CALL FOR PANELS/PAPERS
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
18-20 OCTOBER 2012
THE WESTIN EDMONTON
EDMONTON, ALBERTA
CROSSINGS: THE CULTURES OF GLOBAL EXCHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN, DUKE UNIVERSITY
DAVID BELL, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Cultures of Global Exchange seeks papers investigating what
happens when cultures meet in the eighteenth century. Many historians
now trace the origins of modern globalization to the eighteenth
century, pointing to the global circulation of goods, labour, and
information as its defining feature. By focusing on the nature of
cross-cultural exchange, the conference will pursue the significance
of framing the century within the terms of a nascent globalized world.
We invite proposals that investigate cultural exchanges in a range of
fields, including but not limited to history, literature, visual
culture, geography, economics, anthropology and area studies.
Investigations of transcultural crossings could address dialogues
between Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Levant, India, China and the
South Pacific. Especially welcome are papers on the topic of cultural
encounters between Europeans and Western Canadian First Nations
peoples.
Deadline: 15 March 2012
Possible topics include:
the material history of global traffic
translation histories
the culture of mobility
information/scholarly networks
theories of globalization
travel writing
eighteenth-century empires
ideas of difference
trans-cultural versus cross-cultural
literary circulations
representations of cross-cultural encounters
cultural and commercial trade routes
spaces of intellectual exchange
As is traditional in CSECS, proposals not on the conference theme will
also be considered.
Mail: Katherine Binhammer, CSECS
Department of English and Film
3-5 Humanities, U of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T5G 2E5
Canada
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