CALL FOR PANELS & PAPERS

CROSSINGS: THE CULTURES OF GLOBAL EXCHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

18-20 OCTOBER 2012
THE WESTIN EDMONTON
EDMONTON, ALBERTA

“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 Nationspeoples.

Plenary Speakers:

• Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University
• David Bell, Princeton University

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: csecs.scedhs2012@ualberta.ca

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