The From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria research group is soliciting papers for the Body | Mind | Spirituality conference.
"As always, we call for papers on any theme within our time frame, but to celebrate the first in-person meeting since the outbreak of the pandemic, we would like to focus on the perceptions of and relationships between body, mind and spirituality in 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture and their contemporary rewritings.
We encourage proposals considering diverse forms of cultural expression, including literature, poetry, theatre, the arts, film, fashion, and performativity, as well as a range of social, geographical and historical contexts.
We accept proposals for 20-minute papers as well as panels of three 20-minute papers.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Matter and spirit/body and soul
- Mental processes and/or physical actions
- Heart vs. reason, or sense and sensibility
- Brilliant and/or critical minds
- Remembering and commemorating
- Senses and sensual/sensory experience
- Visuality and visionary experience
- Medicine and psychology
- Mesmerism and phrenology
- Diseased and disabled bodies
- Death and dead bodies
- Body aesthetics
- Fashion, clothing, and personal objects
- Creature comforts
- Desired, despised, and decadent bodies
- Normative and non-normative bodies
- Imperial and (post)colonial bodies
- Human and non-human bodies
- The seen and the unseen
- Spirituality and spiritualism
- Religions and denominations
- The nature and the supernatural
- Ghosts, magic and enchantment
- Faith and doubt
- Science and secularisation
- Body politic and the political mind
Please submit a 250-word proposal and a 100-word bionote by MArch 31, 2023 using this form [link]
Last modified 15 December 2022