Leisure Culture in Nineteenth-Century America" (2/7-2/8/02, Boston)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:58:42 -0400 (EDT)

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Getting Away: Country Houses, Resorts, Travel, and Leisure Culture in
Nineteenth-Century America"

5TH Annual Graduate Student Conference
February 7 & 8, 2002

Sponsored by:
The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
And Boston University's American and New England Studies Program

How did Americans embrace cultures of leisure in nineteenth-century
America? This conference will explore the multiple ways Americans
experienced - and recorded their experiences of -- traveling, playing,
and otherwise escaping everyday routines. We welcome papers on a
variety of topics ranging fromtravel writing to landscape design,
photography to public amusements, romanticism to camp meetings, and
foodways to consumer culture. We hope to draw scholars from a wide
range of disciplines (including but not limited to literature, art
history, history, theology, and material culture) in order to generate
a lively interdisciplinary discussion.

Please send a 500-word abstract for a 20-minute paper along with your
C.V.(including name, telephone number, e-mail address, mailing address,
And academic affiliation) postmarked by October 15, 2001 to:

SPNEA-BU Graduate Student Conference Committee
Attn: Cara Iacobucci
SPNEA
141 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
Fax: 617-570-9147
Phone: 617-353-2948
Email: amnesgscbu.edu

Successful panelists will be notified in early November. Completed
Papers will be due to the commentators by January 7, 2002. The conference
Will be held in Boston, Massachusetts.

This annual conference is designed to foster SPNEA's ongoing research on
New England culture by encouraging emerging scholars to present original
research.

[Posted By: Francine Weiss, Boston University (fweissbu.edu)]