18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium
The 18th- and 19th-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium (ENCIC) unites faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff members. Our members work in diverse disciplinary areas: history, the history of medicine, philosophy, cultural studies, political science, sports studies, media studies, literature, music, the visual arts, theatre, and dance. Their research interests range across the globe, bringing the literature, history, arts, and culture of world regions as far flung as North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Africa, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and Russia to the University of Iowa.
As our list of affiliated faculty members demonstrates, the University of Iowa offers exciting opportunities for graduate students with interests in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Thanks to the generous support of International Programs and collaboration with departments across campus, ENCIC hosts an annual lecture series which brings visiting scholars to campus. Past lectures series have focused on “European Empires,” “European Entertainments,” “Global History through the Eyes of the Artist: War and Revolution in the 18th and 19th Centuries," and “Social, Aesthetic, and International Strategies of Self-Representation.” In addition, ENCIC often features the work of our own members.
In 2004, ENCIC hosted the annual international 19th-Century Interdisciplinary Studies conference, “Serious Pleasures.” For details see coverage of the conference in International Accents.
Lecture Series
In 2008-09 ENCIC will host a lecture series, “Historicizing `Sustainability’: Ecological Insights from the Past.” The series features four UI scholars: Eric Gidal of the English Department, Julie Hochstrasser from the School of Art and Art History, Roland Racevskis of the Department of French and Italian, and Joni Kinsey from American Studies and the School of Art and Art History.
In addition, Professor Robert Markley, will deliver a lecture:
"Defoe, Narrative, and the Instability of 'Nature'”
Date: Monday, November 3, 2008
Time: 7pm
Location: Gerber Lounge, 3rd Floor, English Philosophy Building (EPB).
Professor Markley is the Romano Professorial Scholar in the English Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of four books, most recently The Far East and the English Imagination 1600-1730 (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (Duke University Press, 2005). His current research examines connections between culture and climate, the subject of “Monsoon Cultures: Climate and Acculturation in Alexander Hamilton's A New Account of the East-Indies,” New Literary History 38 (2007), 527-50.
Conference
During April 2-5, 2009, a number of units will join ENCIC, International Programs, and the English Department in co-sponsoring this year’s meeting of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. “Fresh Threads of Connection” will be linked to two special exhibits at the Old Capitol Museum and will feature an evening of recitation, performance, and music. Details appear at http://www.uiowa.edu/~englgrad/bwwc/. Paper proposals from UI faculty and graduate students are welcome.
We welcome you to attend our lectures, to send notice of events of interest to scholars working in the 18th and 19th centuries, and to join our mailing list.
For further information, contact teresa-mangum@uiowa.edu.
ENCIC Advisory Board
Teresa Mangum, English and International Programs, Director
Eric Gidal, English
Dorothy Johnson, School of Art and Art History
Kim Marra, Theatre and American Studies
Roberta Marvin, International Programs
Downing Thomas, French and Italian