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Experiencing Modernity; Modernity of experimentation

Joint congress:
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

October 26-29, 2022, Ottawa

Call for papers

***We will accept panel and paper proposals until the conference program has been finalized***
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Information

During the next annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) and of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS), several scientific and/or cultural events will take place.
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Program

Session to come

Plenary Events

Three plenary events will be held during the congress, each one of them organized by one of the three societies involved.
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Nicholas Cronk
Director of the Voltaire Foundation and Professor of European Enlightenment Studies at the University of Oxford.
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Leith Davis
Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, author of "Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation" and "Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish Identity, 1724-1874".
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Lynn Festa
Professor of English at Rutgers University, author of "Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture".

Location and accommodations

The conference will take place on the University of Ottawa campus.

For accommodations, we have a group rate for a number of rooms at the Delta Hotel, Ottawa City Centre, 101 Lyon Street, Ottawa, ON K1R 5T9.
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The Delta Hotel is a first-class venue, newly renovated, light, and airy, with wonderful public spaces for meeting, catching up, and networking. It is situated close to Parliament Hill, the National Gallery, the National Arts Centre, the National Library and Archives, and other national museums and monuments. An LRT rapid transit line links many of these sites, but most of them are also within easy walking distance. The University of Ottawa is also nearby. Given the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we will be reviewing our venue plans in the spring of 2022, should it become necessary or advisable to switch to an online conference format. Such a decision would be taken in consultation with conference participants.

Sponsors

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Faculty of Arts
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English Department
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Philosophy Department
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Institut des études autochtones de l’Université d’Ottawa
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Contact us

Paper or panel proposals

[email protected]

Organizing Committee

Frans De Bruyn (uOttawa, English)
Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (uOttawa, Philosophy)
Nour Afara (uOttawa, English – student) 
Maud Brunet-Fontaine (uOttawa, Philosophy – student) 
Karenza Sutton-Benett (uOttawa, English – student) 

Program Committee

Geneviève Boucher (uOttawa, Français)
Richard Connors (uOttawa, History)
Sébastien Côté (Carleton, Français)
Nigel DeSouza (uOttawa, Philosophy)
Michel Fournier (uOttawa, Français)
Melissa Frankel (Carleton, Philosophy)
Paul Keen (Carleton, English)
Sara Landreth (uOttawa, English)
April London (uOttawa, English) 
Julie Murray (Carleton, English) 
Kristin O.Rourke (Dartmouth, Art History)
Sylvie Perrier (uOttawa, Histoire) 
Robert Sparling (uOttawa, Political Science)
Pam Perkins (uManitoba, English), representing ECSSS
Natalia Vesselova (uOttawa, English)