[Nhcoll-l] (Fwd c18 list) Re: Birding the Eighteenth Century (ASECS 2013)

[Karen Reeds]

With apologies for cross-posting.

ASECS =  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference info at http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/

Karen


>From: 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion 
>[C18-L at lists.psu.edu] on behalf of Brycchan Carey 
>[brycchan at BRYCCHANCAREY.COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:08 AM
>To: C18-L at LISTS.PSU.EDU
>Subject: CFP: Birding the Eighteenth Century (ASECS 2013)
>
>Dear all,
>
>I am still accepting proposals for the following panel at ASECS 
>2013. If you would like to offer a paper, please email me directly 
>on <mailto:brycchan at brycchancarey.com>brycchan at brycchancarey.com by 
>September 15.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Brycchan
>
>
>CFP: "Birding the Eighteenth Century: The Role of Birds in 
>Eighteenth-Century Literature, Culture, and Society"
>
>In recent years there has been considerable interest in the role of 
>animals in eighteenth-century literature, society, and culture. This 
>panel will deepen our understanding of human-animal interactions by 
>exploring the role of birds in the period. Birds of various kinds 
>had long held a place in literature and folklore, as well as on the 
>dinner table, but, from the late seventeenth century onwards, 
>natural philosophers such as Francis Willughby and John Ray began to 
>develop the modern science of ornithology; work extended in the 
>eighteenth century by scientists such as Brisson and Buffon. At the 
>same time, birds continued to be represented in complex ways in 
>literature. Famous examples include Robinson Crusoe's parrot, 
>Lawrence Sterne's caged starling, Mrs Throckmorton's bullfinch, and, 
>of course, the skylarks and nightingales of Romantic poetry. 
>Explorers and colonists encountered and described new birds in 
>distant lands-and also found the winter homes of familiar migratory 
>birds, thus answering an age-old question about where birds 
>disappeared to at certain times of year. This panel accordingly 
>invites scholars working in literature, history, the history of 
>science, art history, ecocriticism, and related disciplines to 
>present research on any aspect of ornithological thought and culture 
>in the long eighteenth century.
>
>
>__________________________________________________________________
>
>Dr Brycchan Carey, Cambridgeshire, UK
>http://www.brycchancarey.com | http://www.twitter.com/brycchan
>
>President, The Literary London Society: http://www.literarylondon.org
>Treasurer, British Society for 18th-Century Studies: http://www.bsecs.org.uk
>Coordinator, Gamlingay Environmental Action Group: http://www.geag.org.uk
>__________________________________________________________________
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Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS 	karen.reeds at verizon.net
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