[ecrea] CFP: Romantic Print Culture (Romantic Imprints)

CFP

Proposals are invited for the 2015 British Association for Romantic 
Studies international conference which will be held at Cardiff 
University, Wales (UK) on 16–19 July 2015. The theme of the 
interdisciplinary conference is Romantic Imprints, broadly understood to 
include the various literary, cultural, historical and political 
manifestations of Romantic print culture across Europe, the Americas and 
the rest of the world. Our focus will fall on the ways in which the 
culture of the period was conscious of itself as functioning within and 
through, or as opposed to, the medium of print. The conference location 
in the Welsh capital provides a special opportunity to foreground the 
Welsh inflections of Romanticism within the remit of the conference’s 
wider theme. The two-hundredth anniversary of Waterloo also brings with 
it the chance of thinking about how Waterloo was represented within and 
beyond print.

The confirmed keynote speakers for Romantic Imprints will be John 
Barrell (Queen Mary, London), James Chandler (Chicago), Claire Connolly 
(Cork), Peter Garside (Edinburgh) and Devoney Looser (Arizona State).

The conference is open to various forms of format:  we encourage 
proposals for special open-call sessions and for themed panels of 
invited speakers as well as individual proposals for the traditional 
20-minute paper. Subjects covered might include:

    * Nation and print: the British archipelago; cities of print; 
transatlantic and transnational exchanges; Romantic cosmopolitanism and 
print; translation; landscape and/in print; Wales and its Romantic 
contexts; national (especially Welsh) patterns of influence and exchange 
in the international context.
    * Producing and consuming print: Romantic readerships; publishers; 
circu­lating print; legislation, copyright and print; technologies of 
print; plagiarism, forgery and piracy; popular and subaltern cultures of 
print; periodicals and journalism; gender and genre; print as new and 
old, ephemeral and collectable objects; print beyond reading (paper 
money, cards, etc.); the fate of print as ‘rubbish’.
    * Intertextual exchanges: politics and print (e.g. revolution and 
radicalism, war, Napoleon, Waterloo); satire and parody; science and 
print culture; performance and print; Romantic visual cultures 
(including art and illustration); representations of print and printing; 
fashion; adaptation and remediation; the Romantic essay; print and its 
others – epitaphs, manuscripts, marginalia, etc.; print and imprint as 
Romantic metaphor or ideology; popular pastimes.
    * Textual scholarship: editing texts; bibliography and book 
history; manuscripts, correspondence and diaries; analysis and 
quantification; digital humanities.
    * Romantic legacies: physical traces and imprints; architecture; 
Romantic anti­quarianism; Victorian Romanticism; Romanticism and 
modernity; Romanticism and new media; Romantic biography; lives in 
print; Romantic afterlives; celebrity and print; adapting the Romantics 
(film, art, literature).

Format of conference proposals

    * Traditional 20-minute paper proposals (250-word abstracts), 
submitted individually.
    * Poster presentations showcasing innovative projects or digital 
outputs (250-word abstracts), submitted individually.
    * Proposals for open-call sessions (350-word descriptions of 
potential session, outlining its importance and relevance to the 
conference theme). Accepted open-call sessions will be advertised on the 
BARS 2015 conference website.
    * Proposals for themed panels of three 20-minute or four 15-minute 
papers (250-word abstracts for each paper with speakers’ details and an 
outline of the panel’s rationale from the proposer).

Deadline for open-call and themed panels: 13 October 2014. You will be 
notified of acceptance by 10 November 2014. Accepted open-call sessions 
will be advertised from 1 December 2014.

Deadline for all other submissions: 31 January 2015. Submissions can 
comprise proposals for individual papers, poster presentations and 
submissions to open-call panels (which will be published online from 1 
December 2014). If you are applying to an open-call session, you should 
include the name of the session on your proposal.

All proposals should include your name, academic affiliation (if any), 
preferred email address and a biography of 100 words. Please send 
proposals and direct enquiries to the BARS 2015 conference organisers, 
Anthony Mandal and Jane Moore (Cardiff University) at 
(BARS2015 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk).





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