Globalizing Eighteenth-Century Studies (9/1/02; ASECS, 8/3/03-8/10/03)

34th Annual meeting ASECS/ISECS 2003 ASECS Graduate Student Caucus Panel "Globalizing Eighteenth-Century Studies"

The Graduate Student Caucus of ASECS seeks papers on globalizing eighteenth-century studies for the upcoming joint-meeting of ASECS and ISECS in Los Angeles, August 3-10, 2003. Possible paper topics include but are not limited to...

* how paradigms of globalization enable us to re-interpret eighteenth-century historical data;
* how eighteenth-century historical data compels us to re-imagine paradigms of globalization;
* methodological models for relating the local and the global, their usefulness for eighteenth-century studies;
* the period's consciousness (or lack of consciousness) of itself as a globalized moment;
* the status of global goods (e.g., tea, chinoiserie, exotic foods, exotic animals, etc.) in the eighteenth-century imaginary;
* how global trends impact (or fail to impact) literary production in the period;
* the view from the center: how those in a position of global dominance construct the margins;
* the view from the margins: how those on the margins of the globe construct the dominant;
* globalization and its relationship to nationalism, imperialism, and/or colonialism;
* how these and/or other common topics in globalization studies are mal pose' for eighteenth-century studies.

Send 200-300 word proposals by September 1, 2002 to James Kim, whose contact information I deliver unto you even thus:

University of Virginia
Department of English
219 Bryan Hall
PO Box 400121
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
E-mail: jyk4j@virginia.edu

Electronic submissions are greatly preferred. For more information on the conference check out <<http://www.ISECS.ucla.edu>>.