CFP: Legacies, 1780-1901 (grad) (6/1; 7/27-7/29) (fwd)

[Kathy Chung]

A call for papers.  Drama papers welcome.  It's in Toronto.
 
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:08:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Jack Lynch <jlynch at dept.english.upenn.edu>
To: cfp at dept.english.upenn.edu
Subject: CFP: Legacies, 1780-1901 (grad) (6/1; 7/27-7/29)
 
Call for Papers:
 
                L E G A C I E S
 
A cross-disciplinary graduate student conference hosted by the
Nineteenth-Century Group at the University of Toronto
 
                   September 27-29, 1996
 
The theme of this year's conference is the cultural manifestations of
inheritance in the period 1780-1901.  Possible topics might include, but
are not limited to:
 
        *       Narrative, Genre and Tradition
        *       Heredity and Genetics
        *       Initiation and Baptism
        *       History, Memory and Identity
        *       Patronage and the Arts
        *       Wills and Bequests
        *       Reform and the Law
        *       Convention and Invention
        *       Original Sin and Adamism
 
We encourage papers and panels which investigate literature, history,
drama, fashion, economics, music and the performative arts, theology,
philosophy, the law, technology and industrial design, politics and science
in the period.
 
Please send 300-500 word abstracts (3 copies) postmarked no later than
June 1, 1996 to:
 
        Legacies Conference Committee
        Graduate Department of English
        University of Toronto
        7 King's College Circle
        Toronto, Ontario
        M5S 1A1
 
Abstracts and queries can also be e-mailed to Ann-Barbara Graff at
ann.graff at utoronto.ca or faxed to 416-978-5184.