INTERDISCIPLINARY NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES CONFERENCE

University of Texas at Austin

25-27 March 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS:

FAMILY/RESEMBLANCE

The 2010 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on Family/Resemblance in the 19^th Century. The conference will consider how both family and resemblance were conceived/constructed in the 19^th century from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives, including and/or integrating Literature, History, Art History, Law, Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Music, Economics, and Theology. Topics may include:

*extended families; metaphoric families

*evolution and Darwin

*replication, reproduction

*sexualities

*sisterhoods, brotherhoods

*sister arts and sibling rivalry

*portraiture and family; portraiture and resemblance

*mimesis, imitation, parody

*genealogies

*law and the family

*the animal family; animal resemblances

*cyborgs and robots

*photography

*maternity/paternity/patriarchy

*gender and family; the gender of family

*domesticity

*artistic/literary/historic families

*dynasties (monarchies, Napoleon)

*legitimacy/illegitimacy

*colonialism

Hosted on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the 2010 INCS Conference will take place 25-27 March and will include a reception at the Harry Ransom Center and a plenary address by Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago.

Please submit 250 word abstracts by 1 November 2009 to Alexandra Wettlaufer at akw@mail.utexas.edu. For more information on INCS, see www.nd.edu/~incshp/. Selected conference papers will be published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts.