Wednesday, December 19, 2012

CFP: RLS 2013 "Stevenson, Time and History" (2/15/2013; 7/8-10/2013)





RLS 2013: Stevenson, Time and History
8-10 July 2013
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Keynote Speaker: Professor Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge

Topics for discussion include: 

  • History and historiography
  • The historical novel
  • Theories of evolution
  • The ideas of progress
  • Generation and degeneration
  • Narrative temporalities
  • Genealogy and ancestry
  • Stages of life: childhood, youth, age
  • Memory and nostalgia
  • Change

Proposals for papers (250 words) should be emailed to Roslyn Jolly (r.jolly@unsw.edu.au) or Chris Danta (c.danta@unsw.edu.au). Deadline extended to 15 February 2013.