Sessions proposed so far (you can still organize a session by contacting interested colleagues):
"The Eighteenth Century on the Internet", proposed by John Rempel, Univ. of Manitoba, English, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2/B: 204-474-9678/H: 204-261-9952/fax: 204-275-1735/ e-mail: jrempel@cc.umanitoba.ca
"Time and Narratives of National History", proposed by Nergis Canefe, York University, Department of Social and Political Thought, Toronto/1083St Clarens Avenue, Toronto, M6H 3W8/tel-fax: 416-656-4554/E-mail:NGUNLUK@YORKU.CA
"Jane Austen in our Time" proposed by Barbara Seeber, University of Prince Edward Island, Dpt of English, Charlottetown, PEI, C1A 4P3/ tel.902-566-0478/fax: 902-566-0363/e-mail: bseeber@upei.ca
"Time and History in the Eighteenth Century Garden", proposed by Lisa Zeitz, University of Western Ontario, Dpt of English, London, N6A 3K7/tel. 519-679-2111-5869/fax: 519-661-3776/e-mail:lzeitz@julian.uwo.ca
I would hope that papers on gardens in both France and England might be accomodated in this session. While my own current work on the most famous English landscape garden of the Eighteenth century --Stowe-- lies behind this proposed session, I would also want to include papers on literary representations of gardens (in either poetry of prose). For example, how does the myth of Eden contribute to representations of an idealized past (or a world transcending time) and/or an idealized future? How are the inescapable passage of tiem, and the themes of change and growth treated in real and imaginary garden spaces? What about the way in which history is represented in "national" gardens? These are some of the issues that might be addressed in papers submitted to this sessions.
"Absolute Time versus Relative Time in the XVIIIth Century", proposed by Robert Walters, University of Western Ontario, Dpt of French, London, N6A 3K7.
"La representation du temps chez Rousseau", proposed by Antoine Sassine, Mount Royal College/e-mail: ASASSINE@MtRoyal.AB.CA
"The Consumption of Time and theProduction of Distance: Long Distance Travel, Long-Term Enterprises, and the Perception of Duration" by Kevin L. Cope, Department of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, U. S. A., telephone and answering machine 504-388-2864, FAX 504-388-4129, e-mail 72310.3204@compuserve.com; and Brigitte Glaser, Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett, D-85072 Eichstaett, Germany, telephone 011-49-8421-931647, FAX 49-8421-931797, e-mail: sla026@eo-nwfs-1.ku-eichstaett.de
This panel would allow participants to explore simultaneously a of frequently probed but seldom interrelated issues: the or "cognitive" encounter with time in a post-, reified-time environment; the experience of unavailable, long-term yet not permanent conditions activities such as sea voyages, exiles, exploratory journeys, and tourism on a grand scale or extended schedule; therepresentation of such time-extended events in literature and thearts; the relation between the consumption of time and consumption generally; incongruities of reading, travelling, andexperiential-cognitive time; feats of durability and other of the term-limits of individual humans; about ultra-long-term or preternaturally distantexploits such as space or time travel; and many other matters to that new range of Enlightenment experience, the long-term.
"Le temps et le voyage au XVIIIe siecle/Time and Travel in the XVIIIth Century", proposed by Christine Roulston, UWO, French, London, N6A 3K7/ tel. 519-661-2163/fax: 519-661-3470/E-mail: croulsto@julian.uwo.ca
"Temps et utopie au XVIIIe siecle/Time and Utopia in the XVIIIth Century", proposed by Helen Heller, Brescia College, Dpt of French, UWO, London/tel. 519-432-8353 (277)/fax: 519-679-6489
"Musique et temporalite au XVIIIe siecle/Music and Temporality in the XVIIIth Century", proposed by Lane Heller, UWO, French, London, N6A 3K7/ tel. 519-661-2163/fax: 519-661-3470
"Le XVIIIe siecle vu par la posterite/The Posterity of the Eighteenth Century", proposed by Jean-Yves Dupraz, UWO, French, London, N6A 3K7/ tel. 519-661-2163/fax: 519-661-3470/ e-mail: artjyd@uwoadmin.uwo.ca