DTSTAMP:20260716T042938 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome;VALUE=DATE:20260115 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome;VALUE=DATE:20260116 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDARBWWC 2026: Call for PapersThe 34th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Auburn University, May 7-9, 2026“Collections & Collectives”Keynote Speake rs: Elizabeth Miller (UC Davis), Julie Park (Penn State), and Julian Whitne y (Wabash College)The organizers of the 34th annual Br itish Women Writers Conference (BWWC 2026) invite proposals for papers focu sing on the theme of “Collections & Collectives.” The organizers wish t o consider ways in which those who identify as women engaged in or textuall y represented practices of collecting and collectivity within global and tr ansatlantic contexts during the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. P roposals could consider collection materially or conceptually: in terms of objects and institutions or in terms of creating, organizing, and mobilizin g collectively. What personal or public benefit comes from collections and collective action? What harms are involved in various means of collecting o r in collective action? How might these be mitigated and redressed?Proposals might engage with the conference theme as it relates to the following topics:
- Libraries (personal and public)
- Archives (physical and digital)
- Museums (art, portrait, zoological , natural history)
- Scrapbooks, extra-illustrated books commonplace books, anthologies
- Print and manuscript ephemera, autographs
Menageries, botanical gardens, conservatories - Tchotchkes, memento s, souvenirs
- Salons and soirees
- Bluestockings
- Suffr age
- Socialist activism
- Collaborative writing
- Artist s’ collectives
- Cooperatives
- Communes
Proposal s on other topics related to archives and collections, as well as topics th at fall outside of the scope of the conference theme, are also welcome. We are also strongly encouraging submissions on pedagogical and professional i ssues, including roundtables, workshops, and plenary discussions.& nbsp;
Proposals for individual papers and panels are due January 15, 2026.