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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria

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Don't forget: #QAQV9 is coming!
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January 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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Association for Scottish Literature

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CFP: Cultures of Care in Scottish Women’s Writing

Special issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW
ed. by Dr @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social & Dr @ainsley76.bsky.social

Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025
Full details below

CALL FOR PAPERS
'CULTURES OF CARE IN SCOTTISH WOMEN'S WRITING'
Papers are invited for a special issue which will explore the myriad ways in which the concept of care has been imagined by Scottish women writers. 'Care' encompasses a diversity of meanings across philosophical, moral, and spiritual traditions; in practices which range from social to medial to therapeutic, and beyond; and in semantic terms evokes ideas of nurture, protection, welfare; feelings of solicitude, concern, love. ‘To care for’ someone, or something, is both to experience, and to enact, such affect with vigilance and a kind of watchful attention.

We are interested in the ways in which Scottish women writers - across a variety of genres and forms - have imaginatively explored the concept of care as ethos and/or practice.

We also invite a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches from (for example) environmental humanities; medical humanities; history of emotion studies.

Themes which might be explored include, but are not limited to: care of, and for self; care of, and for others, including communities and networks; care for nature, environment, and non-human others; therapeutic and/or medical care; concepts of welfare (individual and collective); ideas of nurture; expression of affect and emotion (including anxiety); care as cultural activism; writing/ creating as an act of care; the experience of being taken care of.

Please send 200-word abstracts and a short bio to s.m.dunnigan@ed.ac.uk and amcinto9@ed.ac.uk by
Thursday 30 January 2025

January 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman

@drcleoocy.bsky.social

Not posted about this on here yet BUT the CfP for the @bars.bsky.social 2025 PGR & ECR conference is currently live until 6 January 2025! More info available on our conference website: barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home

Please do share widely; options to present in-person in Cambridge or online!