PROGRAM
THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Registration
Centre Sheraton
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Guest Lecture
McLennan Library, McGill University
DETAILED SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Exhibit launch featuring the “Lambert-David Voltaire Manuscript Collection”, with a special guest lecture by Nicholas Cronk
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Vernissage, Rare Books and Special Collections,
McLennan Library 4th floor
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Lecture
Ballroom, Faculty Club, McGill University, 3450 McTavish St.
THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Registration & Book Exhibits
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
SESSION 1 (seminars 1A-1F)
11:00 – 12:30 p.m.
CSECS PLENARY ADDRESS
Alice Te Punga Somerville (University of British Columbia)
Lunch 12:30 – 2 p.m.
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
SESSION 2 (seminars 2A-2F)
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
SESSION 3 (seminars 3A-3F)
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
GALE-CENGAGE Reception
DETAILED SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
SESSION 1
1A. Portraits in Language
Chair: TBD
- Todd Larkin (Montana State University), “L’intermédiaire averti et avisé: Dumont’s Miniature of Marie-Antoinette (1777), the Iconography of Letter Writing, and the Strategic Turn of Phrase”
- Dana Mitchell (Carleton), “Autobiography and Audience in Ann Thicknesse’s The School for Fashion”
- Allison Muri (University of Saskatchewan), “A Tour Through Edmund Curll’s Literatory: ‘The Art and Mystery of Printing Emblematically Displayed’ in The Grub-street Journal (1732)
1B. Queer and Trans Lives
Chair: Danielle Bobker (Concordia University)
- Alex Wagstaffe (McMaster University), “Queering Christabel: Gender, Nature, and the Gothic”
- Marlis Schweitzer (York University), “‘Frederick disguised as a French Girl’: On the pleasures and possibilities of playing with paper dolls”
- Ula Lukszo Klein (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), “Queer and Trans Celebrity Lives”
1C. Disability, Life, Voice
Chair: Helen Deutsch (UCLA)
- Paul Kelleher (Emory University), “‘[T]his dire change, / Hateful to utter’: Matter, Morality, and Disability in Paradise Lost”
- Lesley Thulin (UCLA), “Trauma, Disability, and the Fall from the Cobb”
1D. Travel and Others
Chair: Charlee Bezilla (George Washington University)
- Caitlin Sturrock (University of Bristol), “Veiled Sexualities, Marked Disabilities, and Voiceless Women: The Veil in Denis Diderot’s Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (1796)”
- Laura Burke (Independent Scholar), “Gulliver the Yahoo: Destabilizing European Identity through the Great Ape”
- Catherine Nygren (McGill University), “Discovering a Genre: Travel Writing and Predictive Modelling”
1E. Vie de la nature, vie de l’esprit: recherches sur la philosophie spéculative à l’Académie de Berlin I
« Perspectives métaphysiques et cosmologiques»
Chair : Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (Université d’Ottawa)
- François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal), “L’immortalité des vivants dans le monde des invisibles : de Bonnet à Béguelin”
- Christian Leduc (Université de Montréal), “Téléologie et ordre du cosmos chez Lambert”
- Stefanie Buchenau (Université de Paris 8 – Vincennes), “Une cosmogonie philosophique des Lumières. Les Lettres cosmologiques de Lambert”
1F. Diversité des formes de vie et nouvelles approches des Lumières I
Chair : Joël Castonguay-Bélanger
- Flora Amann (Université Jean Monnet / BnF), “Faut-il déboulonner la statue de Condillac ? Être spécialiste des Lumières dans le champ des Disability Studies”
- Jean-Luc Guichet (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), “Formes de vie animales et humaines en contrepoint dix-huitiémiste (Diderot, Condillac…)”
- Geneviève Boucher (Université d’Ottawa), “Présences de Derrida dans les ‘nouvelles’ approches des Lumières : relectures et réappropriations ”
BREAK 10:30 – 11 a.m.
THURSDAY, 11:00 – 12:30 p.m.
CSECS PLENARY ADDRESS
Alice Te Punga Somerville (University of British Columbia)
“Aute life: Indigenous living, Indigenous dyeing”
How can, and do, Indigenous thinkers and artists reckon with the simultaneous horrors and vibrancy of the long eighteenth century? Aute is the NZ Māori name for a kind of cloth created from the paper mulberry plant across the Pacific region that is more widely known (and distributed, including in the form of sample books) as tapa. The inner bark of the plant is treated in a wide range of specific ways in order to produce a multi-use material that is supple, practical, beautiful and inextricable from specific place. In this talk I will think about aute as material and as metaphor in relation to the stakes of the eighteenth century for Indigenous scholars, artists and communities. Drawing on a wide range of Indigenous scholarship and cultural practices, I will propose that aute itself can provide a frame by which we can acknowledge, grieve and become enraged by Indigenous dying – the violence, the losses, the disease, the ruptures, the murders, the thefts – of the eighteenth century, while also holding critical and cultural space for Indigenous dyeing: creativity, expertise, innovation, decoration, beauty, communication, resilience, expression, revitalization, sovereignty. What forms of Indigenous connection are traced, produced and affirmed in and about the period? Ultimately, what critical, cultural and institutional work do Indigenous people undertake when engaging the material of our respective communities as ‘thing’ and as metaphor, and what critical possibilities become visible when we collectively notice, train, engage and promote Indigenous scholarly work?
LUNCH 12:30 – 2 p.m.
THURSDAY, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
SESSION 2
2A. Perambulation and Transportation
Chair: Alex Wetmore (University of the Fraser Valley)
- Sara Landreth (University of Ottawa), “A Wanton (Dis)Regard for Life: Vehicle ItNarrators from 1780 – 1993”
- David Hou (McMaster University), “‘Neither Ship, Ketch, Gally, Galliot, or like any thing that we had ever seen before:’ Identifying ships and ship as identity in Singleton”
- Rachel Carnell (Cleveland State University), “Women Walking: From Haywood to Austen”
2B. Botany in the New World
Chair: TBD
- Peter Walmsley (McMaster University), “Jamaican Flora and the Politics of Abolition in Matthew Lewis’s Journal”
- Saar Shahar (University of Southern California), “Sex, Botany and Satire: Joseph Banks in John Scott’s Oberea Cycle”
- Emma Lansdowne (McMaster University), “‘Here nobody appears to work at all’: Enslaved Labour and Planter Anxiety in the Garden Geographies of West Indian Plantations”
2C. Living Forms in/of Literary History
Chair: Terry F. Robinson (University of Toronto)
- Julie Murray (Carleton University), “Towards a Literary History of Women-asIndex”
- Helen Deutsch (UCLA), “Hearing a Voice, Being A Book: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said and the Embodiment of Literature”
- Wendy Ann Lee (NYU), “Speaking of Dying in Persuasion”
2D. Vitalismes
Chair: Jean-Luc Guichet (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
- Nan Lin (Université Paris Nanterre), “Le mode de vie individuel dans la philosophie d’Anne Conway”
- Clara Castro (Université Pontificale Catholique de Rio de Janeiro), “Sensibilité et sentiment chez Théophile de Bordeu”
2E. Matters and Materials of Political Life: Shaping Jacobitism, 1688-1820 (Roundtable)
Moderator: Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University)
- Betty Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University)
- Pam Perkins (University of Manitoba)
- Shauna Irani (Simon Fraser University)
- Julianna Wagar (Simon Fraser University)
- Emma Trotter (Simon Fraser University)
2F. Vie de la nature, vie de l’esprit: recherches sur la philosophie spéculative à l’Académie de Berlin II
« Perspectives psychologiques et historiques »
Chair: Daniel Dumouchel (Université de Montréal)
- Nigel DeSouza (Université d’Ottawa), “La philosophie de la vie de Herder : autour du concours de l’Académie sur les deux facultés de l’âme (1773-1775)”
- Angela Ferraro (Université Laval), “La vie de l’esprit et ses replis : les idées obscures à l’Académie de Berlin”
- Alberto Luis Lopez (Université d’Ottawa), “The Representation of the Aztecs at the Berlin Academy of Sciences and Belles-Lettres”
BREAK 3:30 – 4 p.m.
THURSDAY, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
SESSION 3
3A. Plaisir des sens et appréciation esthétique
Chair : Anne Sechin (Université de Saint-Boniface)
- Isabelle Pichet (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), “L’absence d’un sens peut-elle exacerber le plaisir des autres sens?”
- Jean-Christophe Abramovici (Sorbonne Université), “Retour sur le ‘goût’ de Diderot”
- Mathilde Vallières (Sorbonne Université, McGill), “La Font de Saint-Yenne et le plaisir de voir”
3B. Liveness and the Eighteenth-Century Stage
Chair: Daniel O’Quinn (University of Guelph)
- Jean Marsden (University of Connecticut), “Performance in the Age of Theatre Reviews”
- Terry F. Robinson (University of Toronto), “Liveness in 18th-Century Theatrical Print Culture”
- Leslie Ritchie (Queen’s University), “The Play that Wouldn’t Die: Sir Thomas Over bury in the Eighteenth Century”
3C. Circulating Writing and Print
Chair: Mathieu Bouchard (John Abbott College)
- Betty Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University), “Materializing a Life: The Manuscript Poetry Miscellany”
- Adam Budd (University of Edinburgh), “Andrew Millar and Radical Theology; Or, How to Lose Money through Conscientious Publication”
- Kate Moffat (Simon Fraser University), “Mapping Alice Reilly (Dublin Printer-Publisher 1741-67)”
3D. Sentiment, Affect, and Proto-Psychology
Chair: Heather Meek (Université de Montréal)
- Philip Trotter (University of Toronto), “Style, Sentiment, and the Sublime: Shaftesbury’s ‘Rhapsodical Philosophy’”
- Ryan Pepper (University of Ottawa), “The Sentimental Mark: Thoughts Towards an Affective Punctuation”
- Alex Wetmore (University of the Fraser Valley), “Springs of Emotion: Ecological and Technological Poetics of Sensibility”
- Zubin Meer (York University), “Between Science and Ideology: William Richardson’s Shakespearean Character Criticism, ‘Psychology,’ and the Scottish ‘Science of Man’”
3E. Periodicals Then and Now (Roundtable)
Moderator: David Alff (SUNY-Buffalo)
- Crystal Lake (Wright State)
- Sarah Tindall Kareem (UCLA)
- Manushag Powell (Purdue University)
- Hannah Hudson (Suffolk University)
3F. Vie de la nature, vie de l’esprit : recherches sur la philosophie spéculative à l’Académie de Berlin III
« Les débats sur l’origine du langage »
Chair: Nigel DeSouza (Université d’Ottawa)
- Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (Université d’Ottawa), “Expression et réflexion de Paris à Berlin: Herder et la philosophie française du langage”
- Thierry Côté (Université de Montréal), “L’hypothèse continuiste dans le concours de 1771 sur l’origine des langues”
- Daniel Dumouchel (Université de Montréal), “J. G. Sulzer sur l’origine du langage”
THURSDAY, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
GALE-CENGAGE Reception
THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Registration & Book Exhibits
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
SESSION 4 (seminars 4A-4F)
11:00 – 12:30 p.m.
CSECS PLENARY ADDRESS
Ramesh Mallipeddi (University of British Columbia)
Lunch 12:30 – 2 p.m.
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
SESSION 5 (seminars 5A-5F)
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
SESSION 6 (seminars 6A-6F)
5:30-6:30
Anders Muskens, Recital: “Night Thoughts” (Edward Young)
5 – 7 p.m.
Walking Tour of Old Montreal
7:30 p.m.
Graduate Student Social
DETAILED SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, 9:00 -10:30 a.m.
SESSION 4
4A. Constructing Modernity Through the Past: the 18th Century on Screen
Chair: Natalia Vesselova
- Natalia Vesselova (University of Ottawa), “‘…Naturally, no Russian really likes a foreigner’: The 18th Century in Russian Film and the Xenophobic Mentality of Today”
- Doe Polanz (James Madison University), “A ‘feminist icon’? Marie Antoinette’s late reinvention on screen (2022)”
- Guy Spielmann (Georgetown University), “Anatomy of the 18th-century Novel through its Cinematic Avatars: A Case for Reverse Criticism”
- Kathryn Ready (University of Winnipeg), ‘“It’s a Pretty Way to Start a Novel’: Fire Island (2022)’s Intertextual Dialogue with Jane Austen, Amy Heckerling, and Alice Munro”
4B. Make Live and Let Die: Empire, Colonialism, and Biopolitics
Chair: Nevena Martinović (Queen’s University)
- Daniel O’Quinn (University of Guelph), “Biopolitics and Counter-insurgency at Scale: Drawing the St. Lawrence in 1761”
- Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia), “‘A Nursery for Seamen’: John Lockman, the Herring Poet, and coastal bio-poetics”
- David Alff (SUNY-Buffalo), “The Unbuilt Infrastructure of Churchways”
4C. Stage Comedy
Chair: Brian Corman (University of Toronto)
- Tanya Marie Caldwell (Georgia State University), “Female Friendship and the Comic Muse: British Thalias in the Late Eighteenth Century”
- Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (University of Edinburgh), “A Comic Death: Steele’s The Funeral (1701) and Sentimental Reform”
- Tara Ghoshal Wallace (The George Washington University), “The Female Body as Body Politic in Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife”
4D. Gothic
Chair: TBD
- Adrian Knapp (St. Mary’s University), “‘a life of comfortless voluptuousness’: Vice and Virtue in John Moore’s Zeluco”
- Tina Do (Simon Fraser University), “Biloquizing Religion in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland”
- Colin Dignam (York University), “The Ethics of the Giaour: Mentors and Monsters in Beckford’s Vathek”
- Matthew Risling (St Mary’s University), “‘But It Is Also Hell’: Vathek and the Paradox of Horror”
4E. Narrative Interruptions
Chair: Julie Murray (Carleton University)
- Jennifer Nault (Université de Montréal), “The Black Page of Birth in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”
- Ala Alryyes (Queen’s College), “Life, Death, and Error in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy”
- Katherine Charles (Washington College), “Disposable Narratives and why they might (sometimes) matter”
4F. Diversité des formes de vie et nouvelles approches des Lumières II
Chair: Flora Amann (Université Jean Monnet / BnF)
- Armelle Saint-Martin (Université du Manitoba), “Esclavage et racisme dans le Nouveau Voyage aux îles d´Amérique”
- Philippe Robichaud (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), “Les vies de la musique et ‘l’universalisme latéral’ des Lumières : le cas de la Chanson nègre”
- Swann Paradis (Collège universitaire Glendon, York University), “Le singe à Buffon”
- Joël Castonguay-Bélanger (Université de Colombie-Britannique), “Déboulonner Buffon? Étudier l’histoire naturelle des Lumières aujourd’hui”
BREAK 10:30 – 11 a.m.
FRIDAY, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
CSECS PLENARY ADDRESS
Ramesh Mallipeddi (University of British Columbia)
“The Hoe and the Plow: Labor, Race, and Agrarian Technology in the Caribbean”
Brought into existence by the intercontinental flow of capital, people, and commodities, plantation colonies in the Caribbean were, in C.L.R. James’s well-known phrase, “the advanced front of modern capitalism.” Yet agrarian technology in the Caribbean—from the establishment of sugar colonies in the 1650s until emancipation in 1838—remained archaic. The principal instruments of plantation husbandry were the hoe, axe, bill, and cutlass. While farmers in Europe and North America universally adopted the animal-drawn plough to open land, Caribbean planters continued to rely on hand-held hoes. Notwithstanding the call of reformist planters to use the animal-drawn plough as a laborsaving mechanism, this was rarely adopted. The preferred practice to open land throughout the period of slavery was cane-holing, a method of digging a series of holes with hoes for inserting the cuttings of old cane stalks. Cane-holing and hoeing were widely viewed by the planters themselves as the most arduous and exacting tasks in the crop cycle. Yet these methods were also regarded as ecologically beneficial inasmuch as holing, as opposed to plowing, did not cause significant soil erosion. My talk focuses on a set of literary and extra-literary sources—ranging from Samuel Martin’s An Essay on Plantership (1760), James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane (1764), Edward Long’s History of Jamaica (1774), Matthew Lewis’s Journal of A West India Proprietor (1818; pub. 1838), and the testimonies generated by the House of Commons (1790-1838)—to investigate why the planter class failed or refused to make a single technical labor-saving innovation for over two centuries. In seeking to extend the productive life of their lands, I suggest, the planters sacrificed the lives of their laborers; to preserve their soils, they made slave lives perishable. Indeed, reflections on and decisions related to technological innovation and agrarian reform during this period were profoundly shaped by tropical Caribbean landscapes and laboring black bodies.
LUNCH 12:30 – 2 p.m.
FRIDAY, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
SESSION 5
5A. Créatures monstrueuses à l’épreuve des Lumières (Bilingual Panel)
Chair : Guy Spielmann (Georgetown University)
- Sébastien Côté (Université Carleton), “‘Les vices qui nous infectent sont des monstres qui leur sont inconnus’ : des figures autochtones à la conquête du théâtre français (1720-1786)”
- Nicholas Dion (Université de Sherbrooke), “Suaires, sépulcres et superstitions : les écueils de la comparaison dans le Traité sur les apparitions des esprits, et sur less vampires (1746 et 1751) de Calmet”
- Mayurakshi Dev (Université de Montréal), “Frankenstein’s ‘Monster’ and the Maternal imagination”
5B. Material Semiotics in the Romantic Era
Chair: Kazuki Ochiai (University of Tokyo)
- Kazuki Ochiai (University of Tokyo), “Obeah as a Material-Semiotic Actor” Shruti Jain (Binghamton University), “Brahmin on the Mantelpiece”
- Kaushik Tekur (Binghamton University), “Wordsworth Writing: Slate Pencil and Lower-Class Graffiti”
- Xinyuan Qiu (Binghamton University), “The Extravaganza: Women’s Headdresses as Material Means of Knowing the World”
5C. Communal Forms of Life
Chair: Sean Silver (Rutgers)
- Kristin Girten (University of Nebraska at Omaha), “To Sublime is to Decolonize: Phillis Wheatley’s Ambient Aesthetic”
- Heather Keenleyside (University of Chicago), “The Lives of Ideas: Formal Unity from Kames to Lovejoy”
- Katie Sagal (Cornell College), “Communal Specimens: Marine Ecology and Collective Being”
- Sean Silver (Rutgers), “Against Cell Theory, from Hooke’s Cork to Haraway’s Coral”
5D. Égalité, bonheur et sentiment chez les autrices françaises
Chair : Christian Leduc (Université de Montréal)
- Chloé Saluzzo (UQAM), “Retrait du monde et solitude : la voie du bonheur au féminin chez Gabrielle Suchon”
- Alexis Tétreault (Université d’Ottawa), “‘Sentir son existence’ ou la quête du bonheur chez Émilie Du Châtelet”
- Isabelle Tremblay (Collège militaire royal du Canada), “Penser la vie des femmes à l’aune de la douceur sous la plume de Mme de Genlis”
- Monika Malinowska (Université de Varsovie), “Louise Dupin, élève de François Poulain de la Barre : ressemblances et différences”
5E. Writing Forms of (Social) Death
Chair: Julie Murray (Carleton University)
- Margaret Carlyle (The University of British Columbia), “Matters of Life and Death: The Rise of Anatomy Courses in Enlightenment Paris”
- Cosimo Calabrò (McGill University), “Relevance of Medical testimonies adjudicating cases of Dead Apprentices at the Old Bailey Court House”
- Kelly Plante (Wayne State University), “‘The sooner they are both consigned to a long oblivion the better’: Posthumous Literary Warfare and the Death Writing of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1797– 1836)”
- Roxanne Brousseau (Université de Montréal) “‘Caught in a Trap, and Caged for Life’: Marital Rape and Domestic Violence in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman”
5F. Print and Classifications Of Health
Chair: Katherine Charles (Washington College)
- Mathieu Bouchard (John Abbott College), “The Death of John Hughes: Mediocrity and Metaphors of Illness”
- Charlee Bezilla (George Washington University), “Parasites and Planetary Systems: Towards an Eighteenth-Century Ecology?”
- Julianna Wagar (Simon Fraser University), “Righting Mrs. Wright’s Wrongs: ‘A Desultory Disquisition on the Qualifications of a [Male] Midwife’”
BREAK 3:30 – 4 p.m.
FRIDAY, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
SESSION 6
6A. Music And Sound
Chair: Leslie Ritchie (Queen’s University)
- Elizabeth Bolger (Fordham University), “‘Noisy Pleasures’ and ‘Noisy Evil[s]’: The Political Dimensions of Sound in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park”
- Joel Wheeler (University of Victoria), “In the Woods and On the Waves: Anti-Gothic Acoustics and Active Instruments in The Mysteries of Udolpho”
- Fraser Easton (Waterloo), “An Age of Elocution”
- Anders Muskens (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen), “Performing Young’s Night-Thoughts from Historical Sources: A Practical Eighteenth-century Acting Artistic Case Study”
6B. Celebrity And Publicity
Chair: Brian Cowan (McGill University)
- Erin Keating (University of Manitoba), “Celebrity Exceptions: Female Theatrical Celebrities and the Emergence of Liberalism”
- Rebekah Stuive (Simon Fraser University), “Print Culture and Public Image: Female Celebrity in the Late Eighteenth Century”
- Kalin Smith (McMaster University), “Garrick in Rehearsal”
6C. Pluralité des mondes, des vies et des croyances
Chair : Alexis Tétreault (Université d’Ottawa)
- Salim Haffas (Université de Lille), “Berkeley et Hume : l’objet, l’esprit, la vie”
- Jean-Olivier Richard (St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto), “Père Castel au pays de la lune: Une digression sur l’homme, le climat, et la pluralité des mondes”
- Anaïs Delambre (Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies), “Quand la ‘maladie de l’âme’ devient un outil en faveur de la tolérance religieuse. La posture équivoque de Moses Mendelssohn face au scepticisme”
6D. Preserving Life and Dismembering the Body in Late-Seventeenth Century Britain
Chair: Natalia Vesselova (University of Ottawa)
- Hannah Sparwasser Soroka (McGill University), “Robert Boyle’s Irish Skull: Curative Violence, Colonial Consumption, and Corpse Medicine in the LateSeventeenth Century”
- Devyn Gwynne (Concordia University), “Expanding chemical knowledge: wound salves and chemical solutions in the early Royal Society”
- Carleigh Nicholls (McGill University), “‘That their Health be Endangered as Little as Possible’: A Criminal’s ‘Well Being’ in Restoration Scotland”
6E. Media Sensations
Chair: Daniel O’Quinn (University of Guelph)
- Lynn Festa (Rutgers), “Austen’s Sixth Sense”
- Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts University), “Touching Coleridge’s Notebooks”
- Mary Helen McMurran (Western University), “Katherine Philips and the Poetics of Liminal Bodies”
6F. Espaces vivants de l’écriture
Chair: Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarbrücken)
- Christophe Martin (Sorbonne Université), “La Religieuse de Diderot : une autothanatographie?”
- Siprien Diédhiou (Sorbonne Université/Université Gaston Berger), “Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau : écriture de soi, écriture des ‘sois’” – Alex Bellemare (Cégep de Saint-Laurent), “Espaces fictionnels et pratique architecturale chez Claude Nicolas Ledoux”
FRIDAY 5:30-6:30
Anders Muskens, Recital
FRIDAY 5 – 7 p.m.
Walking Tour of Old Montreal
FRIDAY 7:30 p.m
Graduate Student Social
Mad Hatter Pub, 1240 Crescent St.
THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Registration & Book Exhibits
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
SESSION 7 (seminars 7A-7E)
11:00 – 12:30 p.m.
CSECS PLENARY ADDRESS
Joanna Stalnaker (Columbia University)
Lunch 12:30 – 2 p.m.
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
SESSION 8 (seminars 8A-8F)
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition and Tour
Osler Library for the History of Medicine, McGill University
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
SESSION 9 (seminars 9A-9E)
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
CSECS General Meeting
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Reception & Banquet
DETAILED SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
SESSION 7
7A. Aspects of the Conquest
Chair: TBD
- Elizabeth Elboutne (McGill University), “Fractured space: Daniel Claus and the conquest of Montreal, 1760-1770”
- Riley Wallace (McGill University), “French Archives and Wampum Belts: British Epistemologies of Governance in post-Conquest Quebec”
- Eric Miller (University of Victoria), “Thomas Morris and the Seven Years’ War”
7B. Margaret Cavendish
Chair: Mary Helen McMurran (Western University)
- Clara McKnight (Temple University), “Margaret Cavendish on Perception and the Nature of Matter”
- Taylor Rousselle (McGill University), “The (Im)Materialist Duchess: George Berkeley as a Guide to “Fames Tower” in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World”
7C. Performance
Chair: Natasha Duquette (Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College)
- Martha F. Bowden (Kennesaw State University), “Delarivier Manley Imagines
- Herself Scheherazade: Manley’s Almyna, or The Arabian Vow: A Tragedy” – Sophia Magliocca (Concordia University), “Performing the Monstrous Mother On (and Off) the English Stage: Sarah Siddons, Martha Ray, and the Countess of Narbonne”
- Nevena Martinović (Queen’s University), “Representations of Aging and Ability on the 18th Century Stage”
- Kandice Sharren (University of Galway), “Hating Joanna Baillie’s De Monfort”
7D. Women’s History and Book History
Chair: Betty Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University)
- Sara Penn (Simon Fraser University), “The Farley Family, their Feud, and the Bristol Print Trade”
- Isobel Grundy (University of Alberta), “Women Writers Constructing Foremothers”
- Chance David Pahl (Briercrest College), “‘Affection for Books’: Loving Literature in Frances Brooke’s The Old Maid”
7E. The Exploited Eighteenth Century
Chair: Ashley Cohen (USC)
- Helen Thompson (Northwestern University), “Labor and Agency in the Royal African Company Letters”
- Cass Turner (UCLA), “Mutiny and Form in The Woman of Color”
- Peter Diamond (University of Pennsylvania), “The Renegade Pastoral: Abundance Against Exploitation”
- Natasha Lomonossoff (Queen’s University), “Anna Barbauld’s Critique of Class Structures in Thoughts on the Inequality of Conditions”
BREAK 10:30 – 11 a.m.
SATURDAY, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
CSECS PLENARY ADDRESS
Joanna Stalnaker (Columbia University)
“Un avant-goût du néant: Madame du Deffand, une salonnière-philosophe face à la mort”
LUNCH 12:30 – 2 p.m.
SATURDAY, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
SESSION 8
8A. Botany, Gender, and Genre
Chair: Helen Thompson (Northwestern University)
- Karenza Sutton-Bennett (University of Ottawa), “‘A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet’: Women’s Uneven Informal Study of Botany in Periodicals”
- Dana Gliserman Kopans (SUNY Empire State College), “Botanical Associations: Jane Austen’s novels and the (un)natural world”
8B. Mémoires, histoire et culture
Chair: Sébastien Côté (Université Carleton)
- Alexis Lafleur-Paiement (Université de Montréal, Université de Lille), “Représentations de Maximilien Robespierre dans les Mémoires de René Levasseur”
- Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarbrücken), “Marginalité sociale et esprit critique – Valentin Jamerey-Duval (1695-1775) dans les cours princières lorraines et autrichiennes”
- Didier Crémadès (Université Lyon 2), “127 mesures contre la Peste : l’Arrêt du Parlement de Provence du 17 juillet 1629”
- Michael J. Mulryan (Christopher Newport University), “La Figure du chasseur dans les contes populaires du Missouri et du Canada: Un Creuset culturel uniquement franco-américain”
8C. Figures of Racial Identities
Chair: Kristin Girtin (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
- Mark Vareschi (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Aesthetics and Anti-Blackness from Burke to Biometrics”
- Natasha Duquette (Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College), “‘An Ethiop Tells You’: Phillis Wheatley’s Trenchant Dantean Allusion”
8D. Fictions of Life/Life Writing
Chair: Kathryn Ready (University of Winnipeg)
- Brian Cowan (McGill University), “The Lives and Times of Daniel Defoe”
- Alana Boa Morte Café (Federal University of Minas Gerais), “Character Portraits in Hume’s History”
- Chantel Lavoie (Royal Military College), “Materials of the Writing Life: Bringing the Eighteenth Century into the Creative Writing Classroom”
8E. How to get published in Eighteenth-Century Studies (Roundtable)
Moderators: Ramesh Mallipeddi (University of British Columbia) and Oliver Bedard (University of British Columbia)
- George Boloukos (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
- Stephen Fragano (Fordham University)
- Marlis E. Schweitzer (York University)
- Cass Turner (UCLA)
8F. Mental Health and Well-Being
Chair: TBD
- Elizabeth Kraft (University of Georgia), “Literary Criticism as Therapy? Reassessing Anna Letitia Barbauld”
- Marceline Morais (Université de Montréal), “The Mental Breakdown of Cecilia: Frances Burney, John Locke, and the Physical and Mental Dimensions of Personal Identity”
- Servanne Woodward (UWO-Université Western), “À partir de la fausse-couche de Cécile Volanges, où il est aussi question d’avortement”
SATURDAY, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Book exhibition and short tour
Osler Library for the History of Medicine, McGill University
BREAK 3:30 – 4 p.m.
SATURDAY, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
SESSION 9
9A. Transatlantic Transfers
Chair: Kaushik Tekur Venkata (Binghamton University)
- Noel Chevalier (University of Regina), “Back to Africa with George Roberts: Pirated Bodies and Liberated Slaves”
- Megumi Ohsumi (University of Neuchâtel), “Orinoco and the Tobacco Trade: Health, Imperialism, and Literature”
- Oliver Bedard (University of British Columbia), “Caribbean Scenes, Gothic Space, and the Atlantic World”
9B. Pope, Then and Now
Chair: Marcie Frank (Concordia University)
- Brad Pasanek (University of Virginia), “Drawn by a Single Hair”
- Katherine Mannheimer (University of Rochester), ‘“Some Squire, perhaps, you take delight to rack’: Miss Blount as co-satirist in Pope’s Epistle to Miss Blount”
- Danielle Bobker (Concordia University), “Scriblerus on Earth: academic freedumb or the art of sinking on Netflix”
9C. La vie et ses contraires: penser les « anti-vies » au cours du long dix-huitième siècle
Chair: Swann Paradis (Collège universitaire Glendon, York University)
- Francesca Francoeur (Université Laval), “De l’omniprésence unifiante de la vie et de l’impossibilité ontologique de la mort dans The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy de Anne Conway”
- Anne Sechin (Université de Saint-Boniface), “Les anti-vies de La Religieuse de Diderot”
- Antoine Cantin-Brault (Université de Saint-Boniface), “Les néants de Kant et leur rapport à l’intuition”
9D. Pedagogy and “AI” (Roundtable)
Moderators: Erin Keating and Tiffany Potter
- Tiffany Potter (University of British Columbia)
- Erin Keating (University of Manitoba)
- Nicky Didicher (Simon Fraser University) – Nevena Martinović (Queen’s University)
- Laura Burke (Independent Scholar)
9E. Women and Biography/Life Writing
Chair: Shruti Jain (Binghamton University)
- Pam Perkins (University of Manitoba), “Life on the Edge: Representing Women in Late 18th-Century Shetland”
- Susan Dalton (Université de Montréal), “Women writers, biography and pleasure reading in early nineteenth-century Italy”
- Julia Zucchetti (McGill University), “The “Redeeming Feature” of John Wilkes’ Life: A Study of Polly”
SATURDAY, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
CSECS General Meeting
SATURDAY, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Reception & Banquet, Centre Sheraton
