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From: "Dora Panayotova" <panad...@gmail.com>
To: <BulgarianSocietyforBritishStudies@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:50 PM
Subject: [BSBS] CFP: William Gladstone, Victorianism, and Nationalism

William Gladstone, Victorianism, and Nationalism

in historical and literary perspective

Conference dedicated to Gladstone Bicentenary

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was a most extraordinary figure in
many respects. A potent symbol of the Victorian era, he was most
unconventional and unorthodox Victorian. As national and world leader
he left his impact on many sides of the life of the British society,
from socio-economic and political system to university curricula, and
on countries as distant as Bulgaria and South Africa. At the same time
he was a scholar and author, whose vast intellectual interests ranged
from the Homeric epic to Tennyson’s poetry.

The Bulgarian Society for British Studies and the History Department
of the New Bulgarian University organize a conference to mark the
Gladstone Bicentenary, to be held at the NBU, Sofia,  on November
20-21, 2009.

The panels at the conference will be centered on:

Gladstone and Victorianism;

European nationalism and self-determination;

Language, and politics;

The European concert and humanitarian intervention.

Proposals of papers with summaries (up to 200 words) should be sent to
Assoc. Prof. Roumen Genov at: ge...@nbu.bg, by July 31, 2009.