CFP: By Body Bound (Huntsville, 2.-4.4.98)

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From: David Stewart <stewartd@email.uah.edu>
Subject: CFP: By Body Bound (Huntsville, 2.-4.4.98)
Date: Monday, June 9, 1997 14:38:37 MET

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Announces its annual conference

BY BODY BOUND

NCSA, an interdisciplinary association for the study of nineteenth-century cultures-- British, American, and continental-- announces its 17th annual conference, BY BODY BOUND, to be hosted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2-4 April 1998.

The conference invites cultural, social, historical, literary, aesthetic, political, scientific, and philosophical perspectives on the nineteenth-century body. We invite papers from multiple disciplines that consider all manner of nineteenth-century materials, such as its art and artifacts; literature; religious, scientific, or legal writing; social, political, and economic debate. Papers might consider:

Representing the body, the aesthetic, the decadent, the subjugated, the domesticated, the radicalized, the imperial and colonized, the criminal, the grotesque; the young; the old;
Decorating the body; marking it; theatricalizing it; dressing and undressing it;
Reading the body, phrenology, and physiognomy;
Diagnosing the body and its ills; the working body, the way to health; diet, excercise, regimens, sanitation; social planning, workplace reform and housing;
The dying body and the dead body;
The spirited body; ghosts; the release from the body;
Body politics, gender and sexuality; prostitution; purity; reproduction;
The Darwinian body, evolving or degenerating;
The economic body and the legislated body;
The body as social metaphor; the body politic;
Bodies of work.

Two copies of proposals (one to two pages) for twenty-minute papers should be accompanied by a brief curriculum vita and a 50-75 word abstract. Proposals for panels or for other topics for open sessions are also welcome. All materials should reach the Program Directors by mail no later than 1 October 1997. You may email queries, but NOT proposals. Decisions will be announced by December 1997.

Send to:

David Stewart or Julie English Early
Department of Art Department of English
Roberts Hall Morton Hall
stewartd@email.uah.edu earlyj@email.uah.edu
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899

The Nineteenth Century Studies Association is an interdisciplinary organization with strong ties to art history. Its President is an art historian, its keynote speakers frequently are (this year the keynote was given by Patricia Mainardi), and this coming year's call for papers will, I hope, have a strong appeal for art historians as it concerns issues of representation being debated by many art historians today.

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