Nineteenth-Century Knowledges: 17th Annual Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
Location: Virginia, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-10-14

INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
and George Mason University present:

Nineteenth-Century Knowledges

INCS 17th Annual Conference
April 11-14, 2002
George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia

Keynote Speaker: George Levine
Kenneth Burke Professor of English, Rutgers University; books include
Darwin and the Novelists, One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature,
and Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in
Relation to Science, Literature, and Culture.

Paper or panel proposals are invited on any aspect of the politics of
nineteenth century knowledge, including information, education, taste,
disciplinarity, and science. Possible proposal topics might include but
are not limited to:

Pedagogies in/of the nineteenth century
Canons and canon formation
Teaching and teachers
Professionalizing information
Constructions of disciplines and disciplinarity
The knowledge industry
Gender and knowledge
The politics of scientific knowledge
Education and ideology
Constructions of taste
Idea(l)s of the university
Museums, exhibits, and exhibitions
The politics of literacy: race, gender, class
The grand tour

Longer versions of INCS conference papers are regularly published in the
affiliated journal Nineteenth Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary
Journal.

Send 200-400 word abstracts by October 14, 2001 to
incsgmu.edu. Notification of acceptance will be mailed electronically in
December. Presenters must be members of INCS, an international group of
scholars dedicated to interdisciplinary discussion and research. Sessions
at the conference are devoted to discussion following 5-7 minute
presentations. Complete papers are available in advance at the
conference's password-protected website: www.cas.gmu.edu/incs.

Email: incsgmu.edu

Call for Papers website:
http://cas.gmu.edu/incs

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