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CALL FOR PAPERS: SPEAKING NATUREINTERDISCIPLINARY NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES CONFERENCEPitzer College, Claremont, CA (March 31-April 3, 2011)CFP deadline: November 1, 2010How did the nineteenth century conceive, construct, and represent the physical world? In what ways did nature as an ideology and/or material reality shape the nineteenth century? How did the nineteenth century understand the relation of human beings to nature? The 2011 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference invites proposals that investigate any aspect of this topic from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives, including and/or integrating Literature, History, Science, Art History, Environmental Studies, Law, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Music, Economics, and Theology.Topics may include (but are not limited to):* human nature* animal nature* plant nature* gender &#38; nature* empire &#38; nature* anatomy, medicine, health* Nature’s language* aws of nature* environmentalism &#38; sustainability* natural disasters &#38; catastrophes* natural frontiers* wilderness &#38; gardens* cities &#38; ruins* violent /nurturing nature* new worlds, lost worlds, our world* landscapes, oceans, deserts* conquest of nature* nature &#38; antiquity* nature &#38; art* nature &#38; technology* nature &#38; the sciences* nature &#38; human responsibility* nature &#38; the disciplinesThe conference will be held at Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. Please submit 250-word abstracts by November 1, 2010 to incs2011@pitzer.edu.For more information on INCS, see www.nd.edu/~incshp/. Selected conference papers will be published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts.INCS also awards an annual $500 prize in recognition of excellence in interdisciplinary nineteenth-century scholarship by current members of INCS. Deadline: February 1, 2011. For inquiries, contact incs2011@pitzer.edu.Sumangala BhattacharyaPitzer College, Box A861050 North Mills AveClaremont, CA 91711Email: incs2011@pitzer.edu