NEASECS 2015 will be held on October 8-10 in Hartford CT, hosted by Trinity College
We invite participants to reflect upon representations and meanings of urban space in the long eighteenth century.
Possible directions of enquiry: the place of cities in literature and in the arts during the eighteenth century; the city as utopic / dystopic space; thinking the city — urbanism in the age of the philosophes; Cities as locus of political, economic and colonial power ; trajectories in time — historiography, cinema, lieux de mémoire ; trajectories in space — exile, travel, (self) discovery.
Organizers of panels and roundtables should submit a CV and a 100-200 word summary of the topic. Once a session has been approved, it will be posted to the conference website; individuals should submit abstracts and CVs directly to the organizer. Individual paper proposals should include a CV and a 250-word abstract.
As always, in keeping with NEASECS tradition, panels and papers addressing elements of the long eighteenth century not directly related to the conference theme are also welcome.
EXTENDED DEADLINE for panels and papers : July 1, 2015
All submissions should be emailed to jeanmarc.kehres@trincoll.edu.