Proposals are invited for papers and panels; possible topics include – but are not limited to – history of the book, print culture, travel journals, mapping and surveying, eighteenth-century media, the visual and the performing arts, adaptations, journalism and pamphleteering, reviews and periodicals, academies, encyclopedias and dictionaries, oral culture and folklore, oratory, the eighteenth century in twenty-first century technology, cartoons and satire, tracts and the working-class press, reception history, manuscripts, salons, epistolarity, intellectual circles. (As is traditional in CSECS, proposals not on the conference theme will also be considered.)

Plenary Speakers / Conférenciers d'honneur:
François Moureau (Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV),
Michael McKeon (Rutgers),
and Marie-Laure Girou Swiderski (Ottawa)

Proposals for panels or papers (250 words) must be received by post or e-mail (preferred) by

April, 2 2007

Pam Perkins
Department of English
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada
pperkin@cc.umanitoba.ca

Please include your institutional and departmental affiliation

Steering committee: Michelle Faubert (English, University of Manitoba), Stephan Jaeger (German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba), Peter Melville (English, University of Winnipeg), Pam Perkins (English, University of Manitoba), Kate Ready (English, University of Winnipeg), Armelle St. Martin (French, Spanish, and Italian, University of Manitoba), Anne Sechin (Arts, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface), Santé Viselli (Modern Languages, University of Winnipeg).

For further information see http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities/index.html