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Eighteenth-Century European Culture

Scholars from a variety of disciplines -- history, literature, philosophy, political science, music, and art -- present papers from works-in-progress treating some aspect of eighteenth-century European culture. The Seminar's offerings are eclectic, but from time to time the Seminar will organize a group of sessions in a given year around a particular theme. In 2007-2008, a series of talks hosted by the Seminar explored the origins of the modern concept of free speech, and this gave rise to a volume of essays, edited by former Chair Elizabeth Powers, that is forthcoming from Bucknell University Press.

Seminar: #417
Founded: 1962

Seminar Administration

Chair:
Al Coppola
John Jay College, CUNY, Department of English
acoppola@jjay.cuny.edu

Rapporteur:
Ariel Rubin
Columbia University, History
ajr2112@columbia.edu

2011 - 2012 Meetings

September 22
Claude Rawson, Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University. "Intimacies of Antipathy: Johnson and Swift" Abstract

September 30
Fall Roundtable: Orientalism and Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Studies: Literature and History in Dialogue.  

Panelists:
Nebahat Avcioglu, Professor of Art History, Hunter College, CUNY
Laura Brown, John Wendell Anderson Professor of English, Cornell University
Lynn Festa, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University
Deborah Jenson, Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
John Shovlin, Associate Professor of History, New York University.

Chairs:
Al Coppola, Assistant Professor of English, John Jay College, CUNY
Madeleine Dobie, Associate Professor of French, Columbia University
Joanna Stalnaker,Associate Professor of French, Columbia University

(In conjunction with the Columbia University Seminar in Early Modern France and the Columbia Maison française)


October 13
Don Garrett, Professor of Philosophy, New York University. "Hume's Aesthetic Theory of Probability."
Abstract.

November 10
Robert Markley, W.D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English, University of Illinois. "'How very wonderful the operations of time':  Fictions of a Sustainable Nature in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park."


December 15  
Frank Felsenstein, Reed D. Voren Distinguished Professor in Humanities, Ball State University. "Smollett Then and Now." Abstract.


January 19
Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, Assistant Professor of English, New Jersey City University.  Title TBA. Topic: The Royal Exchange and the Temple of Solomon.


February 16
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Professor of History, Brock University. "Catherinian Chinoiserie: Oriental Enchantment in Enlightenment Russia." Abstract.


March 8
Richard Barney, Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Albany. Title TBA. Topic: Rhetorics of plague and contagion in late 18th century Britain.


April 19
TBA
 

Past Meetings:

 

 2010 - 2011

 2009 - 2010

 2008 - 2009

 2007 - 2008

 2006 - 2007

 2005 - 2006

 2004 - 2005

 2003 - 2004

 2002 - 2003

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