Century's End
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Re-Evaluating Literature, Art and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (1880-1914)
12 & 13 September 2008
A two-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the School of English at Queen’s University, Belfast.
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Confirmed plenary speakers:
- Professor Kate Flint (Rutgers University, New Jersey). Title: '"The hour of pink twilight": looking queerly at women on the fin-de-siècle London street'
- Professor Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College, University of London). Title: 'The First British Museum Mummy Curse: Unravelling a Rumour.'
The collisions between old and new, high and low that characterize the Victorian fin de siècle mark it as a volatile period fraught with both a sense of anxiety and of real possibility. This was also an era of new advances and formations: the New Woman, the New Journalism, the New Imperialism, new technologies and the new sciences of psychology, sexology and eugenics.
This conference will bring together research students from a range of disciplines exploring new developments in, and approaches to, the study of the fin-de-siècle literary, cultural and social landscape. This will be a unique opportunity to engender a working relationship between emerging fin-de-siècle scholars from a variety of research institutions from across the UK, Ireland and further afield.
Suggested topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Literary marketplaces
- The New Woman
- Periodical culture
- Illustration and visual media
- Genre fiction – including horror, crime fiction and sci-fi
- History of art
- Mass readerships
- Notions of high and low culture
- Children’s literature
- Anxieties about the urban
- Degeneration and race
- Space and time
- Decadence and avant-garde culture
- Queer theory and emergent gay culture
- Literature and science
- Empire and nationality
We are delighted to be able to offer two international student bursaries. Details to follow.
Please send abstracts of 200-400 words for 20 minute papers plus brief biographical details to Clare Clarke, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers at centurysend@qub.ac.uk by 11 July 2008.
International Travel Bursaries
If you would like to be considered for one of two £200 international travel bursaries which are available, please send a CV and a short (200 word maximum) statement explaining why you would like to be considered and how you would benefit from this award. Please send this to centurysend@qub.ac.uk by 11 July 2008. It would be helpful if you could include details of whether you will receive any funding from your home institution and an approximate budget for your trip. Should you require any further information or advice, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
The conference organisers gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS), the Internationalisation Fund, QUB, and the Student-Led Initiative, QUB.