Call for Papers
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Colorado Springs, April 2002
Special Session: "Universities, Academics, and Cultural Production"
This panel will explore the eighteenth-century university as a laboratory
for distinctive discourses and activities of all kinds. In so doing, we
will also reflect on the place of universities in eighteenth-century
culture and in recent discussions of the eighteenth century. We tend not
to think of eighteenth-century universities as sites of cultural dynamism,
yet eighteenth-century academics included figures as formidable as Adam
Smith, Isaac Newton, Thomas Gray, Immanuel Kant, J. D. Michaelis, Hermann
Boerhaave, Giambattista Vico, and even the censors of the Sorbonne. How
did the social and material setting of the university setting shape and
enable the activity of such writers, and what constraints did it impose?
20-minute papers may focus on an eighteenth-century academic, project,
discipline, institution, controversy, or genre of speech or writing. How
did universities and their subcommunities function--in lecture halls,
libraries, university presses, laboratories, cabinets of curiosity,
ceremonial assemblies, and private friendships? What kinds of social and
intellectual work did these milieux foster? How did academics manage
relations with other communities, such as learned societies, the clergy,
political bodies, the international republic of letters, or local and
national audiences of nonprofessionals? All critical approaches are
welcome.
Please send inquiries or abstracts by September 15, 2001 to Kristine
Haugen (k-haugen-1@alumni.uchicago.edu).
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Kristine Louise Haugen
Princeton University
Department of English
22 McCosh Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
Permanent email: k-haugen-1@alumni.uchicago.edu
www.kristinehaugen.com
>From October 2001:
Warburg Institute
University of London
Woburn Square
London WC1H 0AB
United Kingdom
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