Eighteenth-Century European Culture
Scholars from a variety of disciplines -- history, literature, philosophy, political science, music, and art -- present papers from work in progress treating some aspect of eighteenth-century European culture. The Seminar's meetings in 2007-2008 were devoted to the origins of the modern concept of free speech, both conceptually (e.g., what is the relationship between free speech and the period or idea of "the Enlightenment"?) and contextually (what conditions promoted its institutionalization?).
Seminar: #417
Founded: 1962
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Seminar Administration
Chair:
Elizabeth Powers
Independent Scholar
elizabethmpowers@verizon.net.
Rapporteur:
Adela Ramos
Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature
amr2105@columbia.edu
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Meetings
 September 17, 2009, James Kim, Department of English, Fordham University
"Queering Oliver Goldsmith: Sentimental Irony and The Vicar of Wakefield"
October 15, 2009, Katie Terezakis, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
"Meaning and Authority in the Thought of J.G. Herder"
November 19, 2009, Al Coppola, Department of English, John Jay College, City University of New York
“Tricks and Talk: Popular Science in Newtonian England"
December 10, 2009, James Caudle, The Associate Editor, Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
"Editing James Boswell, 1924-2009: Pasts, Presents, Futures"
January 28, 2010, Clifford Siskin, Department of English, New York University
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February 25, 2010, Richard Sher, Department of History, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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March 25, 2010, Phyllis Mack, Department of History, Rutgers University
"Dreaming is Believing: Religion and the Unconscious in Enlightenment England"
April 22, 2010, TBA
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