Lunch and coffee will be provided.
To register, please contact Mark Power Smith at mark.powersmith@rai.ox.ac.uk. 4/4 #C19 #19thCentury #history #symposium #conservatism #Americanpolitics #Atlantic @BAAS_pgs @BAASUSSO @OfficialBAAS @AmerStudiesAssn @brancaUK
Academics at every career stage, including graduate students, are warmly welcome to attend. There is no registration fee. Participants will receive pre-circulated papers of around 5-8,000 words from experts in the history of the United States, Latin America and Europe 3/4
The RAI is excited to welcome leading scholars from around the world to a symposium on the concept of conservatism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world co-convened by Professor Adam Smith and Dr Mark Power Smith. 2/4
SYMPOSIUM ALERT – “Conservatism in the Atlantic World” – 24 June 09:00 to 25 June 12:30 @RAIOxford
Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, OX1 3UB 1/4
Potentially of interest to @C19Americanists @BAAS_pgs @BAASUSSO and more (please retweet/copy-in to pass on)
Please submit your article proposal, including author contact information, title, a 300-word
abstract, 4-5 keywords, and a short bio by 31 July 2022 to: Dr. Justyna Fruzińska
(justyna.fruzinska@uni.lodz.pl) and Dr. Krzysztof Majer (krzysztof.majer@uni.lodz.pl). 4/5
Possible topics on which to expound include [continued]:
obsessive literary form
Melville’s obsession with Hawthorne
scholarly obsessions with Hawthorne and Melville
Hawthorne and Melville as inspirations for other writers and artists 3/5
Possible topics on which to expound include:
the haunting nature of the past
voyeurism
religious and secular conceptualizations of sin
striving for perfection
monomania
repetition and repetitiveness
moral compulsion 2/5
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS ALERT – “European Journal of American Studies” @eaas_eu 3/2023 Special issue: “Obsessions in #Melville and #Hawthorne”. #C19Lit #Melville #Hawthorne #AmericanLiterature #19thCentury
1/5
Acceptance of abstract will be signalled by September 15, 2022 and final submissions will be due by January 10, 2023. Final acceptance will be subject to a rigorous double-blind peer review process. #CFP #AmericanFiction #PercivalEverett #AfricanAmericanLiterature #C21Literature
