The Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is pleased to announce that the sixteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar, Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment, will be held in Brisbane, Australia, at Griffith University and the University of Queensland.
The following keynote speakers will be presenting at the conference:
- Deidre Lynch (Harvard University)
- Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire)
- Georgia Cowart (Case Western Reserve University)
- Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge)
We welcome proposals for papers or panels on the theme ‘Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment’, broadly conceived as referring to the plurality of Enlightenments as well as the ideas and uses of nature which they endorsed, and the spaces in which they developed. In the inclusive spirit of the David Nichol Smith Seminar, proposals may address any aspect of the long eighteenth century. Especially relevant topics include:
Enlightenment and religion, science, empire or gender
Popular, moderate and radical enlightenments
Regional, national and global enlightenments
Climate, the environment and the Anthropocene
Emotion, sentimentalism and the language of feeling
Theories of human nature and civil society
Improvement and social utility
Travel, exploration and discovery
Trade and commerce
Philanthropy and the culture of moral/social reform
Spaces of sociability such as clubs, salons, coffeehouses and taverns
Urban and rural spaces
Ideas of landscape and forms of land use
Nature in art, literature and music
Natural history, natural philosophy, natural law and natural theology
Nature in economic and political writing
Nature, medicine, sexuality and the body
Botany, geology and geography
Representations and uses of animals
Work, leisure, technology and industrialisation
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers and panels comprising 3 x papers. Please submit an abstract of 250 words (maximum) and a 2-page CV, as PDF documents, to the following email address: dnsconferenceqld[at]gmail.com
Participants must be current members of ANZSECS12
For inquiries about the conference, please email one of the conference organisers:
Dr Lisa O’Connell (l.oconnell[at]uq.edu.au)
Dr Peter Denney (p.denney[at]griffith.edu.au)