italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear List Members:
At the request of a colleague, I'm distributing this CFP, which I
hope will be of interest. I understand that the conference organizers
want to attract an interdisciplinary selection of papers, including
scholars working in Italian literature, Italian studies, and
Italian-American Studies during the long nineteenth century (1750-1900).
Please forward this to anyone who might be interested. For
information, contact the faculty indicated below. Cheers!
-- Arnold
Arnold Anthony Schmidt, Ph.D.
Professor of English
California State University
http://www.csustan.edu/ENGLISH/schmidt/schmidt.htm
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Call for Papers: Theatricality and the Performative in the Long
Nineteenth Century
31st Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
The University of Tampa, March 11-13, 2010, Tampa, Florida
Dramatic expression and self-conscious performances marked almost every
aspect of nineteenth century life and artistic culture, as theatrical
turns and performative mindsets introduced in the 17th-18th centuries
expanded in the 1780s through the beginning of World War One. We invite
paper and panel proposals that explore these themes and subjects in the
long Nineteenth Century (1780-1914). Papers might address the
theatrical shows—whether serious drama, circus displays, vaudeville,
operas, or Shakespearean revivals—that appeared in cities and towns on
both sides of the Atlantic (as well as in more distant lands). Or they
might investigate how politics, social events, military engagements,
domestic affairs, public trials, crime reports, religious rituals,
architectural spaces, sculptural moments, exhibition halls, artistic and
musical compositions, and the early moving pictures of the cinema,
assumed a theatrical sensibility. Welcome also are proposals for papers
and panels that bring scholarly and theoretical interests in
performativity to bear on concepts of identity, individuality, and
audience in the given era.
Please submit abstracts of approximately 500 words along with a brief
(one page) c.v. to the Program Co-Chairs, Janice Simon (U of Georgia)
and Regina Hewitt (U of South Florida) at the conference address
[log in to unmask] by Sept. 15, 2009. Speakers will be notified by
or before Dec. 15.
Any graduate student whose proposal is accepted may at that point submit
a full-length version of the paper in competition for a travel grant to
help cover transportation and lodging expenses.
Conference sessions will be held at the University of Tampa , a campus
with both the historic late-19th century Plant Hall (formerly the Tampa
Bay Hotel) and a state-of-the-art conference center. Accommodations
will be available at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Tampa , a short walk
from campus. For further information—available in midsummer—please visit
the NCSA website http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/ or contact
Elizabeth Winston, Local Arrangements Director (U of Tampa), at the
conference address [log in to unmask]
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