تويت
<span style="font-weight: bold"><a name="lee"></a>The Victorians and the Arab World: Creative Connections</span><big><br /><span style="font-weight: bold"><small>School of English, University of Leeds, UK</small></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold"><small>13-14 April 2007</small></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold"><small><span style="color: rgb(0,0,102)">Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2006</span></small></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold"></span></big>Proposals are invited (up to 300 words) for an inter-disciplinary conference on The Victorians and the Arab World: Creative Connections to be held in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK, on 13-14 April 2007. Papers should be 20 minutes. The aim of the conference is to examine ways in which the Arab world—broadly defined—had some form of creative role to play in the formation of aspects of Victorian culture (literary, visual, plastic, musical). The conference hopes to move beyond stereotypes and the problematic politics described in now familiar views of the nineteenth-century. It does not seek simply to forget such problems, but to refocus debate on more affirmative, generative, and productive connections with the Arab world as expressed in writing and the non-verbal arts. The conference aims to open up, in a new and distinctive manner, complex formations of Victorian internationalism, and to examine a crucial element of the genealogy of modern cultural pluralism.<big></big>Proposals should be received by 1 December 2006 and sent to Dr Francis O’Gorman, Reader in Victorian Literature, The School of English, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK.<big></big>E-mail: <f.j.o’gorman@leeds.ac.uk>