{"id":7064,"date":"2019-07-03T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2019-07-03T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T21:41:17","slug":"cfp-antipodean-george-eliot-8-16-2019-2-13-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2019\/07\/03\/cfp-antipodean-george-eliot-8-16-2019-2-13-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Antipodean George Eliot (8\/16\/2019; 2\/13-14\/2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7065 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/univ-of-sydney-298x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/univ-of-sydney-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/univ-of-sydney-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/univ-of-sydney.png 764w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/>Antipodean George Eliot<\/p>\n<p>The University of Sydney and the Australasian Victorian Studies Association<\/p>\n<p>Sydney, Australia<\/p>\n<p>February 13-14, 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Antipodean George Eliot\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>provides the opportunity to examine George Eliot\u2019s legacy from any and every angle. The conference theme plays on the dual senses of \u2018antipodean\u2019 as \u2018Australasian\u2019 and \u2018in opposition to\u2019, with the goal of stimulating original thinking on all aspects of George Eliot\u2019s achievement, and the various contexts in which her\u00a0work is pertinent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antipodeange.com\/\">Antipodeange.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In addition to George Eliot\u2019s writings in all genres, possible topics include:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how, where, and by whom has George Eliot been read?<\/li>\n<li>discussions of her magisterial range of intellectual interests: philosophy, science broadly conceived, especially physiology and psychology, and religion<\/li>\n<li>writers and thinkers who influenced or were influenced by her<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Proposals of 250-300 words for papers of 20 minutes duration, together with a brief biographical note of no more than 100 words, should be submitted by email attachment to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:antipodeanGE@gmail.com\">antipodeanGE@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0by Friday 16 August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals for panels of 3-4 speakers are also welcome (600-750 words, with a biographical note for each speaker).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the conference invites proposals of 100-150 words for \u2018lightning talks\u2019 of 5-7 minutes; this may be of particular interest to graduate students<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmed speakers include\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fionnuala Dillane (University College Dublin); Tim Dolin (Curtin University); Moira Gatens (Philosophy, University of Sydney); Helen Groth (University of New South Wales); Joanne Wilkes (University of Auckland).<\/p>\n<p>Under the aegis of the School of Literature, Art and Media, The University of Sydney, and the Australasian Victorian Studies Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference organisers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Sussman and Margaret Harris.\u00a0<\/strong>Enquiries to Margaret Harris <a href=\"mailto:margaret.harris@sydney.edu.au\">margaret.harris@sydney.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antipodean George Eliot The University of Sydney and the Australasian Victorian Studies Association Sydney, Australia February 13-14, 2020 \u2018Antipodean George Eliot\u2019\u00a0provides the opportunity to examine George Eliot\u2019s legacy from any and every angle. The conference theme plays on the dual senses of \u2018antipodean\u2019 as \u2018Australasian\u2019 and \u2018in opposition to\u2019, with the goal of stimulating original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[1488,506,984,1926],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064"}],"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\/5272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}