Call for Papers: 'Scots Abroad'
The 33rd Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society: 'Scots Abroad'
University of Liverpool, 29th July - 1st August 2021
Closing date for submissions: 16th November 2020
We warmly invite participants to a four-day conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, to be held at the University of Liverpool. Submissions are now open for proposals on any aspect of the conference theme ‘Scots Abroad’, including the movement and impact of Scottish people, practices, goods and ideas to other parts of the globe near or far. As ever, papers on other aspects of eighteenth-century Scottish thought, politics and culture are also welcome.
Plenary speakers will include Jon Mee, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York, speaking on the impact made by expatriate Scots on the ‘Transpennine Enlightenment’ in northern English towns. Planned excursions will take in the north-west’s associations with Jacobitism, Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution, as well as Liverpool’s Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site. Networking opportunities are planned with the New Romanticisms conference (jointly sponsored by BARS and NASSR), which takes place at nearby Edge Hill University the following week.
Proposals should be emailed to Professor Mark Towsey (towsey@liverpool.ac.uk) by 16th November 2020, and for more information on submissions please visit the 'Scots Abroad' event page.
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