The LLC 17th-Century French Forum is pleased to announce three CFPs for the 2023 MLA convention on January 5-8 in San Francisco. Please See below for details about our two guaranteed roundtables and one non-guaranteed panel.
Global Climates in the Early Modern World
Weather, geology, atmosphere, meteorology. The relations of climate to natural environments, corporeality, race, affect, or forms of cultural expression. Roundtable format. 250-word abstracts to Jeffrey Peters (jnp@uky.edu) by 15 March 2022.
Public Scholarship in Premodern Studies
Current approaches to and new directions in public scholarship on premodern studies broadly defined. What are the ethical and political stakes of this kind of work? We welcome proposals from French-studies scholars as well as from those working primarily in other fields. Roundtable format. 250-word abstracts to Anna Rosensweig (anna.rosensweig@rochester.edu) by 15 March 2022.
Neoclassical “Aesthetics”?
How should we understand the place of the seventeenth century and so-called neoclassicism in the history of aesthetics? As a prelude to the eighteenth century, which itself is often seen as moving toward Kant, Hegel, and aesthetics “proper”? As the very opposite of later consumer- or percipient-centered theories, being concerned rather with the proper compositional choices of poets and painters? And, looking back, should we understand neoclassicism as merely a systematization of Italian Renaissance theories, or rather as the elaboration of a fundamentally novel (which may or may not be to say “modern”) theory of pictural and linguistic representation? Non-guaranteed panel. 300-word abstracts to Nicholas Paige (npaige@berkeley.edu) by 1 March 2022.