14th Australasian David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Melbourne 4-8 July 2011
UPDATED: Full Program now available here.
Hosted by La Trobe University with international speakers from England, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, New Zealand, Turkey, and America who will present papers on a range of topics on the long Eighteenth Century.
Keynote Speakers
Robert Shoemaker, University of Sheffield
Elena Marasinova, Moscow State University and Insitute of History, Russian Academy of Science
Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia
Vincent Denis, University of Paris – Sorbonne
Constantine Michaelides, Washington University in St Louis
Shirine Hamadeh, Rice University, Texas and The American University in Beirut
Chloe Chard, London
Wendy Bracewell, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London
Karin Wolfe, British School at Rome
Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney
Conference Sessions Include:
- Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism
- Sensibilities and Sociabilities [1] Lived, [2] Emoted, [3] Material Culture, [4] Gender
- New Tastes: Author and Audience
- Portraiture
- Spaces, Predicaments and Spectacles
- Presentation of Self: [1] Stage and [2] Dress
- Science Writing
- Villa, Palace and Townhouse
- Empire [1] and [2]
- Land, Landscape and Ecology
- Communities of Reason, Unreason and Romanticism
- Writing Women
- Innovations
For all enquiries, registration or for a full program contact Jennifer Ellis: Jennifer.Ellis@latrobe.edu.au