[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

[carlos palombini]

2008 Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

http://web.hws.edu/neasecs

"Ambivalence in the Eighteenth Century"
October 30 - November 2, 2008

The conference theme this year encourages the examination of ambivalence as it appears in a broad range of sources and discourses: including but not limited to diaries and autobiographies, travel writing, economic theorizing, literature, art, music, natural history and philosophy, collecting,theology, even those texts that have made the eighteenth century famous for its newfound confidence.

As with past conferences, this year¹s theme is only a suggestion. We cordially invite session and paper submissions that address any area of eighteenth-century studies.

Submission deadline for session proposal is February 1st, 2008.

Paper proposals need to be submitted by April 1st, 2008.

For information and submission:
Professor Catherine Gallouët
French and Francophone Studies Department
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
gallouet at hws.edu

-- 
carlos palombini (dr p)
professor adjunto de musicologia
universidade federal de minas gerais
<cpalombini em gmail.com>

"Irony was a counterweight against the confidence with which the British believed in their own civilization and wanted it to be acknowledged as superior by the rest of the world. The triumphant tone with which the Germans speak of 'culture', which only they possess, while the rest must make do with 'civilization', needs an equally, if not stronger, ironic distance." (Wolf Lepenies, The Seduction of Culture in German History, 2006)