Panel: Chronologies, Calendars, Old-Style/New Style, and Methods of Time-Keeping in Early America
Call for Papers for a Panel on Chronologies, Calendars, Old-Style/New Style, and Methods of Time-Keeping in Early America at the of the Society of Early Americanists
8th Biennial Conference
February 28-March 2, 2013 Savannah, Georgia
Panel organizer: Reiner Smolinski, Georgia State University rsmolinski@gsu.edu
Efforts to harmonize ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and Hebrew calendars proved troublesome to many early modern scholars who sought to reconcile "pagan" timetables with James Ussher's Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650). Famously, Ussher had dated the creation of the universe (Gen. 1:1) and the beginning of time to "the entrance of the night preceding the twenty third day of Octob. in the year of the Julian Calendar, 710" i.e., October 23, 4004 BCE (Annals [1658], p. 1). Although Ussher's chronology became an integral part of several editions of the KJV until the end of the 19th century, such deterministic chronologies came increasingly under pressure in the 16th through the early 19th centuries, when missionary accounts from China, archaeological discoveries in the Fertile Crescent, Native American accounts, geological studies of the fossils, and Enlightenment skepticism challenged the prevailing notions of the beginning of time. We welcome proposals that explore any aspect of time-keeping (including clock-making), efforts to accommodate the Mosaic hexaemeron, reconsiderations of the geological record, or philosophical re-definitions of the concepts of time and eternity in early America.
Please send your 300-word abstract to Reiner Smolinski, Dept. of English, Georgia State University, Box 3970, Atlanta, GA 30302-3970, or to rsmolinski@gsu.edu by Friday, September 7, 2012.
http://www.cla.auburn.edu/sea/call-for-panelspapers/open-panels/chronologies-calendars-old-style-new-style/
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Panel: On Early American Technologies
Call for Papers for a Panel on Early American Technologies at the of the Society of Early Americanists
8th Biennial Conference
February 28-March 2, 2013 Savannah, Georgia
Panel organizers:
Matthew H. Fisk, University of California at Santa Barbara mhfisk@umail.ucsb.edu
Michele Speitz, University of Colorado at Boulder (Furman University as of AY 2012-13) speitz@colorado.edu
Cognitive theorist Andy Clark writes that human beings “are thinking beings whose nature … is not accidentally but profoundly and continuously informed by our existence as physically embodied, and as socially and technologically embedded organisms.” Proceeding from a similar hypothesis, this panel seeks papers on the technological artifact and/or technologies broadly conceived and the early-American world, 1500 to 1820. How did early American devices and instruments operate as physical forms of knowledge? In what ways did early American technologies enable and limit forms of intellectual and social order? Potential topics range from traditionally-defined technologies in the service of science and engineering, manufacturing, agriculture, urban planning, and print culture, to domestic technologies, material culture, and design. In particular, we invite submissions that address the problematics of embodiment, epistemology, aesthetics, or temporality as they relate to early American technologies.
We look forward to hearing from colleagues working in all geographies of the Atlantic and Pacific regions, including the United States, British North America, French North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and Western Africa. We welcome a broad range of papers that engage any of the following topics: history of science and technology (including new economic criticism); literature and science; literature and the environment; art and architecture; print culture; history of design; urban studies.
Please send your 250-300 word abstract and C.V. (in PDF format if possible) to Matthew H. Fisk mhfisk@umail.ucsb.edu and Michele Speitz michele.speitz@gmail.com by Friday, September 7, 2012. |
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