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Melville and the Mediterranean, Jerusalem, 17-21 2009
| Location: | Israel |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-06-17 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-07-25 |
| Announcement ID: |
163319 |
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Melville and the Mediterranean
Old City Jerusalem / 17-21 June 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS:
This conference is devoted to understanding the place of the Mediterranean and the “Holy Land” in Western consciousness. Using Melville’s epic /Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land/ as one focus, the conference is meant to open up discussions related to travel, literature, other humanities and the sciences, aesthetics, anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, and religion.
Sponsored by The Melville Society
With participation by ASTENE (Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East) and support from the English and literature departments of MIT, Stanford, and Yale
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
THOMAS L. THOMPSON, University of Copenhagen; author of /The Mythic Past /(/The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past/)
AMY KAPLAN, University of Pennsylvania; author of /The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture/
Papers and panels are welcome on a range of international writing about the region, including but not limited to the following:
*/Clarel/ as a major work of travel in the 19th century and today; its qualities and challenges; relation to political, historical, religious, mythological, scientific, ethnographic, and philosophical views; iconography and aesthetics; resurgence and necessity in the canon
*Meaning of the Eastern Mediterranean (Levant) region, its position as a basin of culture, civilization, and mythology; the significance of its landscape and life to larger existential issues, in works by Melville and various writers, in different periods
*Interest, comparatively, in other parts of the Mediterranean region
*Connections between Melville and other writers and artists (e.g., Goethe, Humboldt, Piranesi, Kinglake, Poe, Hawthorne, Twain); connections to contemporaneous and later American, British, French, German, Italian, Persian, or other Eastern influences, and philosophies
*Works encouraging study and translation of Melville in the region; alternative research and outlooks; translation and international context of Melville's works; Melville's poetry and poetics
*1876: U.S. Centennial, publication of /Clarel/, and other publications and events in that year
*Theorizing on topics such as travel writing, Orientalism, postcolonial theory,race and ethnicity, applied to Melville or others
Appropriately, the activities of this world conference will be centered in international venues in the Old City of Jerusalem and its vicinity, and will offer opportunities for touring the region.
The conference organizers welcome various perspectives and session formats. Send one-to-two page proposals for papers, roundtable discussions, and panels by 1 September, 2008 to the email addresses of the conference co-chairs:
BASEM RA’AD basem48@yahoo.com
HILTON OBENZINGER obenzinger@stanford.edu
and
TIM MARR marr@email.unc.edu
See conference flyer at
http://people.hofstra.edu/John_l_Bryant/Melville/
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