Fwd: Fw: INCS: 19th cent. Centers and Peripheries (10/16, 4/6-8) (fwd)

> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 08:36:09 -0500
> From: mark schoenfield <mark.schoenfield@vanderbilt.edu>
> Subject: Fw: INCS: 19th cent. Centers and Peripheries (10/16, 4/6-8)
> To: LGONICK@MACH1.WLU.CA
> MIME-version: 1.0
>
> Original-recipient: rfc822;lsgonick@clstad.iss.csupomona.edu
>
>
>
> I thought the following might be of interest to the IPE listserv.  thank you...
>
>  
> INCS :   Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
> announces its Fifteenth Annual Conference, to be held at the Yale Center for
> British Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut on  April 6-8, 2000.
>
> Proposals are invited for papers and panels on the general topic of
> "CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES."
>
> This conference focuses on the interdisciplinary issues of how both
> ideologies and material practices construct, maintain, and challenge centers
> and peripheral spaces in geographic, political, and psychological terms; we
> are interested in exploring the ways such practices are reflected and
> produced in the arts, sciences, commerce, history, and societies of the 19th
> century. 
>
> Possible themes for papers include, but are not limited to:
> Fame and anonymity
> The Cultures of Trade
> Avant-gardes and Rear-Guards 
> Colonial Spaces
> Maps and inventions
> The Slave Trade
> Aliens and other strange beings
> That's entertainment?  Street culture
> Literary and Popular culture
> Theaters and Theatricals 
> Paris and London
> Architecture and Class
> Cities, Suburbia, Exurbia
> Royalty
> Rags and Riches
> Representations of Empire  a.. Gender and Power
> On the Margins: Gender and Sexuality
> Crime and Punishment
> Servants, Masters, Mistresses
> Professional, Aristocrats, and the service industry
> The Business of Education
> Foreigners at home
> Empiricism and Colonialism
> Travellers and Travel Writing
> Government and other rule(r)s
>
>
> Our keynote speaker will be the noted feminist art historian Griselda Pollock and an interdisciplinay plenary session will feature materials from the Yale Center for British Arts.
>
> Longer versions of INCS conference papers are regularly published in the Affiliated journal, NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONTEXTS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL.
>
> Send 200-400 word abstracts by October 16, 1999 to
> Mark Schoenfield, INCS President
> Emailed proposals and queries preferred to <mailto:incs@vanderbilt.edu>incs@vanderbilt.edu .
> Alternatively, please mail to
> Mark Schoenfield
> Department of English
> Vanderbilt University
> Nashville, TN  37235
>
>
> Notification of acceptance will be (e)mailed in December. INCS sessions are
> devoted to discussion. Ten page papers are made available to attendants in
> advance;presenters make brief opening statements and respond to discussion.
> This format allows for lively, informed discussion that pursues
> methodological, interpretive, and theoretical issues.
>
>
> For more information, including about special sessions, see our website at <http://www.vanderbilt.edu/incs>www.vanderbilt.edu/incs. 
>
>
> Sponsored by Vanderbilt University, Yale University, and the Yale Center for
> British Art.

Lev S. Gonick 
University Dean
Instructional Technology & Academic Computing 
Cal Poly Pomona
Pomona, CA 91768

http://www.csupomona.edu/~lsgonick
http://www.csupomona.edu/~itac
mailto://lsgonick@csupomona.edu
909.869.2277 (v)
909.869.4751 (f)