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***Beyond Genius and Muse: Collaborating Couples in Twentieth-Century
Arts***
*Deadline for proposals: 16th December 2016*
Conference date and venue: 18th-19th April 2017, Department of Music,
University
of Bristol
Website and proposal submission: www.collaboratingcouples.wordpress.com
Keynotes:
Prof. Frances Spalding CBE, FRSL
Anthony Payne & Jane Manning OBE
Examining collaborating couples can force us to rethink the paradigms of
working relationships in the arts; especially those of the twentieth
century, where ideas of genius and muse are in total flux. Whether couples
collaborated or hindered each other, what are the means to describe such
complex creative partnerships? How can feminism, gender theories, and queer
studies help shift perceptions and rediscover hidden powers and intimate
connections? What methodologies can we use to research and write about
intra-art and interdisciplinary couples? How do such couples perceive
themselves and their work? This conference seeks to engage with all kinds of
collaborating couples, be it cases where traditional roles are intact,
reversed, or changed otherwise.
We invite proposals to the following topics (and others beyond):
Muses vs. geniuses in creative partnerships
Related isms: feminism, modernism, post-modernism, etc.
Queer perspectives
Methodological challenges (biography, comparative biography, life writing,
archives and legacies, constructs like Michèle LeDoeuff’s ‘Heloise complex’,
etc.)
Challenges in interdisciplinary partnerships/approaches
Collaboration and obstruction in partnerships
Partnerships between creative artists (writers, poets, fine artists,
composers, performers, etc.) and ‘enablers’ (editors, gallerists and
dealers, critics, conductors, etc.)
Proposals can be for 20-minute individual papers or 90-minute collaborative
panels or lecture-recitals of max. 90 minutes. Proposals should not exceed
300 words, biographies (optional) 150 words. Please submit your proposal on
the website. If you would like to compete for one of three postgraduate
travel bursaries, please identify yourself as a postgraduate student in your
proposal.
Conference fees, details on registration and the conference dinner will be
posted on the website.
Organiser and Programme Committee
Dr Annika Forkert (Organiser; University of Bristol)
Dr Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway)
Dr Sarah Terry (Oglethorpe University)
Dr Tom Walker (Trinity College Dublin)
Contact: please email [log in to unmask]
Dr Annika Forkert
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Music
University of Bristol
Victoria Rooms, Queen's Road
Clifton BS8 1SA
***BEYOND GENIUS AND MUSE: COLLABORATING COUPLES IN 20TH-CENTURY ARTS***
***INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE, 18-19 APRIL, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL***
WWW.COLLABORATINGCOUPLES.WORDPRESS.COM
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