[AMS-announce] CFP: Vauxhall Revisited: Pleasure Gardens and Their Publics, 1660-1880, Tate Britain, London, July 2008

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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Vauxhall Revisited: pleasure gardens and their publics, 1660-1880
 
A three-day conference accompanied by a concert, Tate Britain, 14-16 July 2008
 
Deadline for Proposals: 15 January 2008
 
Pleasure gardens have been linked to a nascent public sphere, an urban renaissance and the commodification of culture in Georgian Britain. Verifying such claims, however, requires knowledge of pleasure gardens outside London, and a willingness to engage musicologists, art historians, historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers. This conference will do exactly that, providing an opportunity to compare different approaches, bringing new perspectives to bear on familiar sites of Georgian London. It will also showcase a wide range of research into hitherto neglected regional and foreign pleasure gardens, into the reinvention of the pleasure garden in the Victorian period and its long-term legacy. Panels on musical and theatrical aspects and a performance of pleasure garden music at the Museum of Garden Historywill add another dimension to this very special event.
 
Speakers include Peter Borsay, John Brewer, Rachel Cowgill, John Dixon Hunt, Deborah Epstein Nord and Aileen Ribeiro. To find out more, visit http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/eventsf/vauxhall.html
 
To propose a paper, please email a 200-word synopsis to the organiser, Dr Jonathan Conlin (University of Southampton) at j.conlin at soton.ac.uk by 15 January 2008.
 
Sponsored by the Paul Mellon Centre, Tate Britain, the Museum of Garden History and University of Southampton.