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January 21, 2013

CFP: MWCBS 2013

The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its 60^th Annual Meeting will be hosted by DePaul University in Chicago, October 11-13, 2013.

The keynote speaker will be Professor Robert Bucholz of Loyola University of Chicago, and the plenary address will be given by Professor Jonathan Rose of Drew University. The MWCBS is also pleased to celebrate the career of Professor Walter L. Arnstein at this year’s meeting.

The MWCBS seeks papers from scholars in all fields of British Studies, broadly defined to include those who study England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Britain’s Empire and the Commonwealth. We welcome scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to history, literature, political science, gender studies and art history. Proposals for complete sessions are preferred, although proposals for individual papers will be considered. We welcome roundtables (of four participants plus chair) and panels (of three participants plus chair/commentator) that:

* offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on topics in British Studies

* situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a British cultural context

* examine representations of British and imperial/Commonwealth national identities

* consider Anglo-American relations, past and present

* examine new trends in British Studies

* assess a major work or body of work by a scholar

* explore new developments in digital humanities and/or research methodologies

After positive responses to recent roundtables on teaching and employment, we would particularly like to receive proposals for teaching roundtables that discuss collaborative or innovative learning techniques in the British Studies classroom and for professional development roundtables dealing with research, publication, or employment. We are also pleased to announce a session on holdings available to scholars conducting research in the Chicago area.

The MWCBS welcomes papers presented by advanced graduate students and will award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize for the best graduate student paper(s) given at the conference. A limited number of graduate travel scholarships will be available, and all graduate students are encouraged to apply. Please see the MWCBS website for further details: https://mwcbs.edublogs.org/

Proposals must:

– Include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a brief, 1-page c.v. for each participant, including chairs and commentators.

– For full panels, include a brief 200-word preview of the panel as a whole.

Please place the panel proposal, the accompanying paper proposals and vitas in one file and send it as a single attachment. Also identify within the email the contact person for the panel.

All proposals should be submitted electronically by April 15, 2013, to the Program Committee Chair, Jennifer McNabb at JL-Mcnabb@wiu.edu .

Program Committee: Martin Greig, Ryerson University; Phil Harling, University of Kentucky; Robin Hermann, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Isaac Land, Indiana State University; Jennifer McNabb, Chair, Western Illinois University; and Cathryn Spence, University of Guelph.

July 26, 2012

MWCBS 2012 Registration Information

I am pleased to invite you to the annual Midwest Conference on British
Studies, 12-14 October 2012.   Our meeting is at the Delta Chelsea Hotel
(33 Gerard St. West) in downtown Toronto.  Our host is the University of
Toronto.  The Delta Chelsea Hotel is offering a discounted conference rate
for MWCBS attendees.

As with last year’s conference, high levels of interest in the conference
and the quality of the proposals mean that we will run four simultaneous
panels instead of three.  And, like last year, our registration process is
now online.  That way, if you wish to register using your credit card, you
can.  We are using the same system as the North American Conference on
British Studies, so for many of you, the interface should be familiar.

We will hold our annual Friday reception, and our plenary speaker will be
Professor Ian Gentles of Glendon College who will speak on “English
Revolution Studies: The State of Play.” Professor Gentles has written
many articles and three books on the English Revolution: The New Model
Army in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1645-1653 (1992); Soldiers, Writers
and Statesmen of the English Revolution (1998) and The English Revolution
and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 (2007). Professor Gentles is
a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and recipient of several major
research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada.

Our Saturday luncheon keynote speaker will be John Gillis, Professor
Emeritus of Rutgers University who will speak on “The Rise and Fall of the
Island Race.” In addition to his many articles, Professor Gillis is the
author of six monographs: The Prussian Bureaucracy in Crisis, 1840-60
(1971); Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations,
1750-Present (1975); Development of European Society, 1770-1870 (1977);
For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the present (1985); A
World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values
(1996); Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the
Atlantic World (2004). He has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced
Study in the Social Sciences.

If you would like to see the MWCBS 2012 program, you can download it as a .pdf. Please keep in mind that while the schedule is confirmed, the program is a draft and there may be a few slight adjustments in the coming weeks.

To register for the conference, please visit the Regonline interface.*
The conference fees are as follows:

Early Registration (through 14 September): $100.00
Regular Registration (after 14 September): $120.00
Early Registration for Graduate Students (through 14 September): $70.00
Regular Registration for Graduate Students (after 30 September): $85.00

Luncheon: $20.00
The reception is open to registered MWCBS attendees

* all panelists are required to register

To reserve a hotel room at the discounted MWCBS rate, call the Delta Chelsea hotel Reservations Department at 1-800-CHELSEA (1-800-243-5732). Be sure to identify yourself as being with the Midwest Conference on British Studies and call before September 11, 2012. The rates in CAD are as follows:

Single OR Double, $119.00 per night
Triple, $139.00 per night
Quad, $159.00 per night

Note that each extra person sharing a room will be charged an additional $20 per
night. There is no charge for children under 18 sharing with parents.

Airport Shuttle Service: http://www.torontoairportexpress.com/schedule.php

As you can see, the MWCBS 2012 will be full of interesting panels. This
is due to the hard work of our Program Committee. For their work in
putting together a stellar line-up of panels, I would like to thank Lia
Paradis, Chair of the Program Committee, and the Program Committee
members, Eugene Beiriger, Phil Harling, Robin Hermann, Isaac Land, Jennifer McNabb, and Lisa Sigel.

I would also like to thank our Local Arrangements Chair, Jennifer Mori,
who has accomplished the difficult task of finding a good location,
keeping our registration costs down, and managing the day-to-day logistics
of organizing the conference. It’s a lot of hard work, so be sure to
thank her when you see her in Toronto.

I very much look forward to seeing all of you in Toronto in October.
Please be sure to contact us if you have any questions.

Best wishes,

Jason

—

Jason M. Kelly PhD, FSA

President, Midwest Conference on British Studies

Director, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute

Associate Professor of British History, IUPUI

IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

755 W. Michigan Street UL 1140D

Indianapolis, IN 46202-5195

telephone: 317.274.1689

fax: 317.274.1024

email: jaskelly@iupui.edu

April 5, 2011

CFP (deadline extended to 1 May): Midwest Conference on British Studies, November 4-6, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS
Midwest Conference on British Studies 57th Annual Meeting
November 4-6, 2011, Terre Haute, IN

The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its
fifty-seventh annual meeting will be hosted by Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN. The plenary speaker will be Paula Backscheider,
Phillpott-Stephens Eminent Scholar of English Literature at Auburn
University, and author of Eighteenth Century Women Poets and Their Poetry.
Peter Bailey, Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, and the
author of Leisure and Class in Victorian England, will deliver the keynote address. The program will also include panels honoring the career of Hilda Smith, Professor at the University of Cincinnati, and author of All Men and Both Sexes.

The MWCBS seeks papers from scholars in all fields of British Studies, broadly defined to include those who study England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Britain’s empire. We welcome scholars from the broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to history, literature, political science, gender studies and art history. Proposals for complete sessions are preferred, although proposals for individual papers will be considered. Especially welcome are roundtables and panels that:

* offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on topics in British Studies

* discuss collaborative or innovative learning techniques in the British Studies classroom

* situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a British cultural context

* examine representations of British and imperial/Commonwealth national identities

* consider Anglo-American relations, past and present

* examine new trends in British Studies

* assess a major work or body of work by a scholar

The MWCBS welcomes papers presented by advanced graduate students and will award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize at its plenary luncheon for the best graduate student paper(s) given at the conference.

Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a brief, 1-page c.v. for each participant, including chairs and commentators. For full panels, please include a brief 200-word preview of the panel as a whole. Please place the panel proposal, and its accompanying paper proposals and vitas in one file. Please make certain that all contact information, particularly email addresses are correct and current. All proposals should be submitted online by May 1, 2011, to the Program Committee Chair, Lia Paradis at lia.paradis@sru.edu.

Visit the MWCBS website at <https://mwcbs.edublogs.org>.

MWCBS Program Committee: Lia Paradis, Chair, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Gene Beiriger, DePaul University; Lori Campbell, University of Pittsburgh; Essaka Joshua, University of Notre Dame; Chris Otter, Ohio State University; Anne Rodrick, Wofford College.

December 14, 2010

CFP: Midwest Conference on British Studies, 4-6 November 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS
Midwest Conference on British Studies 57th Annual Meeting
November 4-6, 2011, Terre Haute, IN

The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its fifty-seventh annual meeting will be hosted by Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN. The plenary speaker will be Paula Backscheider, Phillpott-Stephens Eminent Scholar of English Literature at Auburn University, and author of Eighteenth Century Women Poets and Their Poetry. Peter Bailey, Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, and the author of Leisure and Class in Victorian England, will deliver the keynote address. The program will also include panels honoring the career of Hilda Smith, Professor at the University of Cincinnati, and author of All Men and Both Sexes.

— offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on topics in British Studies

— discuss collaborative or innovative learning techniques in the British Studies classroom

— situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a British cultural context

— examine representations of British and imperial/Commonwealth national identities

— consider Anglo-American relations, past and present

— examine new trends in British Studies

— assess a major work or body of work by a scholar

The MWCBS welcomes papers presented by advanced graduate students and will award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize at its plenary luncheon for the best graduate student paper(s) given at the conference.

Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a brief, 1-page c.v. for each participant, including chairs and commentators. For full panels, please include a brief 200-word preview of the panel as a whole. Please place the panel proposal, and its accompanying paper proposals and vitas in one file. Please make certain that all contact information, particularly email addresses are correct and current. All proposals should be submitted online by April 15, 2011, to the Program Committee Chair, Lia Paradis at lia.paradis@sru.edu.