Joint GER-NASSR Conference,
“Romanticism and Knowledge”,
Munich, October 10-13, 2013,
Hosted by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
and the Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft (IBZ)
The 15th International Symposium of the Gesellschaft für englische Romantik (GER) will be a joint GER-NASSR conference, that is, our regular biennial conference will be, at the same time, a supernumerary NASSR conference. (The regular 2013 NASSR conference will be held in Boston, 8-11 August, 2013).
Call for Papers
The Enlightenment has been described as 'the age of the encyclopedia,' indicating a powerful desire both to organize and order a burgeoning archive of knowledge, and to recognize and name new disciplines. Even as this legacy of naming and even inventing new fields of knowledge carries over into Romanticism, what distinguishes the period that begins in the 1770s (especially in Germany) is also a sustained reflection on what constitutes knowledge and what the borders of knowledge are. As fields such as philosophy, history, literary history, comparative religion, anthropology, geology, chemistry, and comparative anatomy (to name a few) defined their territories, they also faced issues about their borrowings from, relations to, and potential to be unsettled by neighboring fields. The nature of knowledge, whether knowledge is an 'art' or a 'science,' whether it should be 'philosophical' or 'historical' or 'empirical,' whether there can be a 'disaggregation of disciplines' or whether the boundaries between disciplines are fluid – these issues are very much under negotiation during the Romantic period.
We welcome papers on how these topics are taken up in philosophy and the history of thought, how they are thematized in literary texts of all genres or represented and refracted in the arts, and how they inform and are in turn informed by the institutions of knowledge and the exchange of knowledge between different cultures.
Topics could include but are not limited to:
– idealist vs. empiricist theories and organizations of knowledge
– knowledge vs. information
– arts and sciences; the meaning of Wissenschaft
– knowledge outside science and philosophy: aesthetic regimes and the knowledge of literature
– disciplines, inter-disciplines and pre-disciplines
– systems for organizing disciplines (e.g. Hegel's Encyclopedia for the Philosophical Sciences, Schelling's On the Method of Academic Study, Novalis' attempted 'Romantic Encyclopedia', Das allgemeine Brouillon, Coleridge's Logic and Opus Maximum)
– Anglo-German interchanges (in science, philosophy, literature etc.)
– translation and the experience of the foreign
– Europe and its Other(s)
– knowledge: empirical, transcendental, and religious
– the university (its theory, organization, faculties, disciplines etc.; models of the university in different countries)
– institutions of knowledge (academies, learned societies, libraries, museums etc.)
– the politics of knowledge, and more specifically:
– the centre and margins of institutionalized knowledge – the politics of exclusion and marginalization: women, dissenters, Catholics, Jews
– vehicles and media for the dissemination and transfer of knowledge (encyclopedias, journals etc.)
– oral and written formats (books, pamphlets, treatises, lectures, notebooks, marginalia etc.)
Proposals of no more than 500 words, accompanied by a short C.V., should be sent to the local organizer
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The deadline for proposals is January 15, 2013. You will be notified within three weeks. Please note that, compared to a regular NASSR conference, there will be a smaller number of slots available, though three times the number of a normal GER conference.
Presentations are limited to 30 minutes. As usual, the conference will be held in English throughout.
Detailed information about accommodation, travel and registration and a provisional conference programme will be provided on the GER website at http://www.englische-romantik.de.
Note: By special agreement, members of NASSR, BARS and JAER do not have to become members of the German Society for English Romanticism to take part in this conference – they only pay the regular conference fee of 40 Euros (10 Euros for students).
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