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Romanticism and Responsibility Conference: Call for Papers
| Location: | Cyprus |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-05-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-03-02 |
| Announcement ID: |
174536 |
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Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and its Colonies 1770s-1830s
3-4 September 2010, University of Cyprus
Confirmed Speakers: Pamela Clemit, Paul Hamilton, Cora Kaplan, Laurence Lockridge, Nicholas Roe
Art exhibition and poetry reading by Marcia Scanlon
Call for Papers
This conference seeks to explore and interrogate the ways in which Romanticism was a universal call to responsibility, in itself revolutionary. The sense (and senses) of responsibility impelled one to action and gave value and significance to action. Action itself took many different forms and was expressed not only through the physical dynamics of movements and mobilisations but equally through writing, such as, but not limited to, poetry, fiction and journalism, and the arts (especially music and painting). Debates and actions posed the question of individual responsibility towards oneself, individual others, the community, but also the collective responsibility of a community, nation, sex or race, and either individual or collective responsibility towards more abstract notions, such as the nation and history, or non-human others, such as animals, nature and the environment in general.
Suggested list of topics (not exhaustive):
ethics and responsibility;
the individual as responsible agent ;
education and judgment;
response-ability and the ethics of responsiveness;
the other, compassion and cosmopolitanism;
the transformation of self and world;
literature, the arts and civic responsibility;
politics of Romantic travel;
responsibility and freedom;
cosmopolitan idealism and responsibility;
theory and practice of responsibility in individual Romantics;
the responsibility of the community;
truth as responsibility;
the responsibility of taking sides in the debate:
revolution versus social order;
vindications and indictments;
the responsibility to criticise;
the responsibility to and of women, children, the colonised, labourers and the enslaved;
who is responsible for violence / is violence responsible?;
responsibility and arbitrary power;
the power of responsibility and responsibility as empowerment;
the limits of responsibility.
Proposals for both individual papers and panels are welcome.
Please send an abstract of 200 words to evyvarsa@ucy.ac.cy by 31 May 2010.
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