[ecrea] CfP: Historical Fiction Network

The 2019  Historical Fictions Research Conference will be held in 
Manchester,  Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd February 2019.

The Call for Papers is now open.  Papers on all topics and from all 
disciplines are welcomed.

/This year, in honour of the 100th anniversary of the “Peterloo 
Massacre” 
<https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-peterloo-massacre>we 
welcome in particular papers on the loose topic “Radical Fictions”./

The CfP closes on July 1st 2018.

Twitter: @HistoricalFic

Facebook Group: Historical Fictions Research Network

Historical fictions can be understood as an expanded mode of 
historiography. Scholars in literary, visual, historical and 
museum/re-creation studies have long been interested in the construction 
of the fictive past, understanding it as a locus for ideological 
expression. However, this is a key moment for the study of historical 
fictions as critical recognition of these texts and their convergence 
with lines of theory is expanding into new areas such as the philosophy 
of history, narratology, popular literature, historical narratives of 
national and cultural identity, and cross-disciplinary approaches to 
narrative constructions of the past.

Historical fictions measure the gap between the pasts we are permitted 
to know and those we wish to know: the interaction of the meaning-making 
narrative drive with the narrative-resistant nature of the past. They 
constitute a powerful discursive system for the production of cognitive 
and ideological representations of identity, agency, and social 
function, and for the negotiation of conceptual relationships and 
charged tensions between the complexity of societies in time and the 
teleology of lived experience. The licences of fiction, especially in 
mass culture, define a space of thought in which the pursuit of 
narrative forms of meaning is permitted to slip the chains of sanctioned 
historical truths to explore the deep desires and dreams that lie 
beneath all constructions of the past.

//We welcome paper proposals from Archaeology, Architecture, Literature, 
Media, Art History, Musicology, Reception Studies, Museum Studies, 
Recreation, Gaming, Transformative Works and others. We welcome paper 
proposals across historical periods, with ambitious, high-quality, 
inter-disciplinary approaches and new methodologies that will support 
research into larger trends and which will lead to more theoretically 
informed understandings of the mode across historical periods, cultures 
and languages.

We aim to create a disciplinary core, where researchers can engage in 
issues of philosophy and methodology and generate a collective discourse 
around historical fictions in a range of media and across period 
specialities.

Paper proposals consisting of a title and abstract of /no more than /250 
words should be submitted to: (historicalfictionsresearch /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(historicalfictionsresearch /at/ gmail.com)>

*Registration: tickets can be purchased here. <http://bit.ly/2BXomFl>*

*Waged, £65/**Concessions, £35 (no booking fee).*


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