*Call for papers*
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*Spaces of Work 1770 – 1830*
*A one-day interdisciplinary conference*
*University of Warwick, Saturday 28th April 2012*
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Spaces of Work 1770-1830 will address the relationships between workers and
spaces in Britain. We aim to showcase current research and are particularly
interested in interrogating under-analyzed types of work and space. For
example, we hope to develop the theorization of types of work that critics
have not conventionally understood as ‘work’ (the performance of music as
practical activity, for instance). We also aim to bring attention to
under-analysed spaces. For example, due to Romanticism’s traditionally
rural focus, literary critics of this period have only recently begun to
interrogate urban spaces; interdisciplinary discussion of urbanism in this
period would therefore be particularly valuable. We aim to analyze the
interfacing of work and space as two factors that fundamentally shape
everyday life in order to gain a greater understanding of material life in
the period. To these ends, 500 word abstracts are invited which attempt to
answer questions such as the following:
How do workers and their work uniquely shape space?
How does space facilitate or hinder workers and their work?
How does the social relationship among workers and between them and their
supervisors/masters alter according to the work they are doing and the
spaces in which they perform it?
How does gender, race, and/or class inform workers’ relationship to each
other in different contexts of space and work?
Possible approaches could include, but are not limited to: genteel work and
the city; work in spaces of ‘leisure’; work and (sub)urban domestic spaces;
men’s work in the home; space and female accomplishment; work and emergent
manufacturing/industrial spaces.
Please send submissions to the conference organizers, Kate Scarth and
Joseph Morrissey, at [log in to unmask] by 01/12/2011. Papers at the
conference will be thirty minutes in length, with a generous allocation for
questions.
*Confirmed keynote speakers*:
*Karen Harvey *(University of Sheffield) *Jennie
Batchelor *(University
of Kent)
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