The Division on Seventeenth-Century French Literature of the MLA announces its Calls for Papers for 3 sessions, including a joint round table with the Division on Sixteenth-Century French Literature:
The 2012 MLA will be in Seattle from January 5-8.
The Limits of the Human: Papers that address any of the following: the status of animals; relations between animals and humans; theriophilist philosophies; the ramifications of Descartes' bête-machine; humans and environment. 250-word abstracts by March 15, 2011 to Lewis Seifert (lewis_seifert@brown.edu)
Invisibility: Invisibility haunts this very visual period in France. A panel on invisibility and the invisible in any and all of its elusive manifestations: philosophical, social, aesthetic, literary, scientific, scholarly. 250-word abstracts by March 15, 2011 to Claire Goldstein (goldstc@muohio.edu)
What is the Early Modern?
(Collaborative roundtable with the Division on Sixteenth-Century French
Literature) Contributors will describe how the early modern is defined/redefined through current teaching and research practices. 100-word abstracts by March 15, 2011 to Virginia Krause (virginia_krause@brown.edu) or Ellen McClure (ellenmc@uic.edu)
