PUNCS (Plymouth Nineteenth Century Studies) invites proposals for 20-minute papers for the international, interdisciplinary conference taking place 22 – 23 June 2017 on the general theme of union and disunion.
The first international conference hosted by PUNCS (Plymouth Nineteenth Century Studies) began on the day of the Brexit vote, and commentators have seen this event in the context of other signs of anti-globalisation, and in a landscape of violent disintegrations or forcible integrations in the Twenty-first century.
Our new conference takes place on the first anniversary of this momentous decision.
Our Keynote Speakers are:
Professor Lucy Riall (European University Institute, Florence and Birbkeck College and author of works including Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town and Garibaldi. Invention of a Hero) speaking about union and imperialism from continental European perspectives in the late-nineteenth century;
Dr Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh, and author / editor of The Spirit of the Union: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1815-1820 and Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820-1833) speaking on Union, Scotland and the British Isles;
Dr Laura Schwartz (University of Warwick), speaking on women’s trade unions in late-nineteenth-century and Edwardian Britain, drawing on her recent work on the Domestic Workers’ Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
Themes already represented in the conference schedule include:
American and British responses to the American Civil War; unions of enslaved couples at the end of slavery in the USA; cultural tourism, after the Irish Act of Union, in the early nineteenth century; cartels in the typographic industry; Scottish governance and the Conservative Party in the mid-nineteenth century.
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We are interested in papers by scholars working in British, continental European, American and world history in the Nineteenth century, in literary studies, history, legal history, art history, economic history, geography and other disciplines.
We are interested in papers by scholars working in British, continental European, American and world history in the Nineteenth century, in literary studies, history, legal history, art history, economic history, geography and other disciplines.
Possible themes for exploring union in individual papers or panels include:
Union as a concept in the natural or human sciences Acts of union (legal incorporation into nation states through treaties and legislation, or forcible unification; or municipal level unification, as in the union of the Three Towns in Plymouth in the early-twentieth century) Economic unions (e.g., Zollverein and imperial unions) Trade unions Political unions (e.g., the political unions of the reform era in Britain in the 1820s), or women’s suffragist organisations Organisations for social policy and welfare such as Poor Law Unions Unions and disunions in religion, e.g., the creation or breakup of denominational unity, the forging of ecumenical bodies.
Unions in terms of family, personal and sexual relationships in works of literary fiction or dramatic representation Union as a topic in artistic, architectural and other aesthetic discourses Fear of disunion and acts of civil war
Please send your 300 word abstract and a brief c.v. to one of the organisers listed below. The deadline is 6th January 2017.
We hope to edit a selection of papers for publication after the conference.
Dr Annika Bautz [log in to unmask]
Dr James Gregory [log in to unmask]
Dr Daniel Grey [log in to unmask]
Professor Kim Stevenson [log in to unmask]
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