CFP: Travel Writing and Leisure Culture in 19th Cent. America (grad) (10/15/01; 2/7/02-2/8/02)

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Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 15:14:33 EDT

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    CALL FOR PAPERS
    "Getting Away: Country Houses, Resorts, Travel, and Leisure Culture in
    Nineteenth-Century America"

    5TH Annual Graduate Student Conference
    February 7 & 8, 2002

    Sponsored by:
    The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
    and
    Boston University's American and New England Studies Program

    How did Americans embrace cultures of leisure in nineteenth-century America?
    This conference will explore the multiple ways Americans experienced - and
    recorded their experiences of - traveling, playing, and otherwise escaping
    everyday routines. We welcome papers on a variety of topics ranging from
    travel writing to landscape design, photography to public
    amusements,romanticism to camp meetings, and foodways to consumer culture. We
    hope to draw scholars from a wide range of disciplines (including but not
    limited to literature, art history, history, theology, and material culture)
    in order to generate a lively interdisciplinary discussion.
            
    Please send a 500-word abstract for a 20-minute paper along with your C.V.
    (including name, telephone number, e-mail address, mailing address, and
    academic affiliation) postmarked by October 15, 2001 to:

            SPNEA-BU Graduate Student Conference Committee
            Attn: Cara Iacobucci
            SPNEA
            141 Cambridge Street
            Boston, MA 02114
            Fax: 617-570-9147
            Phone: 617-353-2948
            Email: amnesgsc@bu.edu
            
    Successful panelists will be notified in early November. Completed papers
    will be due to the commentators by January 7, 2002. The conference will be
    held in Boston, Massachusetts.

    This annual conference is designed to foster SPNEA's ongoing research on New
    England culture by encouraging emerging scholars to present originalresearch.

    PLEASE POST

    Diane Hotten-Somers
    English Department
    Boston College
    (617)552-2725
    hotten@bc.edu

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