Warsaw Literary Meeting Rising Stars
is
a one-day interdisciplinary
conference for young ambitious scholars (MA
and PhD students). It takes the same form as a regular WLM. All papers presented during
the workshop will be included in a volume of conference proceedings.
We
cordially invite all the supervisors of the young scholars.
TOPIC: BODY POETICS: THE REPRESENTATION OF THE BODY
IN ENGLISH
LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES
The workshop will be opened with a
plenary lecture by Professor Ann
Heilmann, Cardiff University.
DATE:
20 APRIL, 2018
COORDINATOR: dr hab. Magdalena Pypeć, University of Warsaw
DEADLINES:
- abstract (200–250 words) and a short biographical note - 18 February, 2018
- complete papers - 3 April, 2018
CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS & THEMES:
- Diseased bodies
- Disabled bodies
- Grotesque or carnivalesque bodies
- Aging bodies
- Dead and dying bodies
- Racialized and colonized bodies
- Gendered bodies
- Sexualized bodies
- Classed bodies
- Beautiful bodies
- Hybrid bodies
- Modified bodies
- Tortured bodies/ bodies in pain
- Damaged bodies
- Commodified bodies (slavery, prostitution, etc.)
- Maternal bodies
- Religious bodies
- Non-normative bodies
- Medicalized bodies
- Queer bodies
- Bodies as narrative devices
- Bodies and machines
- The politics of bodily representation (the body as a trope employed to figure wider social and political ideas
PROGRAMME
10.00–11.00
Plenary lecture
Chair: Grażyna Bystydzieńska
Ann
Heilmann, Cardiff University
Victorian
Body Politics, Neo-Victorian Body Poetics: The Contested Body of the Wife in
Mid-Victorian Divorce Trials
11.00–11.30
Tea & Coffee Break
11.30–13.00
Session 1
Chair: Barbara Braid
Agnieszka
Matyja (Independent
Scholar)
Transcendence of Gender Roles Resulting in
Body Disfigurement as Represented in the Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Bernadetta
Jankowska (Nicolaus
Copernicus University in Toruń)
Reading Human Bodies Through Cultural
Concepts: Arthur Hughes’ Selected Paintings
Martika Krakowska (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz)
Queer Female Bodies in Victorian Spaces in
Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet,
Affinity and Fingersmith
13.00–13.30
Tea & Coffee Break
13.30–14.30
Session 2
Chair: Magdalena Pypeć
Rafał
Borkowski (University
of Gdańsk)
The Human Body as the Transmitting
Telegraph – Mesmerism and Literature in the Victorian Era
Joanna
Morawska (University
of Gdańsk)
The Body as a Means of Exerting Control:
Hypnosis and Shapeshifting in The Beetle by
Richard Marsh
14.30–15.30
Lunch break
15.30–17.00
Session 3
Chair: Przemysław Uściński
Aleksandra
Krajewska (University
of Opole)
Working Bodies as a Sight of Horror and
Pride: A Memoir of Robert Blincoe (1832)
and A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd a Factory
Cripple (1842)
Katarzyna
Koźma (University
of Wrocław)
The
Colonial Bodies in Movement: Dance Scenes in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon Mines (1885) Read in the
Light of Victorian Anthropology
Maria Szafrańska (University of Warsaw)
“Dressed
as the dirty old Jew, I knew I should not be recognized” – Disguised Bodies and
Physical Britishness in Baroness Orczy’s The
Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
Venue:
Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
ul. Hoża 69
01-681 Warszawa
Plenary
lecture: room 113 (ground floor,
library)
Sessions:
room 327 (2nd floor)
Lunch and
tea: room 326 (2nd floor)
Accommodation:
We cover your accommodation costs for one-night stay at Hera, the University of Warsaw Hotel (including breakfast) and provide coffee, tea and buffet meals during breaks.
If your supervisor wishes to attend, we will cover the accommodation costs for one-night stay in the same hotel. Please, let us know ASAP that your supervisor is coming so that we may book the room in advance.
We cover your accommodation costs for one-night stay at Hera, the University of Warsaw Hotel (including breakfast) and provide coffee, tea and buffet meals during breaks.
If your supervisor wishes to attend, we will cover the accommodation costs for one-night stay in the same hotel. Please, let us know ASAP that your supervisor is coming so that we may book the room in advance.
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