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CFP: The Arts and Sciences of Progress, Aberdeen, July 2011
By Karen | 23 July 2010
CFP: The Arts and Sciences of Progress
24th Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
7–10 July 2011
University of Aberdeen
Hosted by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
In 2011 ECSSS will hold its first conference in Aberdeen since 1995. The conference theme, The Arts and Sciences of Progress, is meant to focus attention on the notion of “progress”—and its limitations—in society, literature, science, and the arts. Proposals are welcome on all aspects of this theme, as well as on 18th-century Aberdeen and northeastern Scotland, Scottish Episcopalianism, Jacobitism, Highland culture, relations between Ireland and Scotland, and all other aspects of 18th-century Scottish thought and culture. In addition, this conference will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of James Macpherson’s Ossianic poetry in the early 1760s. David Hume’s 300th birthday will be duly noted, although we will leave the main celebration of that event to the Hume Society/IASH conference in Edinburgh one week afterwards.
Plenary lectures will be presented by Prof. Colin Kidd of Glasgow University: “Hypocrisy and Dissimulation in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Case of the Rev. Alexander Fergusson of Kilwinning” and Prof. Fiona Stafford of Oxford University: “Everything Unreconciled? The Place of Macpherson’s Ossian”.
Please e-mail or fax a title and one-page description of your proposed panel or proposed 20-minute paper, along with a one-page cv, by 15 November 2010 to:
Professor Cairns Craig
Director, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds
Aberdeen AB24 3UG
Scotland, UKFax: 44(0)1224 273677
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