================== HES POSTING ====================== CALL FOR PAPERS Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Announces its annual conference BY BODY BOUND NCSA, an interdisciplinary association for the study of nineteenth-century cultures-- British, American, and continental-- announces its 17th annual conference, BY BODY BOUND, to be hosted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2-4 April 1998. The conference invites cultural, social, historical, literary, aesthetic, political, scientific, and philosophical perspectives on the nineteenth-century body. We invite papers from multiple disciplines that consider all manner of nineteenth-century materials, such as its art and artifacts; literature; religious, scientific, or legal writing; social, political, and economic debate. Papers might consider: Representing the body, the aesthetic, the decadent, the subjugated, the domesticated, the radicalized, the imperial and colonized, the criminal, the grotesque; the young; the old; Decorating the body; marking it; theatricalizing it; dressing and undressing it; Reading the body, phrenology, and physiognomy; Diagnosing the body and its ills; the working body, the way to health; diet, excercise, regimens, sanitation; social planning, workplace reform and housing; The dying body and the dead body; The spirited body; ghosts; the release from the body; Body politics, gender and sexuality; prostitution; purity; reproduction; The Darwinian body, evolving or degenerating; The economic body and the legislated body; The body as social metaphor; the body politic; Bodies of work. Two copies of proposals (one to two pages) for twenty-minute papers should be accompanied by a brief curriculum vita and a 50-75 word abstract. Proposals for panels or for other topics for open sessions are also welcome. All materials should reach the Program Directors by mail no later than 1 October 1997. You may email queries, but NOT proposals. Decisions will be announced by December 1997. Send to: David Stewart or Julie English Early Department of Art Department of English Roberts Hall Morton Hall [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]