Daily Archives: 27 February 2015

New Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The newly formed Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS) exists to promote the study of the culture and history of the long eighteenth century within Australia and New Zealand. The Society encourages research in eighteenth-century studies on a broad interdisciplinary basis—its members work in fields including art history, history, literature, philosophy, bibliography, and the history and philosophy of science. It is an affiliate of ISECS, the International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Established in December 2014, the Society draws on a distinguished history of eighteenth-century scholarship in Australia and New Zealand. It advances the exchange of information and ideas among researchers engaged in eighteenth-century studies through various activities and events, including the 3-4 yearly David Nichol Smith Seminar.

For more information about the Society, membership, and related events, please visit the ANZSECS website: http://anzsecs.com

Special Issue of JEMS: The Care of the Self in Early Modern Philosophy and Science – Call For Papers

The Journal of Early Modern Studies is pleased to invite contributions to its fall 2015 special issue on ‘The Care of the Self in Early Modern Philosophy and Science’ (editor Sorana Corneanu).

The practice of early modern philosophy and science involved an important measure of concern with the care of the self. The pursuit of the theoretical or the experimental components of the various philosophies and sciences from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries were often understood to be grounded in and/or to contribute to the good constitution or moulding of their practitioners. The ways in which this was so are still in need of detailed investigation. We invite contributions that address this historiographic line of inquiry and pay focused attention to relevant authors and themes. Among the latter, we propose: the connections between regimens of the self, whether cognitive, affective or corporeal, and the rationales, goals and methods of the practice of the various philosophies and sciences; the interplay between the individual and the communal in such care of the self; the conceptualization of bodies, minds and their relation presupposed or shaped by such concerns; notions of self emerging out of this picture.

JEMS is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to explorations of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe. It is edited by the “Foundations of Modern Thought” Research Centre, University of Bucharest, and published and distributed by Zeta Books. For further information on JEMS and its previous issues, please visit www.zetabooks.com/journals/journal-of-early-modern-studies.html.

Please send your contributions by the 1 April 2015 to jems@zetabooks.com.