Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:24:27 +0100
From: Sharon Diane Nell <n7sdn-AT-TTACS.TTU.EDU>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Reminder: "Woman in the Eighteenth Century"


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Dear Colleagues, I am still accepting proposals for "Woman in the
Eighteenth Century." Please forward this notice to all appropriate
lists. Thanks! Sharon Nell
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The 33rd Annual Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium
                  Directed by Sharon Diane Nell
                 WOMAN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

                      January 27-29, 2000

                      Plenary Speakers: 

                    Carol Blum (SUNY-Stony Brook)
                      Susan Lanser (Maryland)
                     Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA)


                      Featured Speakers:

                      Tita Chico (Texas Tech)
               Clorinda Donato (Cal State-Long Beach)
                       John Isbell (Indiana)
                    Nanette Le Coat (Trinity)
                Paul Allen Miller (South Carolina)



This conference seeks to offer a forum for discussion eighteenth-century
woman across the disciplines (literature, history, art, political
sciences, philosophy, etc.). The symposium will focus on women
throughout the world. One-page abstracts for 20-minute papers and all
inquiries should be sent to Sharon Diane Nell, Program in Comparative
Literature, Box 2071, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-2071
(phone: 806-742-3145; fax: 806-742-3306; e-mail: Sharon.Nell-AT-ttu.edu.

Select papers will be published in the journal _Intertexts_. Abstracts
must be received by November 1, 1999. This conference is sponsored in
part by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Provost, the
Graduate School, the Department of English, the Department of Classical
and Modern Languages and Literatures and the Women's Studies Program,
Texas Tech University.

Suggested topics:
     Women and Science
     Women and the Arts
     Women and Philosophy
     Women and History
     Representations of Women by Women Writers
     Women and Autobiography
     Domesticity and Woman in the Home
     Strategies of Containment: The Enlightenment Writes Woman
     Tactics of Subversion: Feminine Resistance in the Eighteenth
          Century
     Maternity in the Eighteenth Century
     Writing Sapphism in the Eighteenth Century
     Eighteenth-Century Woman/Twentieth-Century Theory

In addition, other topics within the scope of the symposium topic are
very welcome.


The conference website is:
              http://www.ttu.edu/~complit/W18.html 
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Sharon Diane Nell
Associate Professor of French
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Editor, _Intertexts_
Dept. of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Texas Tech University
Box 2071
Lubbock, TX   79409-2071
(806) 742-3145
(806) 742-3306 (fax)
Sharon.Nell-AT-ttu.edu

http://www.ttu.edu/~complit/