{"id":2076,"date":"2017-03-02T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T09:37:13","slug":"22nd-23rd-june-puncs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/03\/02\/22nd-23rd-june-puncs\/","title":{"rendered":"22-23 June 2017: Union and Disunion in the 19th Century Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

22-23 June 2017 at Plymouth University<\/strong><\/p>\n

Registration is now open for this international conference, the second in a series organised by Plymouth University Nineteenth Century Studies<\/strong> (PUNCS<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It is timed for the first anniversary of the Brexit referendum, and brings together leading scholars from the United States, Britain and continental Europe, to explore the \u2018long nineteenth century\u2019 through the lenses of union and disunion.<\/p>\n

The strong political dimension is clear from the fact that L\u2019U<\/em>nion fait la force<\/em> has been the motto of various nations, including, since 1830, the kingdom of Belgium; in its English-language version, the truism that \u2018union is strength\u2019 has been a conventional element of trade union iconography.<\/p>\n

In the current climate \u2013 of anti-globalisation, Brexit, and the Trump presidency\u2019s critique of such post-war international entities as the EU, NATO and the UN \u2013 the international conference \u2018Union and Disunion\u2019 offers a timely historical and interdisciplinary perspective on union and its antithesis.<\/p>\n

The topics explored at the conference are varied: from the \u2018disunion\u2019 reflected in dysfunctional families in British cases of mariticide and infanticide; or the affective unions and separations during the ending of slavery in the United States; to union and disunion connected to organised religion, including efforts to disestablish state churches; or focused on cultural representation in imaginative literature and sculpture.<\/p>\n

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The conference\u2019s episodes of violent disunion include war, civil war and imperial mutiny through research linked to the Crimean War, Indian Mutiny and American Civil War. Its perspective on trade unions involves bodies as varied as Cornishmen, London Jews, barristers and female servants.<\/p>\n

Its geographical scale ranges from the micro and local levels (the union of the three towns of Plymouth and the history of Plymouth\u2019s Union Street), to such international mechanisms for transoceanic or transnational union as steam-powered transport, and currency or customs unions.<\/p>\n

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With a cast ranging from Mormons to King\u2019s Messengers, petit-bourgeois British tourists to members of type founders\u2019 cartels and Lancastrian poets, Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century<\/em> promises to be an important and exciting event. An associated transmedia exhibition will explore some of the conference themes.<\/p>\n

Bookings for this event can be made through the Plymouth University estore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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