INCS 2004: NINETEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
INTERDISCIPLINARY NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
SERIOUS PLEASURES
April 1-4, 2004
University of Iowa
www.nd.edu/~incshp/
>From zoos to international exhibitions to the display of human beings; from
pantomime pageants to colonial durbars; from circulating libraries to penny
novels; from clubs devoted to the new art of photography to the first cinema
showings, Serious Pleasures drew audiences across the globe in the nineteenth
century, often to venues where men, and women, people of varying classes and
nations, and imperialists and colonized met. Topics might include fiction,
children’s literature, magazines, libraries, pornography, theatre, music hall,
visual arts, photography, collecting, food, celebrity, exhibitions, gossip,
gambling, alcohol, magic lanterns shows, tourism, toys, fashion, railways,
philanthropy, zoos, colonial exhibitions, flirting, dancing, spiritualism,
minstrelsy, mesmerism, world fairs, and durbars, among others.
Longer versions of INCS conference papers are regularly published in the
affiliated
Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Send 200-400 word abstracts by November 1, 2003 to
teresa-mangum@uiowa.edu
or
Teresa Mangum
Department of English
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Notification of acceptance will be mailed electronically in December.
Presenters must be members of INCS, an international group of scholars
dedicated to interdisciplinary discussion and research. Papers will be due
February 15 for posting to a protected website so that sessions at the
conference can be devoted to discussion following 5-7 minute presentations.
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