The Guild

Registration is now open. Please email petiot.aurelie@gmail.com,austen.saunders@gmail.com and rarl2@cam.ac.uk for more information!

Cambridge's American Literature Symposium would very much welcome Victorianists with an interest in transatlantic studies to their event next term (especially if they would like to submit papers!):

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Time & Temporalities
American Literature Symposium

26 May 2012
Faculty of English
University of Cambridge

Plenary speakers: Dr Lloyd Pratt (University of Oxford) Dr Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow)

'Are the properties of time truly identical to the properties of number? And do modern human beings always experience time as a measuring tape, uniform and abstract, untouched by locality, and untouched by the differential weight of the past?' In 2006, Wai Chee Dimock posed these questions in the context of a larger challenge to exceptionalism in American politics and literary studies. She is one of a group of contemporary critics whose rich work on the conflicted and complex relations between time, literature, and national and racial identities provides this year's graduate symposium with its point of departure.

'Time & Temporalities' investigates the concepts of time and experiences of temporality which shape literary texts, constructions of 'nation' and critical methodologies. The symposium welcomes contributions from graduates working in a range of disciplines.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to als.cam2012@gmail.com before FRIDAY 13 APRIL. Places are limited and free registration is now open: please email als.cam2012@gmail.com to register.

Registration is now open. Please email petiot.aurelie@gmail.com, austen.saunders@gmail.com and rarl2@cam.ac.uk for more information!

Imagined Civities: cities and alternatives in the 19^th century

A one day conference organised by The Guild: Interdisciplinary 19^th Century Forum.

English Faculty, University of Cambridge, June 8^th 2012.

Keynote speaker – Prof. Peter Mandler (Faculty of History, Cambridge).

Abstracts (200 words) are invited for 20 minute papers on any aspects of cultural and intellectual responses to urbanisation in the 19^th century. How did artists, scientists, philosophers and others respond to the opportunities and challenges created by cities in the 19^th century? How did they represent those cities already in existence, and how did they imagine the future in light of that experience? Topics might include urban utopias and dystopias, attitudes to urban conservation and town-planning, representations of post-urban societies, re-configured attitudes to urban experience in other historical epochs, and 19^th century understandings of the political implications of life in the city.

Please email abstracts and titles to Aurélie Petiot (petiot.aurelie@gmail.com), Austen Saunders (ags43@cam.ac.uk) and Ranald Lawrence (rarl2@cam.ac.uk) by December 15.

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