• den FRANZ-STEPHAN-PREIS für Dissertationen oder für Arbeiten vergleichbarer Bedeutung zur Habsburger Monarchie im 18. Jahrhundert
• den FRANZ-STEPHAN-FÖRDERPREIS für Diplom- oder Masterarbeiten mit Schwerpunkt im 18. Jahrhundert.

Herzliche Einladung zur 6. Graduate Conference in European History - GRACEH 2012:
 
Transformation in European History
Preconditions – Processes – Perceptions
3. bis 5. Mai 2012 
Campus der Universität Wien, Hof 3  Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte

Das Programm sowie weitere Informationen finden sich auf der Website.

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

• 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

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Enlightenment Liberties

ISECS International Seminar for early-career researchers

Indiana University, Bloomington (USA), 2-7 July 2012

With the patronage of the Société Française d’Etude du XVIIIe siècle (SFEDS) and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)

Organisers : Guillaume Ansart (IUB), Catriona Seth (Nancy Université)

« Liberty or death », « Liberty, equality, fraternity », many revolutionary slogans put the conquest of liberty at the top of the list of citizens’ vindications. This was the culmination of a trend under way throughout the century and which sought for freedom in various fields. Free mores, freedom to worship, liberty of expression – « Without the liberty to condemn, there is no flattering praise », as Figaro stated –, Liberty of conscience, Freedom of Spirit, Free trade, Free circulation, but also poetic licenses, franchises and immunities are some of the liberties which were debated during the Enlightenment. Questions were raised regarding the confinement of prisoners, as well as of the sick or the insane, but also concerning the imprisonment of women in often arranged or even forced marriages. The value of moral, ecclesiastical or civil censorship was debated. European lives and those of the people of America, Africa, Asia or Oceania were considered in parallel to try and determine who was actually free: natural man or the citizen whose actions were protected by an enlightened regime. We invite proposals regarding all these approaches to enlightenment liberties, without excluding any field or method.

The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) invites applications from scholars in all fields of eighteenth-century studies within the context of this one-week residential seminar. The seminar is limited to 15 participants. The proposals (approx. 2 pages, single-spaced) should be based on an original research project (e.g. a doctoral dissertation) that deals with an aspect of the theme mentioned above. Because this is a seminar rather than a conference, each participant will be given approximately one hour to present the texts and questions which will then form the basis of a group discussion.

Preference will be given to scholars who are at the beginning of their academic career (PhD or equivalent obtained after 2006). The official languages are French and English.

Applications should include the following information:

• a brief curriculum vitae with date of PhD (or equivalent) and indication of the candidate’s proficiency in foreign languages.
• a list of principal publications and scholarly presentations.
• a brief description of the proposed paper (approx. 2 pages, single-spaced).

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