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Transforming Objects<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
28-29 May 2012, Northumbria University<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Keynote Speakers<\/b>: Dr Sarah Haggarty (Newcastle) and Dr John Holmes (Reading)<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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This two-day conference invites papers that consider the transformation of objects and the <\/span>transformations effected by objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Approaches to this <\/span>theme are welcomed from established scholars and especially from postgraduate research students.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Object theory and discourses of materiality largely engage with objects as stable items of a <\/span>permanent nature; this conference seeks to address those moments which slip through the gaps of <\/span>such readings. We wish to explore the method and process of transformation, the between-ness or not <\/span>fully realised state of an object or discipline, and to consider its effect upon the culture.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We are keen for papers to address particular historical, cultural, or social environments in which <\/span>transformations take place or are enabled by. The conference aims to provoke discussion about <\/span>such moments of change and the important role of objects in transformations between period, <\/span>discipline, location, and sensation, as well as engaging with more broader considerations of bodily <\/span>transformation and states of metamorphosis.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We hope the action of \u2018transforming\u2019 and the term \u2018object\u2019 will be engaged with in their widest <\/span>sense, and therefore welcome proposals which interpret the conference theme in innovative and <\/span>expansive ways. Topics of particular interest though include:<\/span><\/div>\n
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