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by Joe Amato/Kass Fleisher 
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Date: 23 Apr 1998 06:37:06 -0700
From: Joe Amato/Kass Fleisher 
Subject: NCSA Conference Call for Papers
Call For Papers
THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
"NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPECTACLES"
Keynote Speaker: Nina Auerbach
NCSA, an interdisciplinary association for the study of
nineteenth-century
cultures, announces the theme of its 18th annual conference,
"Nineteenth-Century Spectacles," to be hosted by Rutgers
University, March
18-20, 1999, in Philadelphia, PA.
As the great age of the world's fair and of an emerging consumerist
ideology, the nineteenth century fostered the spectacle in all realms
of
life and cultural production.  We invite papers of panels from multiple
disciplines that consider any manner of nineteenth-century
permutations,
materials, expressions, or interpretations of, as well as reactions
against, the world of spectacle.  Papers or panels might consider
world's fairs, international exhibitions, historical commemorations,
sanitary fairs, national art academies, salons and salons des refuses,
theatrical events, literary experiments, historical novels, operas,
music
halls, circuses, traveling shows, sporting events;
epic ambitions, imperialist adventures, military exploits,
revolutionary
uprisings, riots, terrorist acts, show trials, crimes and criminals,
public
pageantry, parades, funerals, religious ceremonies;
artistic, literary, musical, and theatrical personalities, kings and
queens, politicians, scientists, inventors, explorers, evangelists,
outcasts, exotics, and others who made spectacles of themselves whether
in
fiction or in real life;
the technology and artistry of spectacles:  battleships, balloons,
dynamos, mansions, palaces, resorts, amusement parks, architectural
bravura
of all kinds, feats of engineering, developments in communications and
advertizing, photography, stereography, etc.
Proposals of one to two pages for twenty-minute papers should be
accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae and a 50-75 word abstract.
Proposals for 1* hour panels should include format, issues to be
discussed,
participants' statements (and a cv for each), as well as a short
abstract.
Proposals on other topics for open sessions are also welcome.  All
materials should reach the Program Director by mail no later than
October
1, 1998.  You may e-mail queries, but NOT proposals.  Decisions will be
announced in December 1998.
Submit proposals to:
Suzanne Johnson Flynn
Program Director
Department of English
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325
e-mail: sflynn@gettysburg.edu
Direct other inquiries to:
Robert M. Ryan
Locations Director
Department of English
Rutgers University
Camden, NJ 08102
e-mail: rmryan@camden.rutgers.edu