This year's International Conference on Romanticism invites participants to consider the objects of Romantic study.  "Romantic Objects" may include the goals of our own academic inquiry, the pursuits (literary, philosophical, political, theological, ecological, aesthetic, and so on) of Romantic period authors, and the material things that provoke these goals and pursuits.

Preliminary topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Objects in the world and in material culture; the "world of things"
• The body as object: of desire, of value, of exchange
• Objects understood as aims, goals, pursuits and projects
• Imaginary objects: nations, ideals, identities
• Relationships between Romantic subjects and objects.

The organizers hope to receive a variety of approaches to and interpretations of this admittedly--and, hopefully, suggestively--broad topic.

Please submit 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers by June 1, 2007.  Email submissions are preferred: icr2007@loyola.edu

The organizers are also accepting proposals for special sessions.  Please submit 250-word descriptions of your proposed session by 1 April, 2007.