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Leisure! Enjoyment! Fun!INCS 2013 Conference, University of VirginiaMarch 14-17, 2013full name / name of organization:Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studiescontact email:ksc3j@virginia.edu“It  was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” It was the age of  pleasure. It was the age of atonement. It was any place in the  nineteenth century. The scope is global, the approaches,  cross-disciplinary. What pleased the palate and tickled the nose? What  roused the senses and deepened joy? What thrilled the body and inspired  the mind? What did they do besides work? What diversions  (respectable  or otherwise) did they seek? How did they think about the enjoyments  they sought? These are some of the questions to address at INCS 2013,  which is devoted to ‘Leisure, Enjoyment, and Fun.’Consider all forms of enjoyment desired, sought, anticipated, or  suppressed. Of course what constitutes enjoyment was widely contested  ‘then’ as it is ‘now,’ and just what the relation between enjoyment and  happiness is has never been clear. The task we set ourselves this year  is an examination of various pleasures, thoughts about fun and leisure,  expressions or reports of enjoyment, and what these experiences tell us  about the nineteenth century. Definitions of enjoyment are themselves  numerous and contrasting, and we will keep the field broad so as to draw  a wide catch. Enjoyment may be associated with entertainment,  amusement, comfort, satisfaction, happiness, absence of pain, etc. We  are interested in how enjoyment is experienced, what function it serves,  how it can be legislated or monitored, if it can be exhausted,  repeated, repelled, and whether individual enjoyment differs from  enjoyment shared.Topics are not limited to, but might include:Ambivalence towards . . .Theories of leisureEnjoyment, guilt, atonementLicense and restraintSport, games, and racesMusic, music halls, music boxesFestivals, street entertainmentsPleasure gardensIllicit funDesign, fashion, shoppingGustatory delightsTrade in exoticsHobbiesWeddings, parties, picnicsSpectacleDanceCartoons, comics, periodicalsSunday papers and other popular readingPets, animal fightingExperimentation, inventionGardens and horticultureCollectingMuseums, exhibitionsTraining for funMedical TourismDeadline: October 1, 2012. For individual papers, send 250-word  proposals; for panels, send individual 250-word proposals for each paper  plus a 250-word panel description. Please include your name,  affiliation, and e-mail address on your proposal. Send questions and  proposals to Karen Chase (ksc3j@virginia.edu).  Website (under construction): http://incs2013.wordpress.com/