{"id":540,"date":"2015-01-16T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2015-01-16T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:09:20","slug":"expanded-cfp-john-keats-poet-physician-physician-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Expanded CfP: John Keats: Poet-Physician, Physician-Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keats<\/a><\/p>\n

Please see below for more details on this year’s Keats Foundation conference at Guy’s Hospital, London, which will take place between May 1st and May 3rd.\u00a0 The revised deadline for abstracts is March 1st, and the organisers will get back to those who propose papers swiftly after that date.<\/p>\n

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John Keats: Poet-Physician, Physician-Poet, 1815-1821<\/h1>\n

A Bicentenary Conference at Guy\u2019s Hospital, London,<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Organized by The Keats Foundation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1-3 MAY 2015<\/strong><\/h2>\n

(Registered Charity Number 1147589)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Keats Foundation announces its second bicentenary conference, to be held from the afternoon of Friday 1 until the evening of Sunday 3 May 2015 at Guy\u2019s Hospital London. The conference marks the 200th<\/sup> anniversary of John Keats enrolling to study medicine at Guy\u2019s Hospital in 1815.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Confirmed speakers include Druin Birch, Jeffrey Cox, Stuart Curran, Damian Walford Davies, Jenny Uglow, R. S. White.<\/h4>\n

The conference will be held on the 29th<\/sup> floor of Guy\u2019s Hospital Tower Building \u2013 with extensive views of the City of London.<\/p>\n

We will visit the surroundings of Guy\u2019s Hospital, including the celebrated John Keats statue in the quadrangle. One of our receptions will be held in the Old Operating Theatre at Guy\u2019s, giving participants an opportunity to gather around the operating table with glasses of wine. Our second reception and buffet-banquet will be held in private, wood-panelled rooms at the historic seventeenth-century George Inn \u2013 London\u2019s only surviving galleried inn.<\/p>\n

Call for Papers<\/span><\/h3>\n

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited, under the broad heading of \u2018John Keats: Poet-Physician \/ Physician-Poet\u2019. While there is no exclusive requirement as to topics, we welcome papers on the relation of Keats\u2019s poetry, letters, life and times to any of the following:<\/p>\n

Medicine \/ poetry and medicine<\/p>\n

Romantic-era hospitals<\/p>\n

Medical training<\/p>\n

Surgery \/ dissection \/ anatomy<\/p>\n

Prescriptions and the pharmacopoeia<\/p>\n

Infection \/ disease<\/p>\n

Tuberculosis \/ consumption<\/p>\n

Healing<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s health<\/p>\n

Medical texts<\/p>\n

Wounds<\/p>\n

Nerves<\/p>\n

Mercury<\/p>\n

Hypochondria<\/p>\n

Melancholia<\/p>\n

Hallucination and drugs<\/p>\n

Well-being<\/p>\n

States of Mind<\/p>\n

The Senses<\/p>\n

The Moon<\/p>\n

Alchemy and Magic<\/p>\n

Plants and Herbs<\/p>\n

This list offers some starting points for presentations and is not intended in any way to limit possible topics and themes for paper presentation. For obvious reasons, however, all papers should have a Keatsian focus.<\/p>\n

Please send 200-word proposals as an email attached document to the conference administrator, Hrileena Ghosh hg27@st-andrews.ac.uk<\/a> by 1 March 2015. Please ensure that your proposal is headed with your paper title, your name, institutional affiliation, and an e-mail contact address. Acceptances will be issued very shortly after 1 March 2015; please let us know if you have a deadline for travel or funding.<\/p>\n

Please note: the conference registration fee will be confirmed when Registration opens in March 2015, and is likely to be in the region of \u00a3150 (full rate)\/\u00a390 (postgraduates and unwaged), inclusive of the two receptions; \u00a3100\/\u00a350 conference attendance only. Lunches, coffees, teas, biscuits, cakes and other refreshments are all included, as are conference stationary and electronic resources. We hope to reduce the conference fee further, numbers permitting. When submitting your paper proposal, please would you indicate whether you would like to attend the receptions. Every effort has been made to keep registration fees to a minimum. Travel and accommodation arrangements are left to delegates\u2019 discretion.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Roe (John Keats. A New Life<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Richard Marggraf Turley (Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Sarah Wootton (Consuming Keats: Nineteenth-Century Representations in Art and Literature<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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