NEASECS/AtSECS 2001
Halifax, Nova Scotia
CALL FOR PANELS AND ROUNDTABLES
"Eighteenth-Century Speculations"
We invite proposals for Panels and Roundtables for the joint meeting of the Northeast American Society for 18thC Studies (NEASECS) and the Atlantic Society for 18thC Studies (AtSECS), to be held 1-4 November 2001, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
We welcome submissions from all disciplines on any aspect of the long eighteenth century, though we are especially interested in topics relating to our theme, "Eighteenth-Century Speculations." This theme is meant to encompass all manner of conjecture: intellectual inquiry and doubt, scientific theories and debates, financial enterprise and gambling, the relation of facts and beliefs, and predictions on the future of eighteenth-century studies. Some possible topics are listed at the end of this message.
Please send proposals by 15 January 2001. Proposals should include a title for the session, a short abstract, a mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and FAX number. You do not have to be a member of NEASECS or AtSECS to submit a proposal. Please send proposals to:
Trevor Ross
Department of English
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 3J5
tel.: 902-494-3488
FAX: 902-494-2176
e-mail: Trevor.Ross@Dal.CA
OR
Jane Curran
Department of German
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 4H8
tel.: 902-494-1091
FAX: 902-494-2719
e-mail: Jane.Curran@Dal.Ca
Here are some suggestions for panel topics:
- Directions for 18thC Studies (in any or all of the disciplines)
- "What if?": Counterfactual Topics (in any discipline)
- Historical Fiction about the 18thC
- The Role of Biographical Conjecture
- The Limits of Knowledge
- The Normalization of Doubt
- Hypotheses in the Law
- Medical Reasonings
- Scientific Fact and Scientific Theory
- Historical Opinion
- Political Forecasting
- Rumours of War
- Colonial Enterprise
- Bubbles
- Trade and Investments
- Banks and Banking
- Gambling and Gaming
- Insurers and Actuaries
- Perceptions of "Europe"
- American Dreams
- Explorers and Explorations
- Applications of Game Theory
- Whither Theory?
- Mathematics and the Arts
- Architecture and Thought
- In Mind of Music
- The Specular
- Sex and the Imagination
- Gossip and Secrecy
- Fancies
- Reading Nightmares
- Speculative Fiction
- Belief
- The Afterlife
- Enquiring of Human Nature
- Les Mentalites
- Philosophical Intuition
- ??