CSECS 2014 CFP [anglais]_REV_image

CALL FOR PAPERS
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS)
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Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS)
15–18 October 2014
Hôtel Delta Montreal, 475 President-Kennedy Avenue
Montreal, Quebec
--Social cohesion and harmony are based largely on sociability, a form of ‘soft’ police
referring to the capacity of individuals to interact, communicate, and live together
without the ongoing intervention of a coercive power. Sociability therefore pertains
to the multiple ways individuals have of coming into contact with friends or
strangers, be it in person, through clubs, salons, societies or other associations, or at
a distance, through correspondence, publication and debate.
This conference sets out to examine the evolution of sociability in the long eighteenth
century and to do so through the prism of the numerous revolutions — political,
commercial, industrial, scientific, literary and artistic — which helped to redefine
sociability’s forms and to redirect its practices. It will accordingly be possible to
consider the full range of topics linked to this subject, notably philosophical debates
and literary representations on the theme of human nature and social relations,
exploration of social networks and the institutions which sustained them, as well
as the examination of forces which tended to transform or disturb the forms
and practices of sociability. Authors of the Scottish Enlightenment such as
Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, James Boswell and Robert Burns
were key figures in debates on sociability during the eighteenth century, and
proposals dedicated to them will be welcome.
The organising committee invites the submission of panels or other presentations
both on the conference’s general theme and on all other subjects relating to the
eighteenth century. Individual proposals are welcome and the committee will seek to
group these into panels on consistent themes. However, participants are also invited
to submit proposals for complete panels, including two or (ideally) three speakers
together with the names of a chair and a commentator. Proposals for roundatables or
all other kinds of contribution will also be positively received.
--Proposals for panels or papers might include the following themes, although this is
not an exhaustive list :
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Spaces of sociability
Police, surveillance and espionnage
Science and the Republic of Letters
Freemasonry
Urban space and land use
Writing as a social act
The figure of the hermit
Sociability and political revolutions
Perspectives on the crowd
Sensibility and social distinction
Communication networks
Friendship
Schooling, education and the transmission of knowledge
Celebrity, notoriety, and public space
Moral and Sociality
Etc.
The keynote speakers for this conference will be Pierre Serna, professor at the
University of Paris–I Panthéon-Sorbonne, director of the Institut d’histoire
de la Révolution française, and vice-president of the Commission internationale
d’histoire de la Révolution française; and James Moore, emeritus professor at
Concordia University.
Proposals (in French or in English) should be submitted in electronic form
and sent to the conference organiser, Pascal Bastien, at the following address:
[email protected]. They should contain a title, a summary (of no more than one
page) for presentations of 20 minutes or for panels of three papers,
and a short CV (of no more than one page) for each participant.
--Deadline for the submission of proposals: April 1st, 2014.
--The organizing committee will receive tentative proposals for the conference through
summer and fall of 2013: those interested are invited to submit a provisional paper
or session title and sign up for the conference info-letter.
The info-letter will remind participants of deadlines and provide information on
various conference activities and funding possibilities. Future participants will still
be required to submit official proposals and CVs in due form, on or before the April 1,
2014 deadline.
--Organizing Committee
JULIE ALLARD (Bishop’s University), PASCAL BASTIEN (UQAM), SIMON DAGENAIS
(UQAM), LUCIE DESJARDINS (UQAM), MARIE-CLAUDE FELTON (McGill University),
GENEVIÈVE LAFRANCE (UQAM), SIMON MACDONALD (McGill University).
--Scientific Committee
BRIAN COWAN (McGill University), SUSAN DALTON (Université de Montréal),
PEGGY DAVIS (UQAM), DEIDRE DAWSON (Michigan State University),
NICHOLAS DEW (McGill University), UGO DIONNE (Université de Montréal),
JEAN-FRANÇOIS GAUVIN (Harvard University), MATTHEW HUNTER (McGill University),
NEVEN BRADY LEDDY (Bishop’s University), TED MCCORMICK (Concordia University),
BENOÎT MELANÇON (Université de Montréal), DARIO PERINETTI (UQAM),
PETER SABOR (McGill University), JONATHAN SACHS (Concordia University),
RICHARD B. SHER (New Jersey Institute of Technology), MARK SPENCER (Brock University),
LAURENT TURCOT (UQTR).
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