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Representations of Time in the 18th Century
Le temps et ses représentations au XVIIIe siècle

1997 Conference (October 16 to 19)
University of Western Ontario
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Congrès 1997 (du 16 au 19 octobre)
Université Western Ontario

 

MERCREDI 15 OCTOBRE / WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15

Toutes les séances du congrès se dérouleront à l'hôtel Delta Armouries / All conference sessions will take place at the Delta Armouries Hotel.

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Inscription / Registration (12:00-18:30)

 

Réunion du comité exécutif de la SCEDHS / CSECS Executive Meeting (18:00-22:00)

 

Soirée d'accueil / Pre-Conference Social (20:00-22:30).

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JEUDI 16 OCTOBRE / THURSDAY OCTOBER 16

Toutes les séances du congrès se dérouleront à l'hôtel Delta Armouries / All conference sessions will take place at the Delta Armouries Hotel.

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9:00-10:30
 
Salle A: Marivaux romancier / Marivaux and the Novel

Présidente/Chair: Emmanuelle Ravel (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Catherine Ivic (University of Western Ontario, Français): "La Vie de Marianne ou le temps du roman familial"

Monique Glasgow (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Retours picaresques: les voyages à cadence interrompue dans La Vie de Marianne et Le Paysan parvenu"
 

Salle B: Godwin, Inchbald et l'histoire / Godwin, Inchbald and History

Présidente/Chair: Lisa Zeitz (University of Western Ontario, English)

Justin Baird (University of Western Ontario, English): "Under the Ribs of Death: William Godwin and the Madness of History"

Alex Dick (University of Western Ontario, English): "Inchbald's Remarks: History, Jacobinism and The British Theatre"

Jim Crimmins (University of Western Ontario, History): "The Secular Utilitarian Response to Eighteenth Century Religious Utilitarianism"
 

Salle C: Poétique du temps et écriture féminine au XVIIIe siècle / Poetics of Time in Eighteenth Century Women's Writing

Présidente/Chair: Servanne Woodward (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Sarah Brophy (McMaster University, English): "The Thousand Tongues with which She Must Engage: Gossip and Aging in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters"

Diane Harris (University of Toronto, English): "Textual Insemination in the Neglected Sequel to Pamela"

Claire Grogan (Bishop's University, English): "The Great Art of Turning Time to Account: The Politics of Time Management in Elizabeth Hamilton's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers"


Salle D: La Musique des Lumières I / Music of the Enlightenment I

Présidente/Chair: Helen Heller (Brescia College, University of Western Ontario, Français)

Lane Heller (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Time, Motion and Affect in François Couperin's L'Arlequine"

Paul Rice (Memorial University, Music): "Rameau's La Naissance d'Osiris (1754): Allegory and Illusion in French Court Entertainment"

Patricia Debly (Brock University, Music): "Haydn's Orfeo: A Fin de Siècle Opera"

 
Salle E: Plagiat et propriété littéraire au XVIIIe siècle / Plagiarism and Literary Property in the XVIIIth Century

Présidente/Chair: Christine Roulston (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Marilyn Randall (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Considérations sur la propriété littéraire au XVIIIe siècle"

Yzabelle Martineau (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Diderot ou les paradoxes d'un plagiaire"

Modérateur/Respondent: Robert Barsky (University of Western Ontario, English)
 
 

10:30-11:00 PAUSE-CAFÉ / COFFEE BREAK
 
 

11:00-11:30 OUVERTURE OFFICIELLE / OFFICIAL OPENING

Discours de bienvenue de / Greetings from:

Dr. Paul Davenport, President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Ontario

Madame Fabyène Mansencal, Attaché culturel, Consulat de France à Toronto

 

11:30-12:30 SÉANCE PLÉNIÈRE / PLENARY SESSION

Presidente/Chair : Kathleen Okruhlik (University of Western Ontario, Philosophy)
 
 

Tom Lennon (University of Western Ontario)

"Gambling with Providence: An Episode in the Secularization of History at the End of the Seventeenth Century"
 
 

12:30-14:00 DÉJEUNER/LUNCH
 
 

14:00-15:30
 
Salle A: Écritures de l'Histoire au XVIIIe siècle / Writing History in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Thierry Belleguic (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Catherine Volpilhac-Auger (Université de Grenoble III, Littérature): "Le temps et les rythmes de l'histoire chez Montesquieu"

Jean-Jacques Tatin-Gourier (Université de Tours, Littérature): "1785-1788: La résurgence des visions catastrophiques de l'histoire chez les disciples des philosophes des Lumières"

 
Salle B: Publication et auctorialité féminine au siècle des Lumières / Printing and Women's Authorship in the Eighteenth Century

Présidente/Chair: Nancy Senior (University of Saskatchewan, Français)

Elaine Bailey (University of Ottawa, English): "Mary Matilda Betham: Lexicographer of the Past Over"

Chantal Lavoie (University of Toronto, English): "The Progress of Another Error: The Print History of Anne Finch's The Spleen"

Deborah McLeod (University of Victoria, English): "Basic Conditions of Authorship: Women Applicants to the Literary Fund"

 

Salle C: Le temps du voyage au XVIIIe siècle / Traveling in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Robert Merrett (University of Alberta, English)

Alexander Sokalski (University of Saskatchewan, Français): "The Journals of the Chevalier de Boufflers and Madame de Sabran"

David Oakleaf (University of Calgary, English): "Jamaican Trips: Ned Ward, Sally Godfrey, and Others"

 

Salle D: Les jardins des Lumières / Gardens and Grottoes in the XVIIIth Century

Président/Chair: Ray Stephanson (University of Saskatchewan, English)

Lisa Zeitz (University of Western Ontario, English): "Constructing the Past / Construing the Future: Time and History in the Garden Space of Stowe"

Joan Coutu (University of Waterloo, Fine Arts): "Planting the Garden: The Cenotaphs at Stowe"

Jay Macpherson (University of Toronto, English): "Mozart's Grottoes"

 

Salle E: Tradition et théorie du roman allemand des Lumières / Tradition and Theory in the German Eighteenth-Century Novel

Présidente/Chair: Christa Fell (Queen's University, German)

A.P. Dierick (University of Toronto, German): "Past, Present, and Presentation in Eighteenth Century Theories of the Novel in Germany"

Karl-Heinz Maurer (Indiana University, German): "The Time of the Genius: J.M. R. Lenz's Reinvention of Time and the Break with Tradition"

Judith Sidler (Queen's University, German): "Der Prinz aus Asien: J.M.R. Lenz's Orient-Satire Der neue Menoza"
 
 

15:30-15:45 PAUSE-CAFÉ / COFFEE BREAK
 

15:45- 16:45 CONFÉRENCE PLÉNIÈRE / PLENARY SESSION

Présidente/Chair: Marie Laure Girou-Swiderski (Université d'Ottawa, Études françaises)

Christie McDonald (Harvard University)

"Le temps du changement"
 
 

16:45-17:00 PAUSE-CAFÉ / COFFEE BREAK
 
 

17:00-18:00
 
Salle A: Lectures de Frances Burney / Reading Frances Burney

Président/Chair: Peter Sabor (Université Laval, Anglais)

Stewart Cooke (McGill University, English): "Editing Elberta: Frances Burney's Jigsaw Puzzle"

Victoria Kortes-Papp (Université Laval, Anglais): "Madness as Shelter for Feminist Ideas: Elinor's Role in Burney's The Wanderer"

 

Salle B: Écritures de l'utopie au siècle des Lumières / Eighteenth-Century Utopias

Présidente/Chair: Anne-Marie Picard (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Jean Coutin (Université Paris X, Littérature): "L'Utopie sexuelle devant l'histoire"

Christine Roulston (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Réalité et utopie dans Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire et Le Voyage autour du monde de Bougainville"

 

Salle C: Les journaux au XVIIIe siècle / Journals in the XVIIIth Century

Président/Chair: Alex Sokalski (University of Saskatchewan, Français)

Chloé Baril (Lyon II, Littérature): "La Quintessence des Nouvelles"

Kenneth Graham (University of Guelph, English): "British Reviewing and the Fin de Siècle"

 

Salle D: Vu par: le XVIIIe siècle revisité / Looking Back: Reconstructions of the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Marc-André Bernier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Études françaises)

Jean-Yves Dupraz (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Un XVIIIe siècle en bonne et due forme: Paul Valéry lecteur de Montesquieu et de Voltaire"

Catherine Dhavernas (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Écrire l'histoire: la voix du temps"
 
 

18:30-19:30 RÉCEPTION / RECEPTION

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VENDREDI 17 OCTOBRE / FRIDAY OCTOBER 17

Toutes les séances du congrès se dérouleront à l'hôtel Delta Armouries / All conference sessions will take place at the Delta Armouries Hotel.

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9:00-11:00
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Salle A: La fiction et ses genres au XVIIIe siècle / Forms of Fiction in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Roland Bonnel (Dalhousie University, Français):

Monique Moser-Verrey (Université Laval, Littérature): "L'Eloquence du corps entre le merveilleux et le vraisemblable"

Maryse Duggan (Vancouver): "Mlle de Lubert et la réactivation de contes du dix-septième siècle"

Stéphanie Bouabane (Lille III, Littérature): "Entre brevitas préfacielle et digressions narratives: le dilemme du romancier"

Ana Fernandes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Français): "Une histoire de la littérature bien particulière: De la littérature de Mme de Staël"

 

Salle B: Le temps de la poésie au XVIIIe siècle / Time and Poetry in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Peter Sabor (Université Laval, Anglais)

John Baird (University of Toronto, English): "Cowper's Time-Piece: The End of Time and the Timeliness of The Task"

Aaron Santesso (Queen's University, English): "Dryden's Rhetorical Nostalgia"

Katherine Quinsey (University of Windsor, English): "Time and Eternity in Pope"

 

Salle C: Le temps des arts / Timing Art and Artistic Time in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Joan Coutu (University of Waterloo, Art History)

Sarah Watson (University of California at Santa Barbara, Art History): "The Historical Positioning of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun"

Servanne Woodward (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Chardin's Gravity"

Ian Rae (University of British Columbia, Art History): "Time-as-Exhibit in Canadian Government Architecture"

 

Salle D: Philosophies du temps au XVIIIe siècle / Philosophies of Time in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Jean-Pierre Schachter (Huron College, University of Western Ontario, Philosophy):

Peter Walmsley (McMaster University, English): "A New-Discovered Country: John Locke and the Choreography of Mind"

R.S. Krishnan (North Dakota State University, English): "The Shortness of Our Present State: The Concept of Time in Johnson's Rasselas"

Doug Long (University of Western Ontario, Political Science): "Re-imaging Time: The Temporal Context of Social and Political Thought in Hume, Smith and Bentham"

Peter Loptson (University of Saskatchewan, Philosophy): "The Ineliminability of Time in Hume and Kant"

 

Salle E: Schiller et le drame / Aspects of Schiller's Dramas

Président/Chair: David John (University of Waterloo, German)

U. Pasterkiewicz (University of Waterloo, Germanic and Slavic): "Eine Arie für die Braut: Über Schillers Braut von Messina"

E. Schroeder (University of Waterloo, Germanic and Slavic): "Schiller's Amalia in Die Räuber: New Insights Into a Neglected Character"

Peter Trummer (University of Waterloo, Germanic and Slavic): "Die multiplen Vaterbilder und die Erschütterund der Vaterordnungen"

Respondent: David John (University of Waterloo, German)
 
 

11:00-11:30 PAUSE-CAFÉ / COFFEE BREAK

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11:30-12:30 SÉANCE PLÉNIÈRE / PLENARY SESSION

Président/Chair: Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal, Études françaises)

Jean Marie Goulemot

(Université de Tours, Institut Universitaire de France)

"Temps de l'histoire, temps de la littérature"
 
 

12:30-14:00 DÉJEUNER / LUNCH
 
 

14:00-15:30
 
Salle A: Représentations du corps au XVIIIe siècle / Bodies and Clothing in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Frans De Bruyn (University of Ottawa, English):

Robert Merrett (University of Alberta, English): "The Exchange of Body Styles in Eighteenth Century Britain and France"

Raymond Stephanson (University of Saskatchewan, English): "The Enlightenment Penis; Cultural Discourses and the Male Reproductive System"

Helen Lowry (Queen's University, German): "Dressing to Impress: The Female Discourse on the Feminine in the Travelogues of Johanna Schopenhauer and Hester Lynch Piozzi"

 

Salle B: Temps et écriture chez Crébillon / Time and Writing in Crébillon

Président/Chair: Thierry Belleguic (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Jean Sgard (Université de Grenoble, Littérature): "'De deux minutes à un quart d'heure': le temps de l'analyse chez Crébillon"

Jacques Wagner (Université Blaise-Pascal, Littérature): "Temps social et temps personnel dans Les Égarements du coeur et de l'esprit"

 

Salle C: Temps et mémoire dans le roman anglais du XVIIIe siècle / Time and Memory in the English Novel of the Enlightenment

Président/Chair: David Oakleaf (University of Calgary, English)

Sharon Ragaz (University of Toronto, English): "Pathological Time: Madness and Memory in Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian"

Stephen Ahern (McGill University, English): "Mnemonic Possession in Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho"

 

Salle D: Maternité, mariage et domesticité au XVIIIe siècle / Motherhood, Matrimony and Domesticity in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Katherine Quinsey (University of Windsor, English)

Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier University, English): "No Time for the Heart and Maternal Affection: Theory and the Mother and Daughter in Opie's Adeline Mowbray"

Jeanne Wood (University of Alberta, English): "The Literary Woman in the Lady's Monthly Museum (1798-1828): Negotiating Domestic Ideology"

Leslie Ritchie (McMaster University, English): "Mapping "The Region of Our Fears and Our Hopes": Anna Laetitia Barbauld's To Mr. Barbauld, with a Map of the Land of Matrimony"

 

Salle E: Les temps du roman: Tristram Shandy revisité / The Times of the Novel: Tristram Shandy revisited

Président/Chair: Peter Walmsley (McMaster University, English)

Stuart Pierson (Memorial University, History): "Shandean Time and Newtonian Time"

Will McConnell (McMaster University, English): "What Tristram (K)no(w)se?: Subjective Agency, Historical Causality, and Contractual Re-membering of the Social Body in Tristram Shandy"

Grant Campbell (Dalhousie University, Information Studies): "Clocks, Cash and the Enigma of Measurement in Moll Flanders and Tristram Shandy"
 
 

15:30-15:45 PAUSE-CAFÉ/COFFEE BREAK
 
 

15:45-17:30
 
Salle A: Politique et éducation chez Rousseau / Politics and Education in Rousseau

Président/Chair: Daniel Dumouchel (Université de Montréal, Philosophie)

Antoine Sassine (Mount Royal College, Languages): "La représentation du temps chez Rousseau"

Robert Elbaz (University of Haïfa, Études françaises): "Du sujet et du politique chez Rousseau"

Marie-Blanche Tahon (Université d'Ottawa, Sociologie): "Le temps dans l'éducation d'Émile et dans l'éducation de Sophie"

 

Salle B: Religion et colonialisme au XVIIIe siècle / Religion and the Colonies in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Ian Steele (University of Western Ontario, History)

Karen Stanbridge (University of Western Ontario, Sociology): "Eighteenth-Century British Catholic Policy in Ireland and Quebec: An Institutional Approach"

Nancy L. Rhoden (University of Southern Indiana, History): "Religion and Empire: Anglican Political Philosophies in the American Revolution: The Case of the Church of England Colonial Clergy"

Polly Stevens Fields (Lake Superior University, English): "Occam's Razor: Considerations of Native-American Christian Theology in Ontario"

Modératrice / Commentator: Margaret Kellow (University of Western Ontario, History)

 

Salle C: Temps, voyage, fiction / Time, Travel, Fiction

Président/Chair: John O'Neal (Hamilton College, Romance Languages):

Heinz Antor (University of Düsseldorf, English): "Educational Chronotopes in the Eighteenth Century Novel"

Kevin Cope (Louisiana State University): "Men in Black, the Universal Standard Day, and the Regulating of Semi-Fictive Travel Time from Crusoe to Cowper"

Modératrice / Commentator: Brigitte Glaser (University of Eichstaett, English)

 

Salle D: Épistolarité et témoignage au XVIIIe siècle / Epistolarity and Witnessing in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Rosena Davison (Simon Fraser University, Français)

Marie Laure Girou-Swiderski (Université d'Ottawa, Études françaises): "Témoin et juge de son temps? De Robert Challe à Madame de Meinières"

Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal, Études françaises): "De la configuration épistolaire chez Isabelle de Charrière et Constant d'Hermenches"

Susan Dalton (Université de Montréal, Histoire): "Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini's Letters to Her Future Son-in-Law"

 

Salle E: Femmes écrivains dans l'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle I / British Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century I

Président/Chair: Jane Magrath (University of Alberta, English):

Nanette Morton (McMaster University, English): "A Most Sensible Oeconomy: From Spectacle to Surveillance in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall"

Juliette Merritt (McMaster University, English): "The Discourse of Abandonment in Eliza Haywood's The British recluse"

Katherine Binhammer (University of Alberta, English): "Sexual Victims and Political Agents of Seduction: Mary Hays. The Victim of Prejudice"

 

17:45-19:00
ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE ANNUELLE / ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

19:00 RÉCEPTION / RECEPTION

19:30 BANQUET, DELTA ARMORIES

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SAMEDI 18 OCTOBRE / SATURDAY OCTOBER 18

Toutes les séances du congrès se dérouleront à l'hôtel Delta Armouries / All conference sessions will take place at the Delta Armouries Hotel.

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9:00-11:00
 
Salle A: Musique, arts et littérature au XVIIIe siècle / Music, Arts and Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Paul Rice (Memorial University, Music)

Barbara Reul (Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft, Germany): "Aus 1 mach 2: Time Restrictions and Special Music at the Anhalt-Zerbst Court Chapel"

Helen Heller (Brescia College, University of Western Ontario, Français): "Voltaire's La Princesse de Babylone in Opera Form"

Frans De Bruyn (University of Ottawa, English): "The Dutch Literary Response to the South Sea Bubble: an Episode in the Internationalization of Literature and Art"

Jenny McKenney (University of Toronto): "Towards a Medallic History: Numismatics and Textuality (1678-1721)"

 

Salle B: Le XVIIIe siècle sur l'internet / The Eighteenth Century on the Web

Président/Chair: Ray Stephanson (University of Saskatchewan, English)

Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia, English): "Blake and the Microchip: Inscriptive Technologies and Textual Rendering"

Otto Selles (Calvin College, Français): "Huguenots and Philosophes Get Wired: Report on the Naples Conference on Electronic Editions of Eighteenth - Century Correspondences"

Barbara Reul (Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft, Music): "Fasch on the Web"

John Rempel (University of Manitoba, English): "The Extreme Conservatism of Online Discussions of the Eighteenth Century"

 

Salle C: Mathématique et métaphysique du temps au XVIIIe siècle / Mathematical and Metaphysical Time in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Peter Loptson (University of Saskatchewan, Philosophy):

Howard Pollack (Indiana University, German): "The Mathematics of Time in the Eighteenth Century"

Jean-Pierre Schachter (Huron College, University of Western Ontario, Philosophy): "Continuity and Causation in the Eighteenth Century"

Robert Walters (University of Western Ontario, Français): "The Role of Time in the Metaphysical Disputes of Voltaire and Madame du Châtelet"

 

Salle D: Religion, laïcité et identité au XVIIIe siècle / Religion, Laicity and Identity in the Eighteenth Century

Président / Chair: Jean-Jacques Tatin-Gourier (Université de Tours, Littérature)

Roland Bonnel (Dalhousie University, Français): "L'Abbé Claude Fleury: historien de l'Eglise universelle et apologiste de l'église primitive"

Bernard Andrès (Université du Québec à Montréal, Littérature): "La signature maçonnique dans les pétitions québécoises de Pierre de Sales Laterrière (1743-1815)"

Jacques Lemaire (Université Charles de Gaulle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Littérature): "Fondation et limites de la laïcité à la fin du Siècle des Lumières"

Alain Goldschläger (University of Western Ontario, Français): "L'Abbé Grégoire et la question juive ou la naissance d'une problématique identitaire"

 

Salle E: Correspondance et écriture féminine au XVIIIe siècle / Correspondence and Women's Writing in the Eighteenth Century

Présidente / Chair: Minnette Gaudet (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Susan Glover (University of Toronto, English): "Pliny, Swift, and Lord and Lady Orrery in the Epistolary Garden"

Wendy Stewart (McMaster University, English): "The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Barber, and the Conterfeit Letters"

Rosena Davison (Simon Fraser University, Études françaises): "Madame la Marquise Lage de Volude"

Henri Boyi (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Phillis Wheatley and The Other Text"
 
 

11:00-11:30 PAUSE-CAFÉ/COFFEE BREAK
 

11:30-12:30 SÉANCE PLÉNIÈRE/PLENARY SESSION

Présidente/Chair: Brigitte Glaser (University of Eichstaett, English)

Peter Wagner

(Universität Koblenz-Landau)

"Representations of Time in Hogarth's Graphic Art"
 
 

12:30-14:00 DÉJEUNER-LUNCH
 
 

14:00-15:30
 
Salle A: Diderot, le temps et l'esthétique / Diderot, Time and Aesthetics

Présidente/Chair: Catherine Volpilhac-Auger (Université de Grenoble, Littérature)

Marc-André Bernier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Études françaises): "La Lettre sur les sourds et muets de Denis Diderot: une rhétorique du punctum temporis"

Thierry Belleguic (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Temps de la terre, temps de la mémoire: géologie et généalogie dans Le Voyage de Bourbonne de Denis Diderot".

Daniel Dumouchel (Université de Montréal, Philosophie): "Modernité et temporalité dans l'esthétique philosophique"

 

Salle B: Philosophie, progrès et histoire à la fin du XVIIIe siècle / Philosophy, Progress and History at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Otto Selles (Calvin College, Français)

Diane Lamoureux (Université Laval, Sciences politiques): "Condorcet: la raison et le progrès"

Nancy Senior (University of Saskatchewan, Français): "La représentation du temps dans la pédagogie de la Révolution"

Nergis Canefe (York University, Social and Political Thought): "Time and Narratives of National History"

 

Salle C: Temps et histoire au XVIIIe siècle / Time and History in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Stuart Pierson (Memorial University, History)

Walter Zimmerman (University of Western Ontario, History): "Time and the Study of the Eighteenth Century"

George McElroy (University of Indiana, English): "Burke, Francis and India, or Why Hastings Was, and Should Have Been, Impeached"

Arthur Sheps (University of Toronto, History: "Joseph Priestley's Time Charts and the Teaching of History in the Late Eighteenth Century"

 

Salle D: Jane Austen au XXe siècle / Jane Austen and the Twentieth Century

Présidente/Chair: Sarah Frantz (University of Michigan, English):

Robert Eggleston (Okanagan University College, English): "My Date With Emma: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love T.V"

Cecily Devereux (University of Western Ontario, English): "Jane Austen and the Costume of Empire: Imperialist Nostalgia and the New Films"

Kathleen James Cavan (University of Saskatchewan, English): "The Primes of Miss Jane Austen: Twentieth Century Appropriations of Austen's Novels"

 

Salle E: Ebert, Goethe, Wieland: figures du XVIIIe siècle allemand / Ebert, Goethe, Wieland: aspects of the German Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: A.P. Dierick (University of Toronto, German):

Christa Fell (Queen's University, German): "Fortuitous Scholarship: the Case of Johann Arnold Ebert (1723-1795)"

Karin Barton (University of Toronto, German): "Devotionale Lästerungen: Klopstock-Lob bei Goethe"

Rod Milne (University of Toronto, German): "Madness as a (Re)current Event: the Olympics in Wieland's Aristipp"
 
 

15:30-16:00 PAUSE-CAFÉ/COFFEE BREAK
 
 

16:00-17:30
 
Salle A: Temps et méthode chez Bacon, Vico et Corvisart / Time and Method in Bacon, Vico and Corvisart

Président/Chair:

Dennis Desroches (McMaster University, Philosophy): "The Forgotten Limits of Method: Remembering Bacon"

Andreas Motsch (University of Toronto, French): "The Cognitive category of Time in Vico and Lafitau"

John O'Neal (Hamilton College, Romance Languages): "A New Temporality in Medicine: Corvisart's Rescue of Percussion"

 

Salle B: Jane Austen

Présidente/Chair: Cecily Devereux (University of Western Ontario, English):

Sarah S.G. Frantz (University of Michigan, English): "Re-Editing Jane Austen: The Lost Chapters of Persuasion"

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (McGill University, Education): "The Ceaseless Country Dance: Country Dancing as a Temporary Dissolution of Time in Austen's Fiction"

 

Salle C: Femmes écrivains dans l'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle II / British Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century II

Présidente/Chair: Katherine Binhammer (University of Alberta, English):

Jane Magrath (University of Alberta, English): "Prolific Punk, Promiscuous Pen: Teresia Constantia Phillips"

Anne Milne (McMaster University, English): "Labouring-Class Women, Animals and Time"

 

Salle D: État des études dix-huitiémistes en littérature française au Canada / Canadian Eighteenth Century French Studies Today

Table ronde animée par Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal), avec la participation de Marie Laure Girou-Swiderski (Université d'Ottawa) et Servanne Woodward (University of Western Ontario).
 
 

20:00 CONCERT

Talbot Theatre, University of Western Ontario Campus.

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