A Panel on ‘Hosting the Ghosts: Victorian Revival and the Enduring Past’
About This Event
The Arts and Humanities Research Division (AHRD) of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) is organizing A Panel on ‘Hosting the Ghosts: Victorian Revival and the Enduring Past’, 3-6 January 2017, Athens, Greece as part of the 4th Annual International Conference on Humanities & Arts in a Global World. In the past, the five research units of AHRD have organized more than 50 annual international conferences on history, philosophy, literature, linguistics, languages, as well as the visual and performing arts.
This panel offers an opportunity for cross disciplinary presentations on all aspects of humanities, literary and historical studies. Areas of interest include (but are not confined to):
The notion of historical fiction: history in neo-Victorian texts
The idea behind the Victorian revival
Neo-Victorian fiction, arts and media and the process of historical recollection
Is neo-Victorian always “historical”?
Victorian morality and social standards introduced in the modern context – (are they still valid?)
Victorian revival and modern ethical issues
“Readerly communities” – reading habits as the nexus between the Victorians and us
Neo-, retro- or post-Victorian fiction – proliferation of terms and their significance
“Reviving the ghosts:” nostalgia and longing for the past in neo-Victorian fiction
Neo-Victorian biographies: in fiction and on the screen
Victorian revived novels: in fiction and on the screen
The relation between the author and the reader in the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts
Neo-Victorian prequels/sequels to the Victorian texts and their significance in the study of the literary past
Neo-Victorian adaptations (in fiction and media) of the Victorian texts
The notion of Bildunsgroman in the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts
The notion of “gentleman” in the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts
Women as protagonists in neo-Victorian fiction
Class-consciousness as presented in the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts
The idea of the “Victorian values” and their use/misuse in the modern discourse and historical narrative
The marginalised voices in neo-Victorian texts
Fee structure information is available on http://www.atiner.gr/fees.
Special arrangements will be made with a local hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise to selected Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available here.
Please submit an abstract (email only) to: [email protected], using the abstract submission form by the 21 November 2016 to: Dr. David Philip Wick, Director, Arts and Humanities Research Division, ATINER & Professor of History, Gordon College, USA or Ms. Aleksandra Tryniecka, Research Fellow, ATINER & PhD Student, Maria Curie-SkBodowska University, Poland. Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks.
If your submission is accepted, you will receive information on registration deadlines and paper submission requirements. Should you wish to participate in the Conference without presenting a paper, for example, to chair a session, to evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, to contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, UK ([email protected]).
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