WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY IN THE UNITED STATES
Newsletter  January 2003
EVENTS AND NEWS OF INTEREST
MORRIS
AND BURNE-JONES ÆNEID MANUSCRIPT FAILS TO SELL
What
has been called “the most important Victorian illuminated manuscript to ever
appear at auction” was slated to be auctioned by Christie’s in London on
November 27, 2002. The Æneid, originally
intended by Morris to be a hand-written translation of Virgil’s twelve books,
with each book introduced by a half-page, full color illustration, the text written
in gold, and surrounded by his trademark scrolling borders. The project was never finished, in part
because Morris came to the realization that his drawing talents were unequal
to the task of recopying Burne-Jones’ illustrations. In 1890, Charles Fairfax Murray purchased
the unfinished manuscript as a favor to Morris.
Composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber, an avid collector of
Victorian manuscripts, purchased the 1875 masterpiece in 1989. Although he has referred to the manuscript
as “one of the jewels of my collection”, Lloyd-Webber ultimately came to
believe that he was unable to display the work as it deserved and decided to
sell it. The manuscript was valued at
£1.5 million. However, despite “great
interest” in the manuscript, it failed to reach its reserve price and did not
sell.
MORRIS
SOCIETY SESSIONS AT THE MLA 2003 ANNUAL CONVENTION
The MLA annual convention will be held in San
Diego, CA, December 27-30, 2003. The
William Morris Society will be sponsoring two sessions on the following
topics:
q
“The Visual Imagination: Pre-Raphaelite
Texts and Art”. Topics may include
areas such as Artistic contexts for poetry; Pre-Raphaelite illustrations;
cultural artifacts; poems and visual images; associated poems and paintings.
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“A Vision or a Dream? Morris's Politics in
the 21st Century”. Topics may include
political and social themes in Morris's writings; utopianism, ecology,
socialism, internationalism, the "beauty of life"
As always, the Society encourages participation by
younger members and by those outside the profession of teaching literature
and language. Please be aware that presentations are limited to 15 minutes
and that this time limit will be enforced. Speakers at the MLA annual
convention must be members of the Modern Language Association as of 1 April
2003, unless we can obtain a membership waiver--available for those who are
not in the profession of language or literature.
Deadline: March 15, 2003
For more information, or to submit a proposal,
please contact:
Florence
Boos
Department
of English
University
of Iowa
Iowa
City, Iowa 52242
E-mail:
florence-boos@uiowa.edu
JOINT LECTURE ON “THE NEW DIGITAL ‘MONTICELLO’ TYPE:
HISTORY AND IMPRESSIONS”.
A joint lecture by Matthew Carter and Charles
Creesy will be held at the Grolier Club, Tuesday February 25, 2003, 6pm. The event is co-sponsored by The Grolier
Club, the Society of Typographic Aficionados, and the Type Directors
Club.
Matthew Carter and
Charles Creesy will speak about the new digital "Monticello"
typeface. This typeface can claim a lineage stretching back to Thomas
Jefferson and America’s first type foundry, Binny & Ronaldson. Originally commissioned by Princeton
University Press for the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, “Monticello” represented
the desire of editor Julian Boyd and the Press to present modern documentary
editing in historically allusive typography. Princeton University Press's
Charles Creesy will talk about
Binny & Ronaldson, their relations with Thomas Jefferson and how their
1797 type inspired the 1950 linotype face “Monticello.” Type designer Matthew
Carter will build on this history to discuss his 21st Century digital version
of this distinctively American typeface.
Attendees will receive a
keepsake, the first showing of Carter’s new digital "Monticello," courtesy
of Princeton University Press.
Matthew Carter, a type
designer with more than forty years’ experience of typographic technologies
ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts, has designed ITC Galliard,
Bell Centennial (for U.S. telephone directories), Mantinia, Big Caslon,
Miller, and the screen fonts Verdana and Georgia. The recipient of numerous
awards, including the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the Type
Directors Club Medal, and the AIGA Medal, Carter is a principal of Carter &
Cone Type, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Charles Creesy, Director
of Computing and Publishing Technologies at Princeton University Press, was
honored by the Association of American University Presses in 1996 for his
efforts to help publishers adopt digital technologies. Creesy became
interested in fonts while setting headlines by hand for Princeton’s student
newspaper in the 1960s, a skill he later applied to editing a magazine for
the Peace Corps in Ecuador. Upon his return to the U.S., he worked for the
New Leader in New York and became editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly,
which made the transition from hot-metal composition to computers during his
tenure from 1975 to 1988. His article about the creation of the original
Linotype “Monticello” and the new revival by Matthew Carter will appear in
the Princeton University Library Chronicle.
This presentation is
part of APHA's "On the Road" series of events in 2002-2003, held
across the United States. It is co-sponsored by The Grolier Club, the
Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA), and the Type Directors Club.
Free and open to the
public. Reservations are not required but seating is available on a first
come-first served basis.
The
Grolier Club is located at: 47
East 60th Street, New York, N.Y.
BOOK REVIEWS
Coupe, Robert L. M. Illustrated Editions of the Works of
William Morris in English: A Descriptive
Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. ISBN: 1-58456-079-7. Cloth, $35.95.
William Morris is one of the
few figures from the past that nearly universally inspires admiration and
even passionate devotion. In Illustrated
Editions of the Works of William Morris in English we see another of many
“labors of love” devoted to some aspect of Morris’s life and work, this one
by Morris Society life member Robert Coupe.
This recent addition to the impressive Oak Knoll catalogue seeks to
fill a gap in Morris bibliographical scholarship by cataloging only the
illustrated editions of his works. As
Coupe notes, there have been several specialized bibliographies published in
recent years, including William Peterson’s fine catalogue of Kelmscott Press
books. Coupe concentrates on the
editions of Morris’s writings illustrated by other artists, which is an
interesting point of departure: there are a few Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood
members here, but the majority are other artists who illustrated Morris’s
books after his death. Coupe has
relied on his own personal library as well as major American and British
libraries to cull his list of editions, in order to assure it is as
comprehensive as possible.
What emerges is a book that is
both useful and beautiful. The brief
introduction recounts the general chronology of Morris’s life and development
as artist and craftsman. It also
places Morris’s writings into a distinct and revealing context by looking
“primarily at the response which Morris’s writing elicited from the artists
who illustrated his works” (15-16).
Because Morris was a very visually oriented creator—in his writing as
well as his other projects—it becomes especially interesting to note the ways
other artists interpreted his written words.
One of the hallmarks of his writing is its very tangibility, whether
it is thyme-scented hills or gray-eyed heroines. Morris’s writing, for all of its dreamy unreality, impacts the
senses. One feels that Morris had a
clear and vivid picture in his mind of the places and people he
described. Poems like “The Defence of
Guenevere,” for instance, have a nearly cinematic immediacy to them. Therefore, illustrated editions of his
works reveal the translation from word-vision to artistic vision through the
medium of another human mind.
Coupe quite accurately notes
the general lack of scholarly interest in these editions as other authors
have mainly concentrated on either the influence Morris-as-writer had on
other writers or the influence of Morris-as-artist upon other artists. The crossing of boundaries to assess the
influence of Morris-as-writer upon artists is therefore fruitful and
relatively untouched ground.
Each chapter concentrates on a
particular work, beginning with Morris’s contributions to Oxford and
Cambridge Magazine and continuing through his major poems (Guenevere,
The Life and Death of Jason, Love is Enough, The Earthly
Paradise), Icelandic translations/creations (Sigurd the Volsung, Grettir
the Strong), Socialist writings (News from Nowhere, Art and
Socialism, A Dream of John Ball, The Pilgrims of Hope), and prose
fiction (The Wood beyond the World, The Well at the World’s End,
The Story of the Glittering Plain), as well as some lesser known works (Gossip
about an Old House, A Death Song for Alfred Linnell, The History of
Over Sea) and otherwise unclassifiable anthologies and “unique
copies.” The first page of each chapter
is attractively arranged with sidebars of Morris border patterns and each
entry separated by smaller squares of pattern. This not only makes for visual interest in keeping with
Morrisian principles but also quite simply makes for easier reading. Each chapter opens with a brief overview,
placing all of the illustrated editions of a particular title into
context. The entries themselves are
very detailed, including biographical information on each artist and a physical
description of the book itself. Where
an actual reproduction of the illustration was not available, the written
description could provide the researcher with enough detail to make an
informed decision on whether to locate the volume. Where illustrations were available, they have been reproduced
in large detail, taking up an entire page.
Very few are in the PRB style of either Burne-Jones or Rossetti,
demonstrating perhaps a conscious effort on the part of later artists to
break away and broaden the interpretation of Morris’s works What is
interesting to note here is that the illustrations often fail to accurately
depict the deep emotions of Morris’s words.
As with many illustrated histories of the mid-nineteenth century, the
illustrations are more decorative than interpretive, set pieces meant to give
the reader pause and respite from the task of reading. Coupe’s obvious relish for description
makes for delightful reading and is as entertaining as it is perceptive and
informative.
One small suggestion I would
venture to make is to keep all dates in Arabic numeral when introducing a new
book. However, this is a very minor
quibble (on the part of all who are Roman numeral challenged) about a book
that fills an important place in both Morris studies and the history of the
book.
Arata, Stephen, ed., News
from Nowhere. By William
Morris. Peterborough, Ontario:
Broadview Press, 2003. ISBN:
1-55111-267-1. Paper, $12.95.
As we settle into the 21st century, the
century to which Guest is transported in News from Nowhere, Stephen
Arata brings Morris’s tale into the here and now, reminding us that, above
all, Morris’s novel is a “seduction” of the senses. This astute and long overdue reappraisal provides the scholar
with a lucid overview and a wealth of contextual information. Arata places Morris’s ideas into
historical and biographical context, revealing a new depth to issues raised
in this straightforward novel: Morris’s very individual definition of
socialism, his progressive but limited feminism, and his emphasis on the
importance of the study of the past.
Arata in particular emphasizes
Morris’s own disillusion with the divisions within the Socialist groups of
his time and News from Nowthere’s importance as a novel expressing his
own personal ideal of a true socialist society, one unfettered by political
divisiveness in the name of power.
This is crucial to an understanding of the novel, as it was Morris’s
attempt to enlighten his generally dismissive—if not outright hostile—society
to the benefits of socialism to humanity.
For Morris, as Arata quite rightly asserts, socialism was never about
politics, but was instead the fulfillment of true human progress, an organic
social state he believed Europe nearly reached in the 14th
century, but which was overtaken and extinguished by capitalism and the rise
of modernist political notions and nationalism. In order to “seduce” rather than “persuade” Morris attempts to
create a tangible Socialist world. In
Arata’s words, “how would it feel to live there?” This brings to light not only one of the
hallmarks of all of Morris’s creative endeavors, but the heart of News
from Nowhere itself: the sheer tangibility of his vision. “The appeal of the world Morris creates in
News from Nowhere is sensual: a matter of touch, taste, scent,
desire. It is a world filled with
yearning, but yearning that knows the possibility of fulfillment” (22-23).
In order to broaden this
connection between Morris’s vision and his underlying philosophy, Arata has
included in his appendices some seminal writings of Morris’s on the subjects
of art, socialism and society. He has
also placed Morris into ideological context by including works by other 19th
century writers like Ruskin, Marx, and Kropotkin, all of whom had a direct
influence on Morris’s development as a socialist. There are also accounts of Bloody Sunday, reviews of News
from Nowhere, and other writings on “Revolution and Reform.” A particularly nice touch in the inclusion
of excerpts from other Utopian or dystopian works by More, Jeffries, and
Butler, as well as some perhaps lesser known authors like Florence Dixie and
Jane Hume Clapperton.
All in
all, this is a most welcome addition to Morris scholarship and an excellent
resource for beginning and seasoned students alike. It reminds us of the timelessness of both Morris’s dream vision
and of human nature itself.
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
THE
WOLFSONIAN-FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY is
seeking applications for its 2003-2005 fellowships. The fellowship program, which was established in 1993 to
promote the museum’s collections, is intended to support full-time research
over a period of several weeks at the museum. A list of prior fellowship projects is available on the web at:
http://www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu/education/research/index.html
The
fellowship includes a stipend for living expenses, round-trip travel and an
allowance for reproductions. For more
information, contact:
Academic Programs
Coordinator
Phone: (305) 535-2613
E-mail:
research@thewolf.fiu.edu
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
VICTORIAN
LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Submissions are sought
by guest editors Angelique Richardson and Regenia Gagnier for a special issue
on the topic of “Boundaries”.
Deadline:
None noted
For more information,
please contact the editors:
Angelique
Richardson
E-mail:
A.Richardson@exeter.ac.uk
Regenia
Gagnier
E-mail: R.Gagnier@exeter.ac.uk
GREEN
LETTERS, the bi-annual Journal of the Association for the Study of
Literature and the Environment, focuses on contemporary concerns in
ecocriticism, environmental literature, and place studies. The editors solicit submissions of
scholarly essays, creative nonfiction, book reviews and poetry for the Spring
2003 edition of the journal.
Deadline:
February 1, 2003
Contributions on a
variety of topics can be made via e-mail with an attachment in MS Word. Essays should be limited to 5000 words and
should be accompanied by a 250 word abstract.
Send
submissions to:
David
Ingram
E-Mail: david.ingram@brunel.ac.uk
For more information,
contact:
Leslie
Van Gelder
leslievg@btopenworld.com
VICTORIAN “FREAKS”: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
“The
Nineteenth-Century is noted for its strict notions of the normative and its
anxieties about difference. ‘Freaks’ and various kinds of freak shows
proliferated in this climate. Not only is freakishness associated with
what seems odd or fanciful, but also with a ‘turn of the mind,’ rebellion, or
critique. This collection aims to explore various disruptions caused by
or
creating ‘freakishness’ as it relates to social
issues and social change”.
Submissions of 200-400
words are invited, exploring the intersections between freakishness and the
discourses of gender, race, class, sexuality, empire, to name a few.
Topics include, but are not limited to: freak shows; poverty and
freakishness; imperialism and freakishness; race and freakishness; gender
and/or sexual anomolies; drug freaks; disability and freakishness; vampirism
and other horrors; theories of freakish pregnancy or birth; monstrosity;
religious freaks; danger and freaks (ie. "Jack the Ripper");
psychoanalysis and mental freakishness; sexual "perversion";
transgendering; medicalization; violence and "freaks"; freak
accidents; enthusiasts (ie. "camera freaks"); freak or sensational
journalism; criminalization
Deadline:
May 15, 2003
For
more information or to submit a proposal, contact:
Dr.
Marlene Tromp
Women's
Studies and English
Dension
University
Granville,
OH 43023
(740)
587-6536
E-mail: tromp@denison.edu or
STYLE.
The editors of the journal, which
publishes studies in stylistics, literary theory, and literary Criticism,
announce a call for papers for a general issue: Volume 38, Number 1. The editors invite submissions that
“address questions of style, stylistics, and poetics, including research and
theory in discourse analysis, literary and nonliterary genres, narrative,
figuration, metrics, rhetorical analysis, and the pedagogy of style.
Contributions may draw from such fields as literary criticism, critical
theory, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, philosophy of
language, and rhetoric and writing studies.”
Major articles should be 5,000 to
9,000 words (count includes notes and works cited). Submit three paper copies (surface mail) and one identical
electronic copy in Word or Wordperfect (via email or disk), accompanied by a
100-word abstract and following the MLA's conventions for documentation.
Deadline: June 15, 2003
Submissions or correspondence
concerning submissions should be addressed to:
Donald
E. Hardy
Department
of English
Northern
Illinois University
DeKalb,
IL 60116-2854
E-mail: dhardy@niu.edu
CONFERENCES
THE CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO announces an interdisciplinary conference,
“Perceptions of the Past / Visions of the Future”, February 22, 2003.
Papers will explore the
ways in which the medieval world viewed both past and future and related it
to their present.
For more information, please
contact:
Centre
for Medieval Studies
University
of Toronto
39
Queen's Park Crescent East
Toronto
ON, Canada, M5S 2C3
fax:
(416) 971 - 1398
email:
medieval@chass.utoronto.ca
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
STUDIES ASSOCIATION, 23RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE, will
be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 6-8, 2003. The conference theme will be “Feasts and Famine”.
For more information,
contact:
Dr.
Marilyn Kurata
Dept.
of English
University
of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham,
AL 35294-1260
E-mail:
mkurata@uab.edu
Dr.
Elizabeth Winston
Dept.
of English
The
University of Tampa
Tampa,
FL 33606-1490
E-mail:
ewinston@ut.edu
THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC
CONFERNENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES (MACBS), 2003 ANNUAL MEETING,
will be held at the Rutgers University Conference Center, March 21-22, 2003.
Professor Lynn Hollen Lees of The University of Pennsylvania will give the
plenary address.
For more information, please
contact the program co-chairs:
Professor G.
Robb
William
Paterson University
Department
of History
300
Pompton Road
Atrium
Building
Wayne,
NJ 07470
E-mail: robbg@wpunj.edu
Professor
A. Bellany
Rutgers
University
Department
of History
16
Seminary Place
New
Brunswick, NJ 08901-1108
E-mail: bellany@rci.rutgers.edu
THE
PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES, ANNUAL MEETING, will be held
at California State University, Sonoma, April 4-6, 2003.
For more information, please contact:
Joseph
Block,
President
PCCBS
Liberal
Studies Department
Cal
Poly, Pomona
3801
W. Temple Ave.,
Pomona,
CA 91768.
E-mail: Jblock@csupomona.edu.
THE NORTHEAST VICTORIAN
STUDIES ASSOCIATION (NVSA), 29TH
ANNUAL MEETING, will be held at MIT, Boston, MA, April 4-6, 2003.
The theme of the conference, in
honor of its setting, will be “Technologies and Media in the Nineteenth
Century”. Topics may include: New
Media and the Changes to Older Ones; Technology in Literature and the Arts; Space
and Transportation; Technologies of Mind and Body; and, Resistances to
Technology and New Consequences.
More information can be obtained
from the NVSA list (NVSA-L) on e-mail, and at the NVSA Home Page on the World
Wide Web (http://www.nvsa.org).
The Web site offers items of interest to NVSA members. NVSA-L is a
place to summarize and share conference activities and logistics, and to
conduct NVSA business.
To subscribe, send a
message to ListProc@utm.edu. Leave the subject line blank; on the
message line write SUB-NVSA-L, your first and last name.
THE MIDWEST VICTORIAN
STUDIES ASSOCIATION, 27TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, will
be held at the Seneca Hotel in Chicago, April 11-12, 2003.
The conference theme will be
“Victorian Transformations”. Possible
topics include: transformations, conversions, metamorphoses, refashionings,
shifts and alterations whether personal, political, literary, or artistic;
Victorian adaptations and influences; transformations that affected
Victorians’ world view--or our view of Victorians; transforming developments
in science, medicine, or psychology; sea changes in social
ideologies; reversals and advances.
For more information, please
contact:
Dr.
Anne M. Windholz
MVSA
Executive Secretary
P.O.
Box 571
DeKalb,
IL 60115
E-mail:
amcwind@msn.com
THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF THE
BOOK, will be held in Cairns, Australia, April 22-24, 2003.
“As an information architecture, the book is now 550 years old - if
one dates its history from Gutenberg's invention. Or much older if one dates
it from the Chinese invention of moveable type, or the codex, or even the
beginning of writing on transportable media. But what is the book's future,
as a creature of and conduit for human invention? Do the new media (the
Internet, multimedia texts and new delivery formats) represent a threat or an
opportunity?”
Papers are invited for submission, with
conference proceedings to be published in both print and electronic formats.
If you are unable to attend the conference, virtual registrations are also
available allowing access to the electronic versions of the conference
proceedings, as well as virtual presentations which mean that your paper can
be included in the refereeing process and published with the conference
proceedings. 30 minute and 60 minute sessions are also available for
presentations of initiatives by practitioners in the book industry.
Deadline: February 1, 2003.
For more
information, please visit the website:
http://www.Book-Conference.com
THE ANNUAL VICTORIAN
LITERATURE AND CULTURE CONFERENCE,
hosted by the Department of Humanities at University College Worcester, will
be held April 26, 2003. The theme of
the one-day conference will be “Victorian Sexualities”.
“Victorian scholars have
long been aware that sexuality in the Victorian period was performed,
practiced and identified in many different ways and by many different
individuals and groups. Already a great deal of interesting work has been
produced, for example, on female sexuality and sexualities at the fin de
siecle. There have been fewer
contributions to our understanding of, say, masculine sexualities or
sexuality in the early Victorian period.
This conference seeks to explore Victorian Sexualities in all their
varieties: masculinity, femininity, heterosexuality, homosexuality,
adolescence, childhood development, sex and race, sex and
power, sexuality and the law, sexuality and class,
marriage courtship, conjugal rights, the lady, the gentleman, the femme
fatale, the dandy, sexual pathology,
sex crime, sexual selection, eroticism, art and photography. By investigating these and other topics
related to Victorian
sexualities the conference will provide an
interdisciplinary space where scholars working on a variety of Victorian
subjects and in different academic disciplines can share their interests and
expertise.”
Abstracts
of no more than 300 words are invited by email (please keep the abstract in
the body of the message. No
attachments).
Deadline: January 31, 2003
Send your proposals to:
Dr
Richard Pearson
E-mail: r.pearson@worc.ac.uk
Dr
Martin Willis
E-Mail: m.willis@worc.ac.uk
2003 CONGRESS OF THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES will be hosted by
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 28-31. The theme of the congress will be
“Conflict and Cooperation”.
For more information, please
contact:
Rohan
Maitzen
Department
of English
Dalhousie
University
6135
University Avenue
Halifax,
Nova Scotia
B3H 4P9
E-mail: Rohan.Maitzen@Dal.Ca
THE SCIENCE FICTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 34TH
CONFERENCE will be held June 26-29, 2003 at the University of
Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The
conference theme this year will be “Speculating Histories: Remembering
Yesterday, Experiencing Today, Predicting Tomorrow”. The plenary speaker will be Farah
Mendlesohn and the guest of honor will be Geoff Ryman, (The Warrior Who
Carried Life, The Child Garden, Was, 253, and Lust).
Other guests include Candas Jane Dorsey, Phyllis Gotlieb, Nalo Hopkinson, Robert
J. Sawyer, Karl Schroeder, and Peter Watts.
“The focus of SFRA 2003
is on the intersections between history and speculative fiction. Speculating
on the themes and events of history past, present, and future, and on
theories about that history, is what authors of science fiction and fantasy
do when they write in the genre;
speculating on the continuing evolution of the
genre and its impact on society is the task of scholars who study and teach
it. Writing, reading, studying, and teaching speculative fiction provides a
way of looking at where we've been, where we are, and where we're going”.
Proposals
for 20 minute papers or panels are welcomed.
Suggested topics include Cosmologies and Eschatologies and Everything
In-Between; (D)Evolution in SF; Origins of the Genre; Forebears of SF:
Shelley, Wells, Verne, et al.; Frankenstein's Monster: Ancestors and
Descendants; the Golden Age of SF; Space Opera and American History; Pioneers
in Space; SF and War; Films Look at SF: the Fifties and Beyond; Generation
Starships; Historical Fantasy/
Fantastical History; What If?: Alternate Histories; Tales of Many Cities:
Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and Urban Fantasy; Futures Near and Far; Time Travel;
The Decline and Fall of Galactic
Empires; Intersecting Genres: Science Fantasy; Changing Paradigms of
Race and Gender; the History of SF Scholarship; Theories of History/History
of Theories; The SFRA, Past, Present, and Future. Papers on any of the guest
writers are also most welcome, as are papers on any
other aspect of science fiction.
Deadline: March 31, 2003
Electronic
submissions are encouraged; however, submissions should be copied and pasted,
not attached. Please send abstracts
of about a brief paragraph in length, including paper title and contact
information for the presenter, to:
Christine
Mains
Department
of English
University
of Calgary
Calgary, AB
Canada T2N 1N4
E-mail: cemains@shaw.ca
Douglas
Barbour
Department
of English
University
of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Canada T6G 0B9
E-mail: doug.barbour@ualberta.ca
INTERDISCIPLINARY
NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES (INCS) in conjunction with the
London Centre of the University of Notre Dame, will host an interdisciplinary
conference in London, at the Centre, Trafalgar Square, July 10-12, 2003.
The conference theme is “Nineteenth-Century
Worlds: Local/Global”. The Keynote Speaker will be Jane Rendall, Department
of History, University of York.
More details can be
found on the conference website:
http://www.nd.edu/~incs
THE WHISTLER CENTENARY
CONFERENCE will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, September 3-6,
2003. To mark the centenary of James
McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) the University of Glasgow will have a festival
of exhibitions and other public events.
To celebrate the occasion, as well as the electronic publication of Whistler’s
correspondence, the Centre for Whistler studies is hosting an international
conference.
For more information, visit the website at:
http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk
THE RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR
VICTORIAN PERIODICALS (RSVP), IN CONJUNCTION WITH
THE VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CANADA (VSAWC), 2003 ANNUAL
CONFERENCE, will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 19-20,
2003. The conference theme will be
“The Victorian Periodical Press : Texts and Contexts”.
Anyone interested in
publishing history and the 19th century periodicals press, as well
as any aspect of the Victorian world are invited to participate.
Proposals
for 20 minute papers are solicited for the conference.
Deadline: January 31 2003
(postmark)
Send abstracts of no
more than two double-spaced pages via mail, fax, or e-mail to:
Professor
Christopher Kent
Department
of History
University
of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon,
SK, Canada S7N 5A5
Fax:
306-966-5852
For more information
about local arrangements, please contact:
Merrill
Distad
Associate
Director
University
of Alberta Library
Cameron
5-02
Edmonton
AB
T6G
2J8
E-mail:
merrill.distad@ualberta.ca
Further details can be found at:
http://aztec.asu.edu/rsvp
THE VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN
CANADA (VSAWC), IN CONJUCTION WITH THE RESEARCH SOCIETY
FOR VICTORIAN PERIODICALS (RSVP), 2003 ANNUAL CONFERENCE, will be held at the
Vascona Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 19-20, 2003. The
conference theme will be “Reading the Nineteenth Century: Texts, Pasts, and
Interpretations”. The Keynote
Speakers will be George Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English, and
Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at
Rutgers University and Clare Midgley, Senior Lecturer in History, and
Director of the University's Research Centre for Gender Studies at the London
Guildhall University.
“The
conference organizers conceive of the theme in the broadest possible
terms. Submissions are welcome on, but not limited to, specific aspects
of the conference's theme, historical and literary, as well as theoretical
reflections on the key words of the conference's title.” Topics might include: evolution of history
/ history of evolution; reading different textual modes / genres;
interpretive communities; literary / social / political / intellectual movements;
imperial pasts and passings; material texts and contexts; determining the
past; ideas of periodicity; gender and history.
Abstracts
must be a maximum 250-300 words for 20 minute papers.
Deadling:
January 31, 2003 (postmark)
Send Abstracts and 2
page CV’s to:
Dr.
Arlene Young
Department
of English
University
of Winnipeg
Winnipeg,
Manitoba
R3T
5V5
Fax:
(204) 474-7669
E-mail:
adyoung@cc.umanitoba.ca
THE VICTORIAN
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES (VISAWUS),
8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, will be held in Austin, Texas, October
8-11, 2003. The theme for the
conference is “Victorian Legacies”.
The keynote speaker for the conference will be Martin Wiener, Mary
Gibbs Jones Professor of History at Rice University.
Proposals are solicited
for 20 minute papers or full panels (three papers) “addressing the full range
of legacies the Victorians left their inheritors: attitudes, music, an
educational system, political divisions in the colonized world, the class
system, an urge to travel, press standards etc. Papers may focus on the
Victorian end or the post-Victorian end of the legacy.”
Deadline: June 6, 2003
Paper proposals, a
maximum of the equivalent of two double-spaced pages, should be emailed to:
Prof.
George Griffith
E-mail:
Ggriffith@csc1.csc.edu
For more information, contact:
Kathryn
Ledbetter
E-mail: Kledbetter@swt.edu
THE NORTH AMERICAN
CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES, in conjunction with
the Northwest Conference on British Studies, 2003 ANNUAL MEETING, in
Portland, Oregon, October 24-26, 2003.
Plenary
speakers at the conference will be Jean Howard, Professor of English,
Columbia University and Thomas Laqueur, Professor of History, University of
California, Berkeley. Martin Wiener, Professor of History, Rice
University will also deliver his keynote address as
president of the NACBS.
The NACBS is soliciting proposals
for interdisciplinary panels concerning any element of Britain or the British
Empire. For consideration, proposals
should include FOUR COPIES of each of the following (a) completed Cover
Sheet, (b) a statement of the overall purpose and goals of the panel
(c) a 200-300 word abstract for each paper to be read and (d) a one or two
page curriculum vitae for ALL participants.
The Call for Papers, Cover Sheet, and Guidelines for Submission of
Proposals are located at:
http://www.nacbs.org
E-mailed or faxed
proposals will NOT be accepted.
Deadline: January 24, 2003.
Mail proposals and
direct inquiries to:
Seth
Koven
NACBS
Program Chair
Department
of History
Villanova
University
Villanova,
PA 19085-1699
Phone:
(610) 519-7792
Fax:
(610) 519-4450
E-Mail:
NACBS@villanova.edu
NACBS,
2003 ANNUAL MEETING, October 24-26, 2003.
A call for papers for a session on
“Touring Britishness: International display and domestic multiculturalism”
“on the significance of recent exhibitions of British art that have debuted
in Great Britain but subsequently travelled abroad. Indeed, as exhibitions of
British art circulate outward from Great Britain, what kinds of Britishness
do they seek to advance and constitute? What does the art afford the
various international venues in which it appears? In particular, we seek
papers that explore how to make sense of the fact that exhibitions of British
art traveling internationally elude questions of Britishness that so many
artists and scholars active today in Great Britain, in other words,
domestically, emphasize in relation to citizenship and ethnicity. For
example, ‘Exposed: The Victorian Nude’ debuted at Tate Gallery Britain
(2001), after which it traveled to Munich. Currently it can be seen at the
Brooklyn Museum, from where it will go on to Japan. In regard to the
exhibition itself and as the exhibition engages with the venues in which it
has and will appear, what does ‘Exposed’ reveal or suppress about recent
scholarship reframing British imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism, as
well as the conceit that ‘it is still the case that when people think of
Britain they instinctively think of white people, and believe that Britain
belongs to them’? (Bhikhu Parekh, ‘Changing What it Means to be British,’ The
Daily Telegraph, 18 October 2000) In that Britains ‘belong to different
religions and regions, and cherish their Scottish, Yorkshire, Welsh, Irish,
Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Protestant identities,’ to what extent -
internationally and/or domestically - does ‘Exposed’ ‘foster a common sense
of belonging among these groups [thus forging] a single national community
with a firm sense of collective purpose and identity’? (Parekh, 2000).”
Deadline: January 15,
2003
Abstracts
of no more than 300 words and cv’s (2 page limit) should be mailed to both:
Jennifer Way
E-mail: Jway@unt.edu
Sara-Jayne
Parsons
THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION (APHA)
2003 ANNUAL CONFERENCE will be held at the Golier Club, in New
York, on 24-25 October. This year, for the first time, a call for papers has
been issued on the subject of "New Work in Printing History."
Proposals are sought for 20 minute presentations on the history of printing
in all its forms, including all the arts and technologies relevant to
printing, the book arts, and letter forms. Papers are especially welcome from
those working in the area of American printing history, but the subject of
research has no geographical or chronological limitations, and may be
national or regional in scope, biographical, analytical, technical, or
bibliographical in nature. Especially welcome are papers which use new
methodologies of study or analysis and papers which rediscover forgotten or
neglected people, technologies, and styles.
Deadline: April 1, 2003
Submit proposals to:
Mark
Samuels Lasner,
VP
for Programs,
The
American Printing History Association
P.O.
Box 4519
Grand
Central Station
New
York, NY 10163-4519
E-mail:
marksl@udel.edu
For more information visit the APHA website: www.printinghistory.org
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