Death and Life
*Call for Papers*
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century
Studies
12th Annual Conference
University of California, Berkeley
April 4-6, 1997
*** "Death and Life"
***
INCS welcomes proposals for its 12th annual conference,
to be held at the
University of California, Berkeley, April 4-6, 1997.
The theme for this
year's conference will be death and life. Suggested
topics include:
- -elegies and other writing about the dead
- -ceremonies and technologies of birth and death
- -disease and epidemic; war and mutinies
- -the concept of population
- -capital punishment
- -labor, midwifery, male birthing
- -pathos, sentimentality, mourning
- -anatomical illustration and picturing the dead
Send 200 word abstracts, and, if possible, papers (15
pages maximum). We
will consider proposal for inter-disciplinary panels
that draw on scholars
from at least *three* different disciplines. When proposing
a panel,
please indicate whether you would like individual papers
considered
separately if the panel is not accepted.
DEADLINES:
Abstracts due October 15, 1996
Notification sent by December 1,
1996
*COMPLETED PAPERS DUE January 15,
1997*
Direct all correspondence to:
INCS-Berkeley, English Department, 322 Wheeler Hall,
University of
California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1030.
E-mail: incs@violet.berkeley.edu.
Selected conference papers will be published in _Nineteenth-Century
Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal_.
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