18th C. Studies – Copyright, Arts, Human Rights – San Antonio, TX

July 25, 2011 - CALLS FOR PAPERS, Human Rights Law, Law and Humanities, Law and Literature, Legal History - Tagged: ,

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, “an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period . . . from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century,” will hold its 43rd annual meeting March 22-25, 2012, in San Antonio. Among the many panels listed in the call for papers (available as a Word document here) are:

  • “Copyright: Contexts and Contests” (The Bibliographical Society of America) Molly O’Hagan Hardy, mollyohardy [at] mail.utexas.edu (pp. 2-3)
  • “Authors and Readers in the Eighteenth Century” (Society for the History of Authorship,
    Reading, and Publishing — SHARP) Marta Kvande, marta.kvande [at] ttu.edu (p. 17)
  • “Law & the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century” Andrew Benjamin Bricker, abricker [at] stanford.edu (pp. 41-42)
  • “Scotland, England, and Copyright Law” Jared Richman, jrichman [at] coloradocollege.edu (p. 51)
  • “I Testify: Truth and Self in Law and Fiction” Kate Gaudet, ksgaudet [at] uchicago.edu (p. 54)
  • “Literature and Human Rights in the Eighteenth Century” Ramesh Mallipeddi, ramesh.mallipeddi [at] hunter.cuny.edu (p. 58)

The deadline for proposals is Sept. 15, 2011. mw