eighteenth century

"SHALL WE REVIVE DE SADE?: SADE AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY"
 
 
"Since de Sade and the death of God, the universe of language has absorbed our sexuality, denatured it, placed it in a void where it establishes its sovereignty and where it incessantly sets up as the Law the limits it transgresses" (Foucault, Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. 1977, p. 50).
 
 

The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will hold its
annual conference in New Orleans at the historic Hotel Monteleone in the
heart of the French Quarter February 21-23, 2008. The theme is "Reinventing
the Self" in honor of the city of New Orleans. We welcome panels that
address this topic or anything relevant to the interdisciplinary study of
the eighteenth century. To propose a panel, please send a title and your
contact information to SCSECS president Kathryn Duncan at
kathryn.duncan_at_saintleo.edu by August 1, 2007.

CALL FOR PAPERS -- 'Theory and Scottish Literature'

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Issue 3 of the International Journal of Scottish Literature

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(see URL below for a more detailed version of this CFP)

 http://www.ijsl.stir.ac.uk/CFPtheory.htm

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What is the state of Scottish literary studies 'After Theory'?

What was/is theory's impact in a 'structurally nationalist' field of study?

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Transatlantic Fiction, Transatlantic Readers:
The Audience for the Novel in the US and Britain 1750-1860

Panel proposal for Reception Study Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, 9/27
- 9/29/2007

        The audience for the novel in English in the period 1750-1860 was
global, a result of the Anglophonic diaspora around the Atlantic basin. Yet
it remains to be demonstrated whether and how this fact influenced
individual writers or how best to understand the ways geography, nation,
gender, race, and class produced specific communities of readers-and to what
extent such communities for Anglophonic novels could be considered
transnational.

Teaching the 18th Century: a one-day workshop sponsored by the English
Subject Centre
13 September 2007
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Eighteenth-century studies have recently undergone exciting changes.
Research has expanded to include many non-canonical texts and a variety of
interdisciplinary approaches, while new electronic resources (especially
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online) with the potential to revolutionise
both research and teaching have become available. At the same time, students
seem to find it increasingly difficult to relate to the period.

/Eighteenth-Century Fiction/ is an international quarterly published in French
and English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative
prose of the period 1660-1832.

ANNOUNCEMENT to graduate students
Eighteenth-Century Fiction Essay Prize 2007

/Eighteenth-Century Fiction/, an international quarterly published in French and
English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative
prose of the period 1660-1832.

John Rich and the Eighteenth-Century London Stage:
Commerce, Magic and Management, 25-27 January 2008

An Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the
Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn
Fields, London, UK.
www.johnrich2008.com

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2007. Notice of
acceptance: 14 Oct 2007

Keynote speaker: Robert D. Hume

Illustrated Texts. From the medieval illuminated manuscript to the postmodern graphic novel, text and image have enjoyed a close partnership. This session encourages papers exploring the multifaceted and complex means by which illustrations perform interpretive work in supporting, informing, challenging, or undermining textual claims. Alternatively, papers could interpret "illustrated text" broadly and consider the process of "reading” images, say, in medieval Books of Days, a cathedral's sculptural program, William Hogarth's series, cartoons or advertisements, video games, or the tattooed words comprising Shelley Jackson's Skin.

Please note that the CFP deadline for this conference has been extended
to March 31st 2007.

Call for Papers

Call for Papers (extended deadline):
"Leisure and the making of knowledge in 18th-century Europe"
31 October – 2 November 2007, University of Hamburg, Germany
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/fb07/lits/AGWL.html

"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were
they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Samuel Johnson "Rambler" 177 (November 26, 1751)

UPDATE: The conference is to be held in *2008*. The email subject line
was previously incorrect. I apologize for the confusion.

The Novel and its Borders

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
University of Aberdeen
 8-10 July 2008
www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or
cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social
phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The
conference on The Novel and its Borders
will engage with the novel in all its aspects, material and theoretical,
from the 18th to the 21st century.

"The Novel and its Borders"

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
University of Aberdeen
8-10 July 2008
www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or
cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social
phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The
conference on The Novel and its Borders will engage with the novel in all
its aspects, material and theoretical, from the 18th to the 21st century.

Plenary speakers: Malcolm Bowie, Jonathan Lamb, Terry Castle

Panel topics will include the following:

CFP for the 2007 Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Conference to be held October 25-28, 2007 at Dartmouth College.
The conference theme is "Transatlantic Destinies: Connections and
Disconnections across the Atlantic Seaboard in the Eighteenth Century."

_Traveling Songs: Lyric in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century_