Inquiry, Pedagogy, Exploration: Studying the Eighteenth Century
NEASECS 2010 - Buffalo, New York
Thursday, Friday, Saturday - 21-23 October 2010
Hyatt Regency Buffalo
Two Fountain Plaza
Buffalo, NY 14202
In 2010 the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will be held in Buffalo, NY. The conference is hosted jointly by two State University of New York institutions: Buffalo State College and the University at Buffalo.
Buffalo is a center of architectural tourism and culinary innovation. The city boasts signature buildings by America's greatest architects--Frank Lloyd Wright, H. H. Richardson, and Louis Sullivan--and the famous Olmstead Parks. On the Buffalo State College campus, the new Burchfield Penney Art Center faces the world-renowned Albright Knox Art Gallery across Elmwood Avenue, named one of “America's 10 Greatest Neighborhoods” in 2007.
And yes, Buffalo invented Buffalo wings. We eat them unironically.
Highlights of the conference will include:
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a workshop on eighteenth-century studies for local secondary school teachers
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a trip to Old Fort Niagara. Built in 1726, it is the oldest continually occupied military site in North America, held successively by the French, the British and the United States.
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a visit to the Western New York Book Arts Collective
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a concert of eighteenth-century music
Click on the sidebar link for the Call for papers. Proposals for panels should be emailed by 1 April, and proposals for papers will be due by 15 May.
For information on NEASECS 2010, please contact Lisa Berglund at berglul@buffalostate.edu.
NEASECS 2010 conference committee:
Buffalo State College: Lisa Berglund (chair), Mark Fulk & Andrew Nichols
University at Buffalo: Ruth Mack, Erik Seeman & Liana Vardi
Canisius College: Richard A. Bailey & Amy Wolf
- *Illustration:
- Noah Webster's "Blueback" American Speller, 5th ed. (1809).
- Kempke-Root Collection, E.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State College