<div dir="ltr"><br>CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERDISCIPLINARY NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES (INCS) CONFERENCE<br>
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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS<br>
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Sponsored by Bard College and Skidmore College<br>
at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY<br>
April 24-26, 2009<br>
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Following on the 2008 INCS theme, The Emergence of Human Rights, this conference will<br>
focus on the pursuit of happiness, that elusive corollary to life and liberty. What<br>
form did happiness and the comprehension of happiness take in the nineteenth century?<br>
How, for example, did the legacy of the American and French Revolutions shape<br>
nineteenth-century understandings of happiness? What were the effects of burgeoning<br>
industrialism? In keeping with the recent turn to studies of emotion, feeling, and affect<br>
within literary studies as well as psychology, economics, history, and philosophy, we<br>
invite papers on the nineteenth-century contexts and genealogies for such work. And, in<br>
acknowledgment of our 2009 conference location. Saratoga Springs, NY, we particularly<br>
encourage papers exploring Victorian pleasure-seeking as having provided popular, if<br>
contested, routes to happiness.<br>
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Topics may include:<br>
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Joy<br>
Luxury and pleasure in a democratic republic<br>
Wealth<br>
Leisure<br>
Beauty, art<br>
Speculation (gambling, chance)<br>
Family, friendship, love<br>
Recreation<br>
Rights, liberties<br>
Race, class, gender and ethnic perspectives on happiness<br>
Leisure<br>
Virtue, working for the good of others<br>
Health, spas, hygiene<br>
The cultivation of emotions<br>
Shopping / consumer desire<br>
Vacations / travel<br>
Misery, the absence of happiness;<br>
and pain, the opposite of pleasure<br>
Architecture of happiness<br>
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INCS encourages interdisciplinary perspectives integrating: Literature, Law, Political<br>
Science, Philosophy, Theology, History, Music and Art History, History of Science, Sociology,<br>
Anthropology, Psychology, Economics, Health Sciences.<br>
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200 word abstracts by October 15, 2008 to Deirdre d'Albertis, Bard College via e-mail at:<br>
dalberti at <a href="http://bard.edu/" target="_blank">bard.edu</a><br>
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For more information on INCS see: <a href="http://www.nd.edu/%7Eincshp/" target="_blank">www.nd.edu/~incshp/</a><br>
Selected conference papers published in *Nineteenth-Century Contexts*<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>carlos palombini<br><<a href="mailto:cpalombini@gmail.com">cpalombini@gmail.com</a>><br><br>maison suger<br>16-18 rue suger<br>
paris 6<br><br>tél. 01.44.41.32.41<br>
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