19th-Century Workshop at Rutgers

[EMMA LIEBER]

Dear All,

Please see below the description and call for proposals for a new,
interdisciplinary nineteenth-century workshop at Rutgers, which may be of
interest for those working on the nineteenth century in the NY/NJ area.

Emma Lieber
ACLS New Faculty Fellow
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East European Languages and Literatures
Rutgers University

Nineteenth-Century Workshop, Oct. 2-3, 2014

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ



Circulation



For the inaugural meeting of an annual workshop devoted to the discussion
of new, interdisciplinary work in Nineteenth-Century Studies, we invite
papers that explore the importance of circulation--of goods, print, persons,
money, and ideas--to nineteenth-century culture and society.



The nineteenth century was an age of mass circulation of newspapers and
magazines; of forced migration and exodus; of developing expertise in
networks of trade and colonial exploitation; of the emergence of
standardized time for travel by steamship and by rail; of the transnational
circulation of theatrical performances, medicine shows, and fraudulent
currency; and of new understandings of the movement of languages, species,
and cultures. The end of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery in
many empires and nations, new forms of colonialism (of both the extractive
and settler varieties) as well as massive labor migrations, all radically
altered individuals' sense of place and belonging, and what constituted the
local and the global.



We welcome papers that examine how the movement of commodities, capital,
and human bodies was governed, promoted, and understood by different groups
and organizations as well as those that explore how nineteenth-century
cultural works oriented themselves to new conditions of circulation.  We
are also interested in stasis as a counterpart to new regimes of
circulation; in an age of increasingly coordinated circulation, where were
the blockages? What stayed still?



Priority will be given to essays that reach across disciplinary boundaries
and attempt to connect accounts of nineteenth-century circulation to lived
cultural and social experiences.



Possible topics include:



·      marketplace exchanges, the circulation of money, goods, property,
capital

·      migration and relocation of people

·      circulation within bodies (blood, digestion/waste, pleasure/desire)

·      regulation of movement in space (architectural design, urban
planning, public health, and other forms of governmental or
non-governmental regulation)

·      transgression of boundaries, policing of boundaries

·      technologies of circulation

·      the circulation of ideas and ideologies

·      translation and other forms of transnational exchange

·      literary, artistic, social and political movements

·      circulation as an object of study in physics and psychology

·      circulation as a theme in the arts, especially in dance and the
visual arts

·      stasis and blockage, what does not move, what limits circulation

·      disorganized circulation





As befits the topic, essays will be circulated in advance to all
participants; the workshop format will permit the focused discussion of
these essays across two days of convivial conversation.  Workshop
participants will include nineteenth-century scholars from various
fields--literature, history, art history, architecture, history of medicine,
and others--at Rutgers and in the greater NY/ NJ area.  The workshop will
cover most of the expenses of those chosen to present their work.



Applications should be sent to Meredith McGill (mlmcgill at rci.rutgers.edu)
by Monday, April 21; they will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary group
of scholars.  Applications should include:  (1) a description of the
proposed paper (1-2 pages) and (2) a brief cv (no more than 3
pages).  Applicants will be notified by May 15 if they will be included in
the program.

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