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‘Representations of Modernity 1850-1960’
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2013-07-01 |
| Date Submitted: |
2013-03-14 |
| Announcement ID: |
202245 |
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Call for Papers
‘Representations of Modernity 1850-1960’: A Conference for South West Postgraduates
Plymouth University |Saturday 2nd November 2013
This is a one-day all-inclusive interdisciplinary conference that appreciates and considers Modernity as a broad set of historical conditions, obtaining differently in various times and places. Intended for Postgraduate taught and research students from the disciplines of Literature, History, Art History, Architecture and Cultural Studies from within the Higher Education institutions in the South West, it aims to present ideas on and discuss the significance and impact of the complex nature of Modernity; to consider its multiple facets, and how it is represented through various artistic and cultural mediums.
We invite proposals for papers considering the following topics:
New City/New Tourism
The Self
Industry and Industrialization
Warfare
Urbanization and Suburbanization
Trauma and Narration
Nature; the Rural
Modernism
Conceptualisations of Space
The Avant-garde
Technology
Marginality; the Periphery
The Body and Machine
Bohemianism
Material and Visual Cultures
Revivalism
Corporate Capitalism
Gender and Sexuality
Mass Culture
The Home; Family
Class
Cinema
Rising Mobility and Communication
Sports; Recreation
Diversity of Societies
Empire
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please email abstracts of 250 words maximum and a brief biographical note to RoMPUenquiries@gmail.com by no later than 1st July 2013. Please note: we seek papers of no more than twenty minutes in length. Submission of an abstract signals an intention to attend the conference and that absentee papers will not be permitted.Accepted conference papers for presentation will receive a waved conference fee. Refreshments and a buffet lunch will be provided. The keynote speaker for the event is Dr Daniel Katz (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University).
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