This may be of interest.
Best wishes
Ronnie
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The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Third Annual Conference
"Birth and Death"
To be held at Queen's University Belfast
Thursday 31st March - Saturday 2nd April 2005.
Call For Papers
We invite proposals for papers treating aspects of the conference
theme, to be
interpreted as widely as possible. The following list of topics may
serve as
inspiration:
Beginnings and endings
Textual genesis and gestation
Birth and death of Movements (literary, political, aesthetic,
philosophical)
Deathbed scenes in literature and art
Representations of fecundity/pregnancy/natalism
Death in childbirth/ infant mortality/ infanticide
Technologies of birth and death
Death and eroticism
Optimism/pessimism (Darwinian theory and Bergson's L'Évolution
créatrice versus
Degeneration Theory)
Ghosts and vampires
Demographic change in the nineteenth century
Disease, decay and disposal
Clichés of infancy (innocence/ the monstrous child)
Romanticism and Decadence Death and Gender
Nineteenth-century feminisms and maternity
Spaces and Places of birth and death (hospitals, morgues, cemeteries)
Birth as commodity and source of employment (surrogacy, wet nurses,
childcare)
Nineteenth-century representations of the Virgin Mary
Proposals for individual papers or for panels, to reach us by 31 March
2004,
should be addressed to the Conference Officer: Dr Lisa Downing, School
of
Modern Languages, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road,
London, E1
4NS, UK
Email: [log in to unmask]
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