2006 Conference. Aug. 31st - Sept. 3rd. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA

Call for papers

Detail eyeThe fourteenth annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the fourth annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association will be held from August 31st to September 3rd at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The conference will feature plenary addresses by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur. Seminars on work in progress will be offered by Alan Bewell, Mary Favret, Sonia Hofkosh, Timothy Morton, Thomas Pfau, and Adela Pinch on the Romantic side of things; and by Timothy Barringer, Ross Chambers, Tracy Davis, Regenia Gagnier, Yopie Prins, and Martin Wiener on the Victorian side. In addition, NASSR and NAVSA workshops on specific topics and/or texts will be conducted by Anna Clark, Julie Codell, Neil Fraistat, Elaine Hadley, Andrea Henderson, John Kucich, Christopher Lane, Celeste Langan, Deidre Lynch, Ghislaine McDayter, Andrew Miller, and Daniel O'Quinn. NASSR/NAVSA 2006 welcomes submission of paper proposals, for delivery as 20-minute conference talks, on either Romantic of Victorian studies.

The NASSR side of the conference will have the theme scientia and techne by which we intend not only science and technology but the etymological sense of knowledge and craft. Submitters should take the theme as a creative goad rather than as a prescriptive gaol. Papers may be submitted directly to nassr06@purdue.edu or to one of the special-session vetters (with a cc to nassr06@purdue.edu). For NASSR special sessions, click here, or see below. Papers rejected by special-session organizers will be given a second vetting by the general conference committee. Proposals should be two pages (500 words) with a one-page curriculum vitae and should be submitted electronically in the body of an email or as an attachment in .doc or .pdf format by February 15, 2006.

The NAVSA side of the conference will accept papers on any topic in Victorian literature, history, and culture, with a view to showcasing the best of current work in the intersecting fields that make up Victorian studies. Although there is no NAVSA theme, we will be particularly interested in papers that speak to the NASSR theme of scientia and techne. Papers may be submitted directly to navsa06@purdue.edu or to one of the special-session vetters (with a cc to navsa06@purdue.edu). For NAVSA special sessions, click here, or see below. Papers rejected by special-session organizers will be given a second vetting by the general conference committee. Proposals should be two pages (500 words) with a one-page curriculum vitae and should be submitted electronically in the body of an email or as an attachment in .doc or .pdf format by February 15, 2006.

We are interested in making this conference as interdisciplinary as possible and, so, we are keen to consider papers from History, Art History, English and American literature, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History of Science, Architectural History, Music, and so on.

In order to participate in the conference, one must be a member of either NASSR or NAVSA.

Click the links below for information on each of the special sessions. (Note that some cross-period special sessions are listed under both NASSR and NAVSA.)

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