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

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:26:53 -0500
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>
Cc: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~ufl.edu>

Terry! Only you could have summarized the possibilities in this project! What an inspiration! Thank you! Walter James Miller

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Walter James Miller
Professor Emeritus of English
Liberal Studies Program, NYU
686 Rugby Road
Brooklyn, NY 11230
(718) 859-4371

----- Original Message -----
From: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~ufl.edu>
Date: Friday, November 28, 2008 9:49 am
Subject: Call for papers: 2009 Eaton/NAJVS: "Jules Verne and Beyond"
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Cc: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~ufl.edu>


> 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.
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Terry Harpold
> Associate Professor
> Dept. of English, University of Florida
> <
>
> "There is no science of the accident."
>
>
>
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