Politics and Propaganda The Nineteenth Century Studies Association

Dates: April 3-5, 2008
Location: Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Call for submissions deadline: October 1, 2007
Website: http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html

Keynote Speaker:
Sally Mitchell,
Emerita Professor of English and Women's Studies,
Temple University,
“Political Women: The First Generation”

We welcome paper and panel proposals concerning any aspect of politics during the long nineteenth century, including, but not limited to political figures, movements, (Chartism, socialism, communism, anarchism, trades unions, reform), parties, campaigns, immigration, imperialism, suffrage, gender politics, war, slavery, nationalism, pacifism, uprisings, and revolutions.

Equally welcome are paper and panel proposals concerning propaganda, including but not limited to advertising, periodicals, promotion (including self-promotion), news, campaign materials, songs, slogans, cartoons, souvenirs, paraphernalia, monuments, posters and public art.

Abstracts (250 words) for 20-minute papers, author’s name and paper title in heading, with one-page c.v. by October 1, 2007 to:

Kathleen McCormack, Program Chair
Florida International University
mccormac@fiu.edu

Graduate students whose proposals are accepted can at that point submit a full-length version of the paper to compete for a travel grant to help cover transportation and lodging expenses.

Registration and accommodation information available November 1, 2007:
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html

The conference will include a reception and tour at the Wolfsonian Museum-FIU, a leading museum of late nineteenth and early-twentieth-century design, which also contains the country’s largest collection of twentieth century German, Italian, and American political propaganda, including prints, posters, drawings, books and serial holdings, and objects that document the rise and demise of fascist and other political movements. The museum’s British and Dutch propaganda holdings are the most comprehensive in the United States. Graphic arts from Russia/USSR, middle Europe (particularly Czechoslovakia and Hungary), and Spain (Spanish Civil War posters) provide important and unusual documentation for the history of propaganda in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

We have also arranged an optional Biscayne Bay Boat Tour with local historian and scholar Dr. Paul George of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Dr. George holds a PhD in History from Florida State University. As a South Florida native, author, and professor at Miami-Dade College, Dr. George has gained fame for his extensive and detailed knowledge of the people and places that make South Florida unique. The tour will trace the development of Miami’s coastline in the nineteenth-century and nineteenth century local history including the first and second Seminole wars, as we view the Key Biscayne Lighthouse, the Cape Florida Lighthouse, and The Barnacle, dating from the 1890s, the oldest house in Miami-Dade County still in its original location.