CALL FOR PAPERS: NASSR 2019, “ROMANTIC ELEMENTS”

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Dear BARS colleagues, 

On behalf of the conference organizing committee for NASSR 2019, we write to alert you to the upcoming deadline of January 11, 2019 for submitting proposals.

We have made a number of recent updates to the conference website and particularly encourage you to note the list of open-call special sessions now available there: 

<http://nassrchicago2019.wordpress.com>

As you make your travel plans in the coming months, we ask that you please support the conference by booking at the official conference hotel. A reservation link for discounted rates is now available on the conference website.

We look forward to your proposals.

Sincerely yours,

Tim Campbell (University of Chicago) and Mark Canuel (UIC)
Lead Organizers


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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: NASSR 2019

The organizers of NASSR 2019 in Chicago (August 8-11, 2019) invite your proposals for papers and sessions on the conference theme of “Romantic Elements.” The operative definition of “element” in the Romantic age (as given in Johnson’s Dictionary) points at once to contradictory meanings: to constitute a foundational part or first principle and to compound from these same
parts in such a way as to unleash their combinatory potential. We summon “Romantic elements” both as an indication of our renewed attention to matters of style and form (and a question about what to do with it) and as a token of the long history of defining the essential characteristics of a period that is also a historical, generic, and affective disposition. We ask once again, what are the elements of Romanticism? What are its core principles, properties, and characteristics? Its forms and substances and material bases? Its maths and geometries, its natures and its laboratories? How might we recover and summon Romanticism’s elements of thoughts and feeling, and how should we address or preserve its discordant elements? How can we conceive of or practice a more elemental Romanticism, or one more out in the elements? Join us in the Windy City, the City by the Lake, the terra-cotta birthplace of the skyscraper, the site of the Great Chicago Fire, as we element Romanticism anew.

Please submit all proposals to the conference email: [log in to unmask] Proposals for standard papers should be 300 words in length and include your name, affiliation, and preferred email address. Proposals for complete sessions should include the same information for all participants along with the name of the chair/organizer and a brief rationale for the session. The deadline for submissions is January 11, 2019.

For further details and ongoing updates, see the conference website:
<nassrchicago2019.wordpress.com>.



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