{"id":2669,"date":"2019-10-14T07:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T07:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2019-10-14T07:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T07:54:36","slug":"the-28th-annual-nassr-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"The 28th Annual NASSR Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Romanticism and Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>28th Annual Conference\u00a0of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>University of Toronto, Ontario on August 6-9, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">For more details <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.utoronto.ca\/wincs\/nassr2020\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The organizers of NASSR 2020 invite proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables&#8211;from scholars emerging and established, and in all areas of literary, philosophical, cultural, and artistic study&#8211;on the theme of \u201cRomanticism and Vision.\u201d In the field of Romanticism, the implications of \u201cvision\u201d as a keyword have changed dramatically over the last half-century, and have expanded to include (for example) the embodied senses, technologies of perception, visual and material culture, and the visual and performing arts. We welcome presentations that explore Romanticism\u2019s connection to vision, the visual, and the visionary, understood in the widest possible sense. Approaches that broaden Romanticism\u2019s disciplinary, geographical, and linguistic scope are especially welcome. In our echoing of the \u201cVision 2020\u201d and \u201cBeyond 2020\u201d motif currently being deployed in academic, business, and public sectors, we aim to make this year&#8217;s conference an opportunity to consider the future of Romanticism as a critical field of humanist study, and to strategize about the role of Romanticism in shaping the future of the university.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topics may include (but are not limited to)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-envisioning Romanticism: looking back and looking forward<\/li>\n<li>Visions and the visionary: perception, prognostication, projection, speculation, the speculative<\/li>\n<li>Ways of looking: reading, conceptualizing, observing, peeping, gazing, categorizing, examining, recognizing and misrecognizing<\/li>\n<li>Visual culture and aesthetics: objects of sight, spectacle, the spectacular, the sublime and the beautiful<\/li>\n<li>Reading methods and histories: careful, close, distant, surface; plagiarism, copyright law<\/li>\n<li>Print culture in its social, theoretical, and physical aspects (e.g. text, design, structure, layout); manuscripts, letters, journals, scrapbooks, books, journals, newspapers<\/li>\n<li>The seen and the unseen: noumena, phenomena, the spirit world, apparitions and appearances<\/li>\n<li>Romantic iconoclasm and anti-representationalism; ocularcentrism and \u201cthe tyranny of the eye\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Visual communication: text, numbers, notation (e.g. musical), images, sign language, placards, banners, flags, gestures, hieroglyphs, emblems, insignia<\/li>\n<li>Questions of form and representation<\/li>\n<li>Fashionable looking: costume, hair, makeup, manner, style, taste, places to see and be seen<\/li>\n<li>Visualizing gender and sexuality: identity, performance, politics<\/li>\n<li>Visual and scenic arts: sculpture, painting, illustration, graphic satire, print shops, pornography, broadsheets, dioramas, panoramas, architectural and landscape design<\/li>\n<li>Theatre and performing arts: set design, lighting, visual effects, costume, body movement, dance, pantomime, attitudes, tableaux vivants<\/li>\n<li>Art collection and assessment: museums and curation, connoisseurship, formal and evaluative concerns (e.g. light, color, pattern, shape, scale, proportion)<\/li>\n<li>Visualizing class: social hierarchies and signifiers (e.g. clothing, heraldry, pageantry), occupational and economic segregation<\/li>\n<li>Instruments of looking: lenses, spectacles, quizzing glasses, spy glasses, Claude glasses, prisms, mirrors, telescopes, microscopes, orreries, windows<\/li>\n<li>Forms of illumination and darkness: lightning, electricity, candlelight, lamps, gas light, spotlights, limelight, torches, fireworks; shade, shadow, twilight, gloom, obscurity<\/li>\n<li>Religious vision(s): prophecy, revelation, enthusiasm, sermons and hymns, public and private devotion, natural and revealed religion<\/li>\n<li>The science of the eye: vision, optics, visual anatomy, medicine, pathology, disability, blindness<\/li>\n<li>Data visualization (e.g. land, economy, population studies): mapping, cartography, geography, geolocation, charts, diagrams, categorization, numerical and pictorial statistics<\/li>\n<li>Visualizing race: slavery, racism, racialization, minoritization<\/li>\n<li>Vision and ecopoetics: seeing nature (vistas, prospects, the picturesque); noticing and reading features of land, water, and sky; watching weather and recognizing climate; the animal gaze<\/li>\n<li>Envisioning space and place: the local and the global, home and abroad, the peripheral and transperipheral<\/li>\n<li>Envisioning (the ends of) empire: imperialism, colonialism, sites and sights of war; decolonization, indigenization<\/li>\n<li>Political and military forecasting, strategy, optics, campaigns, battlegrounds, political theatre<\/li>\n<li>Imagining the future of Romanticism; strategizing its work in the humanities, in the university, and in society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Keynote Speakers:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nassr.ca\/r?u=DLX0CexTqdVaH5W9f7tzucbhHD0EwK1FXciIVuOC-o0vrChhPBEpZAiCQgSYoh6zVdyVvn4ojYfArWMhGtMlGQ&amp;e=147429d3c2c3d47db5f5c98df7f0e68f&amp;utm_source=nassr&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nassr2020&amp;n=3\">Elizabeth Maddock Dillon<\/a>\u00a0(Northeastern University)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nassr.ca\/r?u=DLX0CexTqdVaH5W9f7tzucbhHD0EwK1FXciIVuOC-o0vrChhPBEpZAiCQgSYoh6zVdyVvn4ojYfArWMhGtMlGQ&amp;e=147429d3c2c3d47db5f5c98df7f0e68f&amp;utm_source=nassr&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nassr2020&amp;n=4\">Martin Myrone<\/a>\u00a0(Tate Britain)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Seminar Leaders:<\/strong><br \/>\nLuisa Cal\u00e8 (Birkbeck, University of London)<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Campbell (University of Chicago)<\/p>\n<p>William H. Galperin (Rutgers University)<\/p>\n<p>Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton)<\/p>\n<p>Gr\u00e9gory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)<\/p>\n<p>Padma Rangarajan (University of California, Riverside)<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Russell (University of York)<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Thomas (Ryerson University)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>WEBSITE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nassr.ca\/r?u=DLX0CexTqdVaH5W9f7tzucbhHD0EwK1FXciIVuOC-o1MZzWUseQrLrHzNuGUdYKw&amp;e=147429d3c2c3d47db5f5c98df7f0e68f&amp;utm_source=nassr&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nassr2020&amp;n=5\">http:\/\/sites.utoronto.ca\/wincs\/nassr2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EMAIL CONTACT:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nassr2020vision@gmail.com?Subject=NASSR%202020%20Query\">nassr2020vision@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanticism and Vision 28th Annual Conference\u00a0of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) University of Toronto, Ontario on August 6-9, 2020. 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