eighteenth century

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum (Panel / In-Person)

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Session Type: Special Session
Primary Area / Secondary Area: Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu

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Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon. SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories encompassing the following: Film, Television, Music, & Visual Media; Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language & Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/

In keeping with this year’s MMLA conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this permanent session is seeking proposals, which discuss how we “make our case” for Early Modern English. How do we explain to our audiences – both in our classrooms and in public settings – on what interests us and motivates our scholarly activities? How do we demonstrate impact and encourage further participation? Where does the study of Early Modern English align with other organizations and initiatives designed to promote the humanities in public life?  What has worked for us? What hasn’t? 

Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026

All topics related to the long 18th century are welcome. We especially encourage papers related to this year's theme: reading and writing; rural sports; golf, spas, and resorts; shopping; competitions; gambling; drinking; music; theatre, and all other eighteenth-century pastimes. Those speaking on any eighteenth-century topic will be providing pleasure, hence in keeping with the theme.

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly journal that includes papers read at the American Philosophical Society’s biannual meetings, independent, peer-reviewed essays by outside scholars, and biographical memoirs of APS Members. The journal also captures talks by today’s prominent professionals, scholars, and scientists that will not be published elsewhere. Recent topics include Abraham Lincoln and Marfan Syndrome, the philosophical problem of uncertainty in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, old phrenology versus new phrenology, the fascination with twins, and what makes a genuine Picasso.

We welcome papers and performances from scholars, artists, and activists interested in exploring this theme in broad theoretical, practical, and cultural terms. We will consider the predicaments and possibilities of “Land” in the context of Maroon and Indigenous histories and cultures worldwide. Presentations from all fields and genres are welcome, including history, geography, political science, anthropology, ethnography, law & criminal justice, ethnomusicology, education, literature, film, art, sustainability studies, Indigenous studies, economics, spirituality, religion, and ecocriticism.

Cultural Circulations, Global Mobilities, and Knowledge Translations: Turning Points in the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented acceleration and densification of human movements that generated, perhaps for the first time, cultural circulations on a global scale. With the world more interconnected than it had ever been, the need to classify, translate and hierarchise knowledge became more pressing than ever.

 Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

Joint project: University of Naples L’Orientale - Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. Two joint conferences will be organized:

1. Conference 1: Textiles: The texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801). Designs, patterns, craftsmanship and the early modern imagination – Will be Held at Procida Island (University of Naples L’Orientale), 8-14 September 2025.

2. Conference 2: The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe – Will be held at Université de Haute Alsace – Mulhouse, June 2026.

26–27th June 2025, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

The international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (https://scientificpoetry.org/: Anglia Ruskin University; University of Bayreuth; University of Marburg; University of York), invite proposals for their second conference.

Plenary speakers
• Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin)
• Helena Taylor (University of Exeter)

CFP: Dracula: A Companion

Matthew Crofts & Maddy Potter

Dracula: A Companion is intended to both be an essential guide to interpreting Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a collection of new perspectives supporting a reshaping of the way the text is taught and engaged with by students. 

Studia austriaca (founded in 1992)
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
p-ISSN 1593-2508 | e-ISSN 2385-2925
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani
Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

Queen's University Conference: Training the Early Modern Heart, 29-31 July 2025, Kingston, ON, Canada. Deadline for abstracts: 15 Feb 2025. Inquiries/submissions to J. Standing, jade.s@queensu.ca; https://www.queensu.ca/english/conferences/cfp-training-the-early-modern-heart.

Watermark, the annual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by graduate students in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking submissions for its nineteenth volume. Our journal is dedicated to publishing original, critical, and theoretical papers concerned with literature of all genres and periods, as well as representing current issues in the field of rhetoric and composition. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered.

Romantic-era approaches to popular belief, from the philosophical to the sociological, had different ways of framing the “common.” Common beliefs might be framed as ordinary, intuitive, or rooted in common sentiment; or might in contrast suggest vulgar or popular belief, as in the category of “popular superstitions.” This panel will look at Romantic-era constructions of common or popular belief, with topics that might include (but are not limited to): “Common Sense” philosophy and intuitive belief; popular religion; folklore and supernatural beliefs; cultures of popular magic; or other approaches to “traditional” belief.