CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
IN 2000
As announced at the Society's AGM in 1998, in order to give the Millenium Bug the time to expire, the Annual Conference of BSECS will be held between 10 and 14 August 2000 in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
The session titles already proposed are as follows:
- The Armed Forces
- The Capital and the Provinces
- The XVIIIth-Century Avant-garde
- Fairy Tales
- Gender
- History of Ideas
- Horror in Life and Literature
- The Idea of Rank
- Intellectual Frontiers
- Literary Inquiry
- The Marvellous
- Medicine
- Music and Song
- The Nobel Savage
- Philosophical Discourses
- Poverty and Affluence
- Printing and Publishing
- Private Theatres
- Public and Private Space
- Public Ritual and Spectacle
- Religion and Superstition
- Scientific Inquiry
- Technology
- Travel
- Visual Culture
Proposals for twenty-minute papers (with an indication of the appropriate section), accompanied by an abstract of c. 200 words, should be sent, either in hard copy or by email (pasted, not as an attachment, please), to Dr John Dunkley, Department of French, University of Aberdeen, Taylor Building, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB, Scotland, UK; email j.dunkley@abdn.ac.uk, not later than 31 December 1999.