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31st Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
The University of Tampa, March 11-13, 2010, Tampa, Florida

Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century

Dramatic expression and self-conscious performances marked almost every aspect of nineteenth century life and artistic culture, as theatrical turns and performative mindsets introduced in the 17th-18th centuries expanded in the 1780s through the beginning of World War One. We invite paper and panel proposals that explore these themes and subjects in the long Nineteenth Century (1780-1914). Papers might address the theatrical shows—whether serious drama, circus displays, vaudeville, operas, or Shakespearean revivals—that appeared in cities and towns on both sides of the Atlantic (as well as in more distant lands). Or they might investigate how politics, social events, military engagements, domestic affairs, public trials, crime reports, religious rituals, architectural spaces, sculptural moments, exhibition halls, artistic and musical compositions, and the early moving pictures of the cinema, assumed a theatrical sensibility. Welcome also are proposals for papers and panels that bring scholarly and theoretical interests in performativity to bear on concepts of identity, individuality, and audience in the given era.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 500 words along with a brief (one page) c.v. to the Program Co-Chairs, Janice Simon (U of Georgia) and Regina Hewitt (U of South Florida) at the conference address ncsa2010@earthlink.net by Sept. 15, 2009. Speakers will be notified by or before Dec. 15.

Any graduate student whose proposal is accepted may at that point submit a full-length version of the paper in competition for a travel grant to help cover transportation and lodging expenses.

Conference sessions will be held at the University of Tampa, a campus with both the historic late-19th century Plant Hall (formerly the Tampa Bay Hotel) and a state-of-the-art conference center. Accommodations will be available at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Tampa, a short walk from campus. For further information—available in midsummer—please visit the NCSA website http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/ or contact Elizabeth Winston, Local Arrangements Director (U of Tampa), at the conference address ncsa2010@earthlink.net.

Thirty-Fifth Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium

October 22-24, 2009

The Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquia Committee is pleased to announce that Brigham Young University (Salt Lake City, UT) will host the thirty-fifth annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. For conference information, please contact Professors Corry Cropper or Daryl Lee. The deadline for abstracts is March 15, 2009.

E-mail for Professors Cropper and Lee and the conference: ncfs@byu.edu
Conference Web site: ncfs.byu.edu

Naomi Schor Memorial Award

The Naomi Schor Memorial award recognizes the best essay by a graduate student making a presentation at the annual meeting of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. Graduate students wishing to be considered for the award must send a complete version of their talk as an RTF (Rich Text Format) attachment to Larry Schehr (schehr@uiuc.edu) by 5:00 p.m. Central time on Monday, October 1, 2009. This should be the final version of the paper that will be read. Submissions may be in English or in French, however, those over the standard length (8-10 pages, double-spaced) will not be considered. The awards committee will evaluate the papers and the award will be announced at the Colloquium Banquet.

Please mail your contribution to: Professor Doris Kadish
Department of Romance Languages
The University of Georgia
Gilbert Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1815

Nineteenth-Century French Studies announces a fall 2006 special issue:

Sculpture et Poétique: Sculpture and Literature in France, 1789-1859

Guest Editors:
L. Cassandra Hamrick, Saint Louis University Suzanne Nash, Princeton University

With articles by:

Michel Brix
Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre
Jean Starobinski
Jean-Marie Roulin
Michele Hannoosh
L. Cassandra Hamrick
David Scott
Rosemary Lloyd
Wendy Nolan Joyce
Suzanne Nash
Stamos Metzidakis
Patrizia Lombardo

This collection of essays by distinguished international scholars makes a major contribution to the field of nineteenth-century French studies, not only in terms of what it has to say about the major practitioners of literature and sculpture that it considers, but in terms of the broader questions it raises about art, and in terms of the relationship between literature and the sculptural.
- Sonya Stephens

Subscribers will receive this extra issue as part of their Volume 35 (2006-2007) subscriptions.

U.S. subscriptions, $50 individuals, $90 institutions. Outside the U.S., add $15.

Single copies will also be available from the University of Nebraska Press.
Check the UNP website at www.nebraskapress.unl.edu or the NCFS website at www.unl.edu/ncfs for the most current information.

Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association new Web site

The Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association is
pleased to announce its new website : http://www.ncfs-assn.org

Article Prize

The Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) is pleased to announce the 2007 NCSA Article Prize. The prize recognizes excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long 19th century (French Revolution to WW I). The winner will receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at NCSA's annual meeting hosted this year by Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove PA, March 10-14, 2007.

Articles published between September 1, 2005 and August 31, 2006 are eligible for consideration for the 2007 prize and may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays. Submission of interdisciplinary studies is especially encouraged. Essays written in part or in whole in a language other than English must be accompanied by translations in English. The winning article will be selected by a committee of nineteenth-century scholars representing diverse disciplines.

The deadline for submission is November 15, 2006.

Send three off-prints or photocopies of published articles/essays to the Chair of the Article Prize Committee: Professor Joan DelPlato, Department of Art History, Simon's Rock College of Bard, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Inquiries may be addressed to Professor DelPlato at: delplato@simons-rock.edu. Applicants should provide an SASE or postcard so receipt of their submissions may be acknowledged.

Roundtable on Pedagogical Issues: Interdisciplinarity and Nineteenth-Century French Studies

This roundtable will be included in the 32nd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, to be held at Indiana University, 19-21 October 2006. It will consider questions like the following: what impact have other disciplines had on the practice of our scholarship? How is interdisciplinarity related to cultural studies? How are programs in French, traditionally a literature-based discipline, interacting with other departments and programs at our institutions? Does the movement towards studies programs represent a threat to traditional French programs or an opportunity for our own discoveries, inventions, and rediscoveries?

Format: Each participant will speak for 10-15 minutes before we open the floor for discussion.

Send proposals (100-200 words) by March 30 to Carol Rifelj, Middlebury College rifelj@middlebury.edu

Thirty-third Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium

October 18-20, 2007

The Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquia Committee is pleased to announce that the University of South Alabama (Mobile, Alabama) will host the thirty-third annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. For conference information, please contact Professor Susan McCready. The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2007.
E-mail for Professor McCready and the conference: NCFS2007@usouthal.edu
Conference Web site: http://www.southalabama.edu/languages/french/NCFS_2007_CFP.htm

Le Prix Chartier

A prize for studies in nineteenth-century French literature has been founded by Daniel Lemaire, president and director general of the famed Bouillon Chartier. It is administered by a group of nineteenth-century scholars.
Each year, the society awards the prize to a scholar, "indépendant d'esprit, exprimant en historien sa vision originale d'un écrivain et de son oeuvre, sans concession aux préjugés et aux modes idéologiques ou méthodologiques de notre temps. Il peut s'agir d'une biographie, de l'édition critique d'une oeuvre, d'un recueil de correspondances, d'inédits, d'une bibliographie, d'un catalogue d'exposition; enfin, de tout document d'histoire littéraire." The study must be in French.
For more information, please contact: jeanpierre.bonnerot@wanadoo.fr

Hosting the Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium

The annual conference is regularly scheduled for a period of three to four days during the second or third weekend in October. Geographically, the Colloquia Committee wishes to see the conference held in different regions throughout the United States and Canada. If you are interested in hosting the Colloquium at your home institution, please contact the Colloquia chairpersons:
Professor Doris Y. Kadish, Chairperson, NCFS Colloquia Committee, Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 or dkadish@arches.uga.edu.
Professor Lawrence R. Schehr, Chairperson, NCFS Colloquia Committee, Department of French, 2090 FLB, University of Illinois, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801 or schehr@uiuc.edu.