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CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd Annual Meeting of the
18th-Century Scottish Studies Society
2–5 July 2009
St Andrews, Scotland
Hosted by
The University of St Andrews
Papers and performances relating to all aspects of Scottish culture during the long eighteenth century are welcome. Particularly encouraged are papers and panels on the following topics: St Andrews and Fife in the eighteenth century (including figures such as Robert Fergusson and William Wilkie); the 250th anniversaries of the birth of Robert Burns and the publication of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments; James Wilson and Scottish connections to the American Revolution; classics and philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment; and women in eighteenth-century Scotland.
Plenary addresses will be delivered by Knud Haakonssen, Professor and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, on the publishing context of Thomas Reid’s Essays on the Active Powers, and T C Smout, Professor Emeritus at St Andrews and Historiographer Royal in Scotland, on reconsidering the improvers. There will also be receptions, a walking tour of historic St Andrews, an excursion to Blair Atholl, a library exhibition, a conference dinner, and much more.
To participate, please post, email, or fax a one-page description of your proposed seminar topic or 20-minute paper, along with a 1-page c.v., by 1 November 2008 to: Prof Richard B Sher, Executive Secretary – ECSSS, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982 USA; E-mail: sher@njit.edu; Fax: 973-596-5345.
For general conference information, contact the conference organizer:
Dr David Allan, School of History, University of St Andrews, St
Katharine’s Lodge, The Scores, St Andrews KY16 9AL, Scotland, UK
; E-mail : da2@st-andrews.ac.uk; Fax
: (0)1334 462927.