Labnet: Conf. Ann.: Gender & Empire, 1763-1815 - York (UK) 12/07

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[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Soz-u-Kult. AB]

University of York, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, York (UK)
01.12.2007, The King's Manor Exhibition Square

Some of the most innovative recent work in eighteenth-century studies
has turned toward an exploration of the changing meanings of empire, in
particular the subtly shifting horizons of global empire following the
Seven Years War. 
Gender was a key vector as imperial power shifted and resettled in this
period. Army officers and women, in Mary Wollstonecraft's favoured
comparison, "fond of dancing, crowded rooms, adventures and ridicule",
served as early domestic indexes for the surface effects of empire - its
"blind obedience", "tyranny" and "sensualism". This day conference
brings together key scholars working in the fields of gender and
imperial history, the histories of art and literature, for a discussion
of new research emerging in this area.

Papers:
Kate Davies (University of Newcastle): The Poem that Ate America: Helen
Maria Williams' "Ode on the Peace"

Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary): A Figure in the Text: Burke, Wordsworth, Opie
and the Black Woman

Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge): Raynal's "Histoire des Deux
Indes" and Marivaux's "La Colonie", and the Querelle des Femmes (Working
title)

Martin Myrone (Tate Britain): Macaroni Multiplicity: Gender and Empire
in the 1770s

Karen O'Brien (University of Warwick): The Female Emigrant: Stories and
Poems of Britain's Settler Colonies, 1763-1815

Jim Watt (University of York): "The blessings of freedom": America and
"the East" in the fiction of Robert Bage

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Jordan Vibert 
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
University of York, 
The King's Manor, 
York, YO1 7EP
United Kingdom
Email: jv500 at york.ac.uk

Homepage <http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/conf/gender07/genderhome.htm>

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