eighteenth century

Call For Papers: Power of Form and Forms of Power

Annual AEGIS Conference at SIUC
Carbondale Illinois
April 3rd-5th 2008

"Female Marginalia: Annotating Empire"
The 18th- and 19th- Century British Women Writers Conference

March 27-30, 2008
Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~bwwc
Abstract Deadline: November 12, 2007

Keynote Speakers: Helen Deutsch, Ann Cvetkovich, Susuan Fraiman, Susan
Friedman, Claudia Johnson, and Richard Menke

--GENDER AND EMPIRE, 1763-1815An interdisciplinary day conferenceCentre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York.Saturday 1st December 200711.30am - 5.30 pmThe event brings together scholars working across the fields of gender andimperial history in the eighteenth century.

Translation in Literature

Fine literature does and should span centuries and continents. But have
you ever played telephone? Have you ever played operator?

What is lost in the translation of ancient texts or even contemporary
texts in different languages? How can the poems of Turgenev or the
initially oral tales of, say, The Iliad retain their meaning through time
and space? And if something is lost in translation, why must we strive
for transmission in this ever-shrinking, wi-fy connected world?

Interdisciplinary panel, paper, and creative submissions are invited for
the 14th annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium at Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, held Feb. 29-March 1, 2008.

Reading and Writing Recipe Books: 1600-1800
University of Warwick
8-9 August 2008
 
Keynote Speakers:
Margaret Ezell (English, Texas A&M University)
Mary Fissell (History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)
Gilly Lehmann (Universite de Franche-Comte)
Janet Theophano (Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania)
 
 
This international interdisciplinary conference will provide a much-
needed environment that allows recipe book scholars to meet and discuss
important issues such as comparative methodologies and periodization,
thereby offering a key opportuninity to shape the course of future
research on this genre.
 
CALL FOR PAPERS:

"On the road again" - The Sociable Highway between France and Germany
This panel intends to explore the varieties of sociability that traveled
the spaces of conversation in the 18th and 19th century and invites all
papers that explore the various ways of interconnection between France
and Germany. Examples may be, but are not limited to: the roles of
salonnieres, the impact of ideals such as Bildung, and personal,
philosophical and political exchanges. Please send one-page abstracts
both to Martina G. Lüke Martina.Luke_at_uconn.edu and Barbara van Feggelen
clcs.uconn_at_gmail.com Deadline: 10/12/07

NB: this panel is part of the NEMLA conference in Buffalo in 2008.

Call for Papers
American Comparative Literature Association
April 24-27, 2008
Long Beach, CA

Seminar Title: Arabs and the New World

>From self-mutilation to the rise of plastic surgery; from the Gothic
genre to representations of pain in media and art, how has transgressing
the body yielded consequences for artists and audiences? This panel seeks
critical and creative presentations that explore these questions.

Submit 350-word paper proposals by October 15 to the Southwest Graduate
English Symposium, held at Arizona State University, February 29-March 1,
2008. Please include your name, professional affiliation, home and office
numbers, mailing address, and email address. Also, please include any A/V
requirements with your submission.

Papers adressing the complex issues of the methods, processes, difficulties, and ecstatic successes
of eighteenth-century self-improvement are welcomed for a panel entitled "18th-Century Self-
Improvement: Reinvention and Revolution" to be held during the South Central Society for 18th-
Century Studies' annual meeting February 21-23, 2008 in beautiful, reinvented New Orleans.

For the purposes of our conversations in February (and beyond), we will define "self-improvement"
broadly to include essays about spiritual, emotional, physical, political, and geographic
improvement, but are especially interested in essays that emphasize the intersections between
literature and culture.

The Lion and the Unicorn, a journal committed to a broad investigation
of children's literature, is inviting submissions for a special issue
devoted to the varieties of the didactic in the long eighteenth
century. Didacticism, often considered the dominant literary form of
much European and American eighteenth-century children's literature,
has been undertheorized. Possible topics might include:

What was the relationship between eighteenth-century pedagogy and didacticism?

How did children and adults read didactic texts as quintessentially
eighteenth-century readers?

Call for Papers

Language and the Self: From Locke through the Romantics

Session for South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference, New
Orleans, February 21-23, 2008

All aspects of language and the self in the long eighteenth century,
including such issues as self-consciousness, self-identity, self-reference,
self-expression, autobiography, the authorial self, the politics of
language, institutional authority, language and gender, language and race,
and print culture. The official deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007,
but late submissions will be considered. Please send paper proposals by
e-mail to jhjones_at_jsu.edu.

Language and the Self: From Locke through the Romantics

Session for South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference, New Orleans, February 21-23, 2008

All aspects of language and the self in the long eighteenth century,
including such issues as self-consciousness, self-identity, self-reference,
self-expression, autobiography, the authorial self, the politics of
language, institutional authority, language and gender, language and race,
and print culture. The official deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007,
but late submissions will be considered. Please send paper proposals by
e-mail to jhjones_at_jsu.edu.

Jasper Fforde’s popular series of literary detective novels, beginning
with The Eyre Affair, popularized a little-studied literary trope:
intertextual references and devices that subvert the linear master
narrative. From farting bookworms to the “footnoterphone,” Fforde
utilizes font types, footnotes, and misspellings to argue for a multi-
textuality in his novels. How have other writers done the same? For
what purpose? How does this practice affect us as readers? This panel
seeks critical and creative presentations that explore these questions.
Topics may include self-referencing, online hypertext, multiple
narrators, and much more.

Proposals are being sought for a panel on transatlantic eighteenth-century
passages for the 39th Annual CEA Conference in St. Louis, Missouri (March
27-29, 2008).

Papers that consider literary "passages" (liminal zones, migrations,
transatlantic encounters, entries/exits, and more metaphoric passages) in
eighteenth-century literature are most welcome, as are proposals that
consider frequently marginalized or understudied texts.

See the conference page at:
http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/conference2008.htm