QUADRENNIAL 2011 - 14th quadrennial David Nicol Smith conference in Eighteenth-Century Studies

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Category QUADRENNIAL 2011

Deadline: January 02, 2011 | Date: July 04, 2011-July 08, 2011

Venue/Country: Melbourne, Australia

Updated: 2011-03-30 16:00:51 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Eighteenth-Century Studies

4 to 8 July 2011

Melbourne, Australia

This is the major inter-disciplinary

Australasian showcase for eighteenth-century

studies: history, literature, art history,

musicology, studies of material culture and

anthropology and archaeology.

Enquiries: adrian.joneslatrobe.edu.au

Web address:

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/history/eighteenthcenturyconference.html

Sponsored by: La Trobe University

Themes

The 14th quadrennial David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-century Studies, to be held in Melbourne city centre on 4 to 8 July 2011, will focus on realms of power, privilege and ideas, and on themes of leisure, material culture and sociability in Europe's long eighteenth century. We are interested in Europe's Easts and Wests, Norths and Souths, and in effects on places far beyond. We welcome papers exploring any site of interaction in and between Europe's private and public spheres: those outside in villas or villages, on estates, or thronging the streets of cities, or those inside in the new spaces of sociability like the lobby, salon, studio, boudoir, club, coffee house and promenade-pleasure garden. This long-established interdisciplinary seminar based in Australasia has a distinguished history, producing select publications: books of essays and special issues of international journals. Your convenors intend to continue this tradition.

Town and Country: Villa, Palace and Town House

Environment, Land Management and Ecology

Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past

Coffee, Coffee Houses: New Tastes and Social Spaces

Sensibilities and Sociabilitiés: Lived and Literary

Spectacles: Art, Music, Theatre -- Performed and

Ephemeral

Display: at Court or in a public sphere

Europe and Asia

Representation and Self-Representation: Portraiture, Dress and Toilette

Reason, Un-Reason and Romanticism

Domination, Slavery and Empire: Global & European Impacts

The Rise of the Individual: Monarchies under Stress

The Marginalised: Itinerants, Roma and Prostitutes

Cosmopolitanisms and Nationalisms

The Enlightenment and the Pacific

Opera and Theatre in Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century

Letter-Writing, the Novel and Poetry in Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century

Spirituality and Space: Islamic and Christian Architecture in Europe in the Eighteenth Century