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-> Call for Papers - 19th C. "Visions, Dreams, and
Nightmares"
by "Wayne Miller" 
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Date: 16 Aug 1999 11:45:12 -0700
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Call for Papers - 19th C. "Visions, Dreams, and
Nightmares"
CALL for PAPERS
for the 20th Annual
Nineteenth-century Studies Association conference
"VISIONS, DREAMS, AND NIGHTMARES"
March 23-25 2000, in Arlington, VA (& Washington D.C.)
In honor of the arrival of the new millennium and of the one hundreth
anniversary of Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, NCSA invites
papers
or panels from multiple disciplines that consider any manner of
nineteenth-century permutations, materials, expressions, or
interpretations
of "Visions, Dreams, and Nightmares" Papers or panels may
consider any one
or all of the theme's terms and interpret them in any variety of ways.
"Visions" encompasses millennial hopes, political aspirations,
utopian plans
and communities, revolutionary plots, religious prophecies,
technological
promises, avant-garde aesthetics, and visionary architectural
constructs.
The ways and means of vision may also be explored: the extraordinary
vision
of spiritualism, hypnosis, telepathy, and clairvoyance; the more
"ordinary"
vision of plein-air painting, photographic representation, new color
theories, balloon or nocturnal sightings, and various optical
technologies.
"Dreams" and "Nightmares" may be those that haunt
the Gothic imagination or
of the Freudian mind. They may be the political dream of Fourierism or
the
nightmare of terroristic acts. Marx's communist revolution promised
salvation from the "nightmare of materialism"; yet for many it
represented
"the spectre that is haunting Europe." For some the geological
and
evolutionary sciences of Lyell and Darwin were a dream come true; for
many
creationists, they brought the nightmare of a world without faith.
Writers
like Collins, James, Poe, Shelley, and Stoker invented ghost stories,
the
pit and the pendulum, Frankenstein and Dracula. Artists like Delacroix,
Puvis, and Burne-Jones depicted dreams of past and future empires,
Moreau
and Redon created supernatural visions, while Church and Moran painted
barely explored earthly frontiers.
Proposals of one page, single spaced, for twenty-minute papers should
be
accompanied by a cover letter and a 1-2 page curriculum vita. Proposals
for
a 1 1/2 hour panel should include a cover letter from the panel
organizer
indicating format and issues to be discussed, accompanied by a one page
proposal and curriculum vita from each paticipant. Proposals on other
topics
for open sessions are also welcome. All materials should reach the
Program
Director by mail no later than October 1, 1999. You may email queries to
the
Location Director and you may email proposals only to the Program
Director.
Decisions will be announced in December 1999.
SUBMITPROPOSALS TO Program Director:
Prof. Phylis Floyd
Dept. of Art
Michigan state University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1119
floyd@msu.edu
Location Director:
Prof. Karen V. Waters
Dept. of English
Marymount University
Arlington, VA 22207-4299
2807 N. Glebe Road
kwaters@PHOENIX.MARYMOUNT.EDU