British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
BSECS 46th Annual Conference 2017 Welcome Address : Wednesday 4th January 2017 12:15 - 12:30 |
| 1 - Alternative: Wednesday Welcome Address
Chair: Matthew Grenby
Maplethorpe Hall |
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Opening Plenary : Wednesday 4th January 2017 12:30 - 13:45 |
| 2 - Alternative: Wednesday Opening Plenary
Chair: Matthew Grenby
Maplethorpe Hall |
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Wednesday Session One : 4th January 2017 14:00 - 15:30 |
| 3 - Panel: Building Connections : Roads, Bridges, and Maps
Chair: tba
Ho Tim Seminar Room |
| Speaker | Paper Title |
Susan Clare Scott
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The Chinese Bridge: From Ancient Structure to Global Garden Topos
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Sarah Jayne Hitt
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Mapping the Capitals: The “Special Relationship” between cartography, urban planning, and identity in late-18th century Washington, D.C. and London.
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Tom Taylor
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Roads of Discourse: Robert Southey, Thomas Telford, and the Means of Communication
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4 - Panel: The Fourth Annual Swift and Pope Panel
Chair: Daniel Cook
Ho, Leung, Ho and Lee Seminar Room |
| Speaker | Paper Title |
Valerie Rumbold
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How far can you go? Swift and the limits of material parody
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Daniel Sperrin
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“This I’m now writing is but a sketch” (Sterne). Swift’s Use of Character Sketch After Moor Park
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Professor Paul Baines and Dr Julian Ferraro
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Editing Pope: After Twickenham
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5 - Panel: Political Alliances in Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Chair: tba
Lecture Theatre 1 |
| Speaker | Paper Title |
Dorota Wiśniewska
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A Useful Friend: Women’s Competences in Pursuing Political Intrigues in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth of the Latter 18th Century
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Katrina O'Loughlin
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‘Your friends must act for you’: Ekaterina Dashkova and the bonds of friendship.
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6 - Panel: Comparative History of Theatrical Experiences
Chair: Caroline Warman
Lecture Theatre 2 |
| Speaker | Paper Title |
Joseph Harris
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Writing the theatrical experience in Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert
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Yassaman Khajehi
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The audience in the 18th-century Persian performances
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Alexei Evstratov
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Theatrical performances in Paris and their subjects (1789-1799): towards a social history of experience
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7 - Panel: Power, Politics and Form: Friendship and Enmity in the works of William Godwin
Chair: tba
Louey Seminar Room |
| Speaker | Paper Title |
Emma Povall
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William Godwin’s Cursory Strictures: Exercising Sociable Liberty and Debate
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Grace Harvey
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Friendship, Paternity and Paternalism in William Godwin’s St. Leon (1799) & Thoughts on Man (1831)
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John-Erik Hansson
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Revenge and the Stakes of Children’s Histories: William Godwin Reviews Sarah Trimmer
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8 - Panel: The Glory of Arms and Ancestry: A Practical Session on Heraldry
Chair: Peter Lindfield and Dan McCabe
Maplethorpe Hall |
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10 - Panel: The Ties that Bind : Fraternity, Consumption, and Shared Enemies
Chair: Matthew McCormack
Maplethorpe Seminar Room |
| Speaker | Paper Title |
Miranda Reading
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“Old Friends and New Allies: networks in the membership of the Society for the Suppression of Vice”
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Geraldine Porter
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The ‘Noble Fraternity’: The Pitt-Grenville Brotherhood and the Role of Familial Culture in an Eighteenth-Century Parliamentary Faction
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Elin Jones
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Irrational Consumption, Fraternal Identity and the Eighteenth-Century Naval Seaman
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Sara Caputo
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Unequal Friends : The British Navy and the Two Sicilies, c.1780- c.1815
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11 - Panel: Networks of Slavery, Networks of Abolition
Chair: Sean Creighton MGA Lecture Room |
| Speaker | Paper Title |
Ryan Hanley
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Slavery, Gender and Celebrity Culture: the case of Mary Prince
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Olivette Otele
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Trade, diplomacy and slavery: British and French tumultuous relationships (1698- 1848)
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Brycchan Carey
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Networking the Black Atlantic: Olaudah Equiano’s Friends, Allies, and Enemies
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12 - Panel: A Spectrum of (Dis)Orientation
Chair: tba
Old Law Library |
| Speaker | Paper Title |
Dr. Anne Greenfield
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The Appeal of Eunuchs on Stage: 1660-1735
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Emma Newport
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“Not knowing the paths we have come, we know not where we are”: Peter Pindar and Elizabeth Inchbald’s Satirical Disorientation of Monarchy and Empire
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Lia Chisacof
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Living melancholically while writing poems and recipes
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13 - Panel: Taxonomies and ‘Civilisation’ : Animals and Feral Children
Chair: tba
Wordsworth Room (Main Building) |
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Stephanie Howard-Smith
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‘The War Against Curs’: Mad Dogs, Sad Dogs and the 1760 London Rabies Outbreak
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Mihaela Irimia
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From Foe to Friend and Socialite
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Kerstin Maria Pahl
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A Cat May Look Upon a King: Animal Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century England
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