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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 Email: [log in to unmask]