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Internationalism and the Arts: Imagining the Cosmopolis at the long fin de
siècle
Tate Britain, 5-6 September 2013
This conference follows a series of workshops organised by the AHRC-funded
research network Internationalism and Cultural Exchange c. 1870-1920 (ICE,
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/ice/). Previous events have explored
different aspects of cultural internationalism at the long fin de siècle,
from world exhibitions, to the global rise of the vernacular, and the idea
of music as a universal language. This conference adapts Benedict
Anderson’s theory of the nation as an imagined community in order to
examine certain questions – about the locations, languages and citizens of
an ‘imagined cosmopolis’ – which have been fundamental to our enquiry. In
particular, it asks what alternatives to nationhood were proposed by
artists working at the turn of the twentieth century. What were their sites
of operation? How did they use the arts to communicate? And what real and
imagined communities did they build to cross national boundaries? The
conference will focus on these three themes, of place, language and
cosmopolitanism, as they played out during an otherwise intense period of
nation-building; and it will examine the methodological implications of
cultural internationalism for research, teaching and display in the arts.
We invite short papers (15–20 minutes) on topics which may include but are
not limited to:
· The fin-de-siècle cosmopolis, real or imagined
· Temporary sites of internationalism: exhibitions, conferences,
communes
· Virtual sites: journals and other publications
· the idea of art as a universal language
· transnational systems of inscription
· translation between national traditions
· the cosmopolitan individual (celebrity, mediator or misfit)
· transnational communities and sub-cultures
· international organisations
· Transnational history and the arts: methodological implications
for research and teaching
· Transnational history and the gallery: methodological
implications for curation
· Why the fin de siècle? 1870–1920 as a distinctive period for
cultural internationalism
Please submit proposals for papers (of no more than 400 words) and a short
biography by Monday 15th April to [log in to unmask]
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/ice/
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Grace Brockington & Sarah Victoria Turner
ICE Research Network Coordinators
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/ice/
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