Nineteenth-Century Knowledges:
17th Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century
Studies Conference
11 - 14 April, 2002
George Mason University,
Fairfax,
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 incs@gmu.edu. 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: http://www.cas.gmu.edu/incs.
Email: incs@gmu.edu
Call for Papers website: http://cas.gmu.edu/incs