Call for Proposals - The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830

Edited by: Pamela Phillips, Ph.D., Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Traditional timelines divide the past into the “Dark Ages” and the “Enlightenment”, with their corresponding associations with ignorance, the irrational, and superstition in opposition to light, clarity, and reason. In recent years numerous academic disciplines have challenged this black and white view, converging in and on the night to study the many dimensions of the other half of our daily twenty-four-hour cycle. The emerging field of Night Studies has examined the evolution of the meaning of night since the Middle Ages, its representation in different national literatures and art, and the impact of street illumination in the creation of nightlife, especially in urban centers, among other topics. This line of research is particularly relevant to eighteenth-century studies, as the Enlightenment’s embrace of light and reasoned knowledge makes it easy to overlook that night and darkness held both physical and metaphorical importance. The invention of lighting technology and economic growth, along with the rise of social infrastructures like cafés and the fascination with graveyards and other dark spaces, brought life and light to the eighteenth-century nightscape. The night became a source of inspiration for many writers and artists, and philosophers explored its hidden meanings.

The objective of this edited collection is to present a cross-disciplinary discussion on the thinking about the concept of night through examples from the global and long eighteenth century. The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 seeks to bring together case studies that address how the night became visible in the eighteenth century through different mediums and in different geographical contexts. The proposed study of the representation, treatment, and meaning of the night in the long and global eighteenth century also contributes to an on-going exercise that questions the accepted definitions of the Enlightenment. By bringing Eighteenth-Century Studies into dialogue with Night Studies, The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 enriches the critical conversation on both lines of research.

Contributions may consider, but are not limited to, the following topics:

•Night, dusk, and dawn as periods and spaces of the daily cycle

•Darkness and the (in)visible world

•Sleep and dreams

•Nocturnal landscapes and architecture (cemeteries, forests, etc.)

•The unknown, uncertainty, and obscurity

•Astrology and astronomy

•Evening customs (witchcraft, storytelling, crime, etc.)

•Chiaroscuro and nocturne painting

•Public spaces and sociability

•Literary and artistic representations

•Nighttime animals (wolves, bats, etc.)

•Urban and rural night culture

•Blindness and sight

•Shadows in art and life

•Gender and mobility

In its embrace of the global turn in eighteenth-century studies, The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 welcomes multidisciplinary topics, analysis of literary, visual, aural, and material texts, and considerations of nightscapes that extend beyond the traditional European canon.

Please submit a 300 word abstract and an abbreviated CV to Pamela Phillips (phillips.pamela@gmail.com) by December 20, 2019.

Authors will be notified by January 31, 2020. Complete, original, and not previously published essays of 6,000-8,000 words will be due by June 30, 2020. The editors of the Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies series have expressed an initial interest in the collection and a full proposal will be submitted to the publisher once the abstracts have been selected.

The Huntington is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for the new Howard and Dawn Weinbrot Research Fellowship for the Study of Eighteenth-Century British Society and Culture. The fellowship provides one month of support for research in politics, literature, religion, and art, among other germane eighteenth-century topics.

To be eligible, fellowship recipients must be a member or agree to join the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. All applicants must demonstrate by competitive application and through appropriate selection criteria that research at The Huntington is critical to their project. Applicants must either hold the PhD or be graduate students advanced to doctoral candidacy. Application information may be found at www.huntington.org/available-fellowships.

On June 25, 1789, five days after the Tennis Court Oath, which marks the end of the Ancien Régime, the Bishop of Rodez, Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, one of the rare prelates to have accepted the idea of common deliberations of the representatives of the three orders, was chaired around the streets of Versailles by the population... This same prelate who had presided over the ephemeral Provincial Assembly of Haute‐Guyenne set up by Necker, on an experimental basis, as part of a reform programme, emigrated to London in 1791, after having refused the constitutional oath, unlike Loménie de Brienne of whom he had been for eighteen years one of the Vicars General in Toulouse. Ten years later, he opposed the Concordat of 1802 between Napoleon and Pius VII and, until his death in 1813, was the head of the schismatic 'Petite Eglise', well established in his diocese.

This rupture, both with the French Revolution and with the Catholic Church, caused misunderstanding, and the judgments of Catholic historians have not entirely been kind, while on the other hand this mysterious and atypical prelate has almost entirely been forgotten. A few documents from the 19th century related his career more or less accurately and the Société des Gens de Lettres de l’Aveyron supported the work of one of its members, Victor Advielle who sketched a biography of Colbert de Castle Hill.

In the mid‐1980s, Andrew Moore, a history student at the University of Bristol, under the direction of William Doyle, undertook a study of Colbert based on departmental and diocesan archives and the documents in the possession of the Société des Gens de Lettres. His dissertation, however, remained in the Bristol University Library. Philippe Massot in a thesis devoted to the visit of the economist Adam Smith to Toulouse became interested in Colbert, who was Smith's guide in the South‐West, and emphasised the links he had kept with the British world. Bernard Fixes studied the pastoral activities of Seignelay and more recently Gautier Louyriac, M.A student at the university Jean Jaurès, dedicated his thesis to his administration of the diocese of Rodez.

From all this research emerges a figure much more complex than that available in biographical dictionaries. Different approaches should be compared to finally fully describe the career of this extraordinary 18th century character, in all its many aspects.

This is why we wish to organize in autumn 2020 a symposium bringing together interested researchers restituting the framework of the end of the 18th century in Scotland and the Rouergue and examining the bishop's life history, In Scotland, Paris, Toulouse, the Rouergue, the revolutionary years in Versailles an Paris, then his exile, or in his unique case, return, to Britain.

The symposium will take place in Toulouse and/or Rodez. The acts will provide the materials for a true biography of this character. It would certainly be no exaggeration to assert than no other Scot exercise as much influence on events in France in the second half of the 18th century.

Suggested Topics

The religious question in 18th century ScotlandThe rallying of the high clergy to the Revolution in JuneColbert from the General Estates to the emigrationThe French Bishops and the Vatican from 1789 to the ConcordatAbout Colbert ‘s two books on natural law and perpetual peaceColbert and the clergy ofThe printed production of the pre‐revolutionary years in RouergueThe role of bishops in the assemblies of the civil dioceses and at the head of the various commissions of the Estates of LanguedocThe Provincial Assembly of Haute‐GuyenneThe catalogue of Colbert's libraryColbert, Condorcet and the establishment of the cadastre in Haute‐GuyenneColbert de Castlehill and Abbé Mazars

Note: the list of the themes is purely indicative and does not claim to be exhaustive

Submission instruction and important dates

Proposals (French or English will be limited to 5,000 characters (spaces and bibliographie not included)

March 2020 : intention to contribute and abstracts submissions deadline (emailed to organisers)June 1st 2020 : notification to authorsSeptember 1st 2020 : Full papers will appear in the proceedings on https://colbertdecastlehill.com/September 10 to 12 2020 : symposium in Rodez and Toulouse

Organisation Committee

Alain Alcouffe, professor (emeritus), Université Toulouse Capitole (alain.alcouffe[at]ut‐capitole.fr)Bernard Callebat, professor of history of law institut Catholique de Toulouse (bernard.callebat[at]gmail.com)Andrew Moore, associate researcher, CERES/ICT (anvmoore[at] com)

Scientific Committee

(yet to be finalised)

Nigel Aston, Reader in Early Modern History, University of LeicesterBernard Callebat, professor of history of law, institut Catholique de ToulouseGerard Carruthers FRSE, Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature, Glasgow UniversityPhilippe Delvit, professor of history of law , University Toulouse 1 CapitoleWilliam Doyle, professor of history, emeritus, Université de BristolChristine Fauré, Directrice de recherche émérite au CNRS, Triangle‐ENS‐Univ.Stéphane Gomis, professor of modern history, Université Clermont AuvergneGilbert Larguier, professor emeritus of modern history, U. Via DomitiaClotilde Prunier, Professor of English Cvilisation, University of NanterreValérie Sottocasa, professor of modern history, University jean Jaurès, Toulouse

Patronage Committee

(Yet to be finalized)

SUBJECTS

Europe (Main subject)Society > Economy > Political economyMind and language > Religion > History of religionsPeriods > Early modern > Eighteenth centurySociety > Political studies > Political and social movementsZones and regions > Europe > FranceZones and regions > Europe > British and Irish Isles

PLACES

Rodez, France (12)

DATE(S)

Sunday, March 01, 2020

ATTACHED FILES

KEYWORDS

cadastre, église, évêque, vicaire

CONTACT(S)

REFERENCE URLS

Colbert de Castlehill

INFORMATION SOURCE

Alain Alcouffe courriel : alain [dot] alcouffe [at] ut-capitole [dot] fr

The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) sponsors the International Visitor Program—a fellowship that supports a member of JASNA to work on a creative or scholarly project for four to six weeks, while also using his or her talents to serve the Austen-related institutions in Jane Austen’s village of Chawton, Hampshire.

Fellowship applications are assessed based on the importance and viability of the applicant’s project; the applicant’s need to have access to materials in or near Chawton; the audience(s) who will benefit from the applicant’s work; and the skills that the applicant brings to the Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton House, and St. Nicholas Church.

The duties of the fellowship involve spending up to fourteen hours per week working either at Chawton House, the Jane Austen House Museum, or St. Nicholas Church (or some combination thereof, as needed), and attending the annual meeting of the UK Jane Austen Society in July and assisting as needed. The fellowship stipend is $3,250.

For more information and application materials, please visit http://www.jasna.org/programs/international-visitor/.

For JASNA membership information, see http://www.jasna.org/join/.

Applications are due on December 16, 2019.

For inquiries, please contact Marilyn Francus at chawtonivp@jasna.org.

The Department of Art and Art History at William & Mary seeks an innovative teacher-scholar for the Jane Williams Mahoney endowed position in Colonial Latin American Art History (pre1800). Applicants should currently be either an advanced Associate Professor or Full Professor. Review for tenure will take place at the start of the appointment. The position begins August 10, 2020.

We invite applicants in any area of the visual arts of pre-1800 Latin America. Candidates whose research and teaching make relevant connections to the Caribbean, the hemispheric Americas, Africa or the African Diaspora, and/or the Pacific world are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome applicants with expertise in post- and decolonial studies, indigenous knowledge and practices, and the heterogeneous cultures of the Americas.

Applicants must demonstrate an active and ongoing research program that inspires a highly motivated undergraduate student body as well as M.A./Ph.D. students in related programs and departments. The successful candidate is expected to develop compelling lecture and seminar courses at the introductory level as well as in their areas of specialization, advise undergraduates and graduate students, participate in department and university service, and generally contribute to the intellectual life of the institution. Teaching expectation is two courses per semester. Preference will be given to candidates who are able to contribute to our new Art History tracks in Critical Curatorial Studies and Built Environment Studies.

Information on the degree programs in the Department of Art and Art History may be found at https://www.wm.edu/as/arthistory/index.php

Required Qualifications: Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Art or Architectural History or closely related field, and must have a substantial record of postdoctoral publications, ongoing research, and experience in teaching and mentoring students at the university level.

Applicants must apply online at https://jobs.wm.edu and submit a CV, a cover letter including statement of research and teaching interests, representative publications, sample course syllabi and representative sets of recent teaching evaluations. Applicants will be prompted to submit online the names and email addresses of three references who will be contacted by the system with instructions for how to submit a letter of reference.

For full consideration, all application materials must be submitted by October 15, 2019. Applications received after the review date will be considered if needed

Call for Papers The 113th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the

American Historical Association

“The Past is Always Present”

August 6-8, 2020

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

The 2020 Program Committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers on any subject, but particularly welcomes proposals that address the conference theme: The Past is Always Present. 2020 plausibly stands as a year of historically resonant events, locally, nationally, and globally. Today, as debates regarding truth and authenticity churn at dinner tables, in classrooms, and clatter through the echo chambers of news and social media, historical understanding and analysis is more important than ever to navigating conflicts over immigration, equality, racial justice, democratic institutions, and war and peace. The 2020 PCB-AHA conference encourages participants to think about and discuss how historical knowledge and interpretation—of the distant as well as immediate past— advances professional scholarship and simultaneously shapes public understanding of the world. In the same vein, the program committee encourages participants to explore the trajectory of change and challenge within the profession of history—the imperative of diversity, broadening career paths, obligations and responsibilities of teachers and mentors, and emerging historiographical themes.

The Program Committee encourages proposals that enable conversations across specialist boundaries and engage the audience. We welcome submissions from graduate students, adjunct faculty, non-traditional scholars, and K-12 teachers. Anniversaries may provide inspiration for panels and roundtables: For example, the Missouri Compromise (1820); enactment of Nineteenth Amendment and Woman Suffrage (1920); end of World War II, liberation of the Nazi death camps, atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, U.N Charter, and closing of Japanese Internment Camps in the U.S. (1945); the Voting Rights and Immigration and Naturalization Acts of 1965; and Bush v. Gore (2000).

To make inquiries about the conference, please email PCB-AHA executive director Michael Green at michael.green@unlv.edu. Information on submitting proposals, connecting with prospective panelists, and finding out more details about the annual meeting (e.g., the venue, registration, lodging) will be available in the fall of 2019. In the meantime, please visit www.pcb-aha.org for updates.

Panel Proposals must include a contact person; a title and 250-word abstract of the panel or roundtable; the title and brief description (100 words) of each presentation; a one-page C.V. (including each participant’s email address and affiliation); and any AV requests. The Program Committee also welcomes individual paper submissions. Please include title, 250 word abstract, one-page C.V., affiliation, and contact information.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS: DECEMBER 31, 2019

Decisions regarding acceptance will be conveyed no later than March 1, 2020. Please note that submission of a proposal constitutes a commitment to attend the conference if the proposal is accepted. Graduate student presenters will receive information about travel subventions upon acceptance.

The American Antiquarian Society offers both short-term and long-term research fellowships, tenable for periods of one to twelve months during the period June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021.

The Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship provides a scholar who is within three years of receiving a Ph.D. twelve months in residence to add to and revise the dissertation for publication. The stipend for the Hench Fellowship is $35,000; the deadline for application is October 15, 2019.

Short-term research fellowships are tenable for periods of one to two months' residence at the Society, with a monthly stipend of $1850. The application deadline for these fellowships is January 15, 2020.

Long-term fellowships, supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, support periods of four to twelve months' residence at the Society. The application deadline for these fellowships is January 15, 2020.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is the leading archive in the United States for research in pre-twentieth-century U.S. history, literature, and culture. In addition to unsurpassed resources focused on the history and culture of the United States, AAS holds rich collections of materials dealing with Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. AAS collections focus on all aspects of American life from contact to 1900, and provide rich source material for projects across the spectrum of early American studies. We invite you to discover these resources as a visiting academic research fellow.

Further information about the fellowships, along with application materials, is available on the AAS website, http://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships.htm

Questions should be directed to cmrell@mwa.org

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Two centuries ago Queen Caroline of England was put on trial for adultery by her husband George IV, provoking an unprecedented media frenzy. Two Yale libraries, the Lewis Walpole Library and the Lillian Goldman Law Library are marking the bicentennial of the trial with a joint exhibition, “Trial by Media: The Queen Caroline Affair.”

The colorful exhibition is on display September 9 through December 19 in the Yale Law School. It is co-curated by Cynthia Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings at the Walpole, and Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian at the Law Library.

Drawing on the Lewis Walpole Library’s strengths in graphic satire and the Law Library’s collections of trial accounts and illustrated legal texts, “Trial by Media” examines the role of print media in documenting the Queen Caroline affair and shaping public perceptions. The items range from mocking caricatures to political screeds and sober, journalistic accounts. Today these sources serve as a lens for studying gender roles, class divisions, publishing, political satire, and British politics.

In connection with the exhibition, there will be a mini-conference the afternoon of October 4 in the Yale Law School, with panels focusing on the legal and media aspects of Queen Caroline’s trial. An online version of the exhibition is under preparation.

”Trial by Media: The Queen Caroline Affair” is on display in the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery of the Lillian Goldman Law Library, located on Level L2 of the Yale Law School (127 Wall Street, New Haven CT). The exhibition is open to the general public 10am-6pm daily, and open to Yale affiliates until 10pm.

For more information, contact Susan Walker, Head of Public Services, Lewis Walpole Library, phone (860) 677-2140 and email susan.walker@yale.edu, or Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian, Lillian Goldman Law Library, phone (203) 432-4494 and email mike.widener@yale.edu.

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Are you interested in learning more about working with texts, images, and artifacts as material objects, or might you know someone who is so inclined? Please find below information on fellowship and scholarship opportunities at Rare Book School this fall.

* The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applications from early-career scholars for its Junior Fellows Program, which focuses on enriching the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship. (Deadline: 1 November 2019)

* RBS-awarded scholarships offer tuition assistance to applicants with financial need who wish to take RBS classes. (Deadline: 1 November 2019) NB: The RBS course schedule for the summer of 2020 will be announced in October 2019.

* The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage at RBS seeks applicants interested in advancing multicultural collections through innovative and inclusive curatorial practice. (Deadline: 1 December 2019)

For more information about how to apply to our fellowships and scholarships for new and returning RBS students, please consult: https://rarebookschool.org/news/2019-scholarships/

To learn more about RBS’s five-day intensive courses, which are offered at several different partner institutions in the United States, please visit: https://rarebookschool.org/courses/

The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, of which ASECS is a member, has written to the British Home Office to protest visa delays and other difficulties that scholars from predominantly Islamic countries experienced when attempting to travel to Edinburgh to attend the ISECS Congress in July. You may read the letter .

SHARP is pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 round of the 25th-Anniversary Research Fellowship are now being accepted. Applications close on the 1st December 2019. The fellowship is open to all members of SHARP. For more details, see:http://www.sharpweb.org/main/sharp-25th-anniversary-research-fellowship/

Hotel registration for ASECS 2020 St. Louis is now open!

To make your reservations, please click here: https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/STLRS/G-AMSO

If you need additional assistance, please contact us at 877-803-7534 or click here to find contact information by Region.

If the group rate is no longer available, prevailing rates may be offered for some or all of your dates.

PLEASE NOTE: The last day for ASECS guests to make reservations is February 25th, 2020. After this date, the hotel can no longer guarantee your discounted room rate or hotel room availability. So please plan accordingly!

ACLS is now accepting applications for Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowships. This fellowship program aims to amplify the broad potential of doctoral education in the humanities by supporting doctoral faculty as they pursue publicly engaged scholarship and advocate for diverse professional pathways for emerging PhDs.

Scholars & Society Fellowships allow faculty who teach and advise doctoral students to pursue research projects while in residence at a US-based cultural, media, government, policy, or community organization of their choice. Fellows and their colleagues at host institutions are expected to create a mutually beneficial partnership in which they collaborate, interact, and learn about each other’s work, motivating questions, methods, and practices. The program supports projects at all stages of development, and welcomes applications that propose to deepen or expand existing research projects as well as those that propose new projects.

In the 2019-20 competition year, ACLS will award up to 12 Scholars & Society Fellowships for tenure during the 2020-21 academic year. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $75,000, plus funds of up to $6,000 for research, travel/relocation, and related project costs. The award also carries $10,000 in support for each fellow’s host organization, and provides additional funding of up to $15,000 to sponsor on-campus and off-campus programming in the year following the fellowship.

To be eligible for the fellowship, applicants must

be employed in fulltime faculty positions in PhD-granting humanities departments or programs at a university in the United States, remaining so for the duration of the fellowship. US citizenship or permanent residency is not required.commit to a nine-month residency off-campus and at the non-academic institution that they have proposed.commit to participate in-person in two multi-day workshops (in late summer 2020 and late spring 2021) during the fellowship year.

To learn more about the program, visit https://www.acls.org/Competitions-and-Deadlines/Mellon-ACLS-Scholars-Society-Fellowships. For application tips and answers to frequently asked questions, visit https://www.acls.org/FAQ/Mellon-ACLS-Scholars-Society-Program.

For all other questions, please contact fellowships@acls.org.

The American Council of Learned Societies, a private, nonprofit federation of 75 national scholarly organizations, is the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. Advancing scholarship by awarding fellowships and strengthening relations among learned societies is central to ACLS’s work. This year, ACLS will award more than $25 million to over 350 scholars across a variety of humanistic disciplines.

The Harry Ransom Center invites applications for its 2020–2021 research fellowships. The Ransom Center will award 10 dissertation fellowships and up to 50 postdoctoral fellowships for projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections. The collections support research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. For information about how the Center might support your research project, contact us: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/contact/. The deadline for applications, which must be submitted through the Center’s website, is November 11, 2019, 5 p.m. CST. All applicants, with the exception of those applying for dissertation fellowships, must have a Ph.D. or be independent scholars with a substantial record of achievement. The fellowships range from one to three months, with stipends of $3,500 per month. Travel stipends and dissertation fellowships provide stipends of $2,000. For all fellowship categories, an additional, one-time $500 stipend will be provided to individuals who are a citizen or resident of a country other than the U.S. to contribute to the costs associated with the J-1 visa and/or international travel to Austin. Fellowship residencies may be scheduled between June 1, 2020, and August 31, 2021. During the fellowship, scholars will work on-site at the Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. Fellows will become part of a distinguished group of alumni. Since the fellowship program's inauguration in 1990, the Ransom Center has supported the research of more than 1,000 scholars from around the world. For details and application instructions, visit: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/application-instructions/. Please share this announcement with colleagues and graduate students. Questions about the fellowship program or application procedures should be directed to ransomfellowships@utexas.edu.

The Huntington Library Quarterly invites submissions for the Huntington Centennial Essay Prize. Offered in celebration of the Huntington Library’s centennial in 2019–20, the prize aims to promote scholarship in British and American studies from the sixteenth through the long eighteenth centuries. The journal encourages interdisciplinary approaches and embraces research in all humanities fields. The competition is open to scholars at any stage. Essays need not be based on research in the Huntington Library’s collections.

The prize carries a cash award of $1,000usd to the author, and the winning essay will be published in the journal. Entries must not have been published or be under submission elsewhere. In addition to appearing in the print publication and in Project MUSE for subscribers, the essay will be freely available on the journal’s Penn Press website and promoted there for the period of a year.

Application should be made via the HLQ’s online review and submission system, https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/hlq. Submission deadline: October 1, 2019. Word limit: 10,000 words, including notes. Details at http://hlq.pennpress.org.

Call for Papers: Pleasures of imagination – art, architecture and esthetics in 18th century Europe

Helsinki, 20–21 March 2020

The Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is organizing a conference which focuses on the different aspects of 18th century aesthetic culture. The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday 20–21 March at the House of Science and Letters in Helsinki. The perspective of the conference is trans-cultural and its aim is to articulate the multiplicity of the aesthetic phenomena of the period. One goal of the conference is to bring together 18th century scholars from different fields of study.

Consequently we call doctoral students as well as post doc and senior researchers to send us a paper proposal consisting of a title and 200 words by 30 September 2019 to email addresses markku.kekalainen@helsinki.fi and lotta.nylund@helsinki.fi. The abstract should include contact information. The paper can be in Finnish, English, or Swedish. The conference is free of charge.

Keynote speakers:

Dr Hannah Williams, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Merit Laine, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Uppsala University

Sessions:

Session I Discussions and theories concerning beauty

Session II Urbanism and the city as a spatial experience

Session III Academic art and the challengers of Classicism

Session IV Elite materiel and aesthetic culture

Session V Craftmanship and art in practice

Session VI The longue durée of art styles in peripheral regions

Peter Hanns Reill 1938 – 2019

Peter Hanns Reill, Professor Emeritus of History and former Director of the Clark Library and the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies at UCLA, passed away suddenly on August 18, 2019, following a fall at his home. He is mourned by his wife, Jenna, his daughter, Dominique, and by his wide circle of friends and colleagues. He was a genial, warm-hearted, generous man, a witty conversationalist and raconteur, who endeared himself to everyone who knew him. All those who loved him are devastated by his untimely passing, for he had many years still to come in a long and productive scholarly career.

Professor Reill was born in Astoria, NY, on December 11, 1938. His parents were immigrants from Germany. He was awarded his BA by New York University in 1960, and his PhD by Northwestern University in 1969. He joined the Department of History at UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 1966, and rose steadily through the ranks, becoming Full Professor in 1980, and Chair of the Department from 1988 to 1991. He retired in 2011. His research centered on the cultural and intellectual history of Europe during the 18th century Enlightenment, focusing on the interchange of ideas between Germany, Britain and France, and the interdisciplinary relationship between science and philosophy. His work was internationally recognized; he received numerous Fellowships and held several Visiting Professorships in this country and in Europe. He produced major studies in his field, together with a long series of articles and edited volumes. He was at work on the research for another book at the time of his death.

Professor Reill was a skilled and dedicated teacher. He taught a wide range of undergraduate lecture courses and graduate seminars, admired for their clarity and intellectual rigor. He was approachable and cared deeply for his students. He will be fondly remembered by the many students he nurtured, who went on to academic careers of their own.

Professor Reill’s crowning achievement was his brilliantly successful service as joint Director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies at UCLA, from 1991 to 2011. He took the helm at a moment of budgetary uncertainty but, undeterred, quickly expanded and transformed both these institutions. In his hands they became centers of advanced historical and literary study, nationally and internationally renowned, attracting students and established scholars from across the globe. Professor Reill was an innovative administrator and (an essential accomplishment) also a highly skilled fund-raiser, winning numerous grants from donors and scholarly funding institutions. At the Clark Library he embarked on a major acquisitions program to extend the library’s holdings beyond its core collections in British 17th and 18th century history and literature, to give it a broader chronological and international range. Through judicious purchases he built up the Clark Library’s collection of books and papers relating to Oscar Wilde, making it the most important collection of Wilde materials in the world, which now attracts researchers from across the USA and abroad. He instituted an Outreach Program for K-12 students, in conjunction with LAUSD, to foster their interest in and love of the humanities. He set up a program of poetry readings, and as a lover of classical music, an annual series of recitals and chamber music concerts; both the poetry readings and the concerts were staged in the grand setting of the Library’s wood-paneled salon.

At the same time, Professor Reill worked tirelessly to expand the activities of the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. He set up a full schedule of annual conferences, held at the Clark Library, with up to twenty sessions each year, side-by-side with one- or two-day scholarly meetings, on a vast range of literary and historical themes. He established relations with numerous universities and scholarly institutions in the United States and Europe. An indication of the international recognition the UCLA Center attained under Professor Reill’s leadership was its role as the venue for the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, in August 2003; Professor Reill was at that time the elected President of the Society. This very successful meeting, and the activities which Professor Reill arranged to accompany it – films, concerts, visits to cultural centers in Los Angeles - attracted over 1200 scholars, not only from the USA and Europe, but also from countries in Asia and Latin America. This resounding success is a fitting tribute to Professor Reill’s talents as an imaginative administrator and coordinator of landmark intellectual forums.

Professor Reill will be terribly missed by his grieving family, and by his great circle of devoted friends and colleagues. Family and friends alike share in the profound shock and sense of loss at his being torn away from them so suddenly and tragically. He was an internationally renowned scholar, and a brilliant creator of programs that fostered a diverse range of intellectual endeavors. But above all, he will be remembered as a decent, witty, friendly man, and a generous host who loved to entertain. His memory will be treasured by all those who knew and loved him. The funeral will be private.

The BSA is excited to announce its fall programs, with free workshops and lectures open to the public taking place in Washington DC on Feminist Bibliography (Oct. 11), in Houston on Islamic Manuscripts (Oct. 11), and a "Toward Inclusive Bibliography" panel in Los Angeles (Oct. 12).

Please find complete details on the BSA website and click through to register for these events on our website.

We also draw your attention to the following:

October 15, 2019, is the deadline for proposals for support from the Programs Committee.

November 1, 2019, is the deadline for Fellowship Applications, and the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize in American bibliography.

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ASECS has joined with other learned societies in endorsing the American Historical Association's statement on domestic terrorism, bigotry and history.

The American Historical Association expects the following statement to stimulate more questions than answers. The Association hopes these questions make their way into classrooms, libraries, museums, city council meetings, community centers, and even coffee shops, wherever people are trying to connect with each other to make historical sense of our current moment. Read the full statement here: https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/aha-advocacy/aha-statement-on-domestic-terrorism-bigotry-and-history?fbclid=IwAR25Hk9jR2TdJ-XoyfSbfI4oGPeq-kctxWG4_sm2dpLYxlu6pUhtXtYmKKA

Dennis Moore is not just retiring from Florida State University after 28 years of teaching, mentoring, research, and service to the scholarly community at large. He is leaving the Department of English, the place during those nearly three decades that he says “has been an academic home, indeed, my fun home. Full stop.”

“Over the last year, it has become increasingly clear that it’s time to retire and to open up space for another colleague,” Moore says, as he sits in the Williams Building’s fourth-floor Skybox and discusses his career. He expresses appreciation for the department’s decision in the spring of 2019 to hire John Garcia, “a brilliant young Early Americanist and Hispanist,” Moore says. Garcia, from California State University, Northridge, begins teaching as an assistant professor in the fall of 2019. Read more here: https://english.fsu.edu/article/dennis-moore-retires-his-academic-home

Registration is now open for Advertising and Exhibit Space for ASECS' 51st Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch in St. Louis, MO (March 19 -21, 2020).

You can register by visiting: https://forms.gle/jHU9ietfsAAGKLKk6. The registration form is required of all advertisers and exhibitors.

2019-20 ACLS Fellowship & Grant Competitions

Greetings from the American Council of Learned Societies!

We are pleased to announce that the 2019-20 ACLS competitions are now open for programs with fall deadlines. ACLS offers fellowship and grant programs that promote research across the full spectrum of humanities and humanistic social science fields and support scholars from the advanced graduate student level through all stages of the academic career. Comprehensive information and eligibility criteria for all programs can be found at https://www.acls.org/Fellowship-and-Grant-Programs/Competitions-and-Deadlines.

Application deadlines vary by program:

September 25, 2019, 9pm EDT

*ACLS Fellowships (the central program, which includes several named awards and Project Development Grants)

*Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars (including opportunities specifically for liberal arts college faculty)

*Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships

October 23, 2019, 9pm EDT

*Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art

*Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

*Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs – Fellowships for Scholars

*Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

*Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowships

November 6, 2019, 9pm EST

*Luce/ACLS Predissertation Travel Grants to China

*Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies

*Luce/ACLS Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants in China Studies

*Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society (grants for planning meetings, workshops, and conferences) – pending renewal of funding

November 13, 2019, 9pm EST

*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies

*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships in Buddhist Studies

*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies

*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Grants for Critical Editions and Scholarly Translations

*Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs – Collaborative Programming Grants

November 20, 2019, 9pm GMT

*African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships

January 8, 2020, 9pm EST

*ACLS Digital Extension Grants

*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorships in Buddhist Studies

March 2020 (date TBA)

*Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows – pending renewal of funding

The American Council of Learned Societies is the leading private institution supporting scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. In the 2018-19 competition year, ACLS awarded over $25 million to nearly 350 scholars worldwide. Recent fellows’ and grantees’ profiles and research abstracts are available at https://www.acls.org/Fellows-and-Research/Recent-Awardees. We look forward to an equally successful competition year in 2019-20, and we encourage you to circulate this notice to members of your community who may be interested in these fellowship and grant opportunities.

For all questions, please contact fellowships@acls.org.

"Staging Slavery around 1800: Performances of Slavery and Race from an International Perspective." More information about the program and registration: https://www.stagingslavery.ugent.be/

Call for Papers - “Faith/Fashion/Forward: `Dress’ and the Sacred”

A Special Issue of Religion and the Arts

Guest Editor: Frederick S. Roden

Religion and the Arts solicits essays for a special issue on the intersectionality of fashion and holiness. In the wake of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2018 exhibition concerning couture and Catholicism, we aim to query how material objects and decorative arts of the body do more than reveal and conceal unseen meaning. Fashion defines collective and individual corporeality in shaping the spiritual and embodied self.

Resisting a “sacred versus profane” dichotomy, we plan to foster discussion on multivalent categories of identity a wearer/bearer may inhabit, residing with or displaced from religion and objectification.

We seek articles and reviews comparative and particular; on western and nonwestern topics; and engaging various subjects such as gender, sexuality, cosmopolitanism/provincialism, traditionalism/innovation, ritual, and embodiment. We welcome studies grounded in specific moments as well as the transhistorical. “Fashion” should be broadly conceived to include items used for religious practice or life-cycle events; decorative objects definitive of creed or belonging (including jewelry); and materials worn in public, ceremonial performances of liturgy/worship as well as private, vernacular markers of devotion.

Essays should be 5000-10,000 words in length and must be submitted by February 1, 2020 for consideration. Please direct queries to frederick.roden@uconn.edu. Religion and the Artsfollows MLA style. Authors should send any image files in color or black/white as 300 dpi for photography/600 for linework at the size the images are to be reproduced. Authors must arrange for world rights and are responsible for the costs (the print run is 250). For further information on Religion and the Arts, edited by James Najarian, consult https://www.bc.edu/publications/relarts/about.html

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) invites three scholars in the early stages of their careers to present fifteen-minute papers on their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as members of a panel at the BSA's annual meeting, which will take place in New York City in late January of 2020.

The New Scholars Program seeks to promote the work of scholars who are new to bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of textual artifacts (manuscript, print, or digital). The theme of BSA's 2020 annual meeting will be technology. The selection committee warmly welcomes (but does not require) papers that consider technologies of the book, capaciously conceived, including studies on textual artifacts and technological processes ranging from those in the ancient world to the present day.

Those selected for the panel receive an honorarium of $500, as well as reimbursed expenses of up to $500 toward the cost of attending BSA's 2020 annual meeting. In addition, awardees receive a complimentary one-year membership in the BSA, and may apply for travel funds to attend a subsequent BSA annual meeting within two years following their presentation to the Society. Papers presented by BSA New Scholars are submitted to the editor of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America for publication, subject to peer review.

For more about the New Scholars Program, eligibility requirements, and application procedures, see:

http://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/

Tenure-Track Position in English Literature

The Department of English at the University of Haifa, Israel, invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track position to begin either March or October 2020, depending on candidate availability. We welcome applications from candidates specializing in one or more of these fields: American Literature before 1900, Gender and Sexuality, Children’s Literature, Print Culture, Visual Cultures, Environmental Studies, and Digital Humanities. Priority will also be given to applicants eligible for the Alon and Maof Fellowships, which are awarded by the Israeli Council for Higher Education to outstanding tenure-track faculty eligible for or holding Israeli citizenship.

The English Department and the University of Haifa boast a roster of internationally renowned researchers, and the most ethnically diverse student body of any university in Israel, providing opportunities for academics at all stages of their careers to participate in its dynamic scholarly and pedagogical life. The successful candidate will be expected to teach four courses per year. The language of instruction in the department is English, but a working or rudimentary knowledge of Hebrew is beneficial.

Candidates holding a PhD with relevant teaching experience and a strong publication record should submit a cover letter, a CV (including the names of three referees) and a statement of research interests via Interfolio https://apply.interfolio.com/65989. (Opening an Interfolio account is free and allows you to submit your materials and reference letters, as well as to follow the status of your application.) Further queries about the post and the fellowships may be addressed to Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai (abenyishai@univ.haifa.ac.il). Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2019. Interviews will take place in November/December 2019.

Library Company of Philadelphia Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2020-2021

Deadline for applications: November 1, 2019

National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in residence at the Library Company on any subject relevant to its collections, which are capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries. NEH Fellowships are for individuals who have completed their formal professional training. Consequently, degree candidates and individuals seeking support for work in pursuit of a degree are not eligible to hold NEH-supported fellowships. Advanced degree candidates must have completed all requirements, except for the actual conferral of the degree, by the application deadline, November 1, 2019. Foreign nationals are not eligible to apply unless they have lived in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. NEH fellowships are tenable for four to nine months. The stipend is $5,000 per month.

Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in the collections of the Library Company and other nearby institutions into the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, to roughly 1850. The fellowships provide scholars the opportunity to investigate the history of commerce, finance, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal improvements, economic policymaking, and other topics. Applicants may be citizens of any country, and they must hold a Ph.D. by September 1, 2020. The stipend is $40,000 for the academic year, or if the award is divided between two scholars, $20,000 per semester.

Senior scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. The Library Company’s Cassatt House fellows’ residence offers rooms at reasonable rates, along with a kitchen, common room, and offices with internet access, available to resident and non-resident fellows at all hours. All post-doctoral fellowships are tenable from September 1, 2020, through May 31, 2021, and fellows must be in continuously in residence in the Philadelphia area for the duration of their fellowships.

THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS NOVEMBER 1, 2019 with a decision to be made by December 15. Make just one application; you will automatically be considered for all the fellowships for which you are eligible. To apply, go to https://librarycompany.org/neh-and-peaes-post-doctoral-fellowships-application to fill out an online coversheet and upload a single PDF containing a brief résumé, a two- to four-page description of your proposed research, and a writing sample of no more than 25 pages. In addition, two confidential letters of recommendation should be submitted online in PDF format using the form provided on the application page.

Candidates are strongly encouraged to inquire about the appropriateness of the proposed topic before applying. For more information about the NEH award, contact James Green via telephone (215) 546-3181 or e-mail jgreen@librarycompany.org. For more information about the PEAES award, email Cathy Matson at cmatson@udel.edu.

2020 will see the publication of the first two volumes of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra

Behn. Editing Aphra Behn’s remarkable oeuvre has involved an international and interdisciplinary

team of scholars, drawing on expertise from across the humanities. ‘How to do things with early

modern words’, a three-day conference to mark the 350th anniversary of the start of Behn’s public

career, aims to celebrate and develop interdisciplinary approaches to early modern studies. Bringing

together researchers working in all fields represented within the edition, including literature, history,

theatre history, language, and digital humanities, between 1500 and 1750, the conference will

explore cutting-edge themes, perspectives and approaches in scholarship on the early modern

world.

Keynote speakers:

Professor Terttu Nevalainen

University of Helsinki

Professor Martin Dzelzainis

University of Leicester

Dr Ruth Ahnert

Queen Mary University of London

Professor Tim Harris

Brown University

We invite papers which explore and/or critique interdisciplinary approaches to early modern

scholarship, alongside discussions of digital technology, conceptual advances, or new archival

discoveries within or across disciplines. Please submit abstracts (300 words) for 20-minute papers,

complete panels (comprising 3 or 4 papers), workshops, or 10-minute Pecha Kucha presentations

to EMWords2020@gmail.com by Monday, 23 September 2019.

The Modern Language Association awards $3,000 grants every year to support the development of courses and other educational programs that build enrollments and revitalize student interest in the humanities. In particular, we encourage proposals for courses that are interdisciplinary, that include the digital humanities, and that emphasize collaboration, public engagement, and experiential learning.

To be eligible, applicants must be current MLA members or be affiliated with an ADE or ADFL member department. Full- and part-time faculty members are eligible to apply. Individual and joint faculty proposals are welcome. For projects with multiple faculty participants, all designated project leaders must meet the eligibility requirements.

Project Proposals

All applications must include a project proposal of no more than 2,500 words, submitted as a PDF file; please follow the structure below and number each page of the proposal. Proposals that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be considered.

More information: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Humanities-Innovation-Course-Development-Grants?utm_source=mlaoutreach&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digestjul19mem

The MLA offers professional development grants of $1,000 to part-time faculty members to support research and conference travel, technology purchases, and continuing education. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements and submit an application by 1 October. Winners are chosen by lottery. Learn more and apply for the grant here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Professional-Development-Grants-for-Part-Time-Faculty-Members?utm_source=mlaoutreach&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digestjun19mem

CFP CAA 2020

Working with Decolonial Theory in the Early Modern Period

Co-Chairs: Natalia Vargas Marquez & Leslie E. Todd

Decolonial theory developed in the early 1990s as a renewed theoretical framework associated to critical theory that focuses on the concept of coloniality, a term that encompasses the expansion of colonial domination and its effects today. Scholars who have primarily written on and contributed to the development of the theory were and continue to be social scientists such as Aníbal Quijano and thinkers such as Walter Mignolo, as well as anthropologists and scholars of literature, philosophy, religion, and languages. Recently, art historians have explicitly drawn decolonial theory more directly into their work including Ananda Cohen-Aponte’s 2017 award-winning chapter “Decolonizing the Global Renaissance: A View from the Andes” in which she outlines a decolonial model of early modern art history, and Paul Niell’s preface to the 2018 exhibition catalogue “Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié” in which he outlines a curatorial approach to decolonialism.

This panel invites art historians of the early modern period to continue the conversation opened by Cohen-Aponte and Niell on decolonial models in art history. We seek to explore on a global scale how decolonial theory shapes our work, and in turn, what we can contribute to the theory. What is the applicability of this theoretical framework to art history of the early modern period? What are its blind spots? How do ideas and terms such as hybridity, mestizaje, and syncretism fold into or contrast against decolonial theory? We encourage papers that focus on historiographical, curatorial, and/or art historical ideas and questions.

Discussant: Ananda Cohen-Aponte

Your proposed abstract must be submitted to the Chairs by the deadline of July 23, 2019. Selected panelists will be notified by August 22, 2019. Please also include a CV and completed CAA proposal form, available for download here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html

AMERICAN CONTACT: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book

April 23-25, 2020

Princeton University

University of Pennsylvania

Project organizers:

Rhae Lynn Barnes (Princeton University, History)

Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania, Music)

American Contact is a multi-disciplinary symposium that invites scholars to discuss the use of material texts in cross-cultural encounters in the Americas. We seek to explore how texts—broadly defined to include not only books but textual artifacts and material culture including visual art, musical scores, and various kinds of handwork—have facilitated (1) communication across cultural divides, (2) the creation and transmission of knowledge, (3) the performance of both colonization and resistance, and (4) the creation of alphabetic and alternative literacies from the eras of contact, conquest, and colonization through the twentieth century in both North and South America.

American Contact proceeds from the fact that “text” was put under particular pressure in the Americas, where we find rich histories of negotiation between cultures defined by widely divergent linguistic and notational traditions. It is for this reason, we suggest, that the manifold ways that texts operate come into focus precisely at such moments of intercultural encounter. Although they have often remained marginal to studies of “the book,” historically centered on Europe, material texts from the Americas emerge as central to their material, geographic, and conceptual reorientation.

The symposium will take place at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania on April 23-25, 2020. Support for travel and lodging will be offered to participants in need.

The symposium is part of a broader multiyear Humanities Council Global Initiative that will result in three products: the symposium, a published volume of short, single object-focused essays (to be submitted for consideration at the University of Pennsylvania Press’s Material Texts series in August 2021), and an accompanying digital humanities website focused on how to teach with those objects. This multi-part project was envisioned and organized by Rhae Lynn Barnes, Glenda Goodman, and Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University, History of Art).

As the first step in that process, the symposium will take an unconventional form. We invite abstracts of 250 words for 10-12 minute papers that respond to the American Contact’s prompt, advocating for the capacity of one particular object and its biography to yield insight into the function of material texts in intercultural encounters and challenge or expand normative definitions of text, textuality, “the book,” and/or reading and writing practices. Presenters will be asked to focus on only ONE textual material object (using a maximum of THREE images, including details and comparisons) to address these themes. These short, focused presentations are meant to incite both depth of analysis and methodological provocation. Our intention is that range and diversity will come through the assemblage of otherwise highly focused presentations from across the Americas and the centuries.

Abstracts, CVs, and questions can be sent to AmericanContact2020@gmail.com by September 1, 2019. Please indicate whether your object is housed at one of the hosting institutions.

Possible themes to consider include:

literacy and pedagogy

conversion, translation, collaboration, and intermediality

non-semantic texts (the book as object, actor, or agent)

performance and objects in duration

subversion, destruction, censorship and taboo

creativity, production, labor, and improvisation

the intersection of objects/texts with corporeal, embodied, disciplining knowledges and practices

representation and figuration

values of exchange (diplomacy, commerce, and gifts)

timekeeping and making

This symposium has been generously funded by the Humanities Council Global Initiative; Humanities Council Magic Grant; Center for Collaborative History; American Studies; English Department (Princeton University); University Research Foundation and School of Arts and Sciences (University of Pennsylvania); Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (Rare Book School at the University of Virginia).

Vegetative/Meditative States and Other Lessons from Plants in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Seminar)

In the Age of the Anthropocene, it is often hard to look away from the human, yet it is vital that we turn our attention to the world around us. American nature essayist Annie Dillard wrote, “I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany” (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek). Our seminar, “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Thinking with the Non-Human in Old Regime French Literature” for NeMLA 2019 in Washington, DC drew our attention to the non-human in a French context. Our seminar this year urges participants interested in Plant Studies in an early-modern context to consider plants and their roles in European cultures during this time period. Possible areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:

Herbal treatises and manuscripts

Plant taxonomy and botanical philosophy

Medicinal properties of plants and plant lore

Herbs and plants used for childbearing and postpartum purposes

Plants in literature or visual art

Food Studies and plants

Garden Studies

Book Studies and plants

Critical plant studies and/or ecocriticism

Colonial botany

Cabinets of curiosity, herbaria and botanical gardens

Horticulture & wonder

Plant-human crossroads/hybridity

Early-modern forestry

We welcome papers in English since we hope to cultivate exchange across geographic borders and disciplines. This seminar will be conducted by reading pre-circulated papers of 10 pages or fewer; each participant will be assigned to closely read another participant’s article, introduce it, generate some thoughtful questions, and moderate discussion. In this way, we hope to delve into the world of plants and draw out rich connections and divergences between papers. Please submit an abstract of 250 words or fewer directly through the NeMLA website by September 30, 2019.

You may submit your abstract directly through the NeMLA portal here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP

September 30, 2019: Abstracts due via NeMLA portal

October 15, 2019: Applicants will be notified of acceptance status

March 5-8, 2020: NeMLA Convention in Boston, MA (http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)

Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment by Melissa J. Ganz — Now Available!

Melissa J. Ganz, Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment (University of Virginia Press, 2019)

Cloth · 308 pp. · 6.13 × 9.25 · ISBN 9780813942421 · $45.00 · Jun 2019

Ebook · 308 pp. · ISBN 9780813942438 · $45.00 · Jun 2019

Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, University of Virginia (2018)

In eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began rethinking its contractual foundation. Public Vows argues that these debates shaped English fiction in crucial and previously unrecognized ways and that novels, in turn, played a central role in the debates.

Like many legal and social thinkers of their day, novelists such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Eliza Fenwick, and Amelia Opie imagine marriage as a public institution subject to regulation by church and state rather than a private agreement between two free individuals. Through recurring scenes of infidelity, fraud, and coercion as well as experiments with narrative form, these writers show the practical and ethical problems that result when couples attempt to establish and dissolve unions simply by exchanging consent. Even as novelists seek to shore up the legal regulation of marriage, however, they contest the specific forms that these regulations take.

In recovering novelists’ engagements with the nuptial controversies of the Enlightenment, Public Vows challenges longstanding accounts of domestic fiction as contributing to sharp divisions between public and private life and as supporting the traditional, patriarchal family. At the same time, the book counters received views of law and literature, highlighting fiction’s often simultaneous affirmations and critiques of legal authority.

For more information, please visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5300.

"Talk to someone this week about their hopes and dreams for themselves and for the nation, and listen for the ideas that transcend our differences."

Laura Auricchio, Ph.D., has been appointed as Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center starting August 1, 2019. According to a tweet from the Fordham Observer Auricchio is the first female dean of FCLC. Read more: https://fordhamram.com/68973/news/fordham-announces-new-dean-of-lincoln-center/

Misty G. Anderson, professor of English and Lindsay Young Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as a James R. Cox Professor. More: https://news.utk.edu/2019/04/24/anderson-selected-james-r-cox-professor-for-2019/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=James%20R.%20Cox%20Professor&utm_campaign=tntoday

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is proud to announce the 2019 ACLS Fellows. This year’s 81 fellows were selected by their peers from over 1,100 applicants in a review process with multiple stages. Awards range from $40,000 to $70,000, depending on the scholar’s career stage, and support six to twelve months of full-time research and writing. “The 2019 ACLS Fellows exemplify ACLS’s inclusive vision of excellence in the humanities and humanistic social sciences,” said Matthew Goldfeder, director of fellowship programs at ACLS. “The awardees, who hail from more than 60 colleges and universities, were selected for their potential to make an original and significant contribution to knowledge. They are working at diverse types of institutions, on research projects that span antiquity to the present, in contexts around the world; the array of disciplines and methodologies represented demonstrates the vitality and the incredible breadth of humanistic scholarship today.”

The ACLS Fellowship program, the longest-running of our current fellowship and grant programs, is funded primarily by our endowment. Institutions and individuals have contributed to this program, including The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Arcadia Charitable Trust, the Council’s Research University Consortium and college and university Associates, past fellows, and individual friends of ACLS. ACLS Fellows, including those with named fellowships, are listed below; for more information about the recipients and their projects, click here: https://www.acls.org/Recent-Awardees/ACLS-Fellows

Congratulations to the following ASECS Members who were selected as fellows:

Janine G. Barchas (Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin) Renting in the Age of Austen

Julia Fawcett (Associate Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley) Unmapping London: Performance and Urbanization after the Great Fire of 1666

Katie L. Jarvis (Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame) Democratizing Forgiveness: Reconciling Citizens in Revolutionary France

Wolfgang Schmale's "Legacy of the Enlightenment. The Use of European History and Culture in the Interwar Years by the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme and Grande Loge de France" is now online open access:

Date of publication: 1 April 2019.

ECS Editor, Sean Moore, was recently interviewed regarding the process of putting together the recent special issue of ECS on empires. You can read Sean's interview here: https://www.press.jhu.edu/news/blog/postcolonial-theory-alive-and-well?utm_source=announce&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ecspostcolonial

Katie Jarvis, Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France (Oxford University Press, 2019), 352 Pages, ISBN: 9780190917111. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/politics-in-the-marketplace-9780190917111?cc=us&lang=en&#

Overview: One of the most dramatic images of the French Revolution is of Parisian market women sloshing through mud and dragging cannons as they marched on Versailles and returned with bread and the king. These market women, the Dames des Halles, sold essential foodstuffs to the residents of the capital but, equally important, through their political and economic engagement, held great revolutionary influence. Politics in the Marketplace examines how the Dames des Halles invented notions of citizenship through everyday trade. It innovatively interweaves the Dames' political activism and economic practices to reveal how marketplace actors shaped the nature of nascent democracy and capitalism through daily commerce. While haggling over price controls, fair taxes, and acceptable currency, the Dames and their clients negotiated tenuous economic and social contracts in tandem, remaking longstanding Old Regime practices. In this environment, the Dames conceptualized a type of economic citizenship in which individuals' activities such as buying goods, selling food, or paying taxes positioned them within the body politic and enabled them to make claims on the state. They insisted that their work as merchants served society and demanded that the state pass favorable regulations for them in return. In addition, they drew on their patriotic work as activists and their gendered work as republican mothers to compel the state to provide practical currency and assist indigent families. Thus, their notion of citizenship portrayed useful work, rather than gender, as the cornerstone of civic legitimacy. Politics in the Marketplace challenges the interpretation that the Revolution launched an inherently masculine trajectory for citizenship and reexamines work, gender, and citizenship at the cusp of modern democracy.

For reviews and the table of contents, please see the link above.

ISECS is an umbrella organization comprising eighteenth-century societies from around the world. It was founded to promote the growth, development and coordination of studies and research relating to the eighteenth century in all aspects of its cultural heritage (historical, philosophical, ideological, religious, linguistic, literary, scientific, artistic, juridical) in all countries, without exception. Every four years, ISECS holds an International Congress on the Enlightenment.

ASECS is a member of ISECS, which entitles ASECS members to submit proposals to read papers or serve on panels at the Congress.

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will host the 2019 ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment at the University of Edinburgh on 14-19 July; the Congress theme is “Enlightenment Identities.” Fully organized panels of three or (sometimes) four speakers, along with a chair, may be submitted, and indeed are strongly encouraged. Proposals for pairs of related panels, to run consecutively, also may be submitted. Individuals can submit papers, which will be allocated to an appropriate panel session, usually of three papers of no more than twenty minutes. Proposals for roundtables and alternative formats are also invited. The final deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals to the International Congress is Friday, 1 February 2019.

ISECS will provide a £20,000 Congress bursary to facilitate the participation and involvement of early career scholars. ASECS members are eligible to apply for these bursaries; ASECS is an annual contributor to the bursary fund.

Information on the Congress and a link to the submission form may be found at https://www.bsecs.org.uk/isecs/en/submit/.

Announcing Honey Girl Books and Gifts LLC, The Frankenstein of the Apple Crate, and talent search for future children's book writers!

Est. July 2018, HGBG aims to produce children’s books that connect academic discoveries to a broader audience. Read the first book in our series, based on discoveries explained in my 2012 scholarly book, The Frankenstein of 1790 (Univ. of Chicago Press):

Julia Douthwaite Viglione, The Frankenstein of the Apple Crate: A Possibly True Story of the Monster’s Origins, illus. Karen Neis, with notes by Eileen Hunt Botting and Greg Kucich. 35 pages, ages 8 and up. Paperback, hardcover and e-book, available on Amazon and via https://www.honeygirlbooks.com/

Scholars and grad students: do you have a story to tell? HGBG is always on the lookout for talent. We publish original, illustrated 32-page storybooks that are:

-Based on a scholarly discovery or important concept or event

-Engaging, well-written and fun to read aloud

-For readers ages 8 and up

-With brief historical and biographical notes by scholars or experts in the field

-Illustrated by a young artist who we will commission with your collaboration

Anton M. Matytsin announces the publication of our edited volume Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality with Johns Hopkins University Press. More details and the table of contents are available below.

For more information about the book, please visit https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/let-there-be-enlightenment

Use code HDPD for a 30% discount from JHUP.

ISBN: 9781421426013

According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought.

The essays probe a wide range of subjects, from reformer Jan Amos Comenius’s quest for universal enlightenment to the changing meanings of the light metaphor, Quaker influences on Baruch Spinoza’s theology, and the unexpected persistence of Aristotle in the Enlightenment. Exploring the emergence of historical consciousness among Enlightenment thinkers while examining their repeated insistence on living in an enlightened age, the collection also investigates the origins and the long-term dynamics of the relationship between faith and reason.

Providing an overview of the rich spectrum of eighteenth-century culture, the authors demonstrate that religion was central to Enlightenment thought. The term "enlightenment" itself had a deeply religious connotation. Rather than revisiting the celebrated breaks between the eighteenth century and the period that preceded it, Let There Be Enlightenment reveals the unacknowledged continuities that connect the Enlightenment to its various antecedents.

TABLE of Contents:

Anton M. Matytsin and Dan Edelstein, "Introduction"

Part One: Lux

1. Howard Hotson, "Via Lucis in tenebras: Comenius as Prophet of the Age of Light"

2. Anton M. Matytsin, "Whose Light Is It Anyway? The Struggle for Light in the French Enlightenment"

3. Céline Spector, "The “Lights” before the Enlightenment: The Tribunal of Reason and Public Opinion"

4. Darrin M. McMahon, "Writing the History of Illumination in the Siècle des Lumières: Enlightenment Narratives of Light"

Part Two: Veritas

5. Jo Van Cauter, "Another Dialogue in the Tractatus: Spinoza on “Christ’s Disciples” and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)"

6. Philippe Buc, "A Backward Glance: Light and Darkness in the Medieval Theology of Power"

7. Matthew T. Gaetano, "Lumen unitivum: The Light of Reason and the Aristotelian Sect in Early-Modern Scholasticism"

8. Dan Edelstein "The Aristotelian Enlightenment"

Part Three: Tenebrae

9. William J. Bulman, "Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660–1740"

10. Jeffrey D. Burson, "Refracting the Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Culture"

11. Charly Coleman, "Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century France"

12. James Schmidt, "Light, Truth, and the Counter-Enlightenment’s Enlightenment"

Bloomsbury has just announced that its six-volume Cultural History of the Senses will be out in paperback as a set and individually in September. This includes A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Enlightenment, 1650-1800 edited by Anne Vila (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA).

The table of contents is available here:

A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of ...

This volume examines the varied ways in which the senses were perceived afresh during the Enlightenment. In addition to introducing new philosophical and

Bloomsbury is offering a 35% discount off the list price, so individual volumes can be had for $22.00 US. Offer valid until 31 Dec 2018

Apply discount code CHS18 when ordering.

How to Order US/South and Central America (orders will be processed in USD):

Mail order forms to: Academic Marketing, Bloomsbury USA, 1385 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10018 Order online at: www.bloomsbury.com/us

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1) Now Available from Penn Press

Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France Anne C. Vila

"Anne C. Vila's book is a model of concise and well-articulated rigor on a fascinating topic that has been neglected and overlooked—the medical literature devoted to the sicknesses of men of letters. She shows how these texts provide an excellent vantage point from which to survey significant aspects of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and medicine. A striking achievement."—Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London

Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the "suffering scholar" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learning on both the individual body and the body politic.

Full Description, Table of Contents, and More: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15772.html

280 pages | 6 x 9 Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4992-7 | $65.00s | £50.00 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9480-4 | $65.00s | £42.50

A volume in the Intellectual History of the Modern Age series: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/IHM.html

Enter promo code PJ28 during checkout to receive a 20% discount

Visit http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15772.html to order online Customers may also place orders through Hopkins Fulfillment Services via email: hfscustserv@press.jhu.edu or by phone: 1.800.537.5487

2) Available March 14 from Classiques Garnier:

Samuel-Auguste Tissot, De la santé des gens de lettres

Édition d’Anne Vila et Ronan Chalmin

Au xviiie siècle, la santé des intellectuels devient un nouvel enjeu médical et litté- raire. Avec De la santé des gens de lettres (3e éd., 1775) le docteur Tissot propose aux lettrés un livre classique mêlant tableaux de cas cliniques et remèdes pour traiter les maux dus à « l’intempérance littéraire».

In the 18th century, the health of intellectuals became a new medical and literary theme. With De la santé des gens de lettres (3rd ed., 1775), Dr. S.-A. Tissot offered scholars a classic book combining description of clinical cases with remedies to treat the ills due to “literary intemperance”.

No 34, 212 p., 15 x 22 cm

Broché, ISBN 978-2-406-06915-7, 24 € Relié, ISBN 978-2-406-06916-4, 62 €

2019 ISECS Seminar for Early Career Scholars

‘Participation, Collaboration, Association’ Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 9-12 July 2019

Proposals due by 31 January 2019

More information: https://oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/docs/GSC304/O0000621771_2019_ISECS_International_Seminar.pdf

In July 2019, the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) Congress will be held in Edinburgh. ASECS is a constituent member of ISECS and therefore, as a member of ASECS, you are eligible to present at the ISECS meeting. Important information can be found here: https://www.bsecs.org.uk/isecs/en/ https://www.bsecs.org.uk/isecs/en/submit/ As always, there will be travel support. These grants are intended for doctoral students, early career researchers, and applicants from countries with weak currencies. ISECS will provide a subsidy of £20,000 for bursaries. National Societies, including ASECS, contribute to the bursary fund.