During the years 1660–1900, cultural production achieved unprecedented heterogeneity throughout Britain, its colonial possessions, and Western Europe. The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop will be to interrogate the tensions between this diversified production and the unifying narrative of modernity often imposed on this two hundred and forty year span. This year we continue to be particularly interested in questions concerning "the aesthetic," a field of philosophical, cultural, and historical inquiry first defined as such during the period, which came, in ways still incompletely understood, to reorganize—and in some cases to found— Western discourses surrounding cultural production. The workshop welcomes participants and presenters from any and all fields. Although students of English, American, and Western European literatures have traditionally formed the core of our attendance, we enthusiastically invite scholars from other areas of inquiry as well: students of non-Western cultural production, art history, philosophy, the history of science, law, and the social sciences.