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Further details of Symposium CALL FOR PAPERS Art for Life’s Sake A two day symposium on Gender, Class and Victorian Cultural Philanthropy c. 1860-1914 Saturday/Sunday 16/17 November 2002 Southampton Institute Southampton Institute will host an international Art and Design History conference on `moral aesthetics’ or the Victorian notion that the purpose of art was to improve or civilize man. The keynote speaker will be Prof. Regenia Gagnier, Exeter University, well known for her work on Oscar Wilde, Aestheticism and Commodity Culture and Individuality. Other speakers include Prof. Janice Helland, Dr. Talia Schaffer, Dr Diana Maltz, and Dr Anne Anderson. Suggestions for contributors: Art as a hobby or employment for women: ceramics, woodcarving, metalwork etc. Art in the Home or interior decorating. Professionalism and Amateurism. Schools of Art, technical education and higher education for women (arts related) Teaching and educating others Charity and class or cross-class relations Settlements, Guilds and communities Rural Industries The Home Arts and Industries Association in Britain and Ireland Amateur arts societies, clubs and recreational classes; the evening-class movement. Exhibitions and the founding of public art galleries Urban or rural regeneration through the arts. The writings of Ruskin, Morris et al regarding amateur production and the promotion of art as a hobby/rural industry/art as a vocation for women. Women as collectors or benefactors Individual case studies Please send your submission of 200-300 words, to be received by 31 July, by e-mail or post to: Dr Anne Anderson and Dr Diana Maltz Faculty of Media, Arts and Society East Park Terrace Southampton Institute Southampton SO14 ORF Anne Anderson: 023 80 319484 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] For more information about Southampton Institute and the conference please go to our web-site at www.solent.ac.uk/artandlife