BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

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BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
41st Annual Conference

January 4-6, 2012

St Hugh's College, Oxford, U.K

'Landscapes & Environments '

The annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
dealing with all aspects of the history, literature, and culture of
the long eighteenth century.

We invite proposals for papers and sessions dealing with any aspect of
the long eighteenth century, not only in Britain, but also throughout
Europe, North America, and the wider world. Proposals are invited for
fully comprised panels of three or four papers, for roundtable
sessions of up to five speakers, for individual papers, and for
‘alternative format’ sessions of your devising.

While proposals on all and any eighteenth-century topics are very
welcome, this year the conference theme will be Landscapes &
Environments. We would thus particularly welcome proposals for panels
and papers that address eighteenth-century uses of, and attitudes to,
landscapes and environments of all kinds, throughout the long
eighteenth century and in any part of the world. These might include,
but will not be confined to: changes in the landscape (including urban
landscapes) and environment; climate and weather (for example ‘the
great storm’ of 1703); ‘greening’ the eighteenth century; landscape
gardening; enclosure; pastoral; the picturesque; sacred landscapes;
ruins and archaeology; representations of the landscape; and meanings
and significance given to landscapes and environments, in all fields
from history to the arts, literature, and philosophy.
Enquiries

All enquiries regarding the academic programme of the conference
should be addressed to the academic programme co-ordinator, Dr Corinna
Wagner academic@bsecs.org.uk. Proposals are due by Friday 30
September. Registration will be available in September and you will be
notified whether your paper has been accepted or not by Friday 21
October.