quadrennial 2011 - 14th quadrennial David Nicol Smith conference in Eighteenth-Century Studies

14th quadrennial David Nicol Smith conference in
Eighteenth-Century Studies
4 to 8 July 2011
Melbourne, Australia

This is the major inter-disciplinary
Australasian showcase for eighteenth-century
studies: history, literature, art history,
musicology, studies of material culture and
anthropology and archaeology.

Enquiries: adrian.jones-AT-latrobe.edu.au
Web address:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/history/eighteenthcentur...
Sponsored by: La Trobe University

Themes
The 14th quadrennial David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-century Studies, to be held in Melbourne city centre on 4 to 8 July 2011, will focus on realms of power, privilege and ideas, and on themes of leisure, material culture and sociability in Europe's long eighteenth century. We are interested in Europe's Easts and Wests, Norths and Souths, and in effects on places far beyond. We welcome papers exploring any site of interaction in and between Europe's private and public spheres: those outside in villas or villages, on estates, or thronging the streets of cities, or those inside in the new spaces of sociability like the lobby, salon, studio, boudoir, club, coffee house and promenade-pleasure garden. This long-established interdisciplinary seminar based in Australasia has a distinguished history, producing select publications: books of essays and special issues of international journals. Your convenors intend to continue this tradition.
Town and Country: Villa, Palace and Town House
Environment, Land Management and Ecology
Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past
Coffee, Coffee Houses: New Tastes and Social Spaces
Sensibilities and Sociabilitiés: Lived and Literary
Spectacles: Art, Music, Theatre -- Performed and
Ephemeral
Display: at Court or in a public sphere
Europe and Asia
Representation and Self-Representation: Portraiture, Dress and Toilette
Reason, Un-Reason and Romanticism
Domination, Slavery and Empire: Global & European Impacts
The Rise of the Individual: Monarchies under Stress
The Marginalised: Itinerants, Roma and Prostitutes
Cosmopolitanisms and Nationalisms
The Enlightenment and the Pacific
Opera and Theatre in Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century
Letter-Writing, the Novel and Poetry in Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century
Spirituality and Space: Islamic and Christian Architecture in Europe in the Eighteenth Century