================= HES POSTING ================= 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 [log in to unmask] 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 ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]