41st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium: Contamination
Princeton University. November 5-7, 2015.
https://ncfs2015.princeton.edu/
How did fears of contamination and fantasies of purity mark
the cultural productions and social practices of the long nineteenth
century? If “dirt is matter out of place,” as Mary Douglas has remarked,
then what were the symbolic orders that governed the proper location
and distribution of bodies, goods, values, and wastes in this period?
In what way did such modern developments as the industrial revolution,
nationalism, medical science, public health, and urbanization inflect older,
more religious conceptions of pollution and purity? How did this new
secular understanding in turn anticipate and shape our current
thinking about ecological crisis, globalization, and social justice?
We invite contributions that reflect on these issues; topics
include but are not limited to:
Pollution Anxiety of Influence
Dirt, Sewers, Sanitation Littérature industrielle
Illness, Cures, Remedies Dystopia & Utopia
Epidemics (Cholera, Syphilis, Consumption) Ecological Literature
Germ Theory & Pasteur Poison, Drugs, Toxins
Miasma, Odors, Perfume Decay & Decadence
Hygiene & Morality Abjection & Horror
Crowd Psychology & Suggestion Genealogies & Pedigrees
Crime, Prostitution, Labor Racial Discourses
Sin, Sacrilege, Redemption Industrial Revolution
Purity & Perversion City & Country
Nationalism, Borders, Terroir Ugliness & the Grotesque
Scapegoats & Xenophobia Blood, Body, Self
Entropy & Disorder Eclecticism
Obscenity & Censorship Corruption
Mésalliances Immigration
Medicine & Hospitals Intellectual & Manual Labor
Art for Art’s Sake Print Culture & Circulation
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions for individual papers or sessions may be in French
or English and should be in the form of an abstract (250-300
words) sent as an e-mail attachment in Word to the address
below. For session proposals, please include a separate
abstract for each paper.
The deadline for all submissions is March 15, 2015.
Please indicate your A/V requirements on your abstract.
E-MAIL ORGANIZER
ncfs2015@gmail.com Göran Blix (Princeton University)
画像は、ミント・珈琲です（『パルムの僧院』に登場するカフェ・ペドロッキ（1831年創業・パドヴァ大学至近）で味わうことができます。）
Princeton University. November 5-7, 2015.
https://ncfs2015.princeton.edu/
How did fears of contamination and fantasies of purity mark
the cultural productions and social practices of the long nineteenth
century? If “dirt is matter out of place,” as Mary Douglas has remarked,
then what were the symbolic orders that governed the proper location
and distribution of bodies, goods, values, and wastes in this period?
In what way did such modern developments as the industrial revolution,
nationalism, medical science, public health, and urbanization inflect older,
more religious conceptions of pollution and purity? How did this new
secular understanding in turn anticipate and shape our current
thinking about ecological crisis, globalization, and social justice?
We invite contributions that reflect on these issues; topics
include but are not limited to:
Pollution Anxiety of Influence
Dirt, Sewers, Sanitation Littérature industrielle
Illness, Cures, Remedies Dystopia & Utopia
Epidemics (Cholera, Syphilis, Consumption) Ecological Literature
Germ Theory & Pasteur Poison, Drugs, Toxins
Miasma, Odors, Perfume Decay & Decadence
Hygiene & Morality Abjection & Horror
Crowd Psychology & Suggestion Genealogies & Pedigrees
Crime, Prostitution, Labor Racial Discourses
Sin, Sacrilege, Redemption Industrial Revolution
Purity & Perversion City & Country
Nationalism, Borders, Terroir Ugliness & the Grotesque
Scapegoats & Xenophobia Blood, Body, Self
Entropy & Disorder Eclecticism
Obscenity & Censorship Corruption
Mésalliances Immigration
Medicine & Hospitals Intellectual & Manual Labor
Art for Art’s Sake Print Culture & Circulation
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions for individual papers or sessions may be in French
or English and should be in the form of an abstract (250-300
words) sent as an e-mail attachment in Word to the address
below. For session proposals, please include a separate
abstract for each paper.
The deadline for all submissions is March 15, 2015.
Please indicate your A/V requirements on your abstract.
E-MAIL ORGANIZER
ncfs2015@gmail.com Göran Blix (Princeton University)
画像は、ミント・珈琲です（『パルムの僧院』に登場するカフェ・ペドロッキ（1831年創業・パドヴァ大学至近）で味わうことができます。）
