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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>Call for Sessions/Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black'>Joint Meeting of CSECS/NEASECS/Aphra Behn Society<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>hosted by McMaster University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>Hamilton, ON, 27–29 October, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black'>“The Immaterial Eighteenth Century”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>In response to the sustained scholarly focus on the material aspects of eighteenthcentury<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>culture, the core concern of this interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>French) conference will be reactions to instability in the material realm, including but<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>not limited to the emergence of an affective public sphere; a revaluation of labour;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>cosmopolitanism; sensibility; the new spiritualism; political radicalism and rights<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>discourse; supernaturalism and the rise of the gothic; and anti-slavery and anti-imperial<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>movements. Papers on these and any topics related to the material and the immaterial in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>the period will be welcomed. Panels dedicated to new theoretical models are particularly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>encouraged: looking beyond “thing theory” and “interiority,” enquiries that have<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>dominated the field for the last decade, what approaches can raise the ethical and political<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>stakes in the study of eighteenth-century literature and culture?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>As is traditional with CSECS, NEASECS, and the Aphra Behn Society, proposals not on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>the conference theme are also welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>Session and paper proposals should be emailed directly to </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>immat18@mcmaster.ca </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>Peter Walmsley (</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>walmsley@mcmaster.ca</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>CSECS/SCEDHS </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>liaison, Armelle St-Martin: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>stmartin@cc.umanitoba.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>Aphra Behn Society </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>liaison, Martha Bowden: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>mbowden@kennesaw.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>NEASECS </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black'>liaison, Catherine Gallouët: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>gallouet@hws.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black'>Deadline: March 15, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#00009A'>www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~csecs/</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dr. Robin Runia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Department of English<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Angelo State University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ASU Station #10894<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>San Angelo, TX 76904-0894<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>robin.runia@angelo.edu<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>