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Proposals for papers should be sent directly to the seminar chairs no later than 15 September<\/span>2012. Please include your telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. You should also let<\/span><\/div>\n
the session chair know of any audio-visual needs and special scheduling requests. We actively<\/span><\/span>encourage presentations by younger and untenured scholars.<\/span>Seminar chairs are reminded that all papers received up to the deadline MUST be considered.<\/span>Please do not announce that the panel is closed prior to the 15 September deadline. Chairs have<\/span>until 30 September to send the names of participants, their e-mail addresses and the titles of their<\/span>papers to the ASECS Business Office (asecs@wfu.edu<\/a>) (Fax: 336-727-4697)<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>The Society?s rules permit members to present only one paper at the meeting. Members may, in<\/span>addition to presenting a paper, serve as a session chair, a respondent, or a panel discussant, but<\/span><\/div>\n
they may not present a paper in those sessions they also chair.<\/span>Please be reminded that if you submit a paper proposal to more than one session, you should<\/span>notify all the chairs to which you have made a submission. If you fail to notify the session chairs,<\/span>they will have the right to decide between themselves in which session the paper will be<\/span>presented or if the paper will be excluded entirely.<\/span>All participants must be members in good standing of ASECS or a constituent society of<\/span>ISECS. Membership must be current by November 1 in order to be printed in the program and to<\/span>receive pre-registration materials. Those members of constituent societies of ISECS MUST<\/span>furnish a snail mail address to asecs@wfu.edu <\/a>to receive pre-registration materials.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Diderot and women \/ Diderot on wome<\/span><\/strong>n<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Mary Trouille, Dept. of Languages,<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Literatures, & Cultures, Illinois State U., Campus Box 4300, Normal, IL 61790-4300; Tel: (847)<\/span><\/span>328-0549 & (309) 451-9449; Fax: (309) 438-8038; E-mail: mstroui@ilstu.edu<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span><\/span>To mark the tricentennial of Denis Diderot’s birth, this panel will explore Diderot’s views<\/span>on women, the female characters in his writings, and his often complex relationships with<\/span>the women in his life.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>?Beyond Recovery: New Work on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century<\/span>Studies’ (Roundtable)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
(Graduate Student Caucus)<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span> Devoney Looser, Tate Hall 114, Dept. of<\/span>English, U. of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211; Tel: (573) 884-7791; Fax: (573) 882-5785; E-mail:<\/span>looserd@missouri.edu<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span>Eighteenth-century studies of women, gender, and sexuality are at a place that Jean<\/span>Marsden rightly calls “beyond recovery.” Yet, as Marsden notes, recovery efforts do and<\/span>must continue; it is important, however, that they occur in a framework of greater<\/span>historical nuance and with an understanding of the multiple affiliations and contradictions<\/span>of early modern identities. In this context, what stories are left to be told, and how best<\/span>might we tell them, whether we are dealing with more familiar or less (even un-) charted<\/span>territories’ Proposals of 1-2 pages should either address these questions head on or<\/span>offer to present work that implicitly demonstrates these challenges and problems.<\/span>Papers, when completed (6-8 pages) should engage new ways of thinking about women,<\/span>gender, and sexuality in our period. We welcome proposals from graduate students in<\/span>any of the multiple disciplines that ASECS represents. Faculty respondents will be paired<\/span>with chosen graduate student presenters.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>?Women and Stoicism’<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n
(Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies) <\/span><\/div>\n
Alessa Johns,<\/span>Dept. of English, U. of California, Davis, CA 95616; Tel: (530) 752-1696; Fax: (530) 752-5013; E<\/span>mail: amjohns@ucdavis.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>This panel seeks to increase our understanding of the impact of stoic<\/span>thought on women of the long eighteenth century. How did stoic ideas<\/span>affect women in their daily lives’ How did women receive and employ<\/span><\/div>\n
stoicism and can we talk about a gendered reception and use of this<\/span>philosophical outlook? What forms did stoicism take in the long eighteenth<\/span>century in women’s art, writings, politics, religious convictions, social<\/span><\/div>\n
positions, and regarding women’s issues in general’ Did widespread and<\/span>entrenched stoic notions dictate passivity for women in the face of<\/span>political and domestic subordination’ Or did stoic modes of thought offer<\/span>women a means of arguing for freedom and equality? Can we talk about a<\/span>national and\/or transnational reception of stoic ideas’<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>?Eighteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing<\/span><\/strong>? <\/span><\/div>\n
Linda Van Netten, #303 10225 117 St.<\/span>Edmonton, Alberta T5K 1X7 Canada; Tel: (780) 237-9049; E-mail: vannette@ualberta.ca<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>This panel aims to explore how eighteenth-century women writers engaged with the<\/span>various forms of travel writing available in their period: from travelogues and travel guides,<\/span>to fictionalized travel narratives, captivity narratives, private letters from abroad, and<\/span>beyond. We seek proposals on any aspect and form of eighteenth-century women’s travel<\/span>writing.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/span>?Mammon and Morals: Money as an Undue Attraction and its Consequences’<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n
Charlotte M.<\/span>Craig, Rutgers U., 51 Hedge Row Road, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540; Tel: (609) 452-8474; Email:<\/span>craigrbcm@aol.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span>In one respect in particular, the eighteenth century was not much different from ours or<\/span>any other time in history?only the methods have changed: the interest in acquiring,<\/span>accumulating, and increasing one?s possessions, for one?s own use as investments’<\/span>tangible, or as a means of augmenting personal prestige. Persons who, however, have a<\/span>tendency toward mammonism, i.e. an inordinate desire for wealth and gain on any socioeconomic<\/span>or intellectual level may indeed be capable of falling for the debasing influence<\/span>of mammon’used derogatorily or jokingly\u00ab for ?possession’ of \u00bbbelongings’ (going back<\/span>to Greek via Latin from the Aramaic). Individuals afflicted with this morally undesirable<\/span>characteristic, which they neither care to admit nor desire to control, may come to grief.<\/span>Observations and studies have been undertaken among men and women in various<\/span>walks of life, from young and mature to politicians and others, and differing in family<\/span>background, education, or temperament.<\/span>Literature?poets, dramatists, historians, journalists and others have been fascinated by<\/span>these phenomena from various viewpoints. Some prominent works contain passages<\/span>concerning cases which reflect some individuals’ obsession of covetousness occasionally<\/span>progressing to other symptoms to such a degree as to lead to serious criminal behavior<\/span>with tragic consequences.<\/span>This panel, ideally comprised of three (maximum four) presenters, would identify and<\/span>demonstrate to the reader\/audience specific cases, as mentioned above, which<\/span>contribute to the development and progression of the plot.of seven monographs (which have received the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize (2007,<\/span>Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry) and the British Council Prize for<\/span>Best Book in the Humanities (1990, Daniel Defoe: His Life) ), her scholarly work has<\/span>informed our consideration of multiple genres including poetry, biography, drama, and the<\/span>novel. Her editorial work has helped make accessible important, previously unavailable<\/span>texts, for students and general readers, and her sustained contributions to the profession<\/span>as a mentor (through her graduate teaching, her NEH summer seminar, and ASECS<\/span>commitments) and leader within the key organizations (she is a past president of ASECS,<\/span>1992-93, and has served on numerous MLA and ASECS committees) have contributed<\/span>to the climate of our profession.<\/span>We proposal a panel that would celebrate and recognize Backscheider?s legacies and<\/span>influences across multiple fields and disciplines. We would hope to receive proposals<\/span>from scholars in fields such as performance studies, history of the novel, biography or<\/span>life-writing, women’s studies, cultural studies, and poetry. Because we would hope to<\/span>capture the range and diversity of Backscheider?s influence, we would seek to include<\/span>more panelists in a roundtable format that would be a catalyst for both meaningful<\/span>statements of scholarly influence and shared appreciations of the range and depth of this<\/span>scholar?s work.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>\u00ab Writing Women’s Biography \u00bb<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n
Beth Fowkes Tobin, 229 Henderson Avenue, Athens,<\/span>GA 30605; Tel: (480) 203-0827; Email: btobin@uga.edu<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span>This panel will address the problems and pleasures of writing biographies of eighteenthcentury<\/span>women. All approaches to writing biography are welcome. Papers that address new approaches to writing biography, focusing, for instance, on social networks rather<\/span>than exclusively on individuals, are especially welcome. Also of interest are biographical<\/span>approaches that engage with the posthumanist decentering of human activity.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pour conna\u00eetre l’ensemble des sessions <\/span><\/strong>: http:\/\/asecs.press.jhu.edu\/2013%20call%20for%20Papers%20website.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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