CfP: Morality, Conduct and Etiquette in the Long Eighteenth Century (Event, 01/2024, New Delhi and virtual space); by: 30.11.2023

India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS) (Web)

Time: 18.-19.01.2024
Venue: New Delhi and virtual space
Proposals by: 30.11.2023

The IISECS invites papers for the Annual Conference to be held in hybrid mode at the Centre for English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. The theme for the conference is „Morality, Conduct and Etiquette in the Long Eighteenth Century“. IISECS invites abstracts that may be aligned to (but not limited to) the following themes pertaining to the long 18th century across India and beyond:

  1. Political and philosophical genealogies of morality
  2. Textual and cultural artefacts: conduct books, memoirs, household manuals, periodical press, political-treatises, scriptures, folk literatures, and others
  3. Sensory registers of morality: the visual, oral and tactile
  4. Formation of Self and Other: identity-formation, and social-hierarchies (gender, class, caste, race, etc.)
  5. Cultural-mannerisms, expressions of courtesy, manners and conduct
  6. Institutional formations: Marriage, regulation of sexuality and code of family honour
  7. Ethico-legal structures, constitution and disciplining of civil society
  8. Educational and religious institutions of moral conduct
  9. Professional etiquettes, commercial conduct and ethics of exchange
  10. The Empire and its civilizing regimes
  11. Memory and memorialization of morality
  12. Deviant paradigms: resistance, critique and emergent immoralities

Keynote: Geraldine Forbes, Professor Emeritus at State Univ. of New York at Oswego

Selected papers will be published.

All interested are welcome to send in a brief abstract (300 words) and a bio note (50 words) latest by 30 Nov 2023 to iisecs.india@gmail.com.

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Contact Information: Sutapa Dutta, Professor, Dep. of English, Gargi College, Univ. of Delhi; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London; Fellow (2018-2020), Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla; President, India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS)

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