The Conquest of America (9/15/02; ASECS/ISECS, 8/3/03-8/10/03)

This interdisciplinary panel will discuss interpretations of the conquest of America during the long eighteenth century, and their political and ideological function. Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers, which might (for example) be drawn from the following specialisms: the visual arts; historiography (e.g., de Solis, Raynal); literature (e.g., Dryden's The Indian Emperour, Voltaire's Alzire, Marmontel's Les Yncas, Sheridan's Pizarro, Southey's Madoc); or opera (e.g., Graun's and Frederick the Great's Montezuma, Winter's Das unterbrochene Opferfest, Spontini's Fernand Cortez, or the many operas derived from Voltaire, de Solis, and Marmontel). The panel is intended to create a culturally wide-ranging dialogue between normally distinct disciplines.

Derek Hughes (D.W.Hughes@Warwick.ac.uk)