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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The Bildungsroman: form and transformations</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><a href="http://bildungsroman.org/"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal">http://bildungsroman.org</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">A conference hosted by the Novel Network at the University of Sydney, 22-25 November 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">This conference will explore the past and present condition of the Bildungsroman, with its myriad transformations and diversifications not only in the novel proper but
also in memoir, film and long-form television. It will bring together exciting work in disciplines often separated by periodising and disciplinary paradigms and gather experts in prose fiction, film and television from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries
and from a range of language areas to concentrate on this key narrative form. The novel of the emotional and social development or formation of a young person as they learn to make their way in an often hostile world, the Bildungsroman was a key form taken
by the European novel from the early 19</span></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">th</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"> century. How
has it made its way across transhistorical formations and transgeneric remediations?</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Keynotes:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Nancy Armstrong, </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Gilbert, Louis & Edward Lehrman Professor of
English, Duke </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Joseph Litvak, Professor of English and Chair of Department, Tufts </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Katie Trumpener, Emily Sandford Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">We invite proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtables and single text discussion sessions, on the following or other related topics. The panel format will involve
pre-submission of the paper to ensure closer audience engagement with its arguments:</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Theory and the bildungsroman </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The bildungsroman, the künstlerroman, the erziehungsroman: overlaps and distinctions</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The origins of the bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The contemporary bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The female bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The queer bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Gender in the bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Narrative theory and the bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Psychology and the bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The postcolonial bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The coming of age film as bildungsroman </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The bildungsroman and television</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The Bildungsroman and the city</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Transnationalism and the bildungsroman </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Memoir and the bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The anti-bildungsroman</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The eco-bildungsroman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">200 word abstracts should be emailed by June 15 to </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><a href="mailto:vanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au"><span class="s4"><b><span style="color:#222222;text-decoration:none">vanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au</span></b></span></a><b>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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