Past Graduate Projects 2007-2008 Graduate Projects
Simon Jarvis Reading, Lecture, Workshop
John Beattie Lecture
2006-2007 Graduate Projects
Workshop Series: British Studies
Poetry Series: Young British Poets
Workshop Series: 20th-century British Philosophy
2005-2006 Graduate Projects
Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Peoples and Ideas in Motion: The British Atlantic World
History of 20th Century British Philosophy
2004-2005 Graduate Projects
The Irish World: Internationalism and Irish Studies
Principles of Association in British History
Britain's Long Eighteenth Century: Dynamism and Change 1660-1800
2007-2008 Graduate Initiative Poetry Reading, Workshop, and Lecture: Simon Jarvis
Organized by Joshua Adams (Comp Lit), Bobby Baird (Divinity School), and Joshua Kotin (English)
Simon Jarvis is the Gorley Putt Senior Lecturer in English Literary History at the University of Cambridge. Professor Jarvis specializes in eighteenth-century and Romantic poetry, philosophical aesthetics, and theories of verse and versification. He is the author of three books: Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765 (Oxford, 1995), Adorno: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 1998), and, most recently, Wordsworth’s Philosophic Song (Cambridge, 2006). Professor Jarvis is also a poet; his book-length lyric, The Unconditional, was published by Barque Press in 2005.
Event 1: Poetry reading
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Mr. Jarvis will read selections from his recently published book, The Unconditional, as well as some new work. A reception will follow.
Event 2: Poetry and Poetics Workshop
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
12:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Mr. Jarvis will lead a workshop on his current work.
Event 3: Lecture: "Why Rhyme Pleases"
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
5:00pm, Rosenwald 405
Dinner will follow.
These events are generously co-sponsored by Chicago Review and Poem Present.
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Lecture by John Beattie: "Policing Eighteenth Century London"
Organized by John Acevedo (History)
Monday, May 19th
5:00pm, Classics 110
John Beattie is a Professor Emeritus of History and Criminology at the University of Toronto. He specialises in early modern English social history, history of crime and criminal administration in England. He is currently writing a book, tentatively titled The First English Detectives: the Rise and Fall of the Bow Street Runners, which will concentrate on Bow Street over the ninety years of its history, from 1750 to 1849. The work carried out by the Bow Street officers has yet to be explored; of particular interest is the process by which suspected offenders were discovered and apprehended - the work of detection. Other areas of interest are the form taken by preliminary hearings at Bow Street into criminal offences, the extent to which the officers helped to prepare cases for trial, and the part they played in trials at the Old Bailey. Selected other publications include Policing and Punishment in London: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press, 1986).
This event is generously co-sponsored by the Early Modern workshop and the Law School.
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2006-2007 Graduate Initiative
Workshop Series: British Studies Workshop
Organized by John Acevedo, Stacie Kent, and Christopher Todd, History Department
Bi-weekly Fridays, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
In its inaugural year, the British Studies Workshop intends to bring together faculty and graduate students from multiple disciplines who are interested in the multi-directional study of Britain and its empire. The workshop spans the period from the medieval era to the present, including all of the British Isles and the territories that were once part of its empire. It is our founding belief that scholars with a common interest in the Britain and its empire, even if working within the strictures of different disciplines and chronologies, can engage in mutually beneficial discussion.
To that end, the British Studies Workshop will serve as a forum for the intellectual exchange of emergent scholarship in the form of workshop papers given by students, faculty and, on occasion, outside presenters. The workshop also aims to integrate the intellectual community by holding discussions on such issues as what might constitute a cross-disciplinary British Studies cannon. By the end of its inaugural year, the workshop aims to produce a picture of the state of British Studies at the University of Chicago and make recommendations for how to continue fostering a vigorous and integrated intellectual community. Faculty and students interested in presenting their work or who simply would like more information should visit our website: http://history.uchicago.edu/workshops/british_studies/.
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Poetry Series: Young British Poets
Organized by Joshua Kotin, English Department
In the last five years, the University of Chicago has established itself as one of the most important centers for the study of contemporary poetry. The University has attracted major poets and scholars to give readings, conduct seminars, and present papers at conferences. This development has had several important parents: the English department, Poem Present, the Creative Writing program, and Chicago Review .
We propose to enhance this stellar tradition by inviting four young British poets to read and deliver talks at the University. The four poets—Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson, Keston Sutherland—form the nucleus of the most important movement in contemporary British poetry. As the latest manifestation of the so-called Cambridge School of Poets, Brady, Goode and Sutherland fuse their poetics of their former teacher, the poet J.H. Prynne, with a poetry of direct civic engagement. Their work is at once ironic, intense, and politically charged, moving with unsettling ease between high-level philosophical discourse and street-level slang. (It's not rare to find lines that borrow from Frankfurt School theorists as well as Ford Motor Company advertisements.) Manson, based in Scotland, has ploughed a parallel furrow, as likely to draw his influences from sound poetry, French Symbolism and the work of Clark Coolidge as from Prynne.
Independently, the poets direct some of the most innovative and well-regarded artistic ventures in the United Kingdom. Brady and Sutherland run Barque press in London, while teaching British literature (as assistant professors) at Brunel and Sussex, respectively. (Most recently, the Barque has published Simon Jarvis's provocative 300-page poem, The Unconditional, and J.H. Prynne's chapbook, “To Pollen.”) Manson runs Object Permanence press in Glasgow, which is at the center of Scotland's avant-garde literary community. And Goode, also an actor, playwright, and director, runs a theatre company in London.
Event 1: Poetry reading by Andrea Brady, Peter Manson, Keston Sutherland
Thursday, April 5, 2007
5:30pm, Rosenwald 405
Reception to follow
Event 2: Poetry lectures
Andrea Brady: "Tom Raworth: Poetry and Public Pleasure"
Keston Sutherland: "On Poetry and Stupidity in General"
Friday, April 6, 2007
1:00pm, Rosenwald 405
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Workshop Series: 20th Century British Philosophy
Organized by Nat Hansen, Philosophy Department
Spring, 2007
Location TBA
Contemporary British philosophy is distinctive in its humanism and its attention to the history of the subject. This character contrasts both with American philosophy's scientism, and with the dogged materialism of Australian philosophy. For various reasons, the University of Chicago's Department of Philosophy is one of the few departments in the United States heavily influenced by British philosophers. There are graduate students currently conducting research on Bertrand Russell, J.L. Austin, P.F. Strawson, Michael Dummett, A.J. Ayer, and the Scottish Neo-Logicists.
By inviting distinguished scholars whose work grows out of or directly concerns the British philosophical tradition, we hope to provoke important debates about the relevance of the British humanist tradition for scientific philosophy as it is practiced in the U.S. and Australia, about the future of ordinary language philosophy, and who and what is responsible for sustaining alternative traditions in philosophical practice.
Our workshop series will consist of two to three speakers this academic year, drawing scholars from institutions in the U.S. and Great Britain. The speakers will be invited to present work in progress to joint sessions of the Philosophy of Mind and Contemporary Philosophy workshops.
Lecture 1: Elisabeth Camp (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Generality Constraint and Stimulus-Independence"
April 24, 2007
4:30pm, Franke Institute for the Humanities
Lecture 2: Richard Heck (Brown University)
"What is Compositionality?"
May 9, 2007
4:30pm, Franke Institute for the Humanities
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2005-2006 Graduate Projects Conference: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Organized by Erin Evans, MAPH Program
Friday, April 7, 2006
Franke Institute Conference Room
In the early 1800's William Blake issued his declaration of intent “To cast off Bacon, Locke & Newton,” a post-Enlightenment voice of indignation against the permeation of scientific rationality into British religious, political, economic, and social life. Subsequent nineteenth-century British Romantics, Pre-Raphaelites, and Gothic Revivalists engaged in a new quest for the “natural” and interest in the mysterious. The conflict between empiricism and faith continued as science (and pseudo-science) progressed, and the latter half of the century might be described simply as the aftermath of the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution. The Victorians grappled with both the empowering and dehumanizing effects of scientific progress, and capitalism and empire, products of scientific development, created a nation which was ostensibly the ‘fittest' but fundamentally in crisis.
This interdisciplinary conference explores how British men and women of the nineteenth century incorporated advances in the scientific body of knowledge and knowledge of the body. Scientific developments particularly affected matters of vision and raised questions and anxieties over the delineation between the human and the non-human; both scientists and artists (and artist-scientists) addressed these questions, the answers to which are often elusive in our own century. Graduate students will present their current research on science in the Romantic and Victorian eras, especially relating to the theories, practices, and representations of evolution, medicine, and science of the mind.
This day-long conference will feature three graduate student panels and will include a keynote address given by guest lecturer George Levine. Dr. Levine is a professor of English at Rutgers University, and works in aesthetics, nineteenth-century literature and culture, the relations between literature and science, and problems connected with the condition of the profession. His publications include: Dying to Know (Chicago, 2002); The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (Cambridge, 2001); Darwin and the Novelists (Harvard, 1988); The Realistic Imagination (Chicago, 1981); Lifebirds (Rutgers, 1997). He has written the introduction and notes for The Origin of the Species (Barnes and Noble, 2004), and Silas Marner (2005). Dr. Levine's next book, to be published by Princeton in 2006, is Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World. He is at work on a new volume for Blackwell's, "How to Read the Victorian Novel," and is Director of the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
8:45 - 9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 10:15 Panel 1: "Flashes on That Inward Eye: Writing the Scientific Body"
“Blake's ‘Sweet Science'”
-Amanda Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley
“Gerard Manley Hopkins's ‘Popular Account of Light and Ether'”
-Erin Evans, University of Chicago
Discussant: Kamran Swanson, University of Chicago
10:30 - 11:45 Panel 2: “Agency and Transparency in the Eye of Science”
"The Stethoscope and the Doctor: Latourian Asymmetrics"
-Bjorn Nansen, University of Melbourne, Australia
“Sphex Ed”
-Kathleen Frederickson, University of Chicago
“Darwin's Will to Know”
-Dana Rovang, University of Chicago
Discussant: Jennifer Mack, University of Chicago
11:45 - 1:15 Lunch (provided)
1:15 - 2:30 Panel 3: “Science and the Novelists”
“‘And Yet the Thing Would Still Live On': The Science of Life and the Refusal of the Body in The Picture of Dorian Gray”
-Jessica Davies, University of California, Berkeley
“George Eliot and Anthropology: ‘Marriage by Capture' in Middlemarch”
-Mary Noble, Princeton University
“‘The Whole Little Orderly System': Dickens' Bleak House and Observational Paradigms in the 1850s”
-Jay Marietta, University of Southern California
Discussant: Alix Purcell, University of Chicago
2:45 - 4:15 Keynote Address:
"Darwin's Theory of Sexual Selection: How Anthropomorphism Helps"
-Dr. George Levine, Rutgers University
Introduction by Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago
This conference is being generously co-sponsored by the English Department, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine.
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Conference: Peoples and Ideas in Motion: the British Atlantic World
Organized by Janette Gayle and Christopher Todd, History Department
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Franke Institute for the Humanities Conference Room
Much of the historiography of Britain's Atlantic possessions is dominated by a focus on the movement of ideas as well as peoples and commodities from Great Britain to her most important New World settler society: North America. However, it is often forgotten that Britain's Caribbean territories were her most important 17th and 18th century colonial possessions. Indeed, the very same ideas, peoples, and commodities that moved between Britain and her North American colonies also circulated within her Caribbean colonies. As in North America, these ideas shaped Caribbean colonial social structures, Caribbean colonial subjectivities, and Caribbean colonial political possibilities. As such, this conference intends to shift the focus from the North American continent to Britain's Caribbean possessions and the peoples, black, white, and “in between,” who constituted those societies.
This one-day interdisciplinary graduate student conference will engage questions on the movement of ideas and ideology in the British Atlantic World, its impact on colonial subjects (broadly conceived), and on how these ideas were reinterpreted and redeployed within the colonial and metropolitan worlds. Graduate students will present their current research on any aspects of the movement of peoples and ideas within the Atlantic World broadly defined. Papers from all relevant disciplines are encouraged, including the arts, literature, religion, history, philosophy, and race, gender, and sexuality studies.
This one-day conference will feature two graduate student panels and will include a keynote given by Professor David Scott. Dr. Scott is Professor of Anthropology and Research Fellow of African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City. Professor Scott's interests include: the problem of the postcolonial politics, diaspora, and cultural history. The Caribbean and South Asia are his historical and geographical areas of preoccupation. Professor Scott is the author of Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil (Minneapolis, 1994); Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality (Princeton, 1999); and Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Durham, 2004). He is also the editor of Small Axe, a journal of Caribbean criticism. In addition to Professor Scott, professors Stephan Palmié (Anthropology, University of Chicago) and Robert Hill (History, UCLA) will be panel respondents and professor Julie Saville (History, University of Chicago) will provide closing remarks.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee and light breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 Keynote Address:
"Tragedy's Time: Postemancipation Futures Past and Present"
-Dr. David Scott, Columbia University
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:30 Panel 1: Ideas and Empire: The British in the Early Atlantic World
“George Logan's Odyssey: Science and Politics in the Revolutionary World”
-Michael B. Guenther, Northwestern University
"Commercial Venture and Customary Law in Early Modern Newfoundland"
-Elizabeth Fewer, Loyola University
"Origins of Racial Constructs in Seventeenth Century New England"
-Eric Kimball, University of Pittsburgh
“Beyond Jamaica: The Western Design's Significance to Early Modern English Imperialism”
-Abigail Swingen, University of Chicago
Discussant: Stephan Palmie, Anthropology Department, University of Chicago
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 Panel 2: “Colonialism(s) Then and Now”
“Mr. Penrose, Points of Contact, and the Idea of Community”
-James Crane, Loyola University
"Overriding Identity Politics with Affect in Ayub Khan-Din's 'East is East'"
-E. K. Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
"The Writing of Sensibility: Feminist Codes Informing Slave and Abolitionist Narratives"
-Thomas L. Herakovich, Illinois State University
“The Linguistic Impact of British Education on the Educational Linguistic Policies of West-African British Colonies”
-Desmond Odugu, Loyola University
Discussant: Robert Hill, History Department, UCLA
3:30 - 4:15 Closing remarks and final comments by Julie Saville (History Department, University of Chicago)
This conference is being generously co-sponsored by the Comparing Colonialisms and Social History workshops, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
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Lecture Series: History of 20th Century British Philosophy
Organized by Nat Hansen, Philosophy Department
Contemporary British philosophy is distinctive in its humanism and engagement with the history of philosophy. This lecture series aims to bring several contemporary philosophers to the University of Chicago who themselves are influenced by the British tradition in philosophy. Inviting these distinguished guests will provoke important debates about the relevance of the British philosophical tradition for human self understanding.
Lecture 1: Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Hume's Brain: How Cognitive Science Supports British Moral Psychology"
Thursday, April 6, 2006
6:00 - 8:00pm, Cobb 107
Dr. Prinz works primarily in the philosophy of psychology, broadly construed. He is interested in how the mind works, and thinks philosophical accounts of the mental can be fruitfully informed by findings from psychology, the neurosciences, anthropology, and related fields. Dr. Prinz' theoretical convictions are unabashedly empiricist; he hopes to resuscitate core claims of British Empiricism against the backdrop of contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Selected publications include The Conscious Brain (Oxford University Press, in progress); Beyond Human Nature (Norton, 2007); The Emotional Construction of Morals (Oxford University Press, 2007);
Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (Oxford University Press, 2004); Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (MIT Press, 2002).
Lecture 2: Thomas Baldwin, University of York
"Causation, Perception and Reference"
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
6:00 - 8:00pm, Cobb 119
Dr. Baldwin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. His main research interests include Moore, Russell and 20th century philosophy generally (including French and German philosophy), philosophy of language and of mind, and bioethics. Recent publications include 'Death and meaning - Some questions for Derrida' Ratio XIII (2000) pp. 387-400; Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2001); and 'On Considering a Possible world as Actual' Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXV (2001) pp. 157 - 174.
These events are being co-sponsored by the Philosophy of the Mind and Contemporary Philosophy workshops.
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2004-2005 Graduate Projects
Conference: The Irish World: Internationalism and Irish Studies
Organized by Jenny Ludwig and Emily Brunner
Saturday, March 5, 2005, 8:30am to 6pm, Judd 126
In 1973, both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland officially entered the European Union. During the thirty years that followed, the face of Ireland and Irish identity were drastically altered: Between 1970 and 1980, the population of the Republic rose from 3 million to 3.5 million; Between 1996 and 2000, 200,000 foreigners entered the country, half returning Irish emigrants and half other foreign nationals and asylum seekers. Since 1996, over a quarter of the 160,000 immigrants has come from countries outside of Europe and America. International scholarship tends to view Ireland as a mythic tourist spot, the locus of a nationalist struggle, or a forum for rethinking the changes wrought in the move from modernity to postmodernity; but new problems come with the social complexities of involvement in the world economy and a newly diverse citizenship, and Ireland's new face demands a long-overdue change in the scope of Irish Studies. This conference examines the recent changes wrought by Ireland's rapid modernization and entrance into a world economy, as well as the neglected story of Irish internationalism throughout history, and the history of Irish diasporas. The organizers hope additionally to challenge the traditional limits of the discipline of Irish studies beyond the interest with nationhood and identity politics.
The keynote speakers include Professor David Lloyd and Professor Harry White. David Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial Moment (Duke, 1993), Culture and the State (Routledge, 1993, with Paul Thomas) and Ireland after History (UNDP, 1999). Harry White, Professor of Music at University College Dublin, is the author of The Keeper's Recital: Music and Cultural History in Ireland, 1770-1970 (Cork and UNDP, 1998) and the editor of Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture, 1800-1940 , (Cork, 2001).
Co-sponsors: Poetry and Poetics Program, Center for International Studies Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund, English Department, Anthropology of Europe Workshop, Mass Culture Workshop, Ethnoise!: Ethnomusicology Workshop, Social History Workshop
Conference Schedule:
(Breakfast: coffee and pastries provided)
9:00: David Lloyd (with an introduction by Jim Chandler)
"The Irish Famine and the Emergence of a Developmental Economics"
10:15: Panel 1. Women, Citizenship, and Transnationalism
Emily Brunner, University of Chicago
"Unlikely Allies: Irish-American Nationalism and Radical Woman Suffrage in the Era of World War I"
Anwen Tormey, University of Chicago
“Labouring Against the Nation: Foetal Citizens and the Spaces of the Irish Nation-State"
Eileen O'Halloran, DePaul University
“Patriotic and Fashionable: the New Irish Woman and Irish Internationalism”
11:45: Panel 2. Redressing Poetry
Jenny Ludwig, University of Chicago
"Governing the Tongue: Irish Poetry Stardom and the Case of Seamus Heaney"
Robert Huddleston, University of Chicago
“Articulating Change: Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things"
Irene de Angelis, University of Turin
“Sinead Morrissey Between Northern Ireland and Japan”
(Lunch Break)
2:00: Panel 3. Pop Culture/Youth Culture
Carole Holohan, University College Dublin
"A Conduit to a Baneful Modernity? Church Responses to Youth Culture, 1956-1973"
Simon May, University of Chicago
“Skate and Destroy: Skateboarding as Urban Counter-Hegemonic Resistance"
Alex Harnett, University of Chicago
“Seeing Murals: Images and Politics in Contested Belfast”
3:30: Panel 4. Selling Culture
Gayle Rogers, Northwestern University
"Translation and Transition: Globalization and the Legacies of Imperial Education in Brian Friel's Translations"
Margaret O'Neill, Northwestern University
“‘This is not a rebel song' U2, Bono and Bloody Sunday"
Deborah Rapuano, Loyola University
“Selling Irishness: Grass Roots Production and Global Consumption”
5:00: Harry White (with an introduction by Martin Stokes)
"The Progress of Music in Ireland: Irish Art Music in a Postcolonial World"
(Public reception)
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Conference: Principles of Association in British History
Organized by Mara Marin and Victor Muniz-Fraticelli
Friday, April 8, 2005, 8:30am - 6pm
Classics Building (1010 E. 59th Street), Room 10
This conference will explore the links, contrasts, and similarities between the principles that are thought to guide human association in different areas of social life. Several renowned scholars will head the discussion, among them Mary Lyndon Shanley (Vassar), Samuel Fleischacker (UIC), and Avigail Eisenberg (British Columbia). Several U of C faculty will also take part: Mary-Anne Case (Law School), Jacob Levy (Political Science), Patricia Nordeen (Chicago College).
An inter-disciplinary event, of interest to students and scholars of Political Science, Philosophy, History, English, Economics, Sociology, Religious Studies, and related fields, the conference will encourage discussions in a broad scholarly context, drawing connections between disciplines and areas of study that are often isolated from each other.
For more information please contact Mara G. Marin at mara@uchicago.edu or Víctor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli at vmuniz@uchicago.edu.
Co-sponsors: The Chicago Center for Democracy, the Committee on Social Thought, the Center for Gender Studies, and the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Conference Schedule:
8:30 - 8:45: Opening Remarks
8:45 - 10:30: Panel 1. Politics and Association
Samuel Fleischacker, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Face-to-face Relationships in Adam Smith: Some Political Implications"
Michael Goode, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Peace Shall Move Mountains: An Examination of Seventeenth Century Quaker Pacifism and the 1660 Declaration"
Thomas Weber, University of Chicago
“Principles of Association in Oxford Colleges between c. 1880 and 1914”
Discussant: Patricia Nordeen (U of C)
10:45 - 12:30: Panel 2. Identity and Pluralism
Avigail Eisenberg, University of British Columbia
"Mindful Neglect: Identity Politics in Liberal and Democratic Traditions"
Jacob Levy, University of Chicago
“British Pluralism, Liberalism, and Medievalism"
Jane Silloway, Northwestern University
“Rewriting the Reformation”
Discussant: Craig Hargett (U of C)
(Lunch Break)
2:00 - 3:45: Panel 3. Marriage, Sexuality, and the Family
Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law School
"The Role of the State in Marriage and in the Business Corporation"
Mary L. Shanley, Vassar College
"'Marriage Contract and Social Contract' Revisited: Persistent Dilemmas for Liberal Theory"
Hristomir Stanev, University of Chicago
“Wayward Sexuality and Domestic Instability in Thomas Dekker's City Comedies”
Discussant: TBA
4:00 - 5:45 : Panel 4. The Sovereign and its Subjects
Robert McJimsey, Colorado College
"Founding the Stuart Monarchy: Honor and Virtue at the Court of James I"
Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli, University of Chicago
“‘On Resistance and Rebellion in Shakespeare"
Dana Rovang, University of Chicago
“The Head of the King: Madness, Passion and Sovereignty in Late-Eighteenth Century England”
Discussant: Emily Nacol (U of C)
5:45 - 6:00: Closing Remarks
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Conference: Britain's Long Eighteenth Century: Dynamism and Change, 1660-1800
Organized by Noelle Gallagher and Heather Welland
Thursday, April 28, 2005, Classics 10, 8:45am - 5:30pm
This interdisciplinary conference aims broadly to explore aspects of eighteenth century Britain. Two plenary speakers and four graduate student panels will challenge the traditional assumption that Britain's long eighteenth century was a time of stasis, focusing instead on the ways in which this period can be seen as a time of "dynamism and change." We are interested in approaches which combine the political and economic with the socio-cultural, and in topics which examine the formation of, and the relationship between, personal and national narratives and identities.
Co-sponsors: Franke Institute for the Humanities, English Department
Conference Schedule
8:45: Welcome in Classics 10
9:00 - 10:30:
Grad Panel 1. CLASSICS 10. British Identity and Maritime Expansion
Brent S. Sirota, University of Chicago
"‘The Protestant Interest Everywhere': The Leghorn Chaplaincy Affair 1706-1711"
David Trout, Northern Illinois University
“Plagued by Demons, Summoned by Angels: Rhythm and Place in the Spiritual Lives of Anglo-American Sailors, c.1650-1750"
Sharif Youssef, University of Chicago
“Daniel Defoe's Liabilities: The Origin of Partial Birth”
Discussant: Thomas Weber (U of C)
Grad Panel 2. WIEBOLDT 408. Strategies of Power and the New Body Politic
Jeffrey Galbraith, Indiana University
"The Obedient, Powerless Prince: Delariviere Manley's Use of the Martyr"
Alia Hanna Habib, Rutgers University
“‘Betty in Heroic': Realism and the Joke-work of The Female Wits"
Chris Dudley, University of Chicago
“Balance of Power and Balance of Trade in British Foreign Policy, 1714-1720”
Discussant: Sandra Macpherson (U of C)
11:00 - 12:30: Plenary Talk, CLASSICS 10
Margaret Hunt, Amherst University
"Men, Women, and the State in Eighteenth-century England"
Lunch (provided)
2:00 - 3:30:
Grad Panel 3. CLASSICS 10. New Perspectives on Enlightenment
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of Chicago
"Modernity on the Gaelic Periphery: The Scottish Highlands as a Social Laboratory, 1760-1830"
Matthias Rudolf, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"Between Discovery and Invention: the ‘Event' of Romanticism"
Jeff Covington, University of New Hampshire
“‘By the Violence of this Great Pleasure': The Eroticized Aesthetic in Eighteenth Century Libertine Literature”
Discussant: Eric Slauter, U of C
Grad Panel 4. WIEBOLDT 408 . Science, Knowledge, and Civil Society
Jason E. Cohen, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"British Science and the Limits of Sovereign Reason in Gulliver's Travels"
Kelly Wezner, Northern Illinois University
"The Dual Nature of Indexes in The Dunciad in Four Books"
Tony C. Brown, University of Chicago
“Foot-print on the Sea Shore”
Discussant: TBA
4:00 - 5:30: Plenary Talk, CLASSICS 10.
Michael McKeon, Rutgers University
"The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge"
5:30: Reception, CLASSICS 10.
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