[AMS-announce] CFP: Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, Nov. 2008

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2008 Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

http://web.hws.edu/neasecs

"Ambivalence in the Eighteenth Century"
October 30 - November 2, 2008

The conference theme this year encourages the examination of ambivalence as it appears in a broad range of sources and discourses: including but not limited to diaries and autobiographies, travel writing, economic theorizing, literature, art, music, natural history and philosophy, collecting,theology, even those texts that have made the eighteenth century famous for its newfound confidence.

As with past conferences, this year¹s theme is only a suggestion. We cordially invite session and paper submissions that address any area of eighteenth-century studies.

Submission deadline for session proposal is February 1st, 2008.

Paper proposals need to be submitted by April 1st, 2008.

For information and submission:
Professor Catherine Gallouët
French and Francophone Studies Department
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
gallouet at hws.edu