Conferences & Funding

This is the 19th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference The Ohio State University Columbus, OH Website: http://bwwc2011.osu.edu "Curiosities" March 31- April 3, 2011 Call for Papers: The theme for this year’s conference is “Curiosities.” We encourage submissions that consider how the concept of curiosity—in its dual meaning of intellectual pursuit and particular material objects—influenced the lives and work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers, and continues to drive our scholarship today. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to this topic, and are especially interested in both the ways in which women of this period expressed curiosity about their world through science, politics, philosophy, travel, religion, and art, and the ways in which these same questing, curious women became the subjects and objects of inquiry themselves. Proposals for panels and individual papers might consider, but are not limited to, t...