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Call for papers: 2009 Eaton/NAJVS: "Jules Verne and Beyond"

From: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~ufl.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:59:49 -0500
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Dear colleagues /chers collègues,

A reminder: the deadline for submitting paper abstracts to the 2009
Eaton/NAJVS conference (University of California, Riverside), "Jules
Verne & Beyond" is December 15, 2008. I've attached copies of the call
for papers in English and French.

(Les abstracts peuvent être ou en français ou en anglais, mais les
présentations doivent être en anglais.)

Planning for the conference is advancing very well. Further details
regarding registration, travel, lodging, etc. should be posted here
later this month.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Marie-Hélène Huet, Walter James
Miller, and John Rieder. Science fiction authors giving talks include
(at least) Greg Bear, Greg Benford, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Howard
Hendrix, Fredrik Pohl, Tim Powers, Rudy Rucker, and Jeff VanderMeer.
There will be featured panels on "the emergence of modern science
fiction," "Verne in Europe and the United States", "Verne in film",
"Steampunk after Verne", "Translating Verne", and "Collecting Verne".

The conference will be preceded by a one-day symposium sponsored by
Science Fiction Studies, featuring talks by De Witt Douglas Kilgore,
Veronica Hollinger and Roger Luckhurst.

TH

...

The 2009 Eaton Science Fiction Conference

Extraordinary Voyages:
Jules Verne and Beyond

University of California, Riverside
April 30-May 3, 2009


Extraordinary voyages have shaped world literature since the Biblical
Flood and The Odyssey, but no single writer has done more than Jules
Verne to forge this device into a narrative template for addressing
modern issues. The UCR Libraries' Eaton Science Fiction Collection, in
coordination with the North American Jules Verne Society, proposes a
two and one-half-day conference that will examine the traditions Verne
exploited, Verne's own extraordinary work, and his far-ranging
influence in modern fiction and culture. In 1863, Jules Verne
published the first of the sixty-four novels and short story
collections that would become known as the "Extraordinary Voyages."
Verne's influence on the hardware and settings of modern science
fiction is widely recognized. More significant is his influence on the
shape of modern SF: the extraordinary voyage has become a foundational
motif by which scientific knowledge is linked to the exploration of
richly-imagined worlds. This conference will explore the implications
of the extraordinary voyage as a narrative and ideological model that
resonates in world SF down to the present day.

The conference welcomes scholars, collectors, and enthusiasts of the
extraordinary voyage and will address, but not necessarily be limited
to, the following sets of questions. What is the place of the
extraordinary voyage within the complex of genres that makes up early
or proto-science fiction: the utopia, the scientific romance, the
hollow-earth tale, the Robinsonade, etc.? How has the extraordinary
voyage been linked to discourses of travel and tourism, to scientific
and technological revolutions, to the history of European colonialism
and the rise of industrial militarism? In what ways does a detailed
focus on the mechanisms of locomotion (balloon, rocket, steamship,
submarine, train, aircraft) transform the imaginary voyage into an
extraordinary voyage, and how has this technique influenced other SF
traditions? Does the theme of travel, of transit across physical
borders and toward extreme destinations, serve as an allegory for
contact and communication across other sorts of boundaries
(linguistic, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, national)? How do 20th-
century writers (such as the so-called "steampunks") rework legacies
of Verne and other 19th-century SF, whether earnestly or satirically,
as paradigm or as pastiche? What accounts for the remarkable afterlife
of Verne's characters, and those of 19th-century SF more generally,
who appear in numerous revisions and elaborations by 20th- and 21st-
century SF writers? What are the influences of the Vernian paratext—
the thousands of maps, illustrations, photographs, and ornately
colored and ornamented bindings of the first editions—on contemporary
works of imaginative fiction? How has the extraordinary voyage been
translated into other cultures and other media, from comic books,
graphic novels and film to theme parks and digital texts, and with
what consequences?

Abstracts of 300-500 words (for papers of 20-minutes in length) should
be submitted by December 15, 2008 to: Melissa Conway, Head of Special
Collections, UC Riverside, Riverside CA 92521 (melissa.conway~at~ucr.edu).

...

Conférence Eaton 2009:

Voyages extraordinaires:
Jules Verne et autour de Jules Verne

University of California, Riverside
30 avril-3 mai 2009


Il existe beaucoup de "voyages extraordinaires" dans la littérature
mondiale, de L'Odyssée jusqu'à nos jours. Or Jules Verne a transformé
de façon originale ce genre littéraire traditionel. La Bibilothèque
universitaire et la Collection "Eaton" de Science-Fiction de
l'Université de Californie à Riverside, et la North American Jules
Verne Society, proposent l'exploration du genre du voyage
extraordinaire chez Jules Verne et autour de Jules Verne.

Les chercheurs, les collectionneurs, et les amateurs du genre "voyage
extraordinaire," sont invités à examiner les questions du type: Quel
est le rôle joué par le voyage extraordinaire dans l'utopie, le
"scientific romance," le "hollow earth tale," la robinsonade, etc? Le
voyage extraordinaire a-t-il marqué le langage et le style des
brochures de voyage de l'industrie du tourisme? Le voyage
extraordinaire est-il lié à la révolution scientifique et
technologique, au colonialisme européen, et à la montée du militarisme
industriel? Les moyens de locomotion chez Jules Verne (ballons,
fusées, bateaux à vapeur, sous-marins, trains, avions) ont-ils
tranformé le voyage imaginaire en un voyage extraordinaire? Ces moyens
de locomotion ont-ils influencé d'autres formes de SF? Le thème du
voyage, passage à travers des frontières vers des destinations
lointaines, peut-il être vu comme l'allégorie du contact et de la
communication entre d'autres types de frontières (linguistiques,
ethniques, socioéconomiques, nationales, etc.) ? Les écrivains du XXe
siècle (par exemple le groupe des "steampunks") ont-ils remanié
l'héritage de Verne, de bonne foi ou de façon satirique, comme
paradigme ou comme pastiche? Pourquoi les personnages de Jules Verne
ont-ils une survie aussi remarquables? Quelles sont les influences
aujourd'hui du paratexte vernien (es milliers de cartes, les
illustrations, les photographies, les couleurs et les ornements des
merveilleuses reliures des premières éditions) sur les oeuvres de SF
du XXe siècle? Comment le voyage extraordinaire de Jules Verne a-t-il
été reçu et adapté dans des cultures autres que celle de la France de
la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle. Comment la bande dessinée, le
cinéma, les jeux virtuels, etc., l'ont-ils transformé, et quelles sont
les conséquences de ces transformations?

Les abstracts (300-500 mots) doivent être adressés à Melissa Conway,
Head of Special Collections, UC Riverside, Riverside CA 92521 (melissa.conway~at~ucr.edu
), et reçus au plus tard le 15 décembre 2008. N.B.: Les abstracts
peuvent être ou en français ou en anglais, mais les présentations
doivent être en anglais.

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Terry Harpold
Associate Professor
Dept. of English, University of Florida
<http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold>

"There is no science of the accident."
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