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Borders and Boundaries in Eighteenth-Century Europe
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Conference Begins: | 2001-06-22 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2001-03-22 |
| Announcement ID: |
127484 |
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This interdisciplinary European conference will explore the theme of borders and boundaries, real and physical as well as imaginary or psychological, and their implications and resonances in the European Enlightenment, with particular interest in the relationship between mainstream and peripheral discourses in the arts, humanities and sciences. Amongst the possibilities invited for discussion are issues relating to centre and periphery, to metropolitan and provincial cultures, to rural and urban, to discourses and their boundaries in medicine, literature and politics, and to the wider impact on eighteenth-century society of all of these areas. Artistic and literary boundaries might be interrogated: the limits of genre, language and taste are all crucial problems within this period, and in its study. Similarly problematic are the ideological and discursive boundaries allotted to science, medicine and the law. How did these realms of knowledge and the ways they were policed affect, for example, the categories of gender, class and race? The borders of economic consumption, commerce and capitalism across Europe are also in need of examination in the light of increasing work on the national manifestation of these subjects in recent years. Geographical borders, both within the British Isles and within mainland Europe, are equally available for reappraisal in the light of recent work on nationhood. Embracing all of these, inter-disciplinarity itself, its parameters and constraints, with reference to Enlightenment Europe, is of critical importance for contemporary scholarship.
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Professor Allan Ingram,
School of Humanities,
University of Northumbria,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 8ST,
UK
Email: allan.ingram@unn.ac.uk
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