NAVSA Panels at ACCUTE 2006

York U, Toronto, Canada

ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English)
will occur from May 27 to June 4, 2006 in Toronto, Canada

Although participants must pay ACCUTE conference dues, they are not required to become ACCUTE members as long as they are NAVSA members

 

CFP: NAVSA-NASSR JOINT SESSION: Nation and Migration in Nineteenth-Century Literature (11/15/05; NAVSA/ACCUTE, 5/27/05-6/04/05)

Proposals for individual or collaborative papers are invited on the theme of "Nation and Migration in Nineteenth-Century Literature."  Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):

• emigration, immigration, and nineteenth-century literary history
• the pre-history of diaspora as a way of conceiving of nations in exile
• the role of exiled intellectuals and artists in shaping patterns of im/migration and ideas of nationhood, cosmopolitanism, and citizenship
• internationalist movements, migrations of ideas across borders, and their relationship to literature and literary nationalisms (e.g., Joseph Mazzini's "Young Europe," Marxist internationalism, the trans-Atlantic anti-slavery movement, Irish-Italian liberation politics, the transplantation of prison models from the US to Europe, suffrage movements, etc.).

Since this is a joint session of NASSR and NAVSA with ACCUTE, the co-organizers particularly welcome proposals for papers that migrate between the Romantic and Victorian periods, or that connect nineteenth-century literature in Britain and Ireland to developments in American or Canadian literature or continental European literatures.

Please send electronic copies of proposals of 300-500 words, a 100-word abstract, and a 50-word bio by Tuesday, November 15th , copying to both organizers:

Marjorie Stone mistone@dal.ca and Julia Wright julia.wright@dal.ca

CFP: Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Literary History: A Bicentenary Session (11/15/05; NAVSA/ACCUTE, 5/27/05-6/04/05)

Conferences in the US and the UK, a special issue of the journal Victorian Poetry, and other events are planned for 2006, to mark the bicentenary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's birth. While EBB was among the most influential and widely translated of nineteenth-century English poets, no session of ACCUTE has thus far focused exclusively on her writings and their place in literary history. This joint session of NAVSA and ACCUTE will contribute to marking the bicentenary in Canada. The organizer is interested in proposals that speak to any aspect of EBB's (or Barrett Browning's, as you prefer) works, artistic identity, formative influences, relationships with other writers, or impact on literary and cultural history. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to) EBB's connections to Romanticism; Italian and English politics; Victorian religious controversies; the anti-slavery movement; the "woman question"; nineteenth-century generic and formal innovations; and the dissemination of her works and image in popular culture .

Please send electronic copies of proposals (300-500 words) plus a 100-word abstract, and a 50-word bio to Marjorie Stone mistone@dal.ca by Tuesday, November 15th . Follow this with hard copy, mailed to:

Professor Marjorie Stone
Department of English
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9

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