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Symposium on Thomas Paine
| Location: | California, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2005-05-06 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2005-01-13 |
| Announcement ID: |
143411 |
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The College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University invites paper proposals for a Symposium on Thomas Paine: Common Sense for the Modern Era. The symposium will be held
October 21-22 2005 at San Diego State University. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading international scholars on Paine and his times, who will situate Paine’s work historically and/or comment about the importance of his ideas and the debates surrounding them for the modern era.
The symposium welcomes proposals for scholarly papers dealing with the following themes:
- Paine and the Age of Revolution
- Paine and Democratic Citizenship
- Paine, Human Rights, and Cosmopolitanism
Eric Foner, Joyce Appleby and Susan Jacoby are among the invited keynote speakers. Individual paper submissions should include an abstract of 200-300 words and the author's c.v. Complete panel submissions should include a cover letter stating the panel theme and rationale, at least three individual abstracts and a c.v. for each participant. Papers should have a reading time of 30 minutes. Deadline 5/6/05.
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Dr. Dawn Riggs
Paine Conference Coordinator
Department of History,
San Diego State University,
5500 Campanile Drive,
San Diego, CA. 92182- 8147
Email: dmriggs@rohan.sdsu.edu
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