INCS
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
NINETEENTH-CENTURY CREATIVITY
6 - 9 JULY 2006
The University of Durham, UK
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Music
School of Music
St Chad’s College
Call for Papers
Paper or panel proposals are invited on any aspect of creativity in the long nineteenth-century.
INCS is an association of scholars working in history, gender studies, the arts, anthropology, science, philosophy, literature and other disciplines devoted to the interdisciplinary exploration of nineteenth-century culture and its relation to our contemporary world.
KEYNOTES will be announced in due course.
The conference will aim to continue its broad and inclusive tradition of accepting individual papers and panels from all ranges of scholarly work in the area of the long nineteenth century music. The programme committee encourages submission within the following areas, although other topics are welcome:
- Ideology and Culture
- Gender and Sexuality
- Texts: Histories, Journalism, Criticism
- Institutions and Their Impact
- The Plastic Arts: Design and Dissemination
- Centre and Periphery: Regional, National and International Identities
- Teaching and Learning
- Critical Theory, Analysis and Hermeneutics
- Performance Practice and Theory
- Sacred and Profane: Genres, Ideology, Contexts
- Western Portrayals of the East; Eastern Portrayals of the West
- Interdisciplinarity
- Creating Identities
- Representation and metaphor
- Imitation and Expression
Discussions and paper presentations will be in English.
Sessions at the conference are devoted to discussion following 5-7 minute presentations. Complete papers are available in advance at the password protected section of the conference website, currently under construction.
Longer versions of INCS papers are regularly published in the affiliated journal, Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
For individual proposals please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words. For sessions and panels please submit a single abstract of 750 words, indicating the number and title of individual papers with a short abstract on each. All proposals should be submitted by email no later than 1 November 2005 to Bennett Zon (e-mail address provided below). The committee will make final decision on abstracts by December 2005, and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter. A conference website will be available in due course, and further information will be posted on all relevant web discussion lists.
For more information, please contact Bennett Zon, or any member of the conference committee as indicated below:
Bennett Zon Bennett.Zon@durham.ac.uk
Ian Bradley icb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze catherine.dousteyssier@durham.ac.uk
James Good j.m.m.good@durham.ac.uk
Greg Kucich Gregory.P.Kucich.1@nd.edu
Elsie Michie enmich@lsu.edu
Philip Olleson Philip.Olleson@nottingham.ac.uk
Michael O'Neill m.s.o'neill@durham.ac.uk
Stephen Regan stephen.regan@durham.ac.uk
Derek Scott d.scott@salford.ac.uk
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