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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 51| June 2001
The XIth
David Nichol Smith Conference
The Exotic During the Long Eighteenth Century (16601830)
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Professor Harriet
Guest, University of York, United |
Greg Dening,
Professor Emeritus, University of |
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The National Library hosted the eleventh David Nichol Smith Conference on the 2628 March 2001, jointly convened by the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University and the National Library. The David Nichol Smith Conference is held every four years and commemorates the National Librarys collection of eighteenth-century materials. This years conference explored the theme of the exotic as it refers to something foreign or strange as well as its non-geographical origins. With over 90 international and Australian delegates at the conference, speakers included Greg Dening, Harriet Guest, Christa Knellwolf, Jonathan Lamb, Iain McCalman, Robert Maccubbin, and Marta Petrusewicz. |
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| Professor Marta Petrusewicz, City University of New York, USA delivers the Plenary: Localising Process and Taming the Native | Professor
Robert Maccubbin, College of William and Mary, USA |
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Conference
conveners: Professor Iain McCalman, |
Members of the conference audience |
Please address any comments and enquiries to The Editor, Gateways: dthomas@nla.gov.au