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<DIV>I hadn’t realised that finding a topic for a conference was so easy . . 
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Stations</SPAN></B><SPAN 
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are an essential part of how we conceptualize history, literature, culture, and 
art. See, for example, Henry Green’s paradigmatic <I 
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Party Going</I> (1939).</SPAN></P>
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welcome proposals that engage with the various forms and meanings of <B>Railway 
Stations</B> in the 1914-1945 period, across disciplines and media, on research 
and/or pedagogy. </SPAN></P>
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topics include: </SPAN></P>
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Stations</SPAN><SPAN 
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and production (economy, labour, Britain’s General Strike, the assembly line) 
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Stations</SPAN><SPAN 
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and cabaret, the avant-garde, Dada</SPAN></P>
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Stations</SPAN><SPAN 
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and exhibitions (visual arts, art history, museums, collections, world fairs, 
colonial expositions)</SPAN></P>
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and the future (International Expo of Art and Technology in Modern Life, the 
talkies)</SPAN></P>
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and design (Ideal Home Show, moderne, the railway track)</SPAN></P>
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and travel (travel writing, refugees, evacuees, soldiers)</SPAN></P>
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and intersections (migration, transnationalism)</SPAN></P>
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and coups (fascism, communism, radical suffrage)</SPAN></P>
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and disasters (the Holocaust, the influenza pandemic, war)</SPAN></P>
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and the nation (representations, developing histories, colonialism, 
politics)</SPAN></P>
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as sites of spectacle, hoax, extravaganza</SPAN></P>
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send to the John Betjeman Society, c/o St Pancras Station, abstracts of no more 
than 300 words by 1 December 2018</SPAN></B><SPAN 
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Submissions should include the author’s name, affiliation, and contact 
information. Submissions that use term, <B>Train Station, </B><SPAN 
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