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• Titolo:
  CfP - JSMC 2024 "The Scottish Enlightenment"
• Paese:
  United States
• Scadenza:
  03-05-2024 - Ore 23:59
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  Conference Theme: “The Scottish Enlightenment" 

  Date: Saturday, 24 August

  Location: Crescent Shriners, 700 Highland Dr, Westampton, NJ 08060

  Submission via Email: john.skene.masonic.conference@gmail.com

  Submission Timeline: due by 3 May

  Call for Papers: John Skene, the conference’s namesake and first known Freemason in the New World, arrived at a time of great intellectual change. The 2024 JSMC theme is “The Scottish Enlightenment” and seeks to investigate the links between the Scottish Enlightenment, the Atlantic World, the American Revolution, and the Enlightenment more broadly. With the 1707 Acts of Union Scottish elites followed the power to London, leaving space for the emerging middle class to take the cultural, political, and social reigns. The intellectual movement that resulted included key concepts that would come to have an underappreciated impact on the modern world. Key to understanding this is the concurrent growth of Freemasonry, emerging in 1717 as English Freemasons established the first Grand Lodge. 
  

  Our annual conference seeks to explore the ways in which the Enlightenment in Scotland brought new ideas to the forefront and expanded the movement more broadly. Freemasonry’s concurrent expansion provided a network that shared a common cultural and intellectual lineage. How did these two movements interact? How did the Enlightenment in Scotland spread during the Scottish diaspora? And how did Freemasonry draw from Scottish intellectual roots to become a center of cosmopolitan colonial life in British North America? Specifically we are looking for proposals that will fit into panels on “Scottish Enlightenment,” “The Scottish Enlightenment in America,” and “The Enlightenment in America.” With this broad theme we hope to explore the connections between the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, and the Scottish Enlightenment as a specific movement spread by the Scottish diaspora. While papers dealing directly with Freemasonry are encouraged, the committee is seeking out speakers on broad topics of the Enlightenment in these contexts, particularly if the papers touch on prominent Masons/Masonic Lodges/networks. 

  *Papers may be published in a possible joint volume of conference transactions.

  The committee is looking for broad/introductory research on the following areas: Scottish Enlightenment, the Scottish Enlightenment in America, New Jersey and the Enlightenment.

  Conference Mission: The John Skene Masonic Conference is an annual event crossover conversation between Masons and those who study our gentle craft. Held in commemoration of John Skene, the first known Freemason in the New World, who settled in West Jersey at the end of the seventeenth century. Along with a memorial held at Peachfield, his plantation home outside Burlington, NJ, the conference aims to serve as an annual venue for research and conversation on the broader historical role Freemasonry has played within the New Jersey, colonial, American, and Atlantic contexts. 

  Contact Email

  john.skene.masonic.conference@gmail.com