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Research Day in 18th Century Studies at the University of Sydney
Topic: 18th Century Philosophy in Dialogue Date: 28 August 2015 The Sydney Intellectual History Network (SIHN) is sponsoring a Research Day in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sydney on 28 August 2015. The event supports the efforts of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS) in building a new community of…
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Sydney Public Lecture & Workshop: Writing modern British history today
Date: Friday, 8th May 2015 Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm Venue: Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie St, Sydney “The history of Britain is dead, long live a global history of Britain”. Is it possible, let alone desirable, to write a national history in a post-national age? These are the questions that motivated…
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CFP Aphra Behn Society 2015 Conference
The Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830 is pleased to announce its 2015 biennial conference Women in the Global Eighteenth Century November 5-6, 2015 Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Plenary lecture by Dr. Lynn Festa, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University In The Global Eighteenth Century, Felicity Nussbaum and her contributors…
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Upcoming Digital Humanities Conference, Sydney
Digital Humanities is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and will next be held in Sydney, Australia, 29 June–3 July 2015. This will be the first time that the annual Digital Humanities conference is being held outside of Europe and North America in its 26-year history. The theme of…
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Call for Papers – DNS XV in Eighteenth-Century Life
Following from the success of David Nichol Smith XV, held in December 2014 at the University of Sydney, the Executive Committee of ANZSECS is pleased to announce that it has secured a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life to publish a collection of essays resulting from papers presented at the conference. We now invite expressions of…
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Call for Papers – RSAA Conference, Melbourne
University of Melbourne, 23-25 July 2015 Theme: Re-reading romanticism: imagination, emotion, nature, and things The biennial conference of the Romantic Studies Association of Australia and a supernumerary conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. For the full CFP and details of the conference please see the RSAA website. Deadline for proposals:…
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Call for Papers – BSECS 45th Annual Conference
6th – 8th January 2016 St Hugh’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom The annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe’s largest and most prestigious annual conference dealing with all aspects of the history, culture and literature of the long eighteenth century. We invite proposals for papers and sessions dealing with any aspect…
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Reading Group – Sydney Intellectual History Network
‘Rereading the History of Ideas’—Sydney Intellectual History Network Reading Group 10-12am on Friday, 27 February Rogers Room in the N397, John Woolley Building, next door to the SLAM administrative offices. We will be discussing Peter Kitson’s Forging Romantic China, specifically the Introduction and chapter 7, “Chinese Gardens, Confucius and The Prelude’. In brief, the book delves into the intellectual, historical…
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Roundtable – Sydney Intellectual History Network
Roundtable on the East-West Dialogue 10 March, 3-5pm, Mills 210 Participants: Professor Petra Chu (Art History and Museum Studies, Seton Hall), Professor Yixu Lu (Germanic Studies), Professor William Christie (English), Dr Stephen Whiteman (Art HIstory) and Dr David Brophy (History). There is limited space at this event. To register your interest in attending, please contact Professor…
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Lecture – "Chinoiserie and Japonisme: Continuity or Rupture"
Lecture by Professor Petra Chu 10 March, 6-7pm, New Law LT106 Sponsored by the Sydney Intellectual History Network. Co-hosted with Sydney Ideas and the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.