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>From: Lori Branch <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Sex, Secularism & Enlightenment (9/15/05; ASECS, 3/30/06-4/2/06)
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>American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
>37th Annual Meeting
>Montreal, Quebec, March 30-April 2, 2006
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>Session Title: "Sex, Secularism and Enlightenment"
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>In <Formations of the Secular>, Talal Asad has described secularism as a
>political ideology that took shape in the nineteenth century, based on the
>concept of "the secular" that coalesced in early modernity and the
>eighteenth century.  What role did sex and gender play in this
>conceptualization of the secular, in religious and non-religious texts and
>identities?  What are the sexualized components of a secular identity or
>subjectivity?  How do they impact the transformation of religious
>identities in the period?
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>Obvious canonical figures for consideration might include Shaftesbury,
>Richardson, Hume, Sade and Byron, but papers from more unexpected sources
>and from all disciplines and approaches in the long eighteenth century are
>welcome: literature, art history, moral philosophy, opera, state and
>radical religion, etc.  Please send your 350-word proposal by Sept. 15 in
>the body of an e-mail to
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>Professor Lori Branch
>The University of Iowa
>Department of English
>308 English-Philosophy Bldg.
>Iowa City, IA 52242  USA

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