Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment
David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XVI
Call for Papers
13–15 December 2017 | Brisbane, Australia
Keynote speakers
Deidre Lynch Harvard University
Jan Golinski University of New Hampshire
Georgia Cowart Case Western Reserve University
Sujit Sivasundaram University of Cambridge
The Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies invites you to the sixteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, hosted by Griffith University and the University of Queensland.
We welcome proposals for papers or panels on the theme ‘Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment’, broadly conceived as referring to the plurality of Enlightenments as well as the ideas and uses of nature which they endorsed, and the spaces in which they developed.
In the inclusive spirit of the David Nichol Smith Seminar, proposals may address any aspect of the long eighteenth century. Especially relevant topics include:
• Enlightenment and religion or science
• Enlightenment and empire or gender
• Popular, moderate and radical enlightenments
• Regional, national and global enlightenments
• Climate, the environment and the Anthropocene
• Emotion, sentimentalism and feeling
• Theories of human nature and civil society
• Trade, commerce and improvement
• Travel, exploration and discovery
• Philanthropy and the culture of reform
• Spaces of sociability
• Urban and rural spaces
• Ideas of landscape and forms of land use
• Nature in art, literature and music
• Natural history, natural philosophy, natural law
• Nature in economic and political writing
• Medicine, sexuality and the body
• Botany, geology and geography
• Representations and uses of animals
• Work, leisure, technology and industrialisation
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers and panels comprising 3 x papers. Please submit an abstract of 250 words (maximum) and a 2-page CV via email as a pdf attachment to [log in to unmask]
Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2017
Website: https://anzsecs.com/conference/dnsxvi/
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