Separateness and Kinship
Transatlantic Exchanges between New England and Britain 1600 – 1900
University of Plymouth, UK
July 14 2010 - July 17 2010
This three day conference will explore issues arising from the relationship between Britain and New England in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the light of recent developments in the reading of transatlantic connections. In the run up to the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, and in the context of new critical perspectives on transatlantic studies, such as post colonial theory with its emphasis on the whole Atlantic rim, feminism, discussions of displacement and debates about national identity, what does it now mean in the early twenty-first century to revisit with an interdisciplinary perspective the cultural and ideological exchanges between Britain and New England 1600-1900?
The conference will include contributions from literary scholars, art historians and specialists in the history of architecture and material culture.
Keynote addresses will be delivered by Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and Susan Manning, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh
Submission of abstracts
Applicants may submit proposals for panels or individual papers. Proposals for entire sessions should include: (1) a paragraph describing the session as a whole; (2) a one page abstract of each paper; (3) a one page CV for each participant. The conference prefers four presenters per session, excluding the chair, although submissions for panels of three will be considered.
Proposals for individual papers should include a 300 word abstract, a one page cv and a 100-word bio. Each presenter will be allotted 20 minutes; 15 minutes to present and 5 minutes for questions.
All submissions should be sent as Microsoft Word attachments to Project Officer, Vivien Minton:
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Deadline: 1 March, 2010