Dear colleagues,
Please see below for a panel on power and abuse in the eighteenth century world (MLA 2021, Toronto). Thanks!

Efforts to ensconce and enforce social, political, and economic hierarchies punctuated much of eighteenth-century life and letters around the world. This was an era that bore witness to abuses of power at every level: the…[Read more]

Bonne année!

If you are attending this week’s MLA Convention in Seattle, please feel free to join forum delegates and other 19th-century colleagues at the Friday night cash bar co-hosted by Women in French, which has organized a number of 19th-century sessions.

Jan 10, 2020, 7:15 PM–8:30 PM (Sheraton – Metropolitan B)

1. Cash Bar Arranged by th…

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Please join us at MLA 2020 for two panels on race, science, and the limits of the human in the global 18th c.:

Panel #1
074. Beyond the Border: Plant, Animal, Human. Jan 9, 2020, 1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sheraton – Ravenna C

“Diagramming Race in Eighteenth-Century Science and History,” Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara
“Angelic Species in En…[Read more]

Dear Fellow Dix-Huitiémistes,

The MLA 18th-Century French Forum will be hosting a dinner in Seattle on Friday January 10, 2020 during the MLA convention. We would be delighted if you could join us!If you are interested in attending, please contact me with the subject heading—”MLA DINNER”—at masano.yamashita@colorado.edu.

I anticipate the cost…[Read more]

Dear colleagues: Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.

Call for Proposals

The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830

Edited by: Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.

Department of Hispanic Studies

University of Puerto Rico, Río P…[Read more]

Please consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.

Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age
McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020

The past few years have demonstrated limitations of and problems with the concept of Canadian l…[Read more]

Please consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.
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<p style=”text-align: center;”>McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020</p>
The past few years have d…[Read more]

Dear colleagues:

Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.

Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río…[Read more]

Dear colleagues:

Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.

Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Traditional…[Read more]

Dear MaryJo and Ryan,

The three of us are the only ones with current MLA affiliation. This page was created for us today. Perhaps, we can use it as we get closer to the MLA Convention in Seattle.

Alan

ASECS 2020 CFP

Marivaux: Nature vs. Artifice  

In conjunction with a performance of Pierre de Marivaux’s Le Triomphe de l’amour at the 2020 meeting of ASECS, this panel will address the tension between nature and artifice in Marivaux’s work. We are particularly interested in proposals on Le Triomphe de l’amour, but also welcome proposals ref…[Read more]