Call for Papers
We are no longer accepting paper submissions. Notifications regarding acceptance will be made by December 15, 2009. Thank you!
The nineteenth century was a period of imaginative innovation in the fields of aesthetics and literary production; it was also an era in which territorial expansion, market materialism, utopian reforms, urban cosmopolitanism, transnational exchanges, cultural amalgamations, and scientific innovations made American culture a "world elsewhere," less located in the imperatives of the past than open to the invention of new social, cultural, and political possibilities. As we begin a new century of American literary studies, scholars have begun to ask: What has become of the imagination in our studies of nineteenth-century America? How might the revaluation of the history and creative expressions of the imagination in America bring us to innovative methodologies for a new century?
We plan for "Imagining: A New Century" to be as imaginative in format as it is in content. To this end, we invite proposals in a variety of session formats—including but not limited to talks (individual papers and panels), roundtables, seminars, and working sessions—and from a range of perspectives, including but not limited to hemispheric studies; transnationalisms; aesthetics; new media and digital technologies; poetics; history of the book; critical race, ethnicity, and diaspora studies; urban studies; studies of affect; critical geography; gender and sexuality; border studies; ecology and the environment; sociology; visual culture; performance studies; democracy and citizenship; disability studies; oceanic studies; science studies; and theories of the archive.
Proposals for individual papers should not exceed 300 words. Group submissions should include a cover abstract of 250 words indicating the format, topic, participants, audiovisual needs, and contact person, as well as an abstract of no more than 200 words for each participant. Conference participants are limited to one appearance on the program in a substantive role (that is, as a presenter, roundtable participant, or respondent), and one appearance as a session chair.
Proposals are due by September 30, 2009. Notifications regarding acceptance will be made by December 15, 2009.
Individuals seeking potential collaborators for a panel or seminar may wish to use the discussion board on C19's Facebook page.
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