CFP: 'The Neo-Victorian and the Late-Victorian: Texts, Media, Politics'
Aris Mousoutzanis <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:55:12 +0000
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--_000_191352011db84387b105b810254bb723brightonacuk_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable University of Brighton The Neo-Victorian and the Late-Victorian: Texts, Media, Politics 3-4 September 2020 The last few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in revisiting, r= eproducing or rewriting various aspects of nineteenth-century culture, part= icularly that of the late Victorian period, whether in the form of neo-Vict= orian literature, steampunk, media archaeology, fashion, documentaries and = period dramas, among others. This trend has received various different inte= rpretations, either as part of the recycling of past periods, styles and te= xts characteristic of postmodernism of the 1980s, of the =91memory boom=92 = of the 1990s and the ensuing culture of commemoration, anniversaries and me= morialisation, or the most recent signs of a widespread imperial nostalgia,= evident not just in various media texts, such as film or television, but a= lso in contemporary political realities like Brexit. These are only some of= the symptoms of this widespread trend and only some instances of the criti= cal approaches that they have received, and this two-day conference seeks t= o explore this trend from a diverse range of disciplinary, theoretical and = methodological perspectives. The specific focus of the conference is on pap= ers that address the dialectic relationship between the two historical peri= ods. We are particularly interested in the ways in which the late-Victorian= is re-envisioned and reconceptualised within the neo-Victorian. The list b= elow is only indicative of areas for which we welcome submission of abstrac= ts: * neo-Victorianism in literature, film and television * Gothic horror, then and now: literature, film, television and gaming * steampunk (literature, art, fashion, subculture) * contemporary politics and imperial nostalgia (Empire 2.0, Global Brit= ain, etc.) * media archaeology, archive studies, museums and the late Victorian = =91frenzy of the visible=92 * contemporary sexual politics and late Victorian queer cultures * The New Woman and the suffragette movement * contemporary terrorism and the 1890s * crime, detection and punishment * nostalgia and material culture: the yearning for the handmade Please send 300-word abstracts accompanied by a 90-word bio to conference o= rganisers Victoria Margree<https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/vicky= -margree> and Aris Mousoutzanis<https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/= aris-mousoutzanis> by 27 April 2020 at [email protected]<mailto:n= [email protected]> --- Aris Mousoutzanis<https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/aris-mousoutza= nis> Principal Lecturer in Film & Screen Studies Course Leader BA (Hons) Film & Screen Studies University of Brighton Room 204, 154-155 Edward Street Brighton BN2 0JG 01273 64 1525 Latest article: 'Utopia and the Biopolitics of Race<http://dx.doi.org/10.39= 98/fc.13761232.0043.204>'. Film Criticism 43:2 (Sep 2019) Author of <http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=3D601910> Fin-de= -Si=E8cle Fictions, 1890s/1990s: Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire<http://w= ww.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137263650#aboutBook> (Palgrave, 2014) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html --_000_191352011db84387b105b810254bb723brightonacuk_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> <style type=3D"text/css" style=3D"display:none;"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margi= n-bottom:0;} --></style> </head> <body dir=3D"ltr"> <div id=3D"divtagdefaultwrapper" dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"font-size:12pt; color= :rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple= Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI= Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"> <p><span id=3D"ms-rterangepaste-start"></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><spa= n style=3D"font-size:13.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Univ= ersity of Brighton</span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><spa= n style=3D"font-size:13.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">&nbs= p;</span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center; line-he= ight:150%"><b><span style=3D"font-size:16.0pt; line-height:150%; font-famil= y:"Arial",sans-serif">The Neo-Victorian and the Late-Victorian: </span></b><b><span style=3D"font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br> </span></b><b><span style=3D"font-size:13.0pt; line-height:150%; font-famil= y:"Arial",sans-serif">Texts, Media, Politics</span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center; line-he= ight:150%"><b><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; line-height:150%; font-famil= y:"Arial",sans-serif">3-4 September 2020</span></b><b><span style= =3D"font-size:13.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Arial",sans-= serif"></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-family:"Arial",sans-se= rif"> </span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><span s= tyle=3D""></span><span style=3D"font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><= /span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-family:"Arial",sans-se= rif"> </span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"A= rial",sans-serif">The last few decades have witnessed an increasing in= terest in revisiting, reproducing or rewriting various aspects of nineteent= h-century culture, particularly that of the late Victorian period, whether in the form of neo-Victorian literature, steampu= nk, media archaeology, fashion, documentaries and period dramas, among othe= rs. This trend has received various different interpretations, either as pa= rt of the recycling of past periods, styles and texts characteristic of postmodernism of the 1980s, of the =91m= emory boom=92 of the 1990s and the ensuing culture of commemoration, annive= rsaries and memorialisation, or the most recent signs of a widespread imper= ial nostalgia, evident not just in various media texts, such as film or television, but also in contemporary politica= l realities like Brexit. These are only some of the symptoms of this widesp= read trend and only some instances of the critical approaches that they hav= e received, and this two-day conference seeks to explore this trend from a diverse range of disciplinary, theoreti= cal and methodological perspectives. The specific focus of the conference i= s on papers that address the dialectic relationship between the two histori= cal periods. We are particularly interested in the ways in which the late-Victorian is re-envisioned and re= conceptualised within the neo-Victorian. The list below is only indicative = of areas for which we welcome submission of abstracts: </span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"A= rial",sans-serif"> </span></p> <ul> <li><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-ser= if">neo-Victorianism in literature, film and television</span></li><li><spa= n style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Goth= ic horror, then and now: literature, film, television and gaming </span></li><li><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial&qu= ot;,sans-serif">steampunk (literature, art, fashion, subculture)</span></li= ><li><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-se= rif">contemporary politics and imperial nostalgia (Empire 2.0, Global Brita= in, etc.)</span></li><li><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"= ;Arial",sans-serif">media archaeology, archive studies, museums and th= e late Victorian =91frenzy of the visible=92</span></li><li><span style=3D"= font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">contemporary se= xual politics and late Victorian queer cultures</span></li><li><span style= =3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The New Wom= an and the suffragette movement</span></li><li><span style=3D"font-size:11.= 0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">contemporary terrorism and t= he 1890s</span></li><li><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"= Arial",sans-serif">crime, detection and punishment </span></li><li><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial&qu= ot;,sans-serif">nostalgia and material culture: the yearning for the handma= de </span><br> <br> <span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">= </span></li></ul> <p class=3D"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=3D"margin-left:0cm"><span style= =3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please send= 300-word abstracts accompanied by a 90-word bio to conference organisers </span><a href=3D"https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/vicky-margree"= ><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"= >Victoria Margree</span></a><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&q= uot;Arial",sans-serif"> and </span><a href=3D"https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/aris-mousoutza= nis"><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-se= rif">Aris Mousoutzanis</span></a><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-fami= ly:"Arial",sans-serif"> by 27 April 2020 at </span><a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]"><span style=3D"font-s= ize:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">neovictorian@brighton= .ac.uk</span></a><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial&q= uot;,sans-serif"> </span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt; font= -family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p> <span id=3D"ms-rterangepaste-end"></span><br> <p></p> <p><br> </p> <div id=3D"Signature"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style=3D"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div class=3D"BodyFragment"><font size=3D"2"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt"= > <div class=3D"PlainText">---<br> <br> <a href=3D"https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/aris-mousoutzanis" id= =3D"LPNoLP">Aris Mousoutzanis</a><br> Principal Lecturer in Film & Screen Studies<br> Course Leader BA (Hons) Film & <span style=3D"font-size:10pt">Scre= en Studies</span></div> <div class=3D"PlainText">University of Brighton<br> Room 204, 154-155 Edward Street<br> Brighton BN2 0JG<br> 01273 64 1525<br> </div> <div class=3D"PlainText"><br> </div> <div class=3D"PlainText">Latest article: '<a href=3D"http://dx.doi.org/10.3= 998/fc.13761232.0043.204" id=3D"LPNoLP">Utopia and the Biopolitics of Race<= /a>'. <i>Film Criticism </i>43:2 (Sep 2019)</div> <div class=3D"PlainText"><br> </div> <div class=3D"PlainText">Author of <a href=3D" http://www.palgrave.com/prod= ucts/title.aspx?pid=3D601910" id=3D"LPNoLP" tabindex=3D"0"> </a><a href=3D"http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137263650#aboutBook" id= =3D"LPNoLP"><i>Fin-de-<span class=3D"st"><em>Si=E8cle</em></span> Fictions,= 1890s/1990s: Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire</i></a> (Palgrave, 2014)<br= > <br> <br> </div> </span></font></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D General list info and FAQ: <a href=3D"http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html" target=3D"_blank">http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html</a> --_000_191352011db84387b105b810254bb723brightonacuk_--