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AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES (ASECS) 2020 panel.

Abstracts to Jessica L. Fripp, Assistant Professor of Art History, TCU (j.fripp@tcu.edu) before sept 16.

“Too political, too big, no good”: picturing politics in the long eighteenth century

“Too political, too big, no good” were the words Kim Sajet, director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, reportedly used to turn down Julian Raven’s gift of his propagandistic/fan-art portrait of Donald Trump, Unafraid and Unashamed. Inspired by this amusing, if somewhat absurd, event, this panel seeks papers that address political art in the long eighteenth century (1660-1830) that was celebrated at the time but is now maligned, or vice versa. Topics might include: official commissions celebrating events that have fallen out of favor due to changing understandings of histories of power (for example, colonial or imperialistic endeavors); works that have been positively or negatively affected by the vagaries of taste for a style or an artist; works taken up independently by artists that were well-received or rejected; or works that demonstrate the conflict between the needs of a political regime and the public. What did it mean for a work of art to be “too political,” “too big,” or “no good” in the eighteenth century? What impact do these value judgments have on our understanding of political art, then and now?  

May 19-20, 2020, University of Manchester 

Proposals: December 1, 2019

Keynote Speakers: Najwa al-Qattan (Loyola Marymount University), Seth Anziska (University College London), Yulia Egorova (Durham University), and Brian Klug (Oxford University)

Call for Papers

Beyond ‘Jewish-Muslim Relations’ invites scholars of Jewish and Muslim histories, cultures, politics, theologies and peoples to share comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of these topics as they relate to and come into contact with one another. Despite many theological and cultural similarities and frequent social proximity between Jews and Muslims, Jewish-Muslim relations in both contemporary societies and in diverse historical and geographic settings are often depicted in polarized binary terms. This conference aims to understand interactions and relations between Jews and Muslims in a wide variety of contexts beyond this binary. We encourage papers which offer innovative theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the study of these topics, and in particular seek papers which adopt a critical approach to the terminology of ‘Jewish-Muslim relations,’ which might itself inadvertently invoke binary, possibly predetermined relations between Jews and Muslims qua Jews and Muslims, often within historical and socio-political frameworks that have reified categories of Jews, Muslims, and inter-ethnic/-religious relations.

We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to:

·         Historical cases of interaction between Jews and Muslims

·         Representations and self-representations of Jews and Muslims

·         Jewish and Muslim interfaith activism/dialogue

·         Religion, tradition, secularism and innovation

·         Antisemitism and Islamophobia

·         Islamic and Jewish polemic and intellectual cross-fertilisation

·         Critical theory and Jewish-Muslim relations

·         Gender and sexuality

·         Jews and Muslims in the arts, literature and media

·         Multilingualism, translation and transnationalism

Paper proposals should include abstracts of 250 words and a speaker biography of no more than 100 words. Speakers are allocated 20 minutes to present and 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Please address all proposals and queries to the organizers (Adi Bharat and Katharine Halls) at jewish.muslim@manchester.ac.uk

Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2019

Writing Health from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First 

3-5 June 2020 Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Northumbria University, in connection with a three-year Leverhulme Trust-funded major project, is organising a two-day conference focusing on writing by and about doctors and other health practitioners, encompassing everything from physicians and apothecaries to midwives and cunning women. The aim of the conference is to give scholars the opportunity to explore the phenomenon of writing doctors and its wide social effects, whether it be representations of medical practitioners in literature and art, or creative works written by medical people. The interdisciplinary nature of the subject invites work on cultural, economic and gender history, as well as literary, visual and performing arts.​

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​Plenary Speakers:

Michelle Faubert, Associate Professor of English, University of Manitoba and Visiting Fellow, Northumbria University;  

Pratik Chakrabarti, Professor in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester; 

Tita  Chico, Professor of English, University of Maryland.​

The movement of medical writing from Latin to English in the Early Modern era opened up knowledge previously monopolised by an elite readership. Medical practitioners of both genders recognised the potential to build up their brand by catering to a burgeoning market of eager new readers. Publishers and booksellers capitalised on increased literary rates and greater purchasing powers amongst the public to produce ever-growing quantities of scientific texts – further fuelling public fascination with health and wellbeing, especially that of women. Practitioners, in entering this marketplace, were laid increasingly open to public ownership, as a personality behind the prose, either for better or worse. The full social, economic and political implications of this radical shift in the dissemination of information in the medical field have only just begun to be uncovered by scholars. This conference aims to open up discussion regarding all elements of this topic ca. 1660 to the present day. Topics might include, but are not limited to: 

Representation of, and writing by, medical practitioners in literary, visual and performing arts 

Medical self-fashioning 

The role of gender in medicine (e.g. female apothecaries, midwives, cunning women, etc.) 

Definitions of medical writing and the role of genre 

European, Trans-Atlantic, Asian, and colonial medicine 

Satire – in all its forms – directed at medical practice, both lay and professional, including by medical people themselves 

Discourse and correspondence between practitioners, and practitioners and their patients 

The nature of medical publishing

We welcome proposals from researchers across a range of disciplines and stages of career, including early career and student scholars.  Please send proposals of no more than 300 words, accompanied by a short biography, to writingdocs18@gmail.com  by Friday 15th November 2019. Papers will be invited on a wide variety of relevant topics from within the period. A selection of revised papers is expected to be published as part of the project outputs.​

For more information, contact: 

Clark Lawlor 

Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature, 

Department of Humanities, University of Northumbria

Clark.Lawlor@northumbria.ac.uk  

PI Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832

http://writingdoctors.info/  A Leverhulme Trust Major Project

Boston, MA

Organization: NeMLA

Categories: Digital Humanities, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, French, Popular Culture, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy 

Event Date: 2020-03-05 to 2020-03-08 Abstract Due: 2019-09-30

How did religious spaces and their regulation in France between 1534 and 1790 shape religious rhetoric and identities? How did the legacies or privation of these spaces inform or define the identities of French missionaries in the colonies, or of French-speaking religious communities in exile? What was the relationship between private and public spaces and religious identities? Suggested topics may include:

· French Protestant communities in exile: Switzerland, the Netherlands, England, Ireland, Prussia, South Africa, etc.

· French Jesuit missionaries in the colonies and abroad: Nouvelle France, China, Martinique, etc.

· Spaces of religious education: monasteries, convents, universities, private homes

· Spaces of worship during and after the Wars of Religion

· Spaces of worship/conversion during the dragonnades

· Spaces of religious resistance: the Cévennes region & the Camisards, Alsace

· Destruction of religious spaces : Temple de Charenton, Port-Royal, etc.

· The suppression of the Jesuits

· The hope of return: religious exile and French identity

Please submit a 300 word abstract and 100 word bio by September 30, 2019. You will need to create an user account through the NeMLA website (nemla.org) in order to submit an abstract. 

Contact Janée Allsman (alysha.allsman@colorado.edu) with any questions.

http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html

(Bucarest)

La thématique du voyage parcourt les sciences humaines et sociales, les lettres et les langues depuis très longtemps. Il est intéressant néanmoins de constater que les approches peuvent parfois se révéler complémentaires et/ou contradictoires, en fonction des angles privilégiés par les chercheurs. De sorte que cette thématique, qui est fondamentalement interdisciplinaire et internationale, suppose des réflexions d’ordre épistémologique, conceptuel et thématique.

La mobilité, l’errance, la rencontre, l’altérité, l’ailleurs, l’exotisme, etc. sont autant de notions qui sont mobilisées dans les différents travaux sans que pour autant elles soient pensées en lien entre chaque discipline. Comment ces dernières articulent-elles ainsi leurs réflexions, notamment au sein des catégories établies du réel et de l’imaginaire ?

Nous proposons au cours de ce colloque international et interdisciplinaire de nous appuyer plus spécifiquement sur les concepts heuristiques que sont le sujet, le lieu et le récit.

Le sujet est l’individu autonome, réflexif, qui se co-construit avec son environnement, dans un lieu donné et qui est capable de mettre en récit son rapport au monde, à la nature et à la société.

Le lieu est cette portion d’espace singulière où les hommes (l’anthropos) et les sociétés entretiennent des rapports privilégiés, où leurs identités se manifestent au sein de leur quotidien, de leur ordinaire.

Le récit est la mise forme, notamment par l’écrit, de ces relations qui peuvent produire des fictions qu’elles soient romanesques, cinématographiques, artistiques et/ou culturelles.

Trois angles seront particulièrement privilégiés durant ce colloque:

Axe 1 / Épistémologie du voyage : comment les sciences humaines et sociales, les lettres et langues, appréhendent-elles la thématique du voyage, quelle qu’en soit sa forme, son contenu, sa temporalité, sa destination ?

Axe 2 / Réel et imaginaire : comment les recherches sur les voyages articulent-elles les catégories du réel et de l’imaginaire ? Comment les récits mettent-ils en scène les dimensions du réel et de l’imaginaire ?

Axe 3 / Sujet, récit et lieu : comment les lieux sont-ils mis en récit ? Comment s’organisent les relations entre sujet, récit et lieu dans les fictions romanesques et les récits de voyage ? Comment s’articulent les productions qui convoquent l’oral, l’écrit et l’image ?

Pour autant ces trois angles ne sont pas restrictifs et exclusifs des propositions qui pourront être faites et retenues dans le cadre de ce colloque. Les propositions de communications devront comporter un titre, un résumé d’une dizaine de lignes, 5/6 mots clefs et être adressées à :

Simona Corlan Ioan (Faculté d’Histoire, Université de Bucarest)

simonacorlan1@yahoo.com et simona.corlanioan@istorie.unibuc.ro

et Ecaterina Lung (Faculté d’Histoire, Université de Bucarest

ecaterina.lung@istorie.unibuc.ro

avant le lundi 16 septembre 2019.

https://item.univ-pau.fr/fr/activites-scientifiques/autres-manifestations/appel-a-communication-voyages-reels-voyages-imaginaires.html

Source: Fabula