Thursday 6 December 2012

Home and Nation: Reimagining the Domestic, 1750-1850

22-24 March, 2013, University of Leeds
Plenary Speakers: Dr Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield) and Professor Harriet Guest (University of York)
The domestic is an expansive concept. Denoting both the home and the nation, it exerts a powerful organisational force upon the formation of gendered, national, and racial identities. Under the influence of Jürgen Habermas, literary critics and historians have explored the role that the domestic plays in constructing – and deconstructing – the opposition between the public and the private spheres. Similarly, feminist investigations of this category have complicated the enduring notion of the ‘domestic woman’, bringing more complex and mobile forms of gender identity into clearer definition. Recognising the way in which the domestic mediates between the home and the nation has also had implications for critical work on national identity: as a process, domestication entails the regulation and assimilation of the alien and the other.
This three-day conference aims to take stock of recent critical approaches to this topic, and to explore the various ways in which the domestic interacts with ideas of privacy, publicity, the home and the nation. We invite proposals for papers (of 20 minutes) that address these issues with reference to the literature and culture of the period 1750-1850. We welcome papers that take an interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
•     The relationship between the home and the nation
•     The boundaries of the home
•     The representation of domestic space
•     The relationship between domesticity and gender identity
•     The domestication of the other / the alien
•     The relationship between domestic and professional labour
•     Consumerism, commerce, and the home
•     Theorisations of the public and the private
Proposals (of approximately 250 words) are welcome from established scholars and postgraduate students. Please email your proposal to Richard De Ritter (r.deritter@leeds.ac.uk) by Monday, 7th January 2013.

Universitas 21 PhD Scholarships

Applications are now invited for the Universitas 21 PhD Scholarships Programme. We are keen to encourage as many PhD students as possible to take advantage of this excellent opportunity. PhD students can apply for a Scholarship award of up to £1500 for a period of around one month’s stay at a Universitas 21 institution. The main aim of the award is to allow students to enhance their research by providing access to expertise or resources not readily available at Birmingham. It also aims to facilitate collaboration with academics internationally and create opportunities to present, helping to raise the profile of students’ work. Funding is for projects to be initiated during 2013-14.
The application deadline is Friday March 29th 2013. For further information please go to https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/external/international/Universitas-21-students/U21-PhD-Scholarships.aspx
 

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