Frans De Bruyn, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest funding

Interdisciplinary conference in eighteenth-century studies: the historical and cultural impact of the seven-years' war
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$21,773
The interrelation of literary and scientific genres of writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
SSHRC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$67,732

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Interdisciplinary conference in eighteenth-century studies: the historical and cultural impact of the seven-years' war

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: De Bruyn, Frans

Keywords: eighteenth-century studies; seven years' war; empire; warfare; globalization; Anglo-French rivalry; cosmoplitanism

$21,773

The interrelation of literary and scientific genres of writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: De Bruyn, Frans

Keywords: literary genre; georgic poetry; agricultural history; literature and science and technology; eighteenth-century poetry

$67,732

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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