CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite our fellow Romanticists to the University of Colorado in Boulder,
CO for the 2004 NASSR Conference, "Romantic Cosmopolitanism," to be held
9-12 September 2004 at the Millennium Hotel in beautiful and sublime
Boulder, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Romantic Cosmopolitanism
provides an opportunity to query our period from the perspectives of the
international, the global, the cosmic, the worldly, and the sophisticated.
The term expands upon certain notions of region and place that some would
deem central to the aesthetics and politics of Romanticism. It also invites
us to think about alternatives to more typical moves to organize Romantic
culture either around individuals or nation-states. Possible topics might
include: the country and the city; rethinking the cosmos, cosmopolitan
science; cosmopolitan poetics; the global, the local, and the national;
women and the world; Romanticism and indigenous cultures; civilization and
Kultur; popular culture and the cosmopolitan; the cosmopolitan roots of
inderdisciplinarity and comparatist studies; metropolitan centers and
racial others; cosmopolitan education: grand tours and world literature;
exile; trade and culture; queering sophistication; eschewing the
cosmopolitan: the local, the rural, the individual; the provincial and the
urbane; cosmo-bodies; reconfiguring Europe during the Napoleonic era;
ecopolitics and ecopoetics of Romantic cosmopolitanism and provincialism;
cosmopolitanism and class; locating cosmopolitanism geographically and
geopolitically; the sophisticated traveler; cosmopolitanism and/against
imperialism; worldly genders; cosmopolitan coteries.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JANUARY 15, 2004.
Email submissions to: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Ann Bermingham (University of Califronia, Santa Barbara), Angela
Esterhammer (University of Western Ontario), David Simpson (University of
California, Davis)
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
NASSR 2004 will devote ten sessions to discussion workshops on an aspect of
the conference theme, Romantic Cosmopolitanism. Each workshop will be run
by a leader or two co-leaders who, after giving five-minute introductory
presentations on pre-selected materials, will lead an intensive group
discussion of the texts and their implications. [Attendees will receive
official letters of participation to use with their own institutions for
funding, etc.] Selected texts will be made electronically available for
participants. While we believe that the success of these workshops depends
on the brevity of lines and pages, we also encourage breadth of
juxtapositions of genres, modes, and domains of thought where relevant:
e.g. a poem of Landon, a passage from Hazlitt, a poem of Keats, a paragraph
from The Examiner. We also encourage texts from multiple literary language
traditions [and advise you to gear your description to how your topic
addresses cosmopolitanism]. If you wish to propose and lead a workshop,
please submit a short description of what you would like to accomplish and
a tentative list of discussion materials. After the selection of leaders,
topics will be announced, and conference attendees will be asked to sign up
for 2 workshops of their choice.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOVEMBER 30, 2003.
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NASSR 2004 WEBSITE:
<http://www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/CHA/NASSR2004.htm>http://www.Colorado.EDU/ArtsSciences/CHA/NASSR2004.htm
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Full descriptions of the sessions are available at the website. Please
submit Special Session paper abstracts to both the Special Session
coordinator and the NASSR 2004 committee at
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Anglo-Hispanic Romanticism"
JOSELYN ALMEIDA BEVERIDGE
Boston University: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"East and West Indies"
JULIE CARLSON, University of California at
Santa Barbara: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Building and Unbuilding the Kingdom of Ends: Cosmopolitanism and Ethics"
DAVID CLARK, McMaster University:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"The Romantics vs. Italy"
LILLA MARIA CRISAFULLI,
University of Bologna:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Cosmopolitan Byron"
DINO FELLUGA, Purdue University:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Enlightenment and Romantic Cosmopolitanism"
ANN GARDINER, International University in Germany:
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"Romantic Antiquities"
MARILYN GAULL, New York University: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Romanticism and Reinhabiting: Cosmopolitanism and the Sense of Place"
GARY HARRISON, University of New Mexico:
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"Cosmopolitan Europe"
DIANE LONG HOEVELER, Marquette University:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"The Gothic-Romantic Relationship: Its Cosmopolitan Reach"
JERROLD HOGLE, University of Arizona:
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"Homelessness in the Global Village"
CELESTE LANGAN, University of California at Berkeley:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Romantic and Tropico-Cosmopolitanism"
NIGEL LEASK, University of Cambridge:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Transatlantic Romanticism"
SUSAN MANNING, University of Edinburgh:
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"Theatre as Cosmopolis"
JANE MOODY, University of York, UK: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Ecology and Literature: Cosmopolitan Natures?"
TIMOTHY MORTON, University of California at Davis:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Philosophers of the World"
JAN PLUG, University of Western Ontario: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Philosophy, Nationality, and the Foreign"
TILOTTAMA RAJAN, University of Western Ontario:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Romanticism and Opera"
GILLEN WOOD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
"Cosmobodies"
PAUL YOUNGQUIST, Pennsylvania State University:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Jeffrey N. Cox (University of Colorado, Boulder); Jill Heydt-Stevenson
(University of Colorado, Boulder); Jeffrey Robinson (University
of Colorado, Boulder); David Ferris (University of Colorado, Boulder);
Bradford Mudge (University of Colorado, Denver); Susan Taylor (University
of Colorado, Colorado Springs); William Davis (Colorado College);
Celestine Woo (Fort Lewis College); Terry Robinson, Grad. Asst. (University
of Colorado, Boulder)
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All abstract submissions, questions, comments, and concerns should be
directed via email to: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
NASSR 2004 WEBSITE:
<http://www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/CHA/NASSR2004.htm>http://www.Colorado.EDU/ArtsSciences/CHA/NASSR2004.htm
Jeffrey N. Cox
Professor, Comparative Literature and Humanities and English
Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts
280 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80309
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My office: 303-492-1931
Center office: 303-492-1423
FAX: 303-735-2624
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