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CFP: 14th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Rotterdam, July 26-31 2015. *German-language Anthologies in the Long 18th Century* Nora Ramtke and Seán M. Williams According to Campe's dictionary definition in 1801, the *Anthologie *- a loan word introduced into German in this period - is a selection of short poems*.* Especially after the success of the *Neukirch-Sammlung *(1695-1727) and Karl Wilhelm Ramler's anthologizing, more and more collections were brought to market in the long eighteenth century, through to *Des Knaben Wunderhorn* (1806-8). Following important historical work by Bark and Pforte (1969-), we would like to address once again the blossoming genre of what was also called the *Blumenlese* in light of literary theory of the past half-century, and widening our corpus to lesser-known case studies. We also propose to discuss volumes of verse by various hands alongside collections conceived for pedagogical use or entertainment value (*Kollektaneen, Analekten, Gesangbücher, Musen-alma-nach-e, Taschenbücher* etc). We shall ask whether the eighteenth-century anthology is a specific genre with its own function and discrete characteristics, or is better understood as a catch-all term. Possible topics include: - The nexus of authorship, editorship, scholarship and their readerships; or the role of the publisher (or pirate publisher!) and the profits derived from producing anthologies - either in a monetary sense, or in terms of prestige. - The extent to which anthologies seek to represent particular groups or categories exclusively, or in a peculiar way, compared to other forms of collecting and publishing verse by various poets. Papers might thematize nationalism, regionalism or gender, for instance. - Close readings of the ways in which certain anthologies were organized, or of contemporary reflections on principles of presentation. Can we speak of a poetics of the anthology; in what regard might individual anthologies be read as artistic * works*, and did anthologies emerge in conflict with, or in complementary relation to, authors' own collections of poetry? We welcome papers from scholars of all stages. We intend to publish the proceedings as a dual-language volume (working title, *Das Erblühen der Blumenlesen. Anthologien im langen 18. Jahrhundert*). Submission of abstracts is via http://isecs2015.wordpress.com <http://isecs2015.wordpress.com/,>, by January 12, 2015. Those who are interested are asked to also email Nora and Seán as well: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] *Nora Ramtke, M.A.: **Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin* at the Institute of German Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum. staff.germanistik.rub.de/nora-ramtke *Dr. Seán M. Williams: **Wissenschaftlicher Asisstent *at the Institute of German Studies, University of Bern. www.seanmwilliams.com