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
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