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CFP: Visions of Egypt (Hull, 6-7 Sep 13)University of Hull, UK, September 6 - 07, 2013Deadline: Jun 20, 2013Visions of EgyptLiterature and Culture from the Nineteenth Century to the PresentIn Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) an Egyptologist, afterrelating his part in the appropriation of the mummy of an Egyptian queenand her transportation to Britain, muses whether 'there be any gravesfor us who have robbed the grave!' The text is preoccupied with notionsof vision, as male professionals engage in the battle for the control ofthis Queen, who in the novel's climactic moment dramatically resiststheir voyeuristic gaze. Stoker's novel emerges, of course, at the end ofa long period of Europeans looking at and desiring to control Egypt dueto its strategic and cultural significance. Such relations are shaped bylooking, but to what extent can the gaze itself enable new visions andnew forms of cultural interaction and understanding?In November 2011, new images emerged from Egypt as the country embarkedupon a revolution. Pictures from Tahrir Square, which itself dates fromthe nineteenth century, were projected to the world's media. How isEgypt's vision of itself and its external and internal relationsdeveloped in art, literature and popular culture? This interdisciplinarytwo-day conference, taking place at Hull History Centre and at theUniversity of Hull, re-examines the idea of the gaze and seeks to findnew ways of looking, and to reappraise how cultures view each other, andthemselves, beyond traditional colonial and postcolonial frameworks. Thecomment of Stoker's fictional Egyptologist is a self-reflexive one and,by looking at himself, he interrogates the notion of looking and whatlooking can mean.Possible Topics might include, but are not restricted to:- Writings from and on Egypt from the nineteenth century to the present- Egyptian-European cultural relations- Travel writing and illustration- Memoir- Art- Egyptology- Modern and Contemporary Egyptian Fiction- Victorian Popular Literature- European Literature and Art- New mediaAbstracts focusing on the pre-1800 period are also invited.Please send 250 word abstracts for 20 minute papers to Dr CatherineWynne (c.wynne@hull.ac.uk) by 20 June 2013.