Impurities

April 21-24, 2005

Louisiana State University

Building on Mary Douglas's work in Purity and Danger this conference will consider aspects of nineteenth-century life deemed impure. We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines, including: music, art, theater, curriculum theory, law, history, economics, history of science, and literature, among others. Topics might include:

Creolization	Migration/Vagabondage	Sin and Salvation	Religious Hybridization
Gender boundaries	Cities, Provinces, Regions	The Elite and the Masses	Sanitation/Contamination
Slavery	Colonization	Eugenics	Genre boundaries
Culture and Commerce	Outlaws, Heroes, and the Nation	Vulgarity and Respectability	Textual/Contextual Dichotomies

Longer versions of INCS conference papers are regularly published in affiliated Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Send 200-400 word abstracts by Oct 1, 2004 to enmich@lsu.edu