eighteenth century

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributors are sought for a new book on 'A History of Sexual Perversion
1650-1850'. We specifically seek articles within the boundaries of history
of sexuality which examine so-called sexual 'perversions'; this might
include any sexual behaviour which was considered perverse or 'abnormal' for
its time and would include certain heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian,
transgender, transvestite etc. practices; and why was such behaviour was
seen as 'abnormal', 'perverse' or threatening; subjects for discussion might
be considered include bestiality, flagellation, sex with children, fetishes,
sado-masochism etc.

61st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association
October 4-6, 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Website: rmmla.
wsu.edu

Call for papers
English Eighteenth-Century Literature Session
We welcome submission of proposals for individual papers that consider,
but are not limited to, the following issues:

Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction in all its forms
Letters and journals
Colonialism,
Abolitionism and Slavery
Gender and Sexuality
The private and public
sphere
Cultural spaces
The country and the city
The publishing industry

CFP for a special issue of Persuasions On-Line Papers due by March 1st

Persuasions On-Line, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to
scholarship on Jane Austen, solicits papers for a special issue on the
most recent film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice: the 2005 Focus
Features film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen.

LSU EGSA Mardi Gras Conference on Language and Literature.
Feb. 16-17, 2007
Lod Cook Alumni Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Members Only: Gatekeepers and the Future of Literary Studies

Keynote Speaker: Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature,
Cultural Studies, and English, The University of Minnesota.
Selected Publications: Wars of Position: Cultural Politics of Left and
Right (2005), Ed. Music in Cuba (2001), At Home in the World:
Cosmopolitanism Now (1997).

"Satire: From Swift to The Daily Show"

CALL FOR PAPERS: Sexual perversions 1650-1850.

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Contributors are sought for a new book on 'A History of Sexual =
Perversion
1650-1850'. We specifically seek articles within the boundaries of =
history of sexuality which examine so-called sexual 'perversions'; this =
might include any sexual behaviour which was considered perverse or =
'abnormal' for its time and would include certain heterosexual, =
homosexual, lesbian, transgender, transvestite etc. practices; and why =
was such behaviour was seen as 'abnormal', 'perverse' or threatening; =
subjects for discussion might be considered include bestiality, =
flagellation, sex with children, fetishes, sado-masochism etc.=20

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UK BURNEY SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2007
YOUNG RESEARCHERS PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS
        
The Burney Society is seeking participants for the Young Researchers panel
at its conference to be held in Windsor, 6-7 July 2007. Undergraduate and
graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for 15-20 minute papers on
Frances Burney's Court Journals (1786-91) or any related subject. The panel
will consist of papers given by four young scholars and Professor Audrey
Bilger (Claremont McKenna College) will act as respondent. Papers will be
chosen by a panel headed by Fiona Ritchie (McGill University).

Contesting Transoceanic Natural Histories

Seminar Organizers: Adam Miyashiro and Oscar Fernandez
Affiliations: The Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University

The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Meeting 2007: Puebla, Mexico

April 19-22, 2007
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006

Description: This interdisciplinary panel seeks to address
critical issues in the theory and practice of “natural history,” a formal
mode of encyclopedic writing that described everything perceived as
“natural” from the perspective of their writers.

Co-chairs Kathryn Duncan and Mike Stasio invite proposals for our panel
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century" at the 2007
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference to be held
in Tulsa, OK February 22-24, 2007. We welcome papers that address literature
and philosophy, psychology and literature, history and philosophy, etc.
during the Restoration and eighteenth century. For more information on the
conference, visit scsecs.net. Please send proposals to Kathryn Duncan at
<kathryn.duncan_at_saintleo.edu> by October 15, 2006.

CFP: =93Importing and Exporting National Identity=94

SCSECS 2007, Tulsa, OK (Feb. 22-24)

Contact: Eugenia Zuroski

Proposal deadline: Oct. 15, 2006

CFP: Early Modern Feminist Philosophers (10/7/06; NWSA
6/28/07-7/1/07)

CALL FOR PAPERS
for a panel on

FEMINIST PHILOSOPHERS
OF THE
EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Sponsored by the Early Modern Women Interest Group
National Women's Studies Association
28th Annual Conference
June 28 – July 1, 2007
Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois

This panel invites papers investigating the slippery boundary between
Romanticism and popular gothic fiction from the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries. Possible papers could examine gothic dramas
by seminal figures in Romantic poetry (Coleridge's /Osorio/,
Wordsworth's /Borderers/), the use of gothic motifs in Romantic poetry,
the appearance of Romantic poetry within gothic prose (in Radcliffe's or
Smith's novels), reception history and Romantic poets' self-positioning
in relation to gothic writing, the gendering of these two simultaneous
movements, and personal relationships among these writers (Matthew
Lewis's friendships with Scott and Byron). Papers with an inter-generic

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
38th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, 22-25 March, 2007

The Ecocritical Eighteenth Century

Distraction and Attention in Eighteenth Century

Hi folks,
>
> I have a new project in the works: Revealing Texts: Eighteenth and
> Nineteenth-century Literary Palimpsests. I am looking for articles
> exploring the manner in which some eighteenth and nineteenth-century
> texts reveal their histories and those of their real or imagined
authors
> (examples: Blake's annotations to Reynolds Discourses, pregnancy in
Tristram Shandy) and will
> welcome a variety of subjects: analogies, fragments, graffiti,