INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
and George Mason University present:
Nineteenth-Century Knowledges
INCS 17th Annual Conference
April 11-14, 2002
George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia
Keynote Speaker: George Levine
Kenneth Burke Professor of English, Rutgers University; books include Darwin and the Novelists, One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature, and Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature, and Culture.
Paper or panel proposals are invited on any aspect of the politics of nineteenth century knowledge, including information, education, taste, disciplinarity, and science. Possible proposal topics might include but are not limited to:
Pedagogies in/of the nineteenth century
Canons and canon formation
Teaching and teachers
Professionalizing information
Constructions of disciplines and disciplinarity
The knowledge industry
Gender and knowledge
The politics of scientific knowledge
Education and ideology
Constructions of taste
Idea(l)s of the university
Museums, exhibits, and exhibitions
The politics of literacy: race, gender, class
The grand tour
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 14, 2001 to incs@gmu.edu. Notification of acceptance will be mailed electronically in December. Presenters must be members of INCS, an international group of scholars dedicated to interdisciplinary discussion and research. Sessions at the conference are devoted to discussion following 5-7 minute presentations. Complete papers are available in advance at the conference's password-protected website: www.cas.gmu.edu/incs.
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