Thursday, January 5, 2012: 3:20 PM
Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
"Digging into the Enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters" seeks to recover the scholarly communities and networks of knowledge between ca. 1500-1800 through an exploration of empirical data gleaned from correspondences, publications, and travel records, combined with the interpretive expertise of historians and literary scholars.