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Having hosted NASSR’s second conference in 1994, Duke is proud to welcome NASSR members back to Durham for the 17th annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. The conference, which will take place between May 21-24 of 2009, at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club, immediately adjacent to the Duke University campus, will explore the theme of “Romanticism & Modernity.”
Over the course of three days, NASSR 2009 will feature three renowned keynote speakers, nine seminars led by noted critics, and a large number of special sessions and regular panels. The intellectual rationale and objective behind the theme of “Romanticism and Modernity” is twofold. First, at the level of content, the meeting aims to explore and reconsider continuities and/or points of contact between the relatively compact period of Romanticism and the social, political, economic, and aesthetic formations of European modernity that either precede it or that follow in Romanticism’s wake. Secondly, at a disciplinary level, our focus on Romanticism’s complex and often ambivalent place within the material processes and intellectual genealogies of European modernity aims to encourage work that links British Romantic Studies to a wider European context. This conference specifically encourages presentations that forge connections among British, German, French national literatures and cultures , as well as European philosophical and aesthetic traditions flourishing during the Romantic period, leading up to it, and/or extending into the nineteenth century and beyond.
The conference organizers thus strongly encourage presentations on topics engaging Romanticism’s multifarious investments in and connections with European ” modernity.” Please see the “Call for Papers ” page for more detailed information regarding possible paper or special-session topics, as well as the format and deadlines for such submissions. We will formally begin accepting proposals by July 1, 2008.
Conference Organizers:
Thomas Pfau
Robert Mitchell
Srinivas Aravamudan
Kathy Psomiades
Charlotte Sussman
The Organizers wish to acknowledge generous support of the 2009 Conference by:
- Vice-Provost’s Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University
- Vice-Provost’s Office of International Studies, Duke University
- Vice-Provost for the Arts, Duke University
- The Franklin Humanities Institute
- The Trent Foundation
- The Office of the Dean for the Humanities, Duke University
- The Arts & Sciences Research Council, Duke University
- Department of English, Duke University
- Department of Romance Studies, Duke University
- Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Duke University
- The Program in Literature & Theory, Duke University
- Department of History, Duke University