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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Date sent: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:06:14 -0500
From: Melissa Wiedenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference,
Virginia (Apr 11-14, 2002)
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Subject: CFP: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference,
Virginia (Apr 11-14, 2002)
Nineteenth-Century Knowledges: 17th Annual Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
Location: Virginia, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-10-14
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Call for Papers website:
http://cas.gmu.edu/incs
This announcement was submitted via the H-Net Announcements Website.
Find it at: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=127732
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
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