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Call for papers:
THE "ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT": WHAT IS IT?
a panel to be held at the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
December 9-12, 1999
University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire
Recent discussions in the humanities and the social sciences regularly
presume that there is something called the "Enlightenment Project" that
needs to be redeemed, reconstructed, deconstructed, gotten back to, or
gotten over. Yet those who invoke the "Enlightenment project" have not
always been very precise as to what this project was supposed to involve
or very forthcoming in their account of who was allegedly involved in
it. In the meantime, at least some historians of the eighteenth century
have expressed doubts about the existence of "the" Enlightenment and
have instead suggested that there were a number of different
enlightenments -- each, presumably, with its own projects.
This panel invites papers that address any of the manifold historical
and conceptual issues at stake in invocations of the "Enlightenment
project."
Please submit proposals by Monday, April 5, 1999, to
James Schmidt
University Professors Program
Boston University
745 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
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Proposals should include: an abstract, an institutional affiliation (if
any), mailing and email addresses, phone and fax numbers, and a list of
any audio-visual needs.
All conference participants must be members of NEASECS at the time of
the conference. No person may give more than one paper at the
conference.
For information about the conference, please see the web page at
http://www.unh.edu/history/golinski/NEASECS/panels.html
James Schmidt
Boston University
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