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Call for Papers: Cosmopolitan Endeavours This special issue invites articles on works by women writers of the long eighteenth century that reflect cosmopolitan values, strategies, and futures. In the long eighteenth century, the cosmopolitan ethos is manifold: it informs historiographic and philosophical articulations of an “enlightened moral love of mankind”, as Mary Wollstonecraft puts it in A…

François Boucher, French, Blond Odalisque, 1752, Oil on canvas, 23.2 x 28.7 15-17 November 2017 University of Sydney Australia Free and open to all. Registration is now open. What the Enlightenment stands for has been subject to much discussion in recent years, and many valuable contributions have been made that help us to understand better…

Australian National University 4 to 7 July 2018 http://hrc.anu.edu.au/events/george-rude-seminar GeorgeRudeSeminar2018@anu.edu.au (Version française ci-dessous) We are pleased to announce the 21st George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation, which will be hosted by The Australian National University in Canberra from 4 to 7 July 2018. The George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation is…

Long Eighteenth Century Reading Group Seminar. Led by: Mia Tsikrikas Date: Friday, 13th October 2017 Time: 3-5pm Location: Rogers Room, John Woolley Building, The University of Sydney Free and open to all.   Image: Nicolas Lancret, Mlle Camargo Dancing, oil on canvas, The Hermitage museum  

Presenter: Simon Burrows, Western Sydney University This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. It will be rescheduled for the beginning of 2018. This paper has twin aims. First, it discusses how the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database project at Western Sydney has been taking a big data approach to challenge accepted views…

Fragment of Louis Jean François Lagrenée, Mars and Venus, Allegory of Peace, 1770, Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program. Date: 18-19 September 2017 Location: SLC Common Room 536, level 5, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, The University of Sydney Price: Free and open to all Organisers: Andrew Benjamin and Francesco Borghesi For further information please contact Francesco Borghesi francesco.borghesi@sydney.edu.au and Andrew…

HRC Seminar  Presenter: Mirella Agorni Date: Thursday 17 August Time: 4.30pm Location: Sir Roland Wilson Building, Lady Wilson Seminar Room Australian National University Abstract: The subject of this paper is women’s popularisation of scientific texts in the eighteenth century. Starting from an analysis of the remarkable surge in female writing in Britain in the second…

NATURES AND SPACES OF ENLIGHTENMENT The Sixteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies / The Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Griffith University and the University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, 13-15 December 2017 There has been a strong response to the CFP for the sixteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar, or…

Professor Margot Finn This paper examines the daily life of an English spinster who lived in late 18th-century Bloomsbury, an area of London now best known for its bohemian literary and sexual cultures.  In contrast to present-day images of radical women and men, it presents an image of Bloomsbury as a hub of British imperialism. …

Full details available at: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/opportunity-phd-scholarship-at-the-university-of-adelaide/ Applications close: Monday 31 October 2016. Applications are invited for a scholarship leading to the degree of PhD in the School of Humanities (History), The University of Adelaide. The scholarship is supported by the Faculty of Arts (Divisional Scholarship), and is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, DP160100265: ‘A…

Venue: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, with additional events at the Australian National University and the University of Sydney Full details available at: http://nga.gov.au/Symposia/Versailles/ Friday 17 – Saturday 18 March 2017 On the occasion of the Versailles: Treasures from the Palace exhibition at the NGA, which brings major works of art from the Palace of Versailles to…

From H-ArtHist: 2017 ISECS Seminar for Early Career Scholars Cities and Citizenship in the Enlightenment / Cité et citoyenneté des Lumières Université du Québec, Montreal, 11–15 September 2017 Proposals due by 30 January 2017 The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) is pleased to announce the 2017 International Seminar for Early-Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars. Colleagues from…