Dear Colleagues,

Please find below two new proposals for open panels for our 2011 meeting 
in Winston-Salem. I'm also copying information about previously accepted 
open panel proposals. Please respond directly to the respective session 
organizers by November 8. As always, you can find the general call for 
papers at http://www.seasecs.net/meeting_2011.html

Warm regards,
Byron

NEW:

The Colonial Gaze: Illustrated Travel Accounts of the Atlantic World and 
Africa

Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century colonists, missionaries, explorers, 
and merchants sailed to the Caribbean and Africa, producing records of 
their travels illustrated with scenes of plantation life, agricultural 
practices, local flora and fauna, harbors and forts, and the buying and 
selling of slaves. This panel invites papers from a range of disciplines 
that address any aspect of this imagery’s role shaping European notions 
of conquest, colonialism, and slavery. In keeping with the theme of the 
conference, “Science and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth-Century,” 
papers exploring the images’ framing of the natural sciences are 
especially welcome, as are papers exploring text-image relationships and 
innovative approaches to the analysis of visual rhetoric.

Susan H. Libby, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Art History
Chair, Department of Art and Art History
Rollins College
1000 Holt Avenue
Winter Park, FL 32789
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tel.: 407-646-2448
fax: 407-698-6395


Teaching the Eighteenth-Century

This panel welcomes proposals from all disciplines; we rarely hear from
people in history, foreign languages, and the fine arts, so please step up!
The format of the panel asks you to confine your presentation to 15
minutes, to make sure there is lots of time for questions and comments from
the audience. Proposals that concentrate on particular strategies or
assignments are particularly welcome.

Donna A. Gessell, Ph.D.
Executive Director for Regional Engagement
Professor of English
302 Downtown Office Building
North Georgia College & State University
Dahlonega, GA 30597
P: 706-864-1528
F: 706-864-1756
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CONTINUING:

"Intruders and Improvers": Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and Publicity"

This panel topic addresses all papers which seek to uncover the varied
literary or cultural techniques, alterations, or "tricks" by which early
modern women writers asserted their voices into public spheres in an
effort to achieve publicity for their ideas or to modify and change
their societies, families, and communities. This panel welcomes papers
which explore all methods and means by which seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century women achieved publicity for their ideas, including
the use of religious rhetoric, the application and modification of
traditional literary forms and genres, the use of literary translation,
and the insertion of the female writer's voice into traditionally
masculine genres such as political tracts, educational treatises,
pamphlets, and periodicals.

Amanda Hiner, Ph.D.
218 Bancroft Hall
Department of English
Winthrop University
Rock Hill SC 29733-0001
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803-323-2351

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"The Gendering of Disease --Real and Fictional Manifestations in France
and England"-- Among the questions for possible consideration are the
following:

Did eighteenth-century men and women represent illness differently? How
was disease manifested in letters, art, memoirs, medical/philosophical
texts, novels or plays? Is there a relationship between disease and
creativity? How did medical discourse represent the intersection of art
and science?

Felicia Sturzer
Acting Head
Department of Foreign Languages& Literatures
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Brock Hall 208
Chattanooga, TN 37403
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"Studies in French Fiction in the Eighteenth Century"

This session welcomes all talks on French fiction in the 18th Century.
Please send proposals or completed essays to E. Joe Johnson.
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