The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0931 Monday, 23 October 2006Subject:
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Date: Sunday, 22 Oct 2006 12:28:41 +0100
Subject: Call for Papers
The Idea of the City: Early Modern, Modern, and Post-Modern Locations and
Communities
A two-day international conference at the University of Northampton, UK,
8-9 June 2007 Call for Papers
Salmon Rushdie provocatively observes that 'the modern city is the locus
classicus of impossible realities'. This conference will explore the
nature of the modern city in literature from its origins in the
early-modern period to post-modern dislocations. Speakers are encouraged
to submit papers which explore the representation of real and imagined,
national and international, capital and regional cities, in poetry, prose
and drama. Prospective papers might dwell upon the city as a context
within which literature is created, structured, or inspired, and as
spaces, places, and localities in which distinct voices and genres emerge,
for example plague-ridded C16th London, post-revolutionary Paris, Bradford
after the 2001 riot, sectarian Belfast, the interface between the
tradition and technology in Tokyo, or globalisation in Mumbai.
While the focus of the conference is literary, papers are welcome by
scholars from cognate disciplines, including history, art, and film,
especially if their paper considers the interface between their discipline
and the literary. Potential areas of interest might include: the impact of
regional theatre upon its cities; the role of city authorities in the
dissemination of ideas; the city and its aliens; ethnic minority voices in
the inner cities; the tension between the country and the city; the
interface between global cities; and marginal urban identities and
activities (vice, prostitution, and poverty).
Plenary speakers to be announced
Prospective speakers are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers
by 1 March 2007 to the conference organizers, Dr Joan Fitzpatrick and Dr
Lawrence Phillips by e-mail to
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