{"id":1105,"date":"2016-08-17T08:01:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2016-08-19T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:27:45","slug":"cfp-union-disunion-in-the-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/08\/17\/cfp-union-disunion-in-the-19th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Union & Disunion in the 19th century"},"content":{"rendered":"

PUNCS<\/a><\/em> (Plymouth University Nineteenth Century Studies) invites proposals for 20-minute papers for a proposed international, interdisciplinary conference on 22nd and 23rd\u00a0June 2017<\/strong>\u00a0at Plymouth University<\/a> (UK) on the general theme of union and disunion.<\/h2>\n

In him all union and disunion shine<\/p>\n

\u2018Prologue\u2019, Thomas Holcroft, The Deserted Daughter<\/em> (1806)<\/h6>\n

Among the rare phenomena of the day in which we live, are the strange unions that are formed in our country. We have political unions, trades\u2019 unions, Protestant unions, and, last and not least, the voluntary unions.<\/p>\n

\u2018Union of Papists and Dissenters to Achieve the Disunion of Church and State\u2019, Fraser\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, May 1836<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"disunion_kentucky_cartoon-blog427\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The first international conference hosted by PUNCS<\/em> began on the day of the BREXIT vote, and commentators have seen this event in the context of other signs of anti-globalisation, and in a landscape of violent disintegrations or forcible integrations in the 21st\u00a0century.<\/p>\n

We are interested in papers by scholars working in British, continental European, American and world history in the Nineteenth century, in literary studies, history, legal history, art history, economic history, geography and other disciplines.<\/p>\n

Possible themes for exploring union in individual papers or panels include:<\/p>\n