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Date:  Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:10:16 +0100 
From:  Thierry Belleguic <[log in to unmask]>  
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR XVIIITH CENTURY STUDIES 
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, (16-19 OCTOBER 1997) 
"REPRESENTATIONS OF TIME IN THE XVIIITH CENTURY" 
CALL FOR SESSIONS (Call for papers will be issued in January 97) 
 
Possible orientations: 
 
1) Epistemology of Time in the 18th Century How does science in the 
XVIIIth century approach the question of time?  What instruments are at 
its disposal, what theories exist?  To what extent and according to what 
modalities do epistemological theories in the XVIIIth century propose a 
reflection on time?  What place is given to the notion of time in the 
"new cosmologies" in the new science of geology, and in the emerging 
reflexion on biological classification? 
 
2) Representations of Time The goal is not to infer a mechanical 
relationship between epistemology and aesthetics, but rather to consider 
both of these in terms of a co-occurrence or of a reciprocal influence. 
In other words, how is time conceived of and represented within specific 
semiotic systems such as painting, sculpture, music, architecture and, 
of course, literature?  What does it mean to think about and to 
represent time in painting and in sculpture?  What is the significance 
of the poetics of the ruin, of Neo-classicism, in terms of an aesthetics 
of temporality?  What topoi of time (its passage, suspension, beginning, 
end) are expressed in poetry and literature?  How does the novel 
conceptualize its actantial and narrative progress?  To what extent are 
the diverse musical theories which confront each other in the XVIIIth 
century a symptom of diverging conceptions of time? 
 
3) Conceptions of History Part one: the emergence of history as a social 
science.  The history of ideas situates the emergence of history as a 
social science during the XVIIIth century.  What conceptions of time and 
its passage appear in the wake of the new science of history?  Part two: 
"fin de siecle".  To what extent is the "fin de siecle" a privileged 
moment for reflecting on time?  What political, philosophical, 
aesthetic, literary (etc) movements are born and what are the conclusions 
to be drawn about the understanding of time which informs them?  Part 
three: history and the XVIIIth century.  A reflection on time in the 
XVIIIth century also implies a study of its periodization.  In this 
sense, the XVIIIth century in France, marked by the French Revolution, 
is very different from the XVIIIth century in England or Germany.  This 
examination will lead to a consideration of the way in which the XIXth 
and XXth centuries represent the XVIIIth century (epistemological and 
ideological presuppositions, etc).  An examination of our own 
presuppositions as "specialists" of the XVIIIth century will be most 
pertinent to this reflection, and a roundtable considering contemporary 
XVIIIth century studies would be most appropriate. 
 
4) Varia Any other topic related to the problem of time and its 
representation in the XVIIIth century.  Please note that the above 
suggestions are simply an invitation to consider the problem of time in 
its diversity: geographic (England, Spain, Italy France, etc); periodic 
(beginning, end of the century, and their relationship to temporality), 
etc.  Comparative studies and syntheses are welcome. 
 
5) Open sessions In accordance with the tradition of the society, papers 
not dealing directly with the theme of the colloquium will be welcomed 
and included in the program. 
 
THE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ARE TO BE SENT BEFORE DECEMBER 31 TO:  Thierry 
Belleguic, SCEDS/CSECS  '97 Conference, University of Western Ontario, 
Department of French, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7. 
Email address:[log in to unmask] 
Tel.: 519-661-2163 ext (5721) 
Fax.: 519-661-3470 
Conference Web Site: http://www.uwo.ca/french/csecs97.html 
 
Thierry Belleguic                    Til: bureau: 519- 661-2111 (5721) 
Assistant Professor                        secritariat: 519-661-2163 
Dipartement d'Etudes frangaises      Tilicopieur: 519-661-3470 
University of Western Ontario 
London, Ontario 
Canada 
N6A 3K7 
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