eighteenth century

The deadline for submission of proposed papers for this year's MWASECS
meeting in Oklahoma City, October 9-12, has been extended to May 27, 2008.

The conference theme is "The Innovative Eighteenth Century."

Please see our list of panels suggested to date at
http://www.miscellanies.org/mwasecs/mwasecs08/panels.html to see if there
is one that fits your paper idea. Abstracts should be submitted directly
to the panel chair.

For further information and updates visit the conference website
at http://www.mwasecs.org/index08.html

CALL FOR ARTICLES "Gender and/or Sexual Deviances in France at the End of
the Long Eighteenth Century"

I will be the editor of a new book on "Gender and/or Sexual Deviances in
France at the End of the Long Eighteenth Century", published by Cambridge
Scholars Publishing some time in 2009. I am seeking articles (5,000 -
10,000 words) dealing with what could have been perceived by the
hegemonic discourse as gender or sexual deviance at the end of the long
eighteenth century in France (approximately from the 1780’s to the
1815’s) . I am looking for articles that explore this particular topic
under a literary, cultural, aesthetic, historical, or socio-political
angle.

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES
38th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Tuesday 6 January - Thursday 8 January 2009
ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, U.K.

The annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
is Europe’s largest and most prestigious annual conference dealing with
all aspects of the history, literature, and culture of the long
eighteenth century.

Staging Femininity: Women and the Theater (4/1/2008; SAMLA 11/7/2008â€"
11/9/2008)

Historically the relationship between women and the theater has been a site
of contestation. A woman’s place in the theater, whether as a character,
an actor, an author, or an attendee, often has drawn pointed social and
literary commentary. In keeping with the theme of the 2008 SAMLA
Convention, Drama, the 2008 SAMLA Women’s Studies Panel seeks paper
proposals that address the ways that femininity has been and is written,
performed, staged, and received in theatrical works.

Æffective Æsthetics: Representation of Emotion

Rice Graduate Symposium, September 26-27, 2008
Rice University, Houston, Texas

Affective representation in both artistic and lived experience is
frequently explained in terms of competing social, political, and
cultural systems that often nullify one another. Compounding the problem
is the tendency for affect to complicate how we think about
representation; it seems that the two are inextricable. Through
investigating representations of affect within a variety of fields, this
conference proposes to find inroads that will bring the competing claims
of various discourses together into productive dialogue.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
One Hundred Sixth Annual Conference
November 7-8, 2008
Pomona College
Claremont, California

For two panels of 'English Literature Post-1700' please send proposals of
500 words and a 50-word abstract by April 8, 2008 to Jeff Strabone at
js3595_at_nyu.edu.

For complete conference planning schedule and guidelines, see the
February 2008 Newsletter (PDF):
http://www.pamla.org/newsletters/february2008.pdf

Philament, the peer-reviewed online journal of the arts and culture
affiliated with the University of Sydney, invites postgraduate scholars
to contribute articles, ficto-criticism, reviews, and opinions for a
special issue produced in conjunction with the convenors of UNSW’s School
of English, Media and Performing Arts Symposium. Revised papers from the
Symposium as well as new submissions are encouraged. Possible themes
include but are not limited to:

Facts on File, Inc is putting together an ambitious, three volume
reference work entitled General Themes in Literature. Contributors are
sought for a variety of themes and works of literature. All information
may be found at

http://staff.kings.edu/jamcclin/general.htm

For information, you may contact Jennifer McClinton-Temple at
jamcclin_at_kings.edu.

Session German II: Linguistics, Literature and Culture from 1700 to 1890: Open Topic

We invite abstracts to the German II session for the 65th convention of the SCMLA in San
Antonio, TX, November 6 â€" 8, 2008 at the Sheraton Gunter.

CFP: “Potentiality and the Unfinished States of Literature”
A Panel of the MLA Graduate Student Caucus, MLA 2008

The Graduate Student Caucus, an affiliate organization of the MLA, is pleased to invite current
graduate students to submit proposals for twenty-minute papers for a panel discussion titled
“Potentiality and the Unfinished States of Literature” at the 2008 MLA annual meeting, 12/27-
12/30 in San Francisco. This panel will investigate “potentiality” as a means of thinking the
conditions of possibility of literature in all of its habits and guises.

Borders of Genre: Travel Writing and Autobiography. When and why does
travel writing become autobiographical, if ever? 250-300 word abstracts for
papers investigating these questions, with attention to theoretical issues
and/or specific texts, due March 10 to Tom Smith at trs8_at_psu.edu. Inquiries
welcome.

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SCSU Ninth Annual English Graduate Conference, Saturday, April 19, 2008

Portraits of Women in Late-Eighteenth-Century Literature: The American New
Republic and Regency England

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SOUTH CENTRAL MLA
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2008
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

Kamille Stone Stanton is inviting paper abstracts for a proposed special
session entitled “The African in British Eighteenth-Century Literature”
at the 2008 meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association to
take place San Antonio, Texas Nov 6-8 http://www.ou.edu/scmla/ .

Papers might examine, but are not limited to, the following topics about
the long century, 1660-1815:

The call for papers for the 2008 meeting of the Canadian Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS/SCEDHS) is now online:
http://burneycentre.mcgill.ca/csecs-scedhs-2008/cfp.html

The theme of this year’s conference is “The Eighteenth Century: Influence
of the Past, Presence of the Future”. The plenary speakers are Jack Lynch
(Rutgers University) and Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal). As is
traditional for CSECS, papers not on the conference theme will also be
considered. Proposals for papers or panels should be sent to
fiona.ritchie_at_mcgill.ca by 30 April 2008.