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INCS 2019: MONUMENTS AND MEMORY

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Posted by: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
Deadline: Sat, November 17th, 2018

CFP Deadline extension Nov. 17, 2018

 

INCS 2019: MONUMENTS AND MEMORY

 

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference

March 21-24, 2019

Ongoing public debate over politically charged public monuments reminds us how much is at stake in the shaping of cultural memory, whether through durable physical structures, portable or reproducible aesthetic works, or discursive representations. How were monumentality and the preservation of the past conceived in the nineteenth century? How might we reconceive our own ways of remembering the nineteenth century? We invite proposals for papers and panels that explore monuments in the broadest sense of the word—those from as well as those about the nineteenth century. We also welcome papers that consider the concepts of monumentality and/or memory as they pertain to humanistic disciplines and engage with nineteenth-century studies. Papers might nominate “monuments” (including scholarly ones) that are overvalued, under-appreciated, or ripe for dismantling; explore works, genres, or forms that encourage remembering; analyze nineteenth-century representations of or discourses about memory or monuments; consider the value of ephemera or the contested return to big ideas via digital means that outstrip human memory and cognition. Other topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Public monuments

Antiques, relics, and ruins

Monumental texts, paintings, musical compositions

Monuments of conquest and empire

Museums and museum studies

Archives, records and record-keeping

Monuments, mass production and mass consumption

Countermonumentality and antimonumentality

Post-historicist and presentist approaches to the past

Canons and countercanons

Crafting a national history

Crafting global histories

Grands récits and the longue durée

(Monumentally) big ideas

Gaps, silences, and the historical record

Amnesia and repression

Trauma, memory, and forgetting

History painting and the formation of identities

Commemorative music

Pageants, anniversary celebrations, and local histories

People, places, and things remembered and forgotten

Ephemera

Postcards, celebrity photography, and souvenirs

Personal mementos (souvenirs, gift books)

Memory and 19th-century mourning traditions

Nostalgia and cultural myth making

The invention of tradition

Folk art, folk tales, and folk lore

Bodily mementos (tattoos, hair jewelry)

Monuments, gender, and/or sexuality

Memory and aesthetic form

Historical novels

The pastoral

Elegies, tributes, encomiums

Ekphrasis

Victorian medievalism, Victorian neo-classicism

Neo-Victorianism/steampunk as cultural memory

Pre-Raphaelitism

Tableaux vivants

Memorization and repetition

Deadline: November 17, 2018. For individual papers, send 250-word proposals; for panels, send individual proposals plus a 250-word panel description. Please include a one-page CV with your name, affiliation, and email address. Proposals that are interdisciplinary in method or panels that involve multiple disciplines are especially welcome. Upload to web page portal https://blog.smu.edu/incs2019/submit-paper/. Send inquiries to INCS2019@smu.edu). For graduate student travel subventions, contact Shalyn Claggett (src173@msstate.edu). Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies

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Posted on Wed, October 31st, 2018
Expires on Sat, November 17th, 2018

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