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Spaces of Work and Knowledge in The Long Eighteenth Century
Proposals due by 15 September 2012

Abstracts are invited for proposed submissions for publication in a forthcoming collection of essays based on the proceedings of the Spaces of Work 1770-1830 conference held at the University of Warwick April 2012. The publication will follow the broad themes of the conference, but is expanded to include articles focusing on any time within the Long Eighteenth Century, and beyond being focused on Britain to include all geographical locations. Further, the overall headings of ‘space’ and ‘work’ are to be examined in relation to forms of knowledge, broadly conceived.

We are particularly interested in interrogating under-analyzed types of work and space. For example, we hope to develop the theorization of types of work that critics have not conventionally understood as ‘work’ (the performance of music as practical activity, for instance). We also aim to bring attention to under-analysed spaces. For example, due to Romanticism’s traditionally rural focus, literary critics of this period have only recently begun to interrogate urban spaces; interdisciplinary discussion of urbanism in this period would therefore be particularly valuable.

In terms of knowledge, we are particularly interested in forms of knowledge often essentialized and therefore not understood as knowledge as such. The traditionally male knowledge of utilising a commanding voice and demeanour to assert a seemingly innate authority, for example; or the traditionally female knowledge of being able to correctly ascertain the freshness of produce. We aim to elucidate the complex nuances of the interfacing of work, space, and knowledge as three factors that fundamentally shape everyday life in order to gain a greater understanding of material life in the period.

Possible questions which articles might tackle could include:

·         How do workers and their work uniquely shape space?

·         How does space facilitate or hinder workers and their work?

·         How is knowledge acquired, employed, or altered by types of work and working locations?

·         How do the social relationships between workers and their supervisors/masters alter according to the work they are doing and the spaces in which they perform it? How does the knowledge encoded in levels of expertise affect the dynamic between supervisors and workers?

·         How is knowledge encoded in gender, race, and/or class across working space?

Possible approaches could include, but are not limited to: genteel work and the city; the work of acquiring the necessary knowledge for genteel status; work in spaces of ‘leisure’ and the forms of knowledge encoded therein; work, knowledge, and (sub)urban domestic spaces; gendered working knowledge in the home; space and female accomplishment and the forms of knowledge encoded; working knowledge in relation to emergent manufacturing/industrial spaces.

Pickering & Chatto have expressed an interest in publishing the collection. The exact word length may change, but we expect articles will be approximately 8000 words in length. Abstracts for proposed articles should be 500 words in length, and be submitted no later than 15 September 2012. Please send abstracts to spacesofwork@gmail.com

From the conference website:

Eastern Resonances 2: India and the Far East, 16th-18th Centuries
University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7), 5-7 December 2013

Proposals due by 31 October 2012

Contrary to the echo or the trace, which both imply an enduring, but fading prolongation of a presence, resonance suggests not only a continuation, but a reinforcement of a sound or image, provoked by a reflection on another surface. Taking from Stephen Greenblatt’s definition of resonance as the power of the object displayed to reach out beyond its formal boundaries to a larger world, to evoke in the viewer the complex, dynamic cultural forces from which it has emerged (“Resonance and Wonder,” in Learning to Curse, p. 170), this conference aims at studying the moves, shifts, transformations and translations through which the idea of the East resonated in Europe in general, and Britain in particular, from the early modern period to the romantic age.

Calling into question the adversarial nature of Orientalism as defined by Edward Said, our conference will address the deterritorializations and reterritorializations (to borrow the concepts developed by Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus) through which the East reshaped itself in the West through its many reflections and reverberations. Our focus will not just be on what was lost and what was gained along the routes of such recuperations, but we also wish to chart in greater detail the routes themselves, the people who crossed them and the motivations underpinning these attempts at reaching, understanding and picturing the East.

The first of our series of two conferences on Eastern Resonances, to be held at the University of Montpellier 3 (30 May-1 June 2013), will focus on the Ottoman Empire and Persia. We are now welcoming proposals for the second conference, on India and the Far East, to be held at the University of Paris Diderot, Paris 7 (5-7 December 2013). Suggested areas of reflection for this conference could include:
1) Texts and their circulation/translation: What were the Sanskrit, Chinese and other texts that resonated in the West in this period? Through what channels did manuscripts and books travel? Why and how did they reach Britain in adapted or translated forms?
2) Places and their memories: What did travellers look back to in historical and cultural terms as they embarked on their journeys to the East? What images did they bring back with them from their eastern encounters? How did these reverberate as literary and artistic artefacts at the receiving end of the journey?
3) Actors and intermediaries: Who went East or West, and why did they? Who were their interlocutors or mediators there? Why and how were contact zones created? On what terms was trust granted and collaborative research carried on?

For Eastern Resonances 2: India and the Far East, short proposals in English (250 words) and a brief biographical statement are to be sent by October 31, 2012 to the conference organisers:
-Dr Claire Gallien, University of Montpellier 3 claire.gallien@univ-montp3.fr
-Pr Jean-Marie Fournier, University of Paris 7 jean-marie.fournier@univ-paris-diderot.fr
-Pr Ladan Niayesh, University of Paris 7 niayesh@univ-paris-diderot.fr

Papers should be 30 minutes in length and may be presented either in French or in English. We intend to publish a selected number of papers from the two conferences in a volume of essays on the topic of Eastern Resonances.

Universite Paul Valery – Montpellier III
IRCL (UMR5186)
Site Saint-Charles
Rue Henri Serre
34000 Montpellier
Email: claire.gallien@univ-montp3.fr
Visit the website at http://easternresonances.jimdo.com/

From The Courtauld:

Art History and Sound – Workshop Series: ‘The Listening Art Historian’
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 6 December 2012, 14 March and 30 May 2013

Proposals due by 28 September 2012

Organised by Irene Noy and Michaela Zöschg with Katie Scott

Art historians constantly encounter traces of sound. These can take the form of notes in an illuminated manuscript, a textual echo of past noise and lost voices, or depictions of instruments, singers and dancers, captured on panel, canvas, paper, film or in wood, marble and bronze or spaces that have been specifically designed and built to embrace and amplify sound: pulpits, choir stalls, opera houses, the floor of the stock exchange. The aural is continuously intertwined with visual arts as content or context. In the 20th and 21st centuries especially artists have variously incorporated sounds, live and recorded, in their performances, happenings and multi-media installations putting into question the silence and fixity of visual art.

As a result of the collapse in the Enlightenment of the Renaissance notion of the unity of the arts and the substitution of a modern division of temporal from spatial art forms, art historians have generally limited their research and interpretation exclusively to the visual aspects of art and have disregarded the existence, never mind the significance, of the aural. Despite the recent broadening of art history’s disciplinary boundaries to include ‘non-traditional’ media as well as related fields, art historians are primarily trained to analyse and explain the non-ephemeral dimensions of art. When the visual approaches the transient qualities of the aural it raises problems of methodology and terminology.

This workshop series aims to explore both historical and contemporary instances of sound in art history, as well as some of the theoretical and methodological questions arising from this preoccupation. It is designed to provide an open platform for all art historians concerned with collecting, analysing, interpreting and describing sound(s) to meet and discuss ways of hearing visual art. Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to:

• In what kind of media do art historians encounter notions of sound such as music, voice or noise and with what methods do they explore these traces of the aural?
• How do art historians, with their specific background in the analysis of visual arts, collect, listen to, ‘process’ and write about sound?
• In regards to aurality, can research fields such as soundscape, Klangkunst, acousmatic voice, developed by neighbouring disciplines, be fruitfully used in and adapted for art history?
• How does our preoccupation with the aural inform or perhaps change our understanding of the visual, and vice versa?

This workshop series will be hosted at the The Courtauld Institute of Art on three different occasions throughout the academic year 2012/13. Each workshop will consist of four papers that will function as catalysts for a subsequent round table discussion, and each workshop will address the dynamics existing between aurality and art historical material, tools and methods from a different angle, generated around the proposals we receive. We welcome proposals of 20 minutes long papers in all periods, media and regions that deal either with case studies or broader methodological questions. Please send your abstracts of 250–300 words and a short biography to irene.noy@courtauld.ac.uk and michaela.zoschg@courtauld.ac.uk by 28 September 2012. For organisational purposes, we also kindly ask you to indicate on which of the dates (indicated above) you would like to present and whether you will be able to attend all three workshops. We cannot offer travel subsidies for speakers, and therefore students from outside London are encouraged to apply to their institutions for funding to attend the workshops.

2013 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
Cleveland, 4-7 April 2013

Proposals due by 15 September 2012 — Next Saturday!

The 2013 ASECS conference takes place in Cleveland, at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, 4-7 April. Along with our annual luncheon and business meeting, HECAA will be represented by two panels chaired by Christopher Johns and Heather McPherson. In addition to these, a wide selection of sessions that might be relevant for HECAA members are also included below. A full list of panels is available here.

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Anne Schroder New Scholar’s Session (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture)

Christopher M.S. Johns, 1112 Wildwind Ct., Nashville, TN 37209; Tel: (615) 516 9337; Christopher.Johns@vanderbilt.edu

Named in honor of the late Anne Schroder, this seminar will feature outstanding new research by emerging scholars.

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Interiors as Space and Image (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture)

Heather McPherson, Dept. of Art and Art History, 113 HUM , 900 13th St. South, U. of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294; Tel: (205) 934-4942, Fax: (205)-996-6986; hmcphers@uab.edu

In recent years scholars have reconsidered the significance of the eighteenth-century interior as a complex site of social interaction and nexus of display associated with daily life, exhibition practices, and conspicuous consumption. This session invites papers on eighteenth-century interiors as actual spaces experienced in multiple ways (socially, aesthetically, temporally, etc.) OR as represented in paintings, prints, or other art forms. Topics might include functions of different types of interior spaces, furnishings, decorative arts, display of artworks or other objects, etc. in any geographical area during the long eighteenth century.

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There are numerous other panels that should prove interesting for art and architectural historians. A full list of panels is available at the ASECS website, but a couple of dozen are included here»

From St Mary’s University College:

Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture
Strawberry Hill House, 8-9 March 2013

Proposals due by 30 October 2012

Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London,
built between 1749 and 1776; restoration completed in 2010

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This conference, held in the Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill, west London, will interrogate the many and varied cultures of the Gothic that were largely set in train by the owner of this mansion, Horace Walpole, in the mid-eighteenth century. As Walpole’s projects well exemplify – an aesthetic rebellion against a classical orthodoxy, which nonetheless looked implicitly to the restoration of some former social order – Gothic’s cultural poetics have always been difficult to place politically.

To what degree have Gothic tendencies in literature, art, architecture and screen media been participants in, adjuncts to, contesters of, or alternatives to cultural and political mainstreams, and how might such relationships be assessed by historians and critics? If Gothic was the Enlightenment’s naughty, child, to what extent is its rebelliousness mental or political, and is it ultimately co-opted by the order that it appears to resist?

This is a multi-disciplinary conference, and proposals for papers are invited in response to such questions in the fields, amongst others, of literature, screen media, art, architecture and popular culture. Participants will be offered the chance to see Horace Walpole’s Gothic mansion, now resplendent in its recently-renovated state, and to dine there during the conference. Preference will be given to papers that are suitable for an enthusiastic amateur audience, as well as specialists in the appropriate field. A bursary will be offered to cover conference fees for the best proposal by a postgraduate student.

200-word proposals for papers of 20-25 minutes, should be sent, by 30 October 2012 to:
Ms Jessica Jeske
St Mary’s University College
Waldegrave Road
Strawberry Hill
London TW1 4SX
jessica.jeske@smuc.ac.uk

Confirmed Speakers
• Michael Snodin (The Victoria and Albert Museum)
• John Bowen (University of York)
• Avril Horner (Kingston University)
• Allan Simmons (St Mary’s University College, London)

From the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies:

2013 BSECS Conference — Credit, Money and the Market
St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 3-5 January 2013

Proposals due by 30 September 2012

The annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe’s largest and most prestigious annual conference dealing with all aspects of the history, literature, and culture of the long eighteenth century. We invite proposals for papers and sessions dealing with any aspect of the long eighteenth century, not only in Britain, but also throughout Europe, North America, and the wider world. Proposals are invited for fully comprised panels of three or four papers, for roundtable sessions of up to five speakers, for individual papers, and for ‘alternative format’ sessions of your devising.

While proposals on all and any eighteenth-century topics are very welcome, this year the conference theme will be Credit, Money and the Market. We would thus particularly welcome proposals for panels and papers that address eighteenth-century understandings of Credit, Money and the Market, and their workings and effects, broadly conceived, throughout the long eighteenth century, at all levels of society, and in any part of the world. These might include, but will not be confined to: the meanings and significance given to Credit, Money and the Market in all fields from history, politics and religion, to the arts, literature, and philosophy; the way money is represented in the theatre, literature, philosophy and the arts; credit and reputation; debt and debtors; ‘capitalism’; ‘speculation’; financial ‘bubbles’; trade and business; ‘new money’; banks and financiers; ‘The Exchange’; investment; ‘moral economy’; and ‘the black economy’.

All enquiries regarding the academic programme of the conference should be addressed to the academic programme co-ordinator, Dr Corinna Wagner academic@bsecs.org.uk. To submit a proposal, please click here.

Keynote Speakers

Robert D. Hume — The Value of Money: Prices, Incomes, and Buying Power in Eighteenth-Century England

Julian Hopitt — Scottish Oeconomy and English Debts

Fourth Anglo-Italian Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies
University of Tuscia, Viterbo, 5-7 September 2013

Proposals due by 30 December 2012

Following the success of the first three Anglo-Italian Conferences, in York in 2006 and 2011 and in Capri, Italy in 2009 the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies are proud to announce the fourth in this series of conferences. The focus of the 2013 Conference will be “Comparing Eighteenth-Century British and Italian Narratives.” Possible topics may include, but are not strictly limited to:
• origins of the novel
• functions of historiographies
• narrative/s of history and narrative/s of fiction
• ideologies and cultural systems
• poetics and forms
• printers, readers and book dissemination
• translations and cultural transfers

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent by email to all the following: Frank O’Gorman fog17@btinternet.com, Rosamaria Loretelli loretell@unina.it, and Francesca Saggini fsaggini@unitus.it. Papers are acceptable in either Italian or English. Please include your position, name of your home institution and a working email address for contacts. The costs of the conference, including lunches, coffee break, etc. are expected to be in the region of €40. A fee waiver may be arranged for early career research scholars (e.g. self-financing Ph.D. students). The deadline for abstracts is 30 December 2012. Acceptance will be communicated by 31 January 2013. Delegates not offering papers will be warmly welcome to attend the conference.

Accommodation
Viterbo is an enchanting medieval town about 60 km north of Rome. There is plentiful accommodation in Viterbo and the surrounding areas at all levels and prices from spa resorts, to 4-star hotels, to quaint medieval B&Bs. Consequently, delegates will be expected to provide their own accommodation. However, advice and listings may be provided by Francesca Saggini fsaggini@unitus.it or by the Conference Graduate Staff, Adriana Micheli adriana.84@hotmail.it or adriana_micheli@alice.it and Fabio Ciambella fv762006@yahoo.it

Transport
The nearest airports are Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Fiumicino (all flights, including international) and Giovanni Battista Pastine Airport in Ciampino (mostly low-cost companies, including Ryanair). Both of these airports are located just outside Rome. Viterbo is a town north of Rome, easily accessible by train from most train stations in Rome as well as by coach. Alternatively, Viterbo can be reached by trains stopping at Orte station (about 25 km from Viterbo). Thence transfers can be arranged either by local train or even by taxi (this latter solution is favourable in case of taxi sharing). Delegates can contact Francesca Saggini or the Conference Graduate Staff for further information. By car, the nearest exit is ORTE, on the A1 Milan-Naples Motorway.

For further information, contact Frank O’Gorman fog17@btinternet.com or Francesca Saggini fsaggini@unitus.it.

As noted at The Society for Court Studies:

The Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles is organizing a series of three workshops on Courtisans étrangers à la cour des Bourbons, 1594-1789 (Foreign courtiers at the Bourbon court, 1594-1789), coordinated by Jean-François Dubost, professor at the Université Paris-Est Créteil. The deadline for the first study day on Identités étrangères à la cour de France au temps des Bourbons was July 1, but there’s still time to apply for the second and third days.

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From the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles:

Courtisans étrangers à la cour des Bourbons, 1594-1789
Le Centre de recher­­­che du châ­­­teau de Versailles, 14 December 2012, 12 April 2013, and Fall 2013

Proposals due, respectively, by 1 July 2012, 1 December 2012, and 5 April 2013

Le pavillon de Jussieu dans le domaine de Trianon, lieu de travail de l’équipe du Centre de recherche. © Château de Versailles / Christian Milet

Le Centre de recher­­­che du châ­­­teau de Versailles a lancé un pro­­­gramme de recher­­­che inti­­tulé « Les étrangers à la cour de France au temps des Bourbons (1594-1789). Intégration, apports, sus­­­pi­­­cions », coor­donné sur le plan scien­ti­fi­que par Jean-François Dubost, pro­­fes­­seur à l’uni­­ver­­sité Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, et conduit en col­la­bo­ra­tion avec les parte­­nai­­­res du Centre.

Ce pro­gramme a pour objec­tif d’appré­hen­der les dif­fé­ren­tes for­mes de la pré­sence étrangère à la cour de France et, ce fai­sant, de cons­truire un objet d’étude trans­ver­sal – puis­que la notion même d’étranger intro­duit une caté­go­ri­sa­tion bipo­laire des indi­vi­dus tra­ver­sant tous les sta­tuts sociaux, entre ceux qui sont sujets du roi de France et les autres, propre à met­tre en évidence des phé­no­mè­nes que l’adop­tion d’un point de vue stric­te­ment franco-fran­çais ne révèle pas néces­sai­re­ment.

Organisé autour de deux axes thé­ma­ti­ques prin­ci­paux, le pro­gramme s’atta­che, dans son pre­mier axe consa­cré aux « Courtisans étrangers », à l’étude de tous les étrangers qui, à un moment donné de leur car­rière curiale, ont joui d’une posi­tion défi­nie à la cour de France, soit par inté­gra­tion dans les Maisons roya­les et prin­ciè­res fran­çai­ses, soit par l’obten­tion du sta­tut de « pen­sion­naire du roi », soit encore en étant, à la cour de France, au ser­vice de prin­ces ou d’États étrangers.

L’étude de ces cour­ti­sans étrangers à la cour des Bourbons sera décli­née autour de trois thé­ma­ti­ques qui font cha­cune l’objet d’un appel à contri­bu­tions, appels des­ti­nés à pré­pa­rer l’orga­ni­sa­tion de trois jour­nées d’études conçues comme ate­liers de recher­che fer­més, orga­ni­sées au Centre de recher­che du châ­teau de Versailles, et fai­sant inter­ve­nir cha­cune de 6 à 7 contri­bu­teurs.

Les contri­bu­tions rete­nues feront l’objet d’une publi­ca­tion, soit dans le Bulletin du Centre, soit dans les volu­mes imprimés qui pré­sen­te­ront la syn­thèse des tra­vaux conduits dans le cadre du pro­gramme « Les étrangers à la cour de France au temps des Bourbons (1594-1789). Intégration, apports, sus­pi­cions ». . . . (more…)

INTER-CULTURE 1400–1850: Art, Artists, and Migration
Liverpool Hope University (Creative Campus), 5-6 April 2013

Panel Proposals due by 1 October 2012

While major exhibitions, such as Migrations (January–August 2012) at Tate Britain, address the impact of migration on the cultural heritage and artistic production in a particular country, the conference seeks to investigate further this exciting topic by discussing thematically the latest research of international scholars. Instead of focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries and the strong consequences migration caused in modern and postmodern societies, we intend to look back and explore the effects of migration on art and artists in Europe and beyond before, during and shortly after the Industrial Revolution.

Why have artists left their comfort zone, travelled to faraway places and adapted to new living conditions when only very few had a noteworthy impact on local artistic production, such as Hans Holbein the Younger at Henry VIII’s court or El Greco, who is the prime example for intercultural artistic exchange in early modern times? How important was national identity for the artists and also for the reception of their work? What are the differences and parallels between pre- and post-Industrial Revolution migration of artists?

The conference seeks to encourage an inter-disciplinary dialogue and also invites papers from adjacent subjects that have a strong connection to the topic. Early career scholars are particularly invited to submit a proposal. Proposals can, but do not have to, relate to one of the following suggested themes:

•Perceptions of the artist (old and new society)
• New environments and influences on artistic practice
• Cultural confrontations
• Self-chosen emigration/immigration
• Forced emigration/immigration
• The returned artist

Conference papers will be presented within thematic units and shall not exceed 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion. All speakers will get free accommodation on the campus of Liverpool Hope University. Please send your proposal of no more than 500 words (with name, institution, address, phone number and email address) to:

Dr Kathrin Wagner
Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus
The Cornerstone
17 Shaw Street
Liverpool L6 1HP — U.K.
inter-culture@hope.ac.uk

102nd Annual Conference of the College Art Association
Chicago, 12-15 February 2014

Panel Proposals due by 3 September 2012

The 102nd Annual Conference will take place February 12–15, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. The Annual Conference Committee invites session proposals that cover the breadth of current thought and research in art, art and architectural history, theory and criticism, pedagogical issues, museum and curatorial practice, conservation, and developments in technology.

The submission process for 2014 proposals is now open. In order to submit a proposal, you must be a current CAA member. For full details on the submission process for the conference, please review the information published below. Deadline: September 3, 2012; no late applications will be accepted. (more…)