Other Conferences, Rousseau Association for study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Geneva has announced a multidisciplinary, international celebration of the tricentennial of Rousseau’s birth called 2012 Rousseau for All. Full information and a call for projects can be found at http://www.ville-ge.ch/culture/rousseau/.

CALL FOR ARTICLES: “The Libretto as Enlightenment Text”

Seeking articles (5000 – 7000 words) that explore the libretto’s transformation as text during the Enlightenment delineating Italian from French cultural ideals, and bringing into play theories of language and of cultural literacy. Articles that explore literary, aesthetic, or socio-political themes are of interest and may include, but are not limited to the following :

- reformulation of opera
- gender roles and the writing of libretti
- the philosophes
- readership and libretti
- musical mimesis and the libretto
- restyled libretti
- the libretto as mise-en-abîme of linguistic liberation

This study explores and interrogates the libretto’s role as revolutionary genre during the Enlightenment and mise en abime of linguistic liberation, while focusing on specific ways its evolution reflected Enlightenment thought on the nature of music, text, and the individual. Explorations of topics addressing readership and resultant theoretical strategies challenging conventional concepts of representation are welcome. Please send abstract directly to the following by October 1, 2009. Completed manuscript by May 1, 2010

Pamela Gay-White
Associate Professor of French
Alabama State University
pdgaywhite@gmail.com or pgay@alasu.edu

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The Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas at the University of Aarhus, Denmark held an international conference on Rousseau and Revolution, March 13 – 15, 2009. Further information can be found in the full call for papers.

The Germaine de Staël Society for Revolutionary and Romantic Studies held an international symposium May 8-10, 2009 at Washington University in St. Louis. Further information can be found in the full call for papers.