The Call for Submission deadline has passed, and no more papers are being accepted.
Speakers and attendees are please to register for the conference here.
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Call for Submissions
In recent years, objects have provided a fruitful stimulus for literary enquiry. Harnessing this energy, the conference will explore physical and abstract connotations of object-hood. What impact do material objects have on texts and lives? What does it mean to study books as objects? How can texts be said to dissent and object?
Presentation topics may include, but are not limited to:
Material objects
Material culture; Thing-theory; Collecting/Hoarding/Curating; Dress/Costume/Props; Ritual; Body as object; Sex toys; Food/Drink; Money/Commerce; Architecture/Buildings; Objets d’art; Objets trouvés…
Book as object
Book history; Codicology; Archives; Periodicals/Ephemerality; Technological platforms/Online texts…
Objecting
Dissent; Protest; Objectification…
Abstract interpretations
Objectivity; Sense/Perception; Ekphrasis; Instability of the object; Text as space; Formalism; Object orientated ontology…
Please send 500-word proposals for joint panels of 3-4 participants or 250-word abstracts for twenty-minute individual papers to the conference organisers at egcoxford@gmail.com. We also encourage participants to accompany their spoken presentations with visual and tactile props, whether in the form of visual media or show-and-tell-style physical objects.
Proposals should be submitted by 5pm, Friday 22nd February 2013.
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