karen
Dr Karen Schaller
Lecturer in Literature
School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Arts 2.57
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
Norwich NR4 7TJ
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Subject: [BAMS] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Taking Liberties - DEADLINE 1ST
NOVEMBER
Dear all,
Please circulate widely, and note that the deadline for abstract submissions
is this coming Tuesday, 1st November 2011.
Apologies for cross-posting.
Best wishes,
Emma Short
Conference Administrator
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Call for Papers
Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928)
15-17 June 2012, Newcastle University
Keynote Speakers:
Helen Berry (Newcastle University) on Sex, Marriage and the Castrato Joseph
Bristow (UCLA) on Oscar Wilde's Sexual Practices Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary,
University of London) on Rape, Representation and Slavery Richard C. Sha
(American University) on Romanticism and the Paradoxes of Free Love
>From the publication of John Cleland's Fanny Hill (1748) to D.H. Lawrence's
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), literature has imaginatively exploited the
relationship between freedom, coercion and sexual pleasure, constantly
pushing at the boundaries of what it is permissible to describe, represent
and perform. At the same time, the history of print, film and theatre
censorship has been told as a story of progressive unshackling from
constraint. In this narrative, these ever-widening freedoms and challenges
have been understood as positively beneficial to individuals and to
societies. Yet the idea of sexual liberty as an unqualified good has
increasingly come under scrutiny, giving way to the realization that freedom
from sexual constraint can sometimes mean imprisonment in new and alternate
structures of power, frustration and denial. This international,
multidisciplinary conference seeks to complicate and enrich our
understanding of the relation between sex, pleasure and coercion in a
liberal context. It will explore the many ways in which literary and visual
texts and performances can be understood to create, reinforce, question
and/or dissolve these structures, as well as interrogate the complicity of
publishing and the law in their framing and dismantling.
Key conference questions are:
* How are the complex relations between sexual licence, pleasure and
coercion understood, represented and negotiated during the long nineteenth
century?
* How did censorship and obscenity laws shape the
literary/cinematic/theatrical landscape?
* How were sexually controversial texts - from erotica to
triple-decker novels, from peep-shows to West-End theatre - produced,
circulated, preserved and consumed?
We are interested in literary and visual texts/performances from across the
cultural spectrum. We welcome papers from English, Drama, Film & Visual
Culture, History, Law, Modern Languages, Sociology and Geography.
Possible topics include:
* Sex, Sexuality and the Law
* Gender and the Law
* Obscenity/Pornography
* Censorship
* Rakes/Dandies/Mollies
* Prostitutes/Madams/Pimps
* Rape/Sexual Violence
* Sex on Stage/Screen
* Sex Manuals/Diaries
* 'Lewd' Behaviour
* The Politics of Pleasure
* Flirtation, Seduction, Exploitation
* Corrupting the Innocent
* Voyeurism/Striptease/Burlesque
* 'Dirty' Books
* Bowdlerization
* Advertising Sex/Abortion/Contraception
* Sexual Initiations
* Sadomasochism/Masters and Slaves
* Tyranny and Slavery
Proposals of up to 300 words should be emailed by 1 November 2011 to
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Dzelzainis at [log in to unmask]
The conference is organized at Newcastle University by the Long Nineteenth
Century Research Group (School of English), with the support of the Gender
Research Group and the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities.
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Dear All,
Please circulate widely. Apologies for cross-posting.
Best wishes,
Emma
MOVING DANGEROUSLY: WOMEN AND TRAVEL, 1850-1950
13-14 April 2012, Newcastle University
Conference Call for Papers
Keynote Speakers:
Alexandra Peat (University of Toronto)
Avril Maddrell (University of the West of England)
The period between 1850 and 1950 is widely acknowledged to have been one of
dramatic societal and cultural change, not least in terms of women's
experience of and relationship to travel. The rapid expansion of the travel
networks both nationally and internationally towards the end of the
nineteenth century coincided with the impact of first wave feminism, as the
suffragette movement gathered momentum and the figure of the New Woman
appeared. By 1950, new forms of technology and transport, and their
widespread availability, had substantially altered women's perception of and
ability to travel.
This two-day international and interdisciplinary conference invites papers
that explore the changing relationship of women and travel across key
moments in modernity, such the First World War and its effects on women's
independence, the developments in British Imperial activity, and the boom in
rail, air and sea travel. The conference aims to stimulate academic
discussion on a range of topics relating to women and travel in the period
ranging from 1850-1950. These topics include representations of women and
travel in fiction and film, non-fictional portrayals and documentations, as
well as archival work on first-hand accounts of women travellers. As such,
we welcome papers from those working in the fields of Literature, History,
Geography, Film and Media, Modern Languages, Gender/Women's Studies, and
Politics.
Potential paper topics might include considerations of: both published and
unpublished travel-writings by women of the period; fictional accounts of
travel written by women throughout the period; representations of women
travellers in contemporary biography; representations of women and travel
during the period in fiction and film, and the benefits of archival research
into women and travel on contemporary understandings of women's role in
modernity.
Please send abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers to: [log in to unmask]
by 30 November 2011. For further details, visit:
http://movingdangerously.wordpress.com/
This event is presented in association with the Gender Research Group and
the Long Nineteenth Century Research Cluster at Newcastle University, and is
supported by a grant from the Catherine Cookson Foundation.
** This conference will run in conjunction with another event, 'The Popular
and The Middlebrow: Women's Writing 1880 - 1940' taking place on 12 April
2011. Delegates may wish to attend both events. For more information, see:
http://www.pop-middlebrow.com.
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