Women in the Archives: England/New England, April 24, 2010

Brown University, Providence, RI

Papers are now being invited for Women in the Archives, a one-day colloquium co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center at Brown University, to be held on April 24, 2010 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Our keynote lecture for this event will be "New England and its Others: Women, Assemblage, and the Archive", given by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon.

This colloquium is the third in what we hope will be an annual series of "Women in the Archives" events; for more information about the series and about past WIA events, please visit the main Women in the Archives page.

Women in the Archives explores the use of archival materials in the study of women's writing, and the construction of disciplinary practices in archival research and pedagogy. This year our theme is "England/New England", focusing on periodization and regionality in women's writing during the colonial period. Papers might address themes such as the following:

• colonial perspectives on English culture and writing (and vice versa)
• digital approaches to the representation of physical and archival space
• gender and the emerging sense of regional or national identity
• literary periodization and its complications for colonial writing
• copyright, intellectual property, and gender

The larger concerns of the Women in the Archives series as a whole include:

• pedagogy and interdisciplinary pedagogies
• the construction of archival spaces
• material modes of textuality across disciplines
• technologies of research and teaching, and the impact of digital media on the archive
• new directions in archival research
• editing archival materials

Papers should be no more than 20 minutes long, and presenters will also be invited to join in a panel discussion.

Please send proposals of 300 words to WWP@brown.edu by October 1, 2009.

Registration

Participation is free, but registration is required. A registration form will be available in fall 2009.

Logistics

The conference will be held on the Brown University campus. Details will be available closer to the conference date.

On-street parking is available near the conference site, and especially north of campus on Bowen, Lloyd, Keene, and Barnes.

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Brown's campus is easily accessible by car, bus, train, and airplane. See here for directions, maps, and additional details.