| 5th Conference of the North Western Section of |
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The British Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies |
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12-13th September 2002
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| 5th Conference of the North Western Section of |
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The British Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies |
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12-13th September 2002
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Registration and accommodation details for the conference
Conference Programme
Thursday 12th September
| 9.30 a.m. - 10.20 a.m. | Registration |
Registration and Coffee
10.20 a.m Welcome to Conference
| 10.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The Political Order: Britain in the 18th Century |
Chair: Frank O'Gorman
Dr. Philip Woodfine, University of Huddersfield:
'Chief in Dignity and Office: the Order of Political Life in the Age of Walpole'.
Dr. Amanda Goodrich, Royal Holloway, University of London:
'Social Structure and Hierarchy: Loyalism and the Debate on the French Revolution'.
Prof. Frank O'Gorman, University of Manchester:
'Was the British Body Politic "Stable" in the Eighteenth Century'?
12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. Lunch
| 1.30 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. | Concepts of Race and European Supremacy |
Chair: Natalie Zacek
Dr. Rosalie McCrea, Academy of Fine Arts, Ontario:
'The Voyage of the Sable Venus: Connoisseurship and the Trivializing of Slavery'.
Dr. Stephen Gregg, Edge Hill College, Liverpool:
'The Order of the British Empire: teaching and editing the literature of Eighteenth Century Imperialism'.
| 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. | Mapping the Antique: Topographies of the Levant |
Chair: Natalie Zacek
Dr. Ian Macgregor Morris, University of Exeter:
'Robert Wood's Trojan Fancies'.
Mr. Kevin King, University of Manchester:
'James Bruce and the "True" Soource of the Nile'.
Dr. James Moore, University of Manchester:
'W.M.Leake:Constructing the Levant'.
4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Tea
| 4.30 p.m. - 5.45 p.m. | Religious Concepts of Order |
Chair: Jeremy Gregory
Dr. Clotilde Prunier, University Paul-Valery, University of Montpellier:
'Scottish Catholics and the French Revolution'.
Dr. William Scott, University of Aberdeen:
'Pulpit versus Pamphlet in Late Eighteenth Century France'.
| 6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. | Plenary Lecture |
Chair: Frank O'Gorman
Professor Peter Linebaugh, University of Toledo:
'An Alternative Order: the Bi-Centennial of the Despard Conspiracy'.
| 7.00 p.m. | Conference Reception |
Friday 13th September
| 9.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. | The Hierarchy of Genres |
Chair: Mark Ledbury
Professor Barbara Anderman, Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania:
'Felibien and the Circle of Colbert: a Re-evaluation of the French Hierarchy of Genres'.
Dr. Aris Sarafianos, University of Manchester:
'Johann Joachim Winckelmann and the Medical Ordering of Aesthetics'.
Orianne Smith, Loyola University, Chicago:
Hester Piozzi and the Feminine Tradition of Prophetic Discourse'.
Dr. Jonathan Simon, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
'The Values of the Mineral Kingdom and the French Republic'.
11.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Coffee
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 a.m. | Plenary Lecture |
Chair: Jeremy Gregory
Professor J.C.D Clark,University of Kansas:
'Cosmic Order in the Eighteenth Century: Did the Enlightenment
Fail?'
12.30 a.m. - 1.30 a.m. Lunch
| 1.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. | The Great Chain of Being and the Principles of Nature |
Chair: Diana Donald
Costica Bradatan, Ph.D. Student, University of Durham:
'The Great Chain of Being in Berkeley's "SIRIS": A User's Guide'.
Stefka Ritche, Ph.D. Student, University of Central England:
'The Scale of Existence from Infinity to Nothing cannot possibly have been: Samuel Johnson and the Great Chain of Being'.
Dr. Joel Richard, University of Bordeaux:
'Handel's English Oratorios: Biblical Musical Dramas and the "Sound of Order".
3.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. Tea
| 3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. | The Social and Political Order: Languages of Politics |
Chair: Frank O'Gorman
Matthew McCormack, Ph.D. Student, University of Manchester:
'Dependence and Independence: Family, Polity and Society in Eighteenth Century
Britain and America'.
Zillah Scott, University of Warwick:
'The Control of Learning and the Church and King Riots in Birmingham, 1791'.
Dr. Marie Hockenhull-Smith: University of Wales:
'Servants' Challenges to the Authority of their Masters'.
5.00 p.m. - 5.15 p.m. Break
| 5.15 p.m. - 6.15 p.m. | Hierarchy and the Encyclopedié |
Chair: Diana Donald
Dr. David Adams, Department of French Studies, University of Manchester:
'Order in the Encyclopedié'.
Dr. Judith Hawley, Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London:
'Encyclopaedic Projects in Britain after the French Revolution'.
| 6.15 p.m. - 7.15 p.m. | Plenary Discussion: Ordering the World in the 18th Century |
Chair: Diana Donald
Enquiries about the Conference may be directed to Frank O'Gorman
(email:fog@man.ac.uk) or to Professor Diana Donald, Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, Righton Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15 6BG (email:
dianadonald@ukonline.co.uk).
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