Conferences

UK and Ireland

Conference: Turning Points: Time and Place in Early American History, Norwich, 3-5 September 2004. Annual meeting of the British Group in Early American History. Notification by 15 August.

Conference: National Identity and Cultural Exchange in Ireland and Scotland, Edinburgh, 9-11 September 2004.

CFP: Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery, Liverpool, October 2005. An international conference “which will reflect advances in research on transatlantic slavery” in the past 25 years. Deadline: 30 September 2004.

CFP: 34th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies, Oxford, January 2005. Deadline: 30 September 2004.

North America

Conference: Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492-1888, Greensboro, North Carolina, 17-18 September 2004. To “examine the varied forces which forged new identities among the communing and colliding inhabitants of the “Atlantic rim”-of the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe”.

Conference: North East Conference on British Studies, Montreal, Quebec, 1-2 October 2004.

CFP: Custom, Ritual, Fetish: Idols of the Eighteenth Century, Indiana University, May 2005. “Religious ritual, pagan fetishes, the customs of the unwashed, the habits of the unlettered: these were the idols eighteenth-century men and women sought to cleanse from human society and culture, at times by force of conquest…” Deadline: 4 January 2005.

CFP: Crossing the Atlantic: European Dimensions of American History, 1600-2000, Washington DC, March-April 2005. Graduate students in history and other disciplines are invited to “discuss the variety of cultural, social, political, intellectual, and economic encounters of the European world with the North American continent over the last 500 years.” Deadline: 1 October 2004.

CFP: The Nature of Knowledge: Eighteenth-century Engagements with the Natural World, Tampa, Florida, February 2005. “As evidenced by key works ranging from Robinson Crusoe to the writings of Rousseau, nature was a constant preoccupation of the eighteenth-century imagination. But what, exactly, was this thing called nature?”. Deadline: 30 September 2004.

You should also check out the STAR project’s CFP and Events pages, which have several more events of interest to early modernists.