Dve Postles (who is currently on on-mail while he sorts his email system
out) has asked me to forward the following information.
Regards
Ruth
CfP - The Making of Landscapes in Modernity
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-12-21 (in 29 days)
Date Submitted: 2011-11-18
Announcement ID: 189844
University of St Andrews, 11&12 May 2012
This workshop seeks to move the issue of landscape beyond a cultural
geography by examining the changing meaning of landscape in history.
We encourage scholars and PhD students working across disciplines on
the concept of landscape in the modern period to submit proposals (300
words and a short biographical note) for 20-25 minute presentations to
James Koranyi ([log in to unmask]) by 21st December 2011.
The processes of industrialisation and urbanisation in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries reshaped topographies across the globe and
helped create a new polarity (perceived or otherwise) between the
urban and the rural. This was often represented in art, which
frequently idealised a bygone era of a rural past. In the process of
this, nature was transformed into landscape. Of central importance
were the shifts in perception from (usable, agrarian) land to
landscape. Furthermore, the emergence of nationalism and its
corresponding polities made the search for the distinct character of
certain states, countries, and regions imperative. Landscapes (local,
regional, and transnational) became 'nationalised' as part of the
quest for a national canon. However, some ruralist movements were
often linked to primordial notions of nationhood, and also to more
general ideas on modernity and the problems related to it. In this
sense, there existed an interesting juxtaposition between the modern
nature of nationalism and the pursuit for the old and established as
manifested in landscapes. In addition, more remote regions became the
object of desire for scientists, travellers, the state, intellectuals
and others alike. They acted as canvasses onto which problems of late
modern societies, ideas of nationally authentic characteristics, and
images of the curious other were projected. While this discovery of
landscape certainly played an important role for nationalism, it thus
also acted as a vehicle for both regional and transnational images and
debates on society and structures.
This workshop is therefore designed to bring scholars together with an
interest in historical perspectives on landscape, especially - though
not exclusively - in the 18th to 20th centuries. Participants are
invited to ask a number of questions, which could include some of the
following: Who were the main 'discoverers' of landscapes? How has
landscape been represented? What are the key transformational moments
for the shift from a utilitarian perception of the land to an
aesthetic/sublime perception of landscape? How important were
technological developments for the changing representations of
landscape? What is national/regional/transnational about landscape(s)?
What role have different ideologies ascribed to particular landscapes?
What role have tourism and leisure played?
As a more general framework, participants may use the following
categories (by no means comprehensive) to frame their papers:
(i) Debates on modernity and modernisation
(ii) Landscape and memory
(iii) Writing on landscape
(iv) Promoting the national canon
(v) Debates on the conservation of the natural
(vi) Tourism and landscape
(vii) Classifying landscape: Science
(viii) The meaning of landscape for ideologies
For more information on the Centre for Transnational History, please
visit: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/transnat/conferences/landscapes/
Dr James Koranyi
History
St Katharine's Lodge
The Scores
St Andrews
Email: [log in to unmask]
Visit the website at
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/transnat/conferences/landscapes/
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