Dear colleague,

We kindly remind you that there is a new extended deadline for abstract reception for the 6th Conference of the Aphra Behn Society Europe, "Gender Cartographies: Histories, Texts & Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830", hosted by the University of Huelva, Spain (5-7 October, 2016). 

The new deadline for the reception of abstracts and round table proposals is May 20, 2016.

You can visit the Conference website at http://www.uhu.es/dfing/aphrabehn2016

 

With best wishes,

Sonia Villegas-López

 

Organizing Committee

"Gender Cartographies: Histories, Texts & Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830"

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6TH CONFERENCE OF THE APHRA BEHN EUROPE SOCIETY

 

“GENDER CARTOGRAPHIES: HISTORIES, TEXTS & CULTURES 

IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1660-1830”

 

University of Huelva, Spain

5-7 October, 2016

 

The Aphra Behn Europe Society invites submissions of papers for its biennial conference, “Gender Cartographies: Histories, Texts & Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830”, to be held at the University of Huelva, Spain, from 5-7 October 2016. This conference encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the fields of historical writing and historiography, textual studies, and the analysis of culture(s) with especial emphasis on women’s writing of the long eighteenth century.

 

Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

§   Imaginary or geographical spaces in the long eighteenth century

§   Women and the material: intersectionalities of text and object

§   Aphra Behn: her production and literary influence

§   Genre theory, gender, and the canon in the long eighteenth century

§   The culture of sensibility: gender inscriptions in the long eighteenth century

§   Representing the exotic

§   Spaces of intimacy: diaries, letters, memoirs

§   Bodies and sexualities in history, politics and fiction

§  The long eighteenth century now: traces of the past in contemporary literature and culture

§  Women’s journeys: travel narratives and histories of travel

§   Dramatic theory and practice: women as playwrights and critics

§   Performing gender on stage

§   Poetics in the long eighteenth century

§   Gendered approach to language and linguistics: dictionaries, encyclopaedias and translations

 

The following plenary speakers have already confirmed their participation:

 

Prof. Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth University)

Dr. Gillian Wright (University of Birmingham)

 

We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes) and roundtable discussions (60 minutes).

 

Contributors must submit the following information:

About the paper: 

Full title

A 200-word abstract

Technical requirements for the presentation

About the contributor(s): 

Full name

Postal address

Institutional affiliation 

 

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