CFP: Irish Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference

The Irish Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) is currently seeking participants for two panels that have been assembled for the upcoming 2015 ASECS conference in Los Angeles, March 19-22, 2015.

Please see the descriptions of these panels below and consider proposing a paper for one of them. Graduate Continue reading CFP: Irish Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference

CFP: BSECS 44th Annual Conference

The 44th annual conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place on 6 – 8 January 2015 at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom.

The BSECS annual conference deals with all aspects of the history, culture and literature of the long eighteenth century.

Proposals are invited for papers and sessions Continue reading CFP: BSECS 44th Annual Conference

The Irish Poet and the Natural World

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The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics. Cork University Press, 2014. 430 pages,

ISBN: 9781782050643

This annotated anthology of poems makes available a rich variety of Irish texts depicting the relationship between humans and the environment between the years 1580 and Continue reading The Irish Poet and the Natural World

Censored Lecture Series

‘Censored’ is a series of eight free evening lectures taking place at the National Print Museum from September 2014 to August 2015.

The advent of printing in fifteenth-century Europe meant that texts, ideas, and opinions could be reproduced and diffused on an unprecedented scale. In response, most European countries established new institutions, laws Continue reading Censored Lecture Series

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, 29-30 August

Registration for the 4th Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference is now open. The conference will take place on 29 & 30 August 2014 at the Iontas Building, North Campus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Building upon the tremendous success of past conferences, this year’s programme boasts papers on a broad range Continue reading Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, 29-30 August

CFP: Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland, 1700-1900

A one-day symposium on ‘Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland 1700-1900’ will be held at NUI Galway on 20 February 2015.

This one-day symposium will examine the area of translation in Ireland between 1700 and 1900 in order to widen our understanding of cultural exchange during the period and to create new perspectives on Continue reading CFP: Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland, 1700-1900

Educating the Irish Genius Symposium

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The ‘Educating the Irish Genius’ international symposium will be held in Kilkenny College on 25-27 July 2014.

The symposium explores the proposition that we can, and we should, identify a discrete Irish Enlightenment, just as we do a distinctive Scottish Enlightenment, focusing on individuals like Swift and Berkeley—and William Molyneux, Katherine Jones, Continue reading Educating the Irish Genius Symposium

CFP: Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century

A two-day symposium on ‘Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century’ will be held at the University of Limerick, 28-29 August 2014. The symposium may be of interest to long eighteenth-centuryists working on material from the 1780s, 1790s, and early 1800s. For further information, please download the call for papers here, Continue reading CFP: Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century

Urban Culture Lecture, 6 May 2014

Professor Catriona Seth (Université de Lorraine-World Leading Researcher at Queen’s University Belfast), will deliver the 2013-14 Belfast Lecture on Urban Culture organised by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at QUB, at 6pm on Tuesday 6 May 2014, 12 University Square, Room 101.

The lecture is entitled ‘The curious case of Mademoiselle de Continue reading Urban Culture Lecture, 6 May 2014

CFP: BSECS Postgrad and Early Career Conference

Proposals for papers on eighteenth-century topics, and particularly proposals for papers that address any aspect of the theme ‘encounters’ throughout the long eighteenth century, are invited for the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference to be held in Venice, Italy, on 23-24 July 2014. Proposals for Continue reading CFP: BSECS Postgrad and Early Career Conference

Editing Eighteenth-Century Ireland Symposium

The Eighteenth-Century Research Group, University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College will hold a one-day symposium entitled ‘Editing Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Process and Dissemination’. The symposium will take place in the Board Room, Plassey House, University of Limerick on 2 May 2013.

All are welcome, but, Continue reading Editing Eighteenth-Century Ireland Symposium

David Nichol Smith Seminar Travel Grants

The 15th David Nichol Smith Seminar organizing committee is pleased to announce that they will be able to offer a limited number of travel grants to expand postgraduate participation in the 2014 ‘Ideas and Enlightenment’ conference (click here for further details).

These grants are provided through generous funding contributions from the Faculty Continue reading David Nichol Smith Seminar Travel Grants

CFP: David Nichol Smith Seminar – ‘Ideas & Enlightenment’

DNS Conference

The Sydney Intellectual History Network and ‘Putting Periodisation to Use’ Research Group at the University of Sydney invite you to the Fifteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar (DNS), with the theme ‘Ideas and Enlightenment’. Inaugurated and supported by the National Library of Australia, the DNS conference is the leading forum for eighteenth-century Continue reading CFP: David Nichol Smith Seminar – ‘Ideas & Enlightenment’

Grave matters: Death and Dying in Dublin

The programme for the one-day symposium entitled ‘Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin’, which will be held at The Milestone Gallery, Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, on Saturday, 12 April 2014 is now available to download here.

For further information contact [email protected] or visit the City of Dublin Research Group website http://www.tcd.ie/CISS/dublinresearchgroup.php.

(Glasnevin Cemetery Continue reading Grave matters: Death and Dying in Dublin

CFP: 4th Tudor & Stuart Ireland Conference

The 4th Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference will convene on 29 & 30 August 2014 in NUI Maynooth.

Proposals for papers, 20 minutes in length, are now welcome on any aspect of Ireland during the Tudor and Stuart eras, including:

Two Fellowships at the Centre Culturel Irlandais/Irish College Paris

The Centre Culturel Irlandais/Irish College Paris is offering two Fellowship bursaries to encourage research on its Old Library and Historical Archives collections.

The purpose of the Fellowships is to establish the intellectual and academic value of the holdings. The Old Library contains 8000 volumes (from the 15th to the 19th century). Once Continue reading Two Fellowships at the Centre Culturel Irlandais/Irish College Paris

CFP: Ireland and Ecocriticism

A conference entitled ‘Ireland and Ecocriticism’ will take place in University College Cork on 19-21 June 2014. The conference hopes to attract contributions from a variety of disciplines, not just across the arts, but, ideally, breaching the divide between the arts and sciences. Proposals for both English- and Irish-language contributions, papers Continue reading CFP: Ireland and Ecocriticism

ASECS Irish-American Travel Grants 2013-14

Applications are invited for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Irish-American Travel Grant Scheme 2013-14. The purpose of the award is to support documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800), by enabling North American-based scholars to travel to Continue reading ASECS Irish-American Travel Grants 2013-14