Call for Papers
This conference will explore the thoroughly modern forms of communication, technological development, and scientific discovery that emerged in the period. We also encourage investigations of twenty-first century scientific and technological legacies and media representations of nineteenth-century subjects.
Topics might include:
- Inventions: Telegraphs, Electric Lights, Typewriters, Railroads & Other New Forms of Transportation
- Print Culture: Scientific Periodicals, Political Pamphlets, Illustrated Newspapers, & Penny Magazines
- The "Pseudo-Sciences": Phrenology, Physiognomy, & Eugenics
- Technology & Empire
- Amateur Scientists, Scientific Tourism, & Collectors
- Botany & Geology; Darwin & Evolution Controversies
- Innovation & Popular Entertainment; Photography, Magic Lantern Shows, & Moving Pictures
- Gendered Uses of Technology
- Science Fiction; Responses to "Modernity" in Literature & Art
- Nursing, Medicine, & Psychology
- The "Nineteenth-Century Up-to-Date" in Recent Film & Fiction
Longer versions of INCS conference papers are regularly published in the affiliated Nineteenth- Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Send 250-500 word abstracts in .pdf or .doc format by December 1, 2006 to incs2007@umkc.edu.
Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information within that document, as well as within the body of your email.
You can also download a printable copy of the Call for Papers.
Selection Committee
- Andrew S. Bergerson
- Andrea Broomfield
- John Herron
- Kristin Huston
- Daniella Mallinick
- Diane Mutti-Burke
- Jennifer Phegley
Conference Organizers
- Jennifer Phegley & Daniella Mallinick