Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
1848: The Year the World Turned?
Department of Humanities
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
23-25th June 2005
1848 is frequently referred to as the 'springtime of the peoples' or
'the year of revolutions'; yet despite the widespread challenge to the
status quo in Europe, as the historian A. J. P. Taylor noted 'history
failed to turn'. Nevertheless, 1848 was a pivotal year in the political
development of modern Europe and its repercussions spread beyond the
countries immediately involved. Moreover, the
Intellectual ferment and the social and political discontent that had
triggered the various uprisings also found an outlet in literature and
culture.
KEY NOTE SPEAKERS include:
Terry Eagleton (The Cultural Legacy of 1848 in Britain and Ireland)
Brian Maidment (The Wood Engraving Revolution? Illustration and
Democracy)
Maria Diedrich (Revolution's Second Chance: German 1848ers and the
American Civil War)
John Walton (Spain and the Revolution of 1848: the dog that did not
bark)
This conference is interdisciplinary and will examine the intersections
of culture, history, literature and politics during the year of
revolutions. It will address cultural, political and social activities
throughout Britain, Europe and America.
Papers are invited which cover any of these aspects on 1848 and it will
be divided into six interconnected areas.
Area One: Questions of Political Authority and Justice; Ideology in
Transition
Area Two: Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Mass Communication
Area Three: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism
Area Four: Gender and the Woman Question
Area Five: Culture in Transition
Area Six: Region
The closing date for abstracts is 11th February 2005
Please note that paper presenters need to register for the conference
and pay the registration fee.
For further information and to forward abstracts please contact:
Emma Woodward, Conference Officer, Conference and Events Management
Office,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1772 892654
Fax: +44 (0) 1772 892977
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