{"id":4138,"date":"2016-08-18T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2016-08-18T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T03:08:07","slug":"cfp-some-dance-to-remember-some-dance-to-forget-dance-and-memory-in-the-nineteenth-century-9152016-22-42017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2016\/08\/18\/cfp-some-dance-to-remember-some-dance-to-forget-dance-and-memory-in-the-nineteenth-century-9152016-22-42017\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Some Dance to Remember; Some Dance to Forget: Dance and Memory in the Nineteenth Century (9\/15\/2016; 2\/2-4\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NCSANCSA 2017: Memory and Commemoration, Graduate Caucus
\nCharleston, SC
\nFebruary 2-4, 2017<\/p>\n

\"Some Dance to Remember; Some Dance to Forget: Dance and Memory in the Nineteenth Century\"<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Dancing Out of Line: Ballrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and Culture<\/em>\u00a0(2009), Molly Engelhardt proclaims:<\/p>\n

Dance exerts a powerful hold on the modern memory, and that hold affects temporality: dance generates excitement that becomes the material of memory-making; it preserves the feelings connected to the past by framing moments of import for future recall; and it triggers that recall, for the constancy of dance components over time are powerful enough to transport participants into their dancing pasts.<\/p>\n

In its vital connection to memory-making, dance in the nineteenth century served to facilitate, commemorate, and register rapid social, economic, and industrial change across the globe. Writers and artists turned to dance as a medium for exploring issues of physical and social mobility, nationalism, and gender. Dance could offer positive opportunities for the upwardly mobile\u2014as in the carefully choreographed engagements of Jane Austen\u2014or could invite rather grim associations\u2014such as the early nineteenth-century revival in Europe and Britain of the\u00a0Danse Macabre<\/em>\u2014a late medieval trope depicting the relationship between life and death as a ghoulish dance. Genres of dance in the nineteenth century could also scandalize\u2014as in the shockingly sensual waltz, or the Dance of the Seven Veils performed by Oscar Wilde\u2019s Salome.<\/p>\n

From the quadrilles of Jane Austen to the Ballets Russes, dance continues to shape our understanding of the literature, art, and history of the nineteenth century. In honor of the theme of this year\u2019s Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference\u2014\u201cMemory and Commemoration\u201d\u2014the Graduate Caucus invites proposals for a special panel entitled \u201cSome Dance to Remember; Some Dance to Forget: Dance and Memory in the Nineteenth Century.\u201d How did citizens of the nineteenth century use dance to commemorate, remember, and register individual and collective experience? How do we as scholars use dance as a lens to understand our nineteenth-century subjects? How do the dance legacies of the nineteenth century shape our modern memory of that time? This special panel will prepare conference attendees for an optional nineteenth-century dance workshop at the conference, hosted by the Graduate Caucus.<\/p>\n

Papers might consider:<\/p>\n

  • Dancing etiquette, and the social or economic realities etiquette might register<\/li>\n
  • Dancing bodies, muscle memory, and the remembrance of touch<\/li>\n
  • The material cultures of dance and dancing<\/li>\n
  • Representations of dancers or dancing<\/li>\n
  • The association between dancing and death, enshrined in the\u00a0Danse Macabre<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Engagements with dance as markers of economic, gendered, racial, or national diversity<\/li>\n
  • Historiographies of dance or case studies of specific dances<\/li>\n
  • The role that memory played in the production or reception of artworks such as Degas\u2019s ballet dancers, or Henri Toulouse-Lautrec\u2019s paintings of Montmartre\u2019s dance halls<\/li>\n
  • Cross-cultural dances in the nineteenth century<\/li>\n
  • Contemporary representations of nineteenth-century dance in film or literature<\/li>\n
  • Creative or alternative interpretations of the theme<\/li>\n

    Please submit a one-page CV and 250-word proposal for 15-20 minute papers to ncsagradcaucus@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0by September 15, 2016. While the Graduate Caucus sponsors this event, the panel is open to all. The organizers are happy to respond to any queries you may have at this email address. For more information about NCSA and the conference in Charleston, visit http:\/\/www.ncsaweb.net\/Current-Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    NCSA 2017: Memory and Commemoration, Graduate Caucus Charleston, SC February 2-4, 2017 “Some Dance to Remember; Some Dance to Forget: Dance and Memory in the Nineteenth Century” In\u00a0Dancing Out of Line: Ballrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and Culture\u00a0(2009), Molly Engelhardt proclaims: Dance exerts a powerful hold on the modern memory, and that hold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,1],"tags":[1180,506,512,1476,1477,575],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}