PROGRAM (All Sessions and Events Take Place at the Williamsburg Lodge Unless Noted Otherwise)
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PROGRAM (All sessions and events take place at the Williamsburg Lodge unless noted otherwise) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014 Special Workshop 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tidewater Room A&B “Liberate the Text!! (while Creating a Publishable, Digital Textual Edition” Taught by 18thConnect.org of Texas A&M University Laura MANDELL Register in advance at [email protected] (Additional information available at: http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/ general%20site/2014%20Annual%20Meeting.html 4 – 6 p.m. Open House Swem Library at the College of William and Mary The Swem Library is noted for its strong special collections. Come to the Special Collections Research Center and browse selected rare books, manuscripts, and archives pulled specifically for the enjoyment of ASECS. Some of the treasures on display will be a unique first edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia, a first edition of the Book of Mormon, a list of slaves owned by the College of William and Mary, as well as letters from some of our founding fathers, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe. All attendees and their guests are welcome and no registration is required. 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. ASECS Registration Conference Registration I 1 The Annual Meeting of the ASECS THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 8:00 a.m. – 5 p.m. Registration Conference Registration 1 8:00 a.m. – 5 p.m. Book Exhibit Conference Center Foyers SESSIONS I 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. 1. “What Have You Done for Me Philately? New Perspectives on the Stamp Act” Chair: Zach HUTCHINS, Colorado State University 1. J. Patrick MULLINS, Marymount University, “The Sermon that Didn’t Start the Revolution: Jonathan Mayhew’s Role in the Stamp Act Riots” 2. Alexander R. JABLONSKI, Binghamton University, “‘Providence never designed us for negroes’: Race, Slavery, and American Opposition to the Stamp Act” 3. Todd Nathan THOMPSON, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “‘Homespun,’ ‘Indian Corn,’ and the ‘Indigestible… Stamp Act’: An Empire of Stereotype in Franklin’s Letters to the London Press” 4. Clayton ZUBA, University of Delaware, “The Figure of the Indian and the Structure of Empire in Stamp-Act Era Political Cartoons” LCD PROJECTOR PACKAGE 2. “Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century” Chair: Heidi A. STROBEL, University of Evansville 1. Courtney BEGGS, Bridgewater State University, “Reading Ribbons: Textile Tokens, The Foundling Hospital, and Stories of Maternity” 2. Emily WEST, McMaster University, “‘Hands without head would do little’: Mechanizing the Spinster” 3. Mei Mei RADO, Bard Graduate Center, “‘Western Tapestries’ Made in the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Court” 4. Ji Eun YOU, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Printed Fabrics and Textile on Prints: Interior Decoration during the French Revolution” LCD PROJECTOR PACKAGE 3. “The Liminal and Unique: Redefining the Eighteenth-Century Canon” Chairs: Hannah JORGENSON, California State University, Northridge 1. Erin SANDERS, Tufts University, “Amatory Anonymity: Redefining the Amatory Fiction Canon” 2 Thursday, March 20, 2014 2. Marilyn FRANCUS, West Virginia University, “A Major ‘Minor’ Writer: Frances Sheridan” 3. Susan CARLILE, California State University, Long Beach, “Charlotte Lennox: Mind Over Manners” 4. Nicole HOREJSI, Columbia University, “The Canon on Trial: Sarah Fielding’s The Cry and the Eighteenth-Century Novel” LCD PROJECTOR PACKAGE 4. “Mind and Brain: Representing Cognition in Eighteenth-Century Culture” Chair: Hannah Doherty HUDSON, University of Texas, San Antonio 1. Audrey HUNGERPILLER, University of South Carolina, “Clarissa’s Suffering: Theorizing Sympathy and Physical Pain in the Eighteenth Century” 2. Lucas HARDY, Youngstown State University, “‘Beatific Visions of God’: Jonathan Edwards’s Postures of Mind” 3. Stan BOOTH, University of Winchester, “Subtle Gestures: The Portrayal of the Ill and Less Able in Hogarth’s Work” Respondent: Natalie PHILLIPS, Michigan State University 5. “Art and Literature in the Age of Industry” Chair: Susan EGENOLF, Texas A&M University 1. Lynne VALLONE, Rutgers University, “Reproductive Science in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: The Microscope and the Homunculus” 2. David ALFF, State University of New York, Buffalo, “Paper Projections: Aaron Hill’s Beech Oil Bust” 3. Howard HORWITZ, University of Utah, “Crèvecoeur, American Industry, Social Attachment” LCD PROJECTOR PACKAGE 6. “The Vulgar Tongue and Eighteenth-Century Culture and Literature” Chair: Jennifer THORN, St. Anselm College 1. Roxann WHEELER, Ohio State University, “Slang and Race in Great Britain” 2. Janet SORENSEN, University of California, Berkeley, “‘As the Vulgar Express it’: Language and the Low in Fielding and Gay” 3. Samantha PLASENCIA, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, “‘Well, well to the purpose’: Linguistic Diversity, Class, and Nation in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe” 3 The Annual Meeting of the ASECS 7. “Before ‘Culture’: Imagining a Total Way of Life in the Eighteenth Century” Chair: Tim CASSEDY, Southern Methodist University 1. Paula MCDOWELL, New York University, “When Did Orality Become a ‘Culture’?” 2. Jason ROSENSWEIG, University of Chicago, “Cooperation and Community in the British Enlightenment: Liberalism and Forms of Life” 3. Jessica STACEY, King’s College, London, “Barbare (Br)other: Medieval ‘Culture’ in Eighteenth-Century France” 8. “Ossian in Time and Space” Chair: Eric GIDAL, University of Iowa 1. Anthony JARRELLS, University of South Carolina, “Mixed Media: The Ballad, the Tale, and Ossian” 2. Sebastian MITCHELL, University of Birmingham, “Time and Space in the Landscape of Fingal” 3. Bridget MCFARLAND, New York University, “Nation, Union, and a Pantomimick Adaptation of Ossian” LCD PROJECTOR PACKAGE 9. “Representing the Global Dimensions of the American Revolution” Chair: Maria O’MALLEY, University of Nebraska at Kearney 1. Wyger R.E. VELEMA, University of Amsterdam, “From the Old to the New Republic: How the American Revolution Transformed Dutch Political Culture” 2. Thérèse-Marie MEYER, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, “‘Stuck a Bayonet into the grave & Renew’d their Oath’: The American Revolution and the First Fleet” 3. Carol GUARNIERI, University of Virginia, “The Shifting Spaces of Subjecthood in Britain’s Atlantic Empire” 10. “Aesthetic Experience” Chair: Brian Michael NORTON, California State University, Fullerton 1. Amit YAHAV, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, “Burke’s Durational Aesthetics” 2. Andrew BROUGHTON, University of Chicago, “Rethinking Common Sense” 3. Sarah KAREEM, University of California, Los Angeles, “‘Verified by Experience’: The Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Presence” LCD PROJECTOR PACKAGE 4 Thursday, March 20, 2014 11. “Reading Errors in the Eighteenth Century” Chairs: Evan R. DAVIS, Hampden-Sydney College AND Nicholas D. NACE, Binghamton University, State University of New York 1. Jordan HOWELL, University of Delaware, “Correcting Defovian Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Abridgments” 2. Katie LANNING, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Satire by Edition: Error and Alteration in Swift’s Tale of a Tub” 3. Rachel SCHNEIDER, The University of Texas at Austin, “Errors Uncorrected? Form, Fragments, and Henry Stebbing’s A Fragment” 4. Theresa M. RUSS, University of California, Santa Barbara, “‘Skill in Blunder’: Dryden’s Georgics and Its Discontents” OVERHEAD PROJECTOR PACKAGE 12. “Law, Justice and the Humanities: New Work, New Paradigms” Chair: Kathryn TEMPLE, Georgetown University 1. Aparna GOLLAPUDI, Colorado State University, “The Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives in the Old Bailey Proceedings” 2. Susan BROWN, University of Prince Edward Island, “Compelling Performance: Theatrical Property in Eighteenth-Century Chancery Suits” 3. Andrew MAJESKE, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “Rousseau’s Emile and the Education of the Legislator” 13. “Deism: Interdisciplinary and International Contexts” Chair: Michael PRINCE, Boston University 1. Diego LUCCI, American University in Bulgaria, “Varieties of Deism in Enlightenment England” 2. Scott NOWKA, Salem State University, “Charles Gildon’s Transformations: Deism, Materialism, and the Early Novel in England” 3. Andrew CURRAN, Wesleyan University, “‘This Fish is not for Everyone’: Deism, Diderot, and Shaftesbury” LCD PROJECTOR PACKAGE 14. “Like Animals” Chair: Karánn DURLAND, Austin College 1. Jim CARSON, Kenyon College, “Human Sympathy and Animal Agency in Children’s Literature 1783 – c. 1819” 2. Charlotte CRAIG, Rutgers University, “Man’s Recognition of Causal Relationships with Animals as his Eventual Basis for Moral Consideration” 5 The Annual Meeting of the ASECS 3. Peter FOSL, Transylvania University, “Humans, Animals, and Skepticism” 4. Anton MATYTSIN, Stanford University, “Of Beasts and Men: Debates about Animal Souls in the French Literature of the Early Eighteenth Century” 15. “The Female Skeptic” Chair: Melaine HOLM, Fordham University 1. Chantelle MESSIER, University of Connecticut, “‘The Night of Sensual Ignorance’: Wollstonecraft’s Feminist Critique of Rousseau” 2. Stephanie HERSHINOW, Baruch College, City University of New York, ‘She Could Not Believe What She Saw: Skepticism and the Supernatural” 3. Rebecca BARR, National University of Ireland, Galway, “Sarah Fielding’s Skepticism” 4. Terrence HOAGWOOD, Texas A&M University, “Mary Hays’ Skeptical Critique of the Social Code” 16. “Patriots and Empire” Chair: Brent RUSHFORTH, The College of William and Mary 1. Allan MACINNES, University of Stratclyde, “New Horizons and Competing Patriotisms: Scottish Commercial Networking and Imperial Adventuring, 1707–1753” 2.