16th David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies: Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment (DNS 2017)

Especially relevant topics include:

• Enlightenment and religion, science, empire or gender

• Popular, moderate and radical enlightenments

• Regional, national and global enlightenments

• Climate, the environment and the Anthropocene

• Emotion, sentimentalism and the language of feeling

• Theories of human nature and civil society

• Improvement and social utility

• Travel, exploration and discovery

• Trade and commerce

• Philanthropy and the culture of moral/social reform

• Spaces of sociability such as clubs, salons, coffeehouses and taverns

• Urban and rural spaces

• Ideas of landscape and forms of land use

• Nature in art, literature and music

• Natural history, natural philosophy, natural law and natural theology

• Nature in economic and political writing

• Nature, medicine, sexuality and the body

• Botany, geology and geography

• Representations and uses of animals

• Work, leisure, technology and industrialisation