CFP: [18th] Gender&Empire day conference

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GENDER AND EMPIRE, 1763-1815
An interdisciplinary day conference
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York.
Saturday 1st December 2007
11.30am - 5.30 pm
The event brings together scholars working across the fields of gender and 
imperial history in the eighteenth century. It promises a day of high-
level discussion across disciplinary and chronological boundaries, 
showcasing emerging research in this area.
Papers:
Kate Davies (University of Newcastle): 'The Poem that Ate America: Helen 
Maria Williams' "Ode on the Peace"'
Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary): 'A Figure in the Text: Burke, Wordsworth, Opie 
and the Black Woman'
Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge): 'Raynal's "Histoire des Deux 
Indes" and Marivaux's "La Colonie", and the Querelle des Femmes'
Martin Myrone (Tate Britain): 'Macaroni Multiplicity: Gender and Empire in 
the 1770s'
Karen O'Brien (University of Warwick): 'The Female Emigrant: Stories and 
Poems of Britain's Settler Colonies, 1763-1815'
Jim Watt (University of York): '"The blessings of freedom": America 
and "the East" in the fiction of Robert Bage'
Conference fee: £15 waged / £10 unwaged 
To register, visit: 
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/conf/gender07/genderhome.htm
Any other enquiries, please email:
jv500_at_york.ac.uk / ss509_at_york.ac.uk
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