Fwd: 19th century CFPs

Dear Colleagues,
The first of these CFPs may be of interest to some SHERA members.
Margaret Samu

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From: Elizabeth Mansfield <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:29 AM
Subject: 19th century CFPs
To: [email protected]


The Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art is sponsoring two
panels at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) 33rd Annual
Conference, (Spiritual Matters/Matters of the Spirit)  Asheville, NC, March
22-24, 2012:

1. *Spirituality in Nineteenth Century European Visual culture.*

Is religious visual culture in nineteenth-century Europe anathema to
modernity or deeply wedded to it?  What kind of visual literacy was expected
of its viewers?  Papers for a panel on religion, spirituality and visual
culture of the long 19th century in Europe are encouraged to strike up a
dialogue between painting, photography, sculpture and/or architecture in
addition to popular imagery, mass culture, and other forms of material
culture.

Topics may include: modern artists and religious themes; representations of
pilgrimage and ritual; mechanically reproduced medals, devotional prints,
pilgrimage and miracle souvenirs; religious “folk” art; ex-votos and wayward
shrines; educational images and religious illustrations; irreverent parodies
of religious images; symbolist spirituality; women’s piety and everyday
life; collections and regional museums; mumming, passion plays and other
ephemeral spectacles.

Please e-mail abstracts (250 words) for 20-minute papers that provide the
author's name and paper title in the heading, as well as a one-page c.v., to
Maura Coughlin ( [email protected]) by September 20, 2011.

2. *Spirituality and Mass Culture in the United States*.

In his essay *“Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture,”* David
Morgan observes that religion was essential to the creation of mass culture,
and argues for a fundamental engagement between American viewers’ experience
of the visual and deeply spiritual matters; he notes that “religionists in
modern American history, contrary to the old popular saw about Protestants
and sparseness, have bowed to no one in applying the power of visual display
to the transmission of information and to the character formation of youth,
the unconverted, and neophytes.”  Seeking papers on the investigation of
spirituality in 19th century visual culture, I am proposing a panel
specifically concerning American manifestations of these issues.  Paper
topics might explore any aspect concerning spirituality in North American
art and visual culture, such as the relationship between religion and mural
painting; caricature and comics;  samplers and sentimental embroidery; dime
museums and local collections; pageants, parades and theatrical
performances; panoramas and dioramas;  temperance tracts and revival
posters;  magazine illustrations;  coins and medals; modern spectacular
commerce; public sculpture; parlor games; nickelodeon films; postcards,
trade cards and popular greeting cards;  folk art, whirligigs, dolls and
religious toys; and/or painting.


Please e-mail abstracts (250 words) for 20-minute papers that provide the
author's name and paper title in the heading, as well as a one-page
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[email protected] by September 20, 2012.


More information about the conference can be obtained by visiting
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html

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