"VICTORIAN SOUNDINGS: VOICE, BODIES, NOISE"
NO EMAIL PROPOSALS, PLEASE (See below).
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The Dickens Project invites proposals for an interdisciplinary =
conference on Victorian Soundings: Voice, Bodies, Noise, to be held at =
the University of California, Santa Cruz, July 31- August 3, 2003.=20
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Featured speakers will include Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt University), =
Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, University of London) and Carolyn =
Williams (Rutgers University).=20
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We particularly seek papers that explore innovative approaches to =
research on the Victorian auditory imagination, as well as papers on =
literature, popular culture, performing bodies and the technologies of =
sound. Possible areas include:
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Acoustic devices/sounding devices:
--Ear trumpets, deafness and mutism
--Telegraphs, "wireless" and radios
--Phonographs
--Telephones
Making noise:
--Bells, whistles, chimes
--Orchestras and bands
--Echoes, cries and whispers
--Operas, instruments, street criers
--Sound effects
The noise of objects:
--Machines in motion
--"ringing down the grooves of change"
--Babbling brooks, sermons in stones
--The sound of work
--Bodily noises
Sound and speech:
--Ventriloquists and dummies
--Gossip/rumor/word of mouth
--Speaking for/speaking to
--Spirit voices/table rapping
--Voices on stage
Voicing literature:
--Narrative voices
--Reading aloud
--Rhymes and discord
--Radio adaptations
--Foreign accents, gendered voices
--Dialect and dialogue
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Conference Coordinators: John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz) and Hilary Schor =
(USC)
Send proposals (2 page maximum) by January 15, 2003, to
Hilary Schor
Department of English
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354
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NO EMAIL PROPOSALS, PLEASE
FAX (213) 741-0377
Inquiries may be sent to John Jordan at picasso@cats.ucsc.edu or Hilary =
Schor at schor@almaak.usc.edu
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Sponsored by the Dickens Project - UCSC
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