Listing of papers, in alphabetic order of authors' surnames....


Teresa Almeida / Vanda Anasstacio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Panel topic: Challenging Theory. Analysis Tools for the Study of the 18th century: Problems and Solutions

     Challenging Theories: New Case Studies Confronting Theoretical Paradigms
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Rachel Adcock,  Loughborough University
Panel topic: Christian Lives

     ‘It was my Heaven in my Hell, that God would be glorified by my destruction’: Grief, Distress and Melancholy in Published Women’s Conversion Narratives at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century
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 Administrative Note: 
Panel topic: French Revolutions: Text and History ( now withdrawn )

     This panel has bee withdrawn
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Anna Agnarsdóttir,  University of Iceland
Panel topic: Writing and Society in the Nordic World

      Anglo-Icelandic Relations 1772-1820: Friends or Foes?
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Majid Alavi Shooshtari, Isamic Azad University of Tabriz
Panel topic: British Travellers

     The Eighteenth Century British Travelogues and Memoirs about Persia
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Katherine Alcauskas,  Yale University Art Gallery
Panel topic: Painting in Context

     Of National Consequence: Catherine the Great, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the Infant Hercules
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Carolyn Anderson, University of Edinburgh
Panel topic: The Mapmakers: The Lives of an Eighteenth-Century Map

     Constructing the Military Landscape: Maps and Mapping in Enlightenment Scotland
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Abraham Anderson, Sarah Lawrence College
Panel topic: Talking Heads and Action Heroes: Political Legacies of Ancient Greece

     Bayle, Gorgias, and ‘There is Nothing'
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Kerri Andrews,  Nottingham Trent University
Panel topic: Ann Yearsley

     The Importance of the Personal Touch: Poetry and Professionalism in New Letters from Ann Yearsley
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Joanne Bailey, Oxford Brookes University
Panel topic: Children and Adults

     Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Self Identity in Life-writing, England c. 1760-1830
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Olga Baird,  Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Panel topic: Britain and Europe

     General Jan Komarzewski: Matthew Boulton's Polish Friend
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James W Baker,  University of Kent, Canterbury
Panel topic: Political Satire

     Hypocrites Censuring Hypocrisy: Metropolitan Visual Satire and the Restrictive Power of British Liberty, 1770-1820
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Sophie Bankes,  Open University
Panel topic: Reading and Writing

     James Lackington: Writing Social Advancement
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Eve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma
Panel topic: Letter Writing: Theory and Practice #2

     Letters and Lives: Samson Occom in England
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Amy Barnett, University of Northampton
Panel topic: Documenting Eighteenth-Century Lives

     Newspaper Advertising and Retail Mapping in Provincial Urban England. The case of Norwich, c 1706 – 1790
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Rebecca Anne Barr,  Qatar University
Panel topic: Intertextual Defoe

     'The Province of the Preacher': Difficulties in Conduct Book Masculinity
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Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University
Panel topic: Asia and Europe

     Christ Stopped at Eboli: Matteo Ripa and the Bringing of Chinese to Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Jennifer Batt, St Hugh's College, Oxford
Panel topic: Labouring-class Poets

     The Blackest Ingratitude of Sly Stephen Duck
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Moritz Baumstark,  University of Cambridge
Panel topic: Sympathy, History, and Ethics: David Hume in Context

     Commerce, Manners and Religion: The Emergence of a New Concept of Philosophical History in David Hume's Writings, 1748-52
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Catherine A. Beaudry, Dickinson College
Panel topic: Autobiography in France

     The Political Impact of Rousseau’s Autobiography
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Andreas Berg,  Griffith Univrsity
Panel topic: Central and Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth Century

     Platonic Learning: Living and Becoming in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Mystical Thought
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Joshua Billings,  Oxford University
Panel topic: Approaches to Eighteenth-century Music

     Epic and Tragic Music: the Union of the Arts in the 18th Century
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Matthew Binney,  Eastern Washington University
Panel topic: British Travellers

     Travel Experiences and the New Nature: From Telos to Commerce to Global Community
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Margaret Bird, Royal Holloway, University of London
Panel topic: Living by the Water in Eighteenth-Century England: Business, Traffic, Art

     Mary Hardy's Family Brewery and the Norfolk Wherrymen
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Laura Blanco de la Barrera,  Santiago de Compostela University
Panel topic: European Crosscurrents

     Unwriting History, Filling Blanks of the National Memory: Enlightened Period in the Galician Case
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John Bonehill, University of Glasgow
Panel topic: The Mapmakers: The Lives of an Eighteenth-Century Map

     ‘To view the north, and west’: Paul Sandby in North Britain
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Lorella Bosco,  Dip. di Lingue e Tradizioni Culturali Europee -Università degli Studi di Bari
Panel topic: Literature and Ideas in the German-speaking World

     Herder’s Reflections on Life Writing in his Introductory Letters to Müller’s 'Bekenntnisse merkwürdiger Männer von sich selbst' (1791)
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Jeremy Boulton,  Newcastle University
Panel topic: Writing Artistic Lives

     The Painter’s Daughter and the Poor Law: or, a Case of Life Imitating Art? Elizabeth Laroon (b. 1689- fl.1736)
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Lia Brad Chisacof,  Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy
Panel topic: The Eighteenth-century Novel #2

     The Romanian and Greek Sources of Anastasius by Thomas Hope (?1770-1831)
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Siv G. Brandtzag,  Dept. of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, NTNU, Trondheim
Panel topic: Sensibility

     Authorial Absence and Lowbrow Literature: The Anonymous Courtship Novels in the Eighteenth Century.
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Conrad Brunstrom, NUI Maynooth
Panel topic: Performance

     Spouting Nonsense?. Amateurism, Club Culture and the Much Maligned 'Spouter'
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Gavin Budge, University of Hertfordshire
Panel topic: Sensibility

     Irritability and Early Romanticism: Medicine, Vitalism and Organicism in the Eighteenth Century
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Rebecca Bullard,  Merton College, Oxford
Panel topic: Women Writers

     Delarivier Manley's 'Memoirs of Europe' (1710) and Laurence Echard's 'Roman History' (1704)
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Paddy Bullard, St Catherine's College, Oxford
Panel topic: Swift: Genre, Reception, and History

     Jonathan Swift and the Natural Law: Gulliver's First Critic
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Michael Burden,  New College, Oxford University
Panel topic: Song and Dance

     Masque, Nationality, and Image; ‘Dancing Dutch’ on the English Stage
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H. Erik Butler,  Emory University
Panel topic: Responses to Revolution

     Joseph de Maistre, the Very Long Eighteenth Century, and Metaphysical Revenge
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Nicholas Anthony Cambridge, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Panel topic: Medical Theory

     Samuel Johnson and Medicine
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Audrey Carpenter,  Loughborough University
Panel topic: Freemasons

     Breaking into the Establishment: the Social Advance of Huguenot Lecturer and Freemason, John Theophilus Desaguliers.
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André Catrou,  Université de Bretagne Sud
Panel topic: Tradesmen

     When the Tradesmen Write about their Experience: the Expression of the Pride of the Trading System and its Legislation in Eighteenth-Century France.
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Ivo Cerman,  University of South Bohemia
Panel topic: Literature and Ideas in the German-speaking World

     Human Rights Theories in the Austrian Enlightenment
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Pauline Chakmakjian, University of Wales, Lampeter
Panel topic: Freemasons

     Masonic Constitutions as Historiography
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Edward Chaney, Southampton Solent University
Panel topic: Catholics and the Arts in the Long 18th Century

     Catholic Collectors and Connoisseurs: Italophiles and Egytomaniacs
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Marianne Charrier-Vozel 
Panel topic: Letter Writing: Theory and Practice #2

     Des règles de l'intime à l'écriture de soi dans les Secrétaires du XVIIIe siècle
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John A. Chartres, University of Leeds
Panel topic: Living by the Water in Eighteenth-Century England: Business, Traffic, Art

     Rivers, Canals and the Port Activities of the Eighteenth-Century English Town
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Nancy Cho, Nottingham Trent University
Panel topic: Unexpected Female Lives: the Prophetess, the Soldier-Actress, and the Bibliophile

     Waiting for Gott: Recovering the Life and Prophetic Writings of Dorothy Gott
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Stephen Clarke, Independent Scholar
Panel topic: Horace Walpole

     'Lord, what a house!'; Describing and visiting Strawberry Hill.
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Pamela Clemit, Durham University
Panel topic: Eighteenth-Century Reading: Innocence and Experience

     Readers Respond to Godwin: The Fabrication of Political Justice
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Marcia Clere-Pennell, University of Utah
Panel topic: Women in the Public Sphere

     Recovering Anne Hunter: Feminism, Lyricism, and the Second-Generation Bluestockings
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Daniel Clinkman,  University of Edinburgh
Panel topic: Britain and Europe

     Union 1707: A Westphalian Perspective
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Michele Cohen, Richmond American International University in London
Panel topic: Education

     'Accomplishments' in Eighteenth-Century Education
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Suzanne Conway,  Chestnut Hill College
Panel topic: Eighteenth-century France

     Jean-Joseph Laborde: A Life of Contrasts
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Daniel Cook, Keele University
Panel topic: Swift: Genre, Reception, and History

     'An unaccountable prejudice': Johnson’s Swift
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Penelope Corfield, All Souls College, Oxford
Panel topic: Where is the Eighteenth Century Going ?

     Where has the Eighteenth Century Been?
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Robert B. Craig, Independent Scholar
Panel topic: The Complex Lives of Natural Philosophers

     Dr. Edward Bancroft: Spy, Counterspy, Intrigue. King George III's Man on the Inside - Well Maybe!
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Charlotte M. CRAIG, Rutgers University
Panel topic: Goethe and his Circle

     From My Life. Poetry and Truth: Goethe's Unconventional Autobiographical Writings
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Mark Crosby, Queen's University Belfast
Panel topic: Patronal Networks in the Romantic Period

     William Hayley: A Patron for all Seasons
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Ildiko Csengei, University of Cambridge
Panel topic: Sympathy, History, and Ethics: David Hume in Context

     The Politics of Sympathy: War and Feeling in the Romantic Period
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Amy Culley, University of Lincoln
Panel topic: Writing Lives and Judging Character: The Ethics of a Genre

     ‘No character exposed wthout just cause’: Court Memoirs and the Queen Caroline Affair
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Anna Cullhed, Uppsala University
Panel topic: Writing and Society in the Nordic World

     Sincere, Passionate, and Poor. The Self-fashioning of a Swedish Author
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Louise Curran,  UCL
Panel topic: Samuel Richardson #1

     “I would chuse to have you drawn in your study…one letter just sealed”: The Author as Correspondent in a Portrait of Samuel Richardson
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Fatemeh Dadash Zadeh, Retired Staff of Zakaria Hospital, Tabriz, Iran.
Panel topic: Medical Lives

     Lives and Midwives: A Review of the Eighteenth Century Gender Transition in Midwifery through Martha Ballard's Diary
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Keri Davies, Nottingham Trent University
Panel topic: Unexpected Female Lives: the Prophetess, the Soldier-Actress, and the Bibliophile

     'My little Cane Sofa and the Bust of Sappho': Elizabeth Iremonger and the Female World of Book-collecting
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Laura Dawkins,  none
Panel topic: Women’s Life Writing

     'A Non Pareil of the Age': Charlotte Charke and the Appropriation of Genre/ Gender.
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James Daybell, University of Plymouth
Panel topic: Letter Writing: Theory and Practice #1

     Early Modern Letterbooks, the Afterlife of Letters and Self Writing
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Maria Valderez de Colletes Negreiros,  Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho - UNESP
Panel topic: Eighteenth-century France

     Montesquieu, the Philosophical Practice
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Richard De Ritter,  University of Leeds
Panel topic: Britain and Europe

     ‘This changeableness in character disturbs me a great deal’: Transformation and Transgression on James Boswell’s Grand Tour
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Rebecca Domke,  University of Glasgow
Panel topic: Women’s Life Writing

     ‘Setting the Record Straight: Corrective Biographies in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck and Biographies’
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Alan Downie, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Panel topic: Where is the Eighteenth Century Going ?

     The Direction of English Studies over the Last Thirty Years
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Carolyn Downs, University of Salford
Panel topic: The Complex Lives of Natural Philosophers

     Reading a Radical Life: The Papers and Publications of Daniel Eccleston
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Zoe Dyndor, University of Northampton
Panel topic: Documenting Eighteenth-Century Lives

     Recreating the Northampton Voter
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Elizabeth Eger, King's College London
Panel topic: Carter, Montagu, Barbauld: Bluestocking Relations and Non-Relations

     Elizabeth Montagu: Female Friendship and Intellectual Networks
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Finn-Einar Eliassen,  Vestfold University College
Panel topic: European Travellers

     Peter Dahl (1747-89) in the Danish-Norwegian Universe
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Timothy Erwin,  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Panel topic: Poets and Poetics #2

     Johnson's Choice
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Christina H. Færch,  Department of Scandinavian, University of Aarhus
Panel topic: Writing and Society in the Nordic World

     Censorship in early 18th Century Denmark and the Life and Writings of Hans Nordrup
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Fayçal Falaky, Tulane University
Panel topic: Living the Enlightenment: Conciliating Philosophy and Biography in Eighteenth-Century France

     'Anti-philosophy' during the Age of the Philosophes
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D. Elias J. Torres Feijó, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Panel topic: Challenging Theory. Analysis Tools for the Study of the 18th century: Problems and Solutions

     Building Memory, Rebuilding Knowledge
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Ariane Fennetaux,  Université Paris Diderot
Panel topic: Reading and Writing

     Portable Desks, Pocket Books, and Penners:Writing the Self and Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
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Marcelo Fabián Figueroa,  European University Institute (Max Weber Programme)
Panel topic: Sensibility

     Solaya o los Circasianos": Juan José Cadalso and the Vicissitudes of the Sensitive Life.
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T Ford,  Monash University
Panel topic: Godwin and Wollstonecraft

     History in the Throng in Mary Wollstonecraft
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A Forestier,  London School of Economics and Political Science
Panel topic: Empire and Exploration: the Two Indies

     The Use of theLlaw in a Small Colonial Community: Debt Litigation in Nevis at the End of the Eighteenth Century
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Jennifer Frangos,  University of Missouri--Kansas City
Panel topic: Eliza Haywood in Context

     'Great and lovely examples of conjugal affection?': Premarital Sex and the Sexual Female in Haywood's 'Love in Excess'
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Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University
Panel topic: Swift and the Book

     Swift, Barber and Morphew: a Case-study in Early Eighteenth-Century Author-printer-publisher Relations
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Aline Gallasch-Hall, University of Evora
Panel topic: Music in Performance

     The Everyday Hard Life of Royal Artists: the Musicians in the 18th Century Portuguese Court
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Anne Barbeau Gardiner, John Jay College, City University of New York
Panel topic: Life and Text in the Late Seventeenth Century

     Sir Roger L'Estrange's Principles
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Christine Gerrard,  Lady Margaret Hall
Panel topic: Eliza Haywood in Context

     Martha Fowke, Clio, and the ‘Scorpion Haywood’.
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Anna P.H. Geurts, University of Oxford
Panel topic: Reading and Writing

     How Can We Know How People Experienced 'things'?
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Evelyn Gonzalez,  California State University, Stanislaus
Panel topic: Gothic Crosscurrents

     Remaining Virtuous in a Corruptible World during Eighteenth Century Gothic
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Elizabeth K. Goodhue,  University of California, Los Angeles
Panel topic: Sarah Fielding in Context

     Talking with the Dead: Sarah Fielding’s 'History of Anna Boleyn' and 'The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia'
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Dragana Grbic,  The Institute for Literature and Art
Panel topic: European Travellers

     Migrations – Daily routine in the Balkans, between South and North or between East and West.
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Stephen H. Gregg, Bath Spa University
Panel topic: Daniel Defoe

     Defoe and the Lives of Gentleman and Mimics
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Matthew Grenby, Newcastle University
Panel topic: Eighteenth-Century Reading: Innocence and Experience

     Imaging the Innocent Reader: Pictorial Evidence of Children's Book Use
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James C. Griesheimer, Luther College
Panel topic: Approaches to Eighteenth-century Music

      Three Incarnations of Godfrey Keller's Treatise on Thoroughbass
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Danielle Grover, University of Southampton
Panel topic: Song and Dance

     Singing Heroines: The Function of Song Texts in Late Eighteenth-Century Anonymous Fiction
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Hans J. Hahn,  Oxford Brookes University
Panel topic: Goethe and his Circle

     Encounters at Pempelfort
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Sören C. Hammerschmidt, University of California, Santa Barbara
Panel topic: Samuel Richardson #1

     The Character(s) of a Novelist; or, Barbauld’s 'Richardson'
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James Hanrahan,  National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Panel topic: Autobiography in France

     Entre histoire et mémoires: Voltaire's autobiographical writings
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Paul A. K. Harper,  Renaissance Institute: Sophia University, Tokyo
Panel topic: Painting in Context

     Gericault's 'Raft of the Medusa' slavery and divorce at the close of the long 18th century.
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Marius Hentea, University of Warwick
Panel topic: Autobiography in France

     The Forged Life of the Marquise de Créquy
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Rachel Hewitt, University of Glamorgan
Panel topic: The Mapmakers: The Lives of an Eighteenth-Century Map

     ‘Curse Upon All Rogues, Say !': Maps, (anti)Jacobites, Satire
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Peter Hinds, University of Plymouth
Panel topic: Seventeenth-century Poets

     John Dryden's Material Texts
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Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire
Panel topic: Roundtable: Popular Conceptions of the World in the Eighteenth Century

     Speakers: Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire; Steve Poole, University of the West of England; Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter; Robert Poole, University of Cumbria
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Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire
Panel topic: Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London

     Towards a Collective Biography of the Prisoners held in New Prison on 1 January 1783.
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Marie Hockenhull Smith,  Sheffield Hallam University
Panel topic: Scriblerians

     'All Unhing’d' Woodward, Gay and Arbuthnot and Three Hours After Marriage.
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Mark Holland, Gale/Cengage Learning, London
Panel topic: Roundtable: Challenges and perspectives of publishing the Long Eighteenth Century online

     Speakers: Dan Burnstone, Arts and Humanities Publishing; ProQuest; Martha Fogg, Adam Matthew Digital; Alastair Dunning, JISC Programme Manager; Mark Holland, Gale/Cengage Learning.
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Richard Holmes,  Bristol University
Panel topic: Poets and Poetics #2

     James Arbuckle’s Glotta (1721): Intertextuality and the Creation of British culture in Post Union Scotland.
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Ferenc Hörcher, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Panel topic: History and Self-Representation

     Enlightened Self-Fashioning: David Hume Looks Into his Own Mirror
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Peregrine Horden,  Royal Holloway University of London
Panel topic: Song and Dance

     The Political Songs of John Freeth (1731–1808): a Recreation
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Sharon Howard, University of Sheffield
Panel topic: Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London

     Making Lives Digital: the Challenge of Creating Plebeian Lives.
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Neil G. Howe,  University of Nottingham
Panel topic: Political Satire

     Tracing a Fox - or - Five Lives of Charles James Fox
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Dragos-Alexandru Ivana, University of Bucharest
Panel topic: The Eighteenth-century Novel #2

     Mis(s)-Reading Life as Romance, or Eighteenth-Century English Quixotism as Political Discourse, Practice, and Moral Reform: The Female Quixote Case
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Leyli Jamali, Islamic Aazd University of Tabriz
Panel topic: Daniel Defoe

     The Defeat of Subjectification in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders
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Judith Jennings, Kentucky Foundation for Women
Panel topic: Self, Womanhood, and Ideology in the Life Writings of 18th Century Quaker Women

     Mary Morris Knowles: Radical, Worldly and 'Gay'
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Kristin Jensen, University of Virginia
Panel topic: Writing Lives and Judging Character: The Ethics of a Genre

     Life Writing and Theophrastan Character
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Greg Johnson,  Pacific Lutheran University
Panel topic: Literature and Ideas in the German-speaking World

     Vocation in Dark Times: Dark Times: The Case of the Early German Romantics
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Jennifer R Jones-O'Neill,  University of Ballarat
Panel topic: Writing Artistic Lives

     Shaping a Life: Sources and Influences in Early Biographies of George Romney
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Victoria Joule,  The University of Plymouth
Panel topic: Satire

     'An utter stranger to hatred and revenge?': Manley’s Self-definition Through Satiric Attack on Former Friends Richard Steele and Catherine Cockburn Trotter.
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Laura Kennedy,  Loughborough University
Panel topic: Representing Medicine

     ‘When she wants a piece of the kissing part’: Representation of Cleft Lip and Palate in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Alain Kerherve 
Panel topic: Letter Writing: Theory and Practice #1

     Women’s lives in The Complete Letter-Writer (1764)
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Abdulhafeth A. Khrisat,  Middle East University for Graduate Studies
Panel topic: Gothic Crosscurrents

     Experience, Fantasy and Reality in William Beckford's Vathek
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James Kirwan, Kansai University
Panel topic: Sympathy, History, and Ethics: David Hume in Context

     Hume and Aesthetic Ethicism
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Sally-Ann Kitts, University of Bristol
Panel topic: Women in the Public Sphere

     Diaries of a Despot? Revealing the Multiple Identities of Elizabeth Holland
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Philip Knee,  Université Laval
Panel topic: Responses to Revolution

     Joseph de Maistre et les paradoxes du traditionalisme
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Melinda Palmer Kolb,  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Panel topic: Samuel Richardson #2

     The life and death of Sir Charles Grandison
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Insa Kringler,  Center of Excellency Enlightenment - Religion - Knowledge, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Panel topic: Seventeenth-century Women

     “there is nothing that I love better then good letters” – Lady Masham’s Intellectual Life between the Cambridge Platonists and John Locke with Special Regard to the Debate on the Plastic Nature as the Principle of Life
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Bonnie Latimer, University of Leeds
Panel topic: Samuel Richardson #2

     Latitudinarian Lovelace
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Peter Leech, Swansea University
Panel topic: Catholics and the Arts in the Long 18th Century

     Singing the Lord's Song in a Atrange Land: Matthew Locke (c. 1622-1677) and the late 17th-century London Catholic Community
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Karl Leydecker,  University of Kent
Panel topic: Women Writers

     Women, Divorce and Displacement: Representations of Women’s Lives After Divorce in the European Novel around 1800
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Annika Lingner,  Universität Leipzig
Panel topic: Eighteenth-Century Reading: Innocence and Experience

     'Wir können Geschriebenes nicht gut lesen' Beyond the epistolary novel - Mediality and the Letter in 18th Century German Tragedy
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Christophe Litwin, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Panel topic: Living the Enlightenment: Conciliating Philosophy and Biography in Eighteenth-Century France

     Rousseau’s Philosophical Fiction of Jean-Jacques
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Sarah Lloyd, University of Hertfordshire
Panel topic: Urban Experiences

     Noah’s Arks and Wretched Hovels: Poor People and Cottage Discourse in Colonial Contexts, c.1780-1830
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Georgina Locke, Nottingham Trent University
Panel topic: Unexpected Female Lives: the Prophetess, the Soldier-Actress, and the Bibliophile

     Manual Exercises: Female Creativity at the Theatrical Margins
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Eli Løfaldli,  Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Panel topic: The Eighteenth-century Novel #2

     The Wigless Wildgoose: The Semiotics of the (Absent) Wig in Richard Graves’ The Spiritual Quixote
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Christophe Loir,  Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - Fonds de la Recherche scientifique (FNRS)
Panel topic: Urban Experiences

     New urban Experiences in the Context of the Metamorphosis of a City: the Case of Brussels (1775-1840)
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Diego Lucci, American University in Bulgaria
Panel topic: European Travellers

     English Society in the Eyes of an Eighteenth-Century Italian Intellectual: Luigi Castiglioni’s Travel in England in 1784-85
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Holly Luhning, McGill University
Panel topic: Eliza Haywood in Context

     Walpole’s Lascivious Monkey: Politics and The Female Body in Haywood’s The Adventures of Eovaai
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Greg Lynall, University of Liverpool
Panel topic: Scriblerians

     Heavy Bodies in Swift's A Tale of a Tub
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Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
Panel topic: Roundtable: Academic perspectives on publishing the Long Eighteenth Century online

     Speakers: Adam Rounce, Manchester Metropolitan University; Eve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma; Kate Rumbold, The Shakespeare Institute; Nicholas Cambridge, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.
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Rosie MacArthur, University of Northampton
Panel topic: Documenting Eighteenth-Century Lives

     Luxury and death in the Eighteenth Century: the Funerary Bill of Mrs Dolliffe.
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Ian Macgregor Morris, Nottingham University
Panel topic: Talking Heads and Action Heroes: Political Legacies of Ancient Greece

     Celebrated Poets of their Nations: The Leonidas' of Richard Glover and Willem van Haren
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Ian Macgregor Morris, Nottingham University
Panel topic: Roundtable: Reinventing History -The Enlightenment Discovery of Ancient History

     Speakers: Ian Macgregor Morris (University of Nottingham), James Moore (Institute of Historical Research), Andrew Bayliss (University of Birmingham), Martha Zebrowski (Columbia University), Abraham Anderson (Sarah Lawrence College)
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Joanna Maciulewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University
Panel topic: Samuel Richardson #2

     “Never was there such a pair of scribbling lovers as we” – Richardson’s Clarissa, or the History of Writing
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David N. Macklovitch,  Columbia University
Panel topic: Rhetoric and Polemic in Eighteenth-Century France

     Rhétorique et conversation au dix-huitième siècle : Les Agréments du langage
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Jacqueline Malchow,  University of Hamburg
Panel topic: Performance

     Changing With the Times: the Acting Troupe of Friedrich Ludwig Schröder
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Laura Martinez Garcia, Universidad de Oviedo (University of Oviedo)
Panel topic: Performance

     The Education of Women in the 18th Century: a Defence of 'Literate Women' in Susannah Centlivre's 'The Basset Table' (1705)
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Tom Mason,  University of Bristol
Panel topic: Chaucer and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

     Lives and Afterlives: Some Curious Eighteenth-Century Chaucerian Manifestations
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Jenny McAuley,  University of Oxford
Panel topic: Gothic Crosscurrents

     Mrs Radcliffe and Marie de France: Writing the Lives of Women Authors in Gaston de Blondeville (1826).
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David McCallam, University of Sheffield
Panel topic: Rhetoric and Polemic in Eighteenth-Century France

     Avalanche!Risk and Rhetoric in French Writing on the Alps in the late Eighteenth Century
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William McCarthy, Iowa State University
Panel topic: Carter, Montagu, Barbauld: Bluestocking Relations and Non-Relations

     Could a Dissenter Find True Love in the Establishment? Anna Letitia Barbauld and the Bluestocking Circle
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Matthew McCormack, University of Northampton
Panel topic: Martial Performances

     Embodied Militia: Masculinity and Military Drill in Mid-Georgian England
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Cindy McCreery, University of Sydney
Panel topic: Satire

     Satirical Prints, Female Sexuality and Moral Panics in Late Eighteenth-Century England
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John McTague, University of Oxford
Panel topic: Lives Unlived

     The Prenatal Disinheritance of James Francis Edward Stuart by the British Press
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Debbie McVitty,  Oxford University
Panel topic: Sarah Fielding in Context

     ‘So much for philosophy’:: Women Writers’ Critique of Philosophy in Enlightenment Britain
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Shelley Meagher, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast
Panel topic: Patronal Networks in the Romantic Period

     Competing Patronage Networks in County Down
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Monica Michaud, Princeton University
Panel topic: Empire and Exploration: the Two Indies

     The Political Stakes of Cultural Representation in L'Abbe Raynal's L'Histoire des Deux Indes
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Zarui Migranyan,  Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO)
Panel topic: Political Satire

     Early British Enlightenment: The “Great Wits” at the Battlefields of the “Paper-wars”.
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Natasha Mihailovic,  University of Exeter
Panel topic: English Society in the Long Eighteenth Century

     Eighteenth-Century Deaths: The Undertaking Trade in England
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D. M. Minchella Delphine, University of Glasgow
Panel topic: Letter Writing: Theory and Practice #2

     Quels destins pour une femme écossaise au XVIIIe siècle?
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Dafydd Moore, University of Plymouth
Panel topic: Westcountry Lives

     Sociable Lives: Richard Polwhele and Provincial (Auto)biography in the late 18th century.
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Andrew Moore, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service
Panel topic: Living by the Water in Eighteenth-Century England: Business, Traffic, Art

     Painting and Promoting the Norfolk Waterways 1780-1830
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Erin Moran,  Temple University
Panel topic: English Society in the Long Eighteenth Century

     Painters of the ‘Noble Science’: Boxing, the Male Body and the Regency Buck
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Andreas Mueller, University of Worcester
Panel topic: Roundtable: Form and Function in Daniel Defoe's Non-fictional Writings

     Chairperson: Andreas Mueller Speakers: Aino Makikalli (University of Turku), James Kelly (Worcester College, Oxford), Penny Pritchard (University of Hertfordshsire), Evert Jan van Leeuwen (Leiden University)
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Junko Nakagawa, Kumamoto University
Panel topic: The London Poor

     The Image and the Reality of the ‘Poor Palatine’ in Early Eighteenth-Century London
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Paul Nash,  University of Edinburgh
Panel topic: Horace Walpole

     'Mi Li' Revisited: Horace Walpole and the Idea of China
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Pete J. Newbon,  King's College, University of Cambridge
Panel topic: Children and Adults

     Wordsworth, Childhood, and Learning to Live through Objects.
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Edwina Newman, Open University, University of Birmingham
Panel topic: Self, Womanhood, and Ideology in the Life Writings of 18th Century Quaker Women

     Working Title: Current Trends in Historical Research on 18th Century Quaker Women
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Terri Nickel,  Bowdoin College
Panel topic: Domestic Life

     Girls and Their Squirrels:: Liminal Pets and the Discourse of Liberty
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Yvonne Noble, 
Panel topic: Seventeenth-century Poets

     Life Writing: Anne Finch on the Longleat Tapestry
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Peter Benedict Nockles, John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
Panel topic: Religion and Literature in the Long 18th Century

     Reactions to Robert Southey's 'Life of Wesley' (1820), with Special Reference to Alexander Knox.
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Brian Norman, Open University, retired
Panel topic: History and Self-Representation

     Gibbon's Memoirs, a Model of Eighteenth-Century Autobiography?
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Lucien Nouis, New York University
Panel topic: Living the Enlightenment: Conciliating Philosophy and Biography in Eighteenth-Century France

     Living up to One’s Words: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Impossible Life of the Philosopher
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Siobhan O'Donnell,  National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare
Panel topic: Samuel Richardson #1

     Richardson and Milk
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Jennifer Orr,  University of Glasgow
Panel topic: Labouring-class Poets

     Samuel Thomson: Rhyming and Weaving the Political landscape in 1790’s Ulster
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David O'Shaughnessy,  Univrsity of Oxford
Panel topic: Godwin and Wollstonecraft

     ‘All this at present is mere abstraction’: William Godwin’s Diary
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Bill Overton, Loughborough University
Panel topic: Roundtable: Reading an under-discussed poem: Dyer's 'Grongar Hill'

     Speakers: David Fairer (University of Leeds), Clare Brant (King's College London), Rachel Crawford (University of San Francisco), Richard Terry (University of Northumbria), Bill Overton (Loughborough University)
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Bill Overton, Loughborough University
Panel topic: Poets and Poetics #1

     Poetry and Protest in Hervey's 'Epistles in the Manner of Ovid'
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Danielle Overy Beckett,  Brock University
Panel topic: Education

     Schooling in Niagara-on-the-Lake around 1830
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E.J.L. Pardoe, Northwestern University
Panel topic: Transatlantic Contexts

     When Virtù Courts Virtue: The Novels of Jane Austen in Transatlantic Context
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Nicola Parsons,  University of Sydney
Panel topic: Life and Text in the Late Seventeenth Century

     Carte de tendre: Mapping Intimacy and Writing in Queen Anne’s Court
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K. Tawny Paul,  University of Edinburgh
Panel topic: Tradesmen

     Tradesmen, Craftsmen and the Personal Experience of Debt in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
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Lissa Paul, Brock University
Panel topic: Education

     Eliza Fenwick: Niagara-on-the-Lake around 1830
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Dianne Payne,  University of Hertfordshire
Panel topic: Family Feuds, Thief-Takers and Young Offenders

     Children at the Old Bailey, 1700 to 1780
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Sanja Perovic,  King's College London
Panel topic: Lives Unlived

     Exemplary Histories in an Age of Revolution: The Global History that Never Was
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Róbert Péter, Institute of English and American Studies
Panel topic: Freemasons

     Gendering English Masonic Ideology and Practice in the 18th Century
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Murray G.H. Pittock, University of Glasgow,
Panel topic: Roundtable: Writing Burns' Life, Editing Burns' Work

     Speakers: Caroline Baraniuk, University of Glasgow/Stranmillis University College Belfast; Pauline Gray, University of Glasgow; Hamish Mathison, University of Sheffield; Gerry Carruthers, University of Glasgow; Stephen Gill, Lincoln College, Oxford; Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews.
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Nicole Pohl, Oxford Brookes University
Panel topic: Carter, Montagu, Barbauld: Bluestocking Relations and Non-Relations

     Relative Values: Household and Community in Sarah Scott
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Anne Pollok,  University of South Carolina at Columbia
Panel topic: The Eighteenth-century Jewish World

     A Hermeneutics of Authenticity
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Lyndsay Poore, University of Hertfordshire
Panel topic: Family Feuds, Thief-Takers and Young Offenders

     'I will give you Humming…': An Exploration of vVolence in East Sussex, 1726-1760
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Fiona Price,  University of Chichester
Panel topic: The Eighteenth-century Novel #1

     The British Historical Novel: The Whigs, the Stuarts and Leland’s Fictionalised History.
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Penny Pritchard, University of Hertfordshire
Panel topic: Life and Text in the Late Seventeenth Century

     'A Godly Example, A Publick Spirit' : The Life of Dr Samuel Annesley
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Jonathan Pritchard, Independent Scholar
Panel topic: Scriblerians

     Pope at Chiswick
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Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, The Pennsylvania State University
Panel topic: Children in Text and Image

     'Textual memory' Traces of Children’s Play with Moveable Books as Life Writing.
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Susan Helen Reynolds, The British Library
Panel topic: Central and Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth Century

     Papageno and the Patriots: Václav Thám and the Theatre in Prague
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Sian Reynolds, University of Stirling
Panel topic: Writing Lives and Judging Character: The Ethics of a Genre

     Madame Roland (1754-1793): Memoirs, Life-writing and Character
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Emily Richardson,  Queen Mary, University of London
Panel topic: Satire

     ‘It is better to say something silly than to say nothing at all’: The Livre de Caricatures Tant Bonnes que Mauvaises.
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Charlotte Roberts,  Cambridge University
Panel topic: History and Self-Representation

     The Marmoreal Edward Gibbon: Autobiography as Ruin.
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Thomas G Rodgers,  University of Warwick
Panel topic: Rebellion; Mutiny; Scandal: Military Indiscipline

     Crushing Rebellion in Transatlantic Context: The Forty-Five and the Carolina Regulators
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Vanessa L. Rogers, Wabash College, Indiana
Panel topic: Approaches to Eighteenth-century Music

     Ballad Operas Online: a Synoptic View of Europe's First Popular Music Industry
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Adam Rounce, Manchester Metropolitan University
Panel topic: Swift and the Book

     Between Dublin and London: Textual Problems in Swift’s Irish Pamphlets
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Andrew Rudd,  Florida State University London Study Centre
Panel topic: Asia and Europe

     Lord Teignmouth and the Evangelisation of Sir William Jones
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Raffaele Ruggiero,  University of Bari
Panel topic: European Crosscurrents

     The Life of Giambattista Vico Written by Himself. Enlightenment in Naples
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Kate Rumbold,  The Shakespeare Institute
Panel topic: Chaucer and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

     'Our Shakespeare': Fighting Talk at the 1769 Stratford Jubilee
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Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, University of Sunderland
Panel topic: Transatlantic Contexts

     Brief Lives and Lingering Deaths: Female Martyrs of the American Revolution
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Tatiana Saburova,  Omsk State Pedagogical University
Panel topic: European Travellers

     Russian Intellectual as European: Travelling through the Long Eighteenth Century.
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Karen Santos da Silva,  New York University
Panel topic: Sensibility

     Between Libertinage and Sentimentality: Sensibility in Mme Riccoboni's Lettres de Mylord Rivers
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Jennifer Sarha,  University of Leeds
Panel topic: Loose Women: Depictions of Female Sexuality in 18th Century Print Culture

     Sodomy as Erotic Spectacle in John Cleland's 'The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'
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Jutta Schamp,  California State University Northridge
Panel topic: The Eighteenth-century Jewish World

     Black and Jewish Relations in Ignatius Sancho’s Letters and Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative
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Freek Schmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Panel topic: The Complex Lives of Natural Philosophers

     Space for Experiment: Teyler’s Oval Room
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Leonard Schwarz,  University of Birmingham
Panel topic: The London Poor

     The Lives of the London Poor in the Eighteenth Century: Connections, Patterns and the Fragmented Lives of 56,000 Paupers
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William Scott, ex University of Aberdeen
Panel topic: Responses to Revolution

     Government and the Individual: Some Historical Observations
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Randi Margrete Selvik,  Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Panel topic: Music in Performance

     Orchestra and Concert Repertoire in Bergen (Norway) in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
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B. A. Paula Fernández Seoane, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Panel topic: Challenging Theory. Analysis Tools for the Study of the 18th century: Problems and Solutions

     Networks, Groups and Public Institutions. Problems and Solutions on Primary Source Material
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Naoko Seriu, European University, Max Weber Programme
Panel topic: Eighteenth-century France

     The emergence of the concept of national identity among the officers in the French army in the century of the Enlightenment
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Alison E M Shell, University of Durham
Panel topic: Religion and Literature in the Long 18th Century

     An Elizabethan Martyr in the Long Eighteenth Century: Edmund Geninges's Afterlife
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Robert Shoemaker, University of Sheffield
Panel topic: Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London

     Why trace Plebeian Lives?
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Douglas Simes, University of Waikato
Panel topic: Rebellion; Mutiny; Scandal: Military Indiscipline

     'A True Narrative of an Unfortunate Elopement':Thomas and Rosalinda Simes,Self-publicised Scandal,and the Disruption of a Promising Military Career.
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Alecia Simmonds,  Sydney University and Visiting Scholar at Birkbeck College
Panel topic: Empire and Exploration: the Two Indies

     Friendly Exchange: Friendship, Commerce and Violence in British-Tahitian relations, 1760-1815
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Judith Bailey Slagle, East Tennessee State University
Panel topic: Medical Lives

     Opposing the Medical World: The Life and Poetry of Anne Home Hunter
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Maria Katarzyna Smolenska Greenwood,  Université de Paris 7 Denis Diderot (retired)
Panel topic: Children in Text and Image

     Paintings as documents: Children's Real Lives in 18th Century Britain
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Lynn Sorge-English,  Dalhousie University
Panel topic: Tradesmen

     Revelations of a Tradesman: Richard Viney, Staymaker, 1744
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Aloisia Sorop,  University of Craiova
Panel topic: Central and Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth Century

     ‘Having eyes, how could I not see, and seeing, not observe, and observing, not compare, and comparing, not judge the good and desire to show it to my fellow countrymen?’ or the Dawn of Belated Enlightenment in Romania
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Allan Sortkaer,  Scandinavian Department, University of Aarhus
Panel topic: Christian Lives

     The Story of a Greenlandic Girl, Who Could Not Stop Crying
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Michael Sosulski,  Kalamazoo College
Panel topic: Goethe and his Circle

     “Immer getrost und thätig:” Goethe’s Concept of Vocation
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Vicki A. Spencer,  University of Otago
Panel topic: Turkey

     Montagu's Turkish Experience
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Amanda Springs,  City of New York, Graduate Center
Panel topic: Satire

     Satirical Body, Bawdy Satire: Aphra Behn, the Earl of Rochester, and the (Im)Potence of Satire.
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Andrew E. Starkie, St Andrew's Vicarage, Ashington
Panel topic: Religion and Literature in the Long 18th Century

     Richard Fiddes's Life of Cardinal Wolsey (1724): the Context of its Publication and the Controversy it Provoked
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Jessica Steinberg,  University of Ottawa
Panel topic: The London Poor

     'An absolute necessary has arisen, of finding some means to check the further increase of Poor Rates: The Discussions of Gilbert’s Act in London Newspapers
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Dustin D Stewart,  University of Texas at Austin
Panel topic: Poets and Poetics #1

     'The Pleasures of Imagination' and the Lives of Meaning: Reading Akenside, Reading Allegory
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Mika Suzuki, Shizuoka University
Panel topic: Women in the Public Sphere

     Recording and sharing experience: ‘the Medicine of Life’
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Lydia Syson,  Independent Scholar
Panel topic: Medical Lives

     Life of a Salesman: Dr James Graham and Autobiographical Self-publicity
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Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov, Collegium for Advanced Studies
Panel topic: Domestic Life

     Serving the Master or the Plot? The Servant as the Master’s Messenger in the 18th-century Domestic Novel
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Josephine Teakle, Independent Scholar
Panel topic: Self, Womanhood, and Ideology in the Life Writings of 18th Century Quaker Women

     Working Title: Mary Birkett Card: From Abolitionist to Obedient Wife
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Carl Thompson,  Nottingham Trent University
Panel topic: Intertextual Defoe

     Romantic-Era Fiction and the Figure of the Female Crusoe: Trangression and Regulation, Feminism and Anti-Feminism
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Paul D. Tonks, Yonsei University (Underwood International College)
Panel topic: Asia and Europe

     Evaluating the Emergence of the 'Modern' World-System: Scottish Political Economy and Asia's Historical Place in the Global Order
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Nicholas Tosney,  University of York
Panel topic: English Society in the Long Eighteenth Century

     ‘The great bane of the nation ?' Responses to Gaming in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
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Janice Turner, University of Hertfordshire
Panel topic: Family Feuds, Thief-Takers and Young Offenders

     The Thief-takers of Rosemary Lane, 1732-1755
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Myra L. Valley,  McMaster University
Panel topic: Representing Medicine

     Plague In Absentia: The Concern for Bubonic Plague in Eighteenth-Century England
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Maurizio Valsania,  University of Torino
Panel topic: Transatlantic Contexts

     The Curse of History, the Curse of Nature: Thomas Jefferson’s Peculiar Enlightenment
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Claudine van Hensbergen, University of Oxford
Panel topic: Lives Unlived

     'How cruel have you been in concealing thus long your name, and thereby hindring me from paying those respects that are due to the fame and quality of the Lady Creswel?': The Fictional Life of Mother Creswell
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William Van Reyk,  Keble College, Oxford
Panel topic: Christian Lives

     Exemplary Christian Men and Women in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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Stephen Van-Hagen, Edge Hill University
Panel topic: Labouring-class Poets

     New Light on the Life of James Woodhouse (1735-1820), the 'Poetical Shoemaker'
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D. Raquel Bello Vázquez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Panel topic: Challenging Theory. Analysis Tools for the Study of the 18th century: Problems and Solutions

     Occupying Empty Spaces: Discipline Boundaries on Culture Analysis
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Elizabeth Veisz,  University of Maryland
Panel topic: Martial Performances

     “Command Performance: Soldiering and Sensibility in Boswell’s Journals”
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Sabine Volk-Birke,  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Panel topic: The Eighteenth-century Novel #1

     Questions of Taste: The Critic as Connoisseur and the Hungry Reader
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Natalia Voloshkova, Donetsk National University
Panel topic: The Eighteenth-century Novel #1

     Writers and Politics: An Inquiry into Henry Fielding's Political Ideas
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Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter
Panel topic: Loose Women: Depictions of Female Sexuality in 18th Century Print Culture

     Politics and the Biologically-Suspect Woman
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Darren Wagner, University of Saskatchewan
Panel topic: Loose Women: Depictions of Female Sexuality in 18th Century Print Culture

     The 'libidinous fury': Physiologies, Pathologies, and Metaphors of the Womb
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Marilyn Walker,  National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Panel topic: Ann Yearsley

     Worker’s Unite: Class Consciousness in Ann Yearsley’s ‘A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade’
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Taylor Walle,  Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Panel topic: Women Writers

     The Real World: How Burney Uses 'Evelina' to Educate Young Women about the Danger of Rape
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Rose Wallis,  The University of the West of England
Panel topic: Westcountry Lives

     Magistracy and the Crisis of Paternalism in the 1790s: The case of George Donisthorpe of Somerton
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Marcus Walsh, University of Liverpool
Panel topic: Swift and the Book

     Swift and the Mock-Book
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Tsai-Yeh Wang,  University of Birmingham
Panel topic: Responses to Revolution

     Patriotism and Nationalism in the Age of the French Revolution: A Study of British Women’s Travel Writings
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Caroline Warman,  Jesus College, University of Oxford
Panel topic: Medical Theory

     The Private Lives of Organs: Physiological Theories of Animal and Individual Life in Late Eighteenth-Century France
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Olivia A. Weisser,  Johns Hopkins University
Panel topic: Representing Medicine

     Gendered Perceptions of Illness, 1650-1720
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Deborah Welham, University of Winchester
Panel topic: Performance

     ‘Sense against nonsense’: Mrs Aubin, Mrs Midnight and the Politics of Women’s Oratory.
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Jed Wentz, 
Panel topic: Workshop: ‘And leaves the world to darkness and to me’: Gilbert Austin’s light on Gray’s ‘Elegy’

     NOTE: this is small workshop to examine Gray’s ‘Elegy’. Numbers are limited to 20, and you will need to sign up in advance at the conference help desk
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Rowland Weston, The University of Waikato
Panel topic: Godwin and Wollstonecraft

     ‘Genuine, Independent Man’: William Godwin and the Seventeenth Century
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Pamela W. Whedon,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panel topic: Painting in Context

     Sensing Watteau: The Artist’s Musical Images as Expressions of Individual and Group Sensibility
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Maurice Whitehead, Swansea University
Panel topic: Catholics and the Arts in the Long 18th Century

     John Thorpe(1726-1792), Jesuit and Antiquarian
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Tessa Whitehouse,  Queen Mary, University of London
Panel topic: Christian Lives

     Dissenters' Lives in Print 1742, 1795
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Abigail Williams, St. Peter's College, Oxford
Panel topic: Swift: Genre, Reception, and History

     ‘I hope to write as bad as ever’: Swift’s Journal to Stella and the Nature of Correspondence
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Laurence Williams,  Magdalen College, Oxford University
Panel topic: Turkey

     ‘That place where the capital of the world ought to be placed’: Elizabeth Craven’s Constantinople
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Gunda Windmueller,  University of Bonn
Panel topic: Martial Performances

     ‘By all that’s good, a man: shall I shoot him?’ – Amazons in Eighteenth-Century Naval Plays
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David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University
Panel topic: Unexpected Female Lives: the Prophetess, the Soldier-Actress, and the Bibliophile

     Manual Exercises: Female Creativity at the Theatrical Margins
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Helen Yallop,  King's College London
Panel topic: Medical Theory

     Physical Autobiography and the Importance of the Body
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Masano Yamashita, Virginia Tech
Panel topic: Living the Enlightenment: Conciliating Philosophy and Biography in Eighteenth-Century France

     Philosophy as a Way of Life: Poverty and the Figure of the Philosopher in Marivaux, Rousseau and Voltaire
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Tsai-ching Yeh,  Huafan University (Taiwan, R. O. C.)
Panel topic: Daniel Defoe

     From Roguery to Gentility: Concept of Property and Social Order in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders
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Sharon Young,  University of Worcester
Panel topic: Poets and Poetics #2

     Women's Country House Poetry: Biography or Autobiography?
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Martha K. Zebrowski, Columbia University
Panel topic: Talking Heads and Action Heroes: Political Legacies of Ancient Greece

     ‘England is Compleat where Athens was Deficient’: William Smith’s 1753 Translation of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War
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Britt Zerbe,  University of Exeter
Panel topic: Rebellion; Mutiny; Scandal: Military Indiscipline

     Mutinies of 1797: The Loss of a Georgian Disciplinary Force
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