{"id":1869,"date":"2013-07-16T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2013\/07\/16\/cfp-british-women-writers-reflections-112014619-212014\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T04:52:00","slug":"cfp-british-women-writers-reflections-112014619-212014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2013\/07\/16\/cfp-british-women-writers-reflections-112014619-212014\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: British Women Writers "Reflections" (1\/1\/2014;6\/19-21\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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22nd Annual Meeting of the British Women Writers Conference <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
June 19-21, 2014 <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Binghamton University, State University of New York <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
REFLECTIONS <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
For the 22nd annual meeting of the British Women Writers Conference <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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For the 22nd annual meeting of the British Women Writers Conference, we will focus on the theme of \u201cReflections.\u201d Cross-disciplinary in scope and implication, we invite papers\u2014as well as panel and roundtable proposals\u2014to explore \u201creflections\u201d as broadly as possible, whether they are physical or metaphysical; individual or cultural; social, historical or fictional; real or imagined; seen or unseen.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: <\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Reflective Objects and Spaces <\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Imagery of mirrors in women\u2019s writing <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Cemeteries, memorials, monuments; museums <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Ruins <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Shop-windows <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Fashion\/clothing; consumption\/consumerism; advertising <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Women in business\/finance <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Books (and readers) <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Photography\/photographs <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Private spheres: homes\/decor, women\u2019s rooms, closets <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Public spheres: public gardens, theaters, salons <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Liminal spaces <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Reflections of\/on the Body <\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\u201cBeauty\u201d\/appearance; body image <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Youth\/age <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Changes in the female body: internal and external; psychological or physiological; perspectives and attitudes regarding adolescence and maturation, menstruation and menopause, motherhood and childbirth <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Health\/disease <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Disability <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Gender and sexuality <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Body as reflection of the unconscious <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Reflective Genres<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Women\u2019s life writing; women writing about women; biographical <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
or autobiographical reflection <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Letters and journals; epistolary novel; transnational correspondence <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Reviews\/reception <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Ekphrasis; reflections on\/of visual arts (other arts) in literature <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Histories\/origins; the historical novel <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Detective fiction <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Travel writing <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Medical writing <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Metafiction; fiction about reading fiction; Romantic poetry <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Textual Reflections<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Repetition in form\/structure <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Doubling, doppelg\u00e4ngers; the uncanny <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Dreams <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Textual gaps or silences <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Revisions\/retellings of original stories <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Creative Work: poetry, fiction, non-fiction inspired by BWWs <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Reflective Moments <\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Epiphany <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Memory\/remembrance; Erlebnis and Erfahrung<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Sensory reflection (smell, taste, sound)<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Self and identity, self-recognition\/narcissism<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Death and (re)birth<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cThe mirror stage\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Desire\/eroticism<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
BWWs and travel<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Women\u2019s Rights\/ Suffrage<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Distorted Reflections<\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Repressed and displaced language<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Translations<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Cross-disciplinary reflections<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Abstractions<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
The Gothic<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
The grotesque<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
(Re)imagining the past and future<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cAura\u201d\/mass reproduction<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Madness, hysteria<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Through the Looking Glass<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Reflective Possibilities (Possible roundtables\/special sessions)<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
British Women & Health\/Medicine <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
British Women & American Women <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
British Women in Pop Culture\/Film <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
British Women & Travel <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
British Women & the History of Women\u2019s Rights<\/span><\/div>\n
British Women & the Military<\/span><\/div>\n

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For paper proposals, please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio (in a single attachment) to bwwc2014@gmail.com by January 1, 2014.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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For full panel or roundtable\/session proposals, please attach all proposals to a single email. Papers and panels must address the theme and apply to long 18th- or 19th-century, Romantic or Victorian women\u2019s literature.<\/span><\/div>\n

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