Conference: Crossing the Channel. Frenchness and Englishness in the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Press

December 6, 2008
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3,
Institut du Monde Anglophone,
5 rue de l’Ecole-de-Medecine, Paris 6e.

The event is co-organised by the Cercle de Recherche et d’Etudes Anglaises du XIIIe siècle and the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Southampton.

Samedi 6 décembre 2008
Matinée

Président de séance : Jonathan Conlin, Université de Southampton
Introduction : Gillian Dow et Isabelle Bour

9h15-10h Jean Goulemot, Université de Tours
« A propos de la République des Lettres dans les périodiques (Bayle, Leclerc, Bassonage de Beauval)

10h-10h45 Jeffrey Hopes, Université du Mans
« The Affairs of France » in the early numbers of Daniel Defoe’s Review »

10h45-11h Pause

11h-11h45 Claire Boulard, Sorbonne nouvelle
« The history and fortune of Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles in eighteenth-century England »

11h45-12h30 Stephen Bending, Université de Southampton
« « French/English gardens and the cross-Channel idea of retirement »

Après-midi
Président de séance : John Bender, Université de Stanford

14h30-15h15 Jonathan Conlin, Université de Southampton
« ‘War by Other Means ‘ : The Gazette littéraire d’Europe and Anglo-French Diplomacy »

15h15-16h Gillian Dow, Chawton House Library, Université de Southampton
« ‘Coxcombs, Humbugs, Essentially Bad and Malignant’ : French authors in ‘American’ periodicals »

16h-16h15 Pause

16h15-17h Angela Wright, Université de Sheffield
« Importing Terror : Cross-Channel Gothic commerce in the 1790s »

17h-17h45 Diana Cooper-Richet, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin
« La presse anglo-parisienne au tournant du XIXe siècle, ou comment rester britannique à Paris »

Call for papers: Making Memory, Making History: Ideas and Identities Beyond Borders

The History Graduate Student Association at Indiana University invites paper submissions by graduate students for its 2009 conference entitled Making Memory, Making History: Ideas and Identities Beyond Borders.

The year’s conference seeks to engage with a variety of sources and perspectives related to the movement of ideas and identities, whether figurative or literal, across and beyond borders. Addressing themes that are particularly relevant to a contemporary audience, both inside and outside the academy, our hope is to engage with historical topics that not only cross disciplinary boundaries, but that reach within and beyond the social and academic borders that influence our understandings of self and society. We welcome submissions from various disciplines, time periods, and geographic focus. The conference is intentionally broad and invites multiple interpretations of complex issues such as national and transnational identities, migration, globalization, media and visual culture, urban studies, material culture, memory, violence and trauma.

This year, in accordance with our themes, we are integrating our conference with an exciting public arts and media event.
The conference will coincide with the opening reception of a photography exhibit by artist Jonathan Moller at the Mathers Museum followed by a presentation by the artist and guest note speaker from Indiana University. The exhibit, accompanied by the publication of a book entitled Our Culture is our Resistance, has received international attention and acclaim. Please submit the items and information below no later than Monday, December 21st. The HGSA Conference Committee will evaluate abstracts and inform participants by January 5, 2009 of their acceptance and panel assignment. Full papers are expected by the 16th of February, 2009. For visiting graduate students, we will organize accommodations with IU graduate students participating in the conference. The conference is free to IU graduate students in any field. Non-IU students must submit a registration fee of $30. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~hgsaconf/
Please submit the following information via e-mail as an attachment.

1. Paper abstract and title (no more than 250 words)
2. Institutional affiliation and title/position
3. Contact information: name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone/fax numbers

The Paul Lucas Conference in History History Department Indiana University 742 Ballantine Hall Bloomington, IN 47405-7103

Jennifer Boles
Heather Vrana
The Paul Lucas Conference in History
History Department
Indiana University
742 Ballantine Hall
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103

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