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British Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies

37th Annual Conference 3-5th January 2008 at St Hugh's College, Oxford

Summary Programme (as at 30th December 2007)


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Thursday 03 January 2008

    
10:00 - 14:00     (Thursday)
Porter's Lodge  Registration: Collect delegate pack from Porter's Lodge on arrival

12:00 - 12:30   (Thursday)    
Maplethorpe Hall  Welcome Address: John Dunkley, BSECS President, Brycchan Carey and Chris Mounsey, BSECS Conference Organisers

12:30 - 14:15   (Thursday)    
Maplethorpe Conference OfficePanel 1 Religious Publishing in the Early Eighteenth Century
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 2 The Mary Toft Case: Fraud, Faith, Femininity
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 3 Architecture, Faith, and Ideas
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 4 Poetic Voices
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 5 Kingship, Religion, and the Politics of the Private
The BoardroomPanel 6 Fables, Tales, and Dialogues of the Dead
Wordsworth RoomPanel 7 Infidelism #1

14:15 - 14:45   (Thursday)    
Maplethorpe Lobbies  Tea
(British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Editorial Board Meeting: Maplethorpe Conference Hall)

14:45 - 16:30   (Thursday)    
Maplethorpe Conference OfficePanel 8 Tolerance and Intolerance: Quakers, Puritans-and Cobbett
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 9 Music in Performance
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 10 Bibliography and Editorship
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 11 Philosophers and Theologians
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 12 Voltaire, Oriental Thought, and Coping with Evil
The BoardroomPanel 13 Churchmen of the 18th Century
The ButteryPanel 14 Reading the Supernatural
Wordsworth RoomPanel 15 Infidelism #2

16:45 - 18:00   (Thursday)    
Maplethorpe Hall  Annual Lecture: Jeremy Gregory (University of Manchester)

Transforming 'the age of reason' into 'an age of faiths': or, putting religions and beliefs (back) into the eighteenth century


Chair: Penny Corfield (Royal Holloway, University of London)

18:00 - 19:00   (Thursday)    
Maplethorpe Seminar Room  British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual General Meeting

19:15 - 20:00   (Thursday)    
Maplethorpe Hall  Reception: hosted by Blackwells

20:00   (Thursday)    
Maplethorpe Hall  Dinner

20:30 - 23:30   (Thursday)    
College Bar  The college bar is open to all from 8.30p.m. to 11.30 p.m.

21:30   (Thursday)    
College Bar  Reception for Post Graduate Students


Friday 04 January 2008

    
08:00 - 09:00     (Friday)
Dining room  Breakfast

09:00 - 10:45   (Friday)    
Maplethorpe Conference OfficePanel 16 Pilgrims, Hutchinsonians and Wesleyans
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 17 Military Matters
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 18 Wollstonecraft in Context
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 19 Faith and the Sentimental Novel
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 20 Politics and Philosophers in Early Eighteenth-Century England
The BoardroomPanel 21 Romanticism
The ButteryPanel 22 Constructing stage images in 18th-century London
Wordsworth RoomPanel 23 Mind and Brain

10:45 - 11:15   (Friday)    
Maplethorpe Lobbies  Coffee

11:15 - 13:00   (Friday)    
Junior Common RoomPanel 24 Round table: Teaching Poetry
Maplethorpe Conference OfficePanel 25 French Philosophers
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 26 Material Cultures
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 27 Belief in the Visual: art and religion in eighteenth-century Britain
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 28 Educating Children
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 29 Revolutionary America
The BoardroomPanel 30 James Macpherson
The ButteryPanel 31 Shakespeare in the Long Eighteenth Century
Wordsworth RoomPanel 32 Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth Century

13:00 - 13:45   (Friday)    
Wordsworth Room  Lunch

13:45 - 15:00   (Friday)    
Maplethorpe Hall  Mason Lecture: Rebecca Ford (University of Nottingham)

'Cyclops and Civilisation': Visiting the Workplace in Enlightenment France

Chair: John Dunkley (University of Aberdeen)

15:00 - 15:15   (Friday)    
Maplethorpe Lobbies  Tea

15:15 - 17:00   (Friday)    
Junior Common RoomPanel 33 Round table: Rethinking the Academic Conference
Maplethorpe Conference OfficePanel 34 The Politics of Anglicanism in the Long Eighteenth Century
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 35 Architects and their Work
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 36 Literary-Musical Partnerships
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 37 The Individual and the State
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 38 Eighteenth-Century France and the Classical World
The BoardroomPanel 39 Women of the World
The ButteryPanel 40 Performance: Theory and Practice
Wordsworth RoomPanel 41 Science, Medicine and the Bodies of the Poor

17:00 - 17:15   (Friday)    
(No venue)  Interlude

17:15 - 19:00   (Friday)    
Junior Common RoomPanel 42 Round table: Radicalism and Memory: History, Reputation and the British Jacobins of the 1790s
Maplethorpe Conference OfficePanel 43 Rethinking the Mediterranean World
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 44 Sermons
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 45 Religion and Natural History
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 46 Edmund Curll, Bookseller
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 47 'Gentlemen, let's drink!'. Classical Symposiasts in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The BoardroomPanel 48 American Colonies
The ButteryPanel 49 The Restoration Stage
Wordsworth RoomPanel 50 Early Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

19:00 - 19:15   (Friday)    
(No venue)  Interlude

19:15 - 20:00   (Friday)    
Maplethorpe Hall  Concert

20:00 - 20:30   (Friday)    
Maplethorpe Lobbies  Post-Concert Reception

20:30   (Friday)    
Dining room  Conference Dinner

20:30 - 23:30   (Friday)    
College Bar  The college bar is open to all from 8.30p.m. to 11.30 p.m.


Saturday 05 January 2008

    
08:00 - 09:00     (Saturday)
Dining room  Breakfast

09:00 - 10:45   (Saturday)    
Junior Common RoomPanel 51 Death, Grief, and Ecstasy: Eighteenth-Century Verse
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 52 The Novel at Mid Century
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 53 Imperialists and Orientalists
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 54 John Wesley and the Methodists
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 55 Formal Reorientations
The BoardroomPanel 56 Religion and the German Enlightenment
The ButteryPanel 57 Taste: Theory and Practice
Wordsworth RoomPanel 58 Parenting

10:45 - 11:15   (Saturday)    
Maplethorpe Lobbies  Coffee

11:15 - 13:00   (Saturday)    
Junior Common RoomPanel 59 Trade and Commerce
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 60 China, Enlightenment, and Romanticism
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 61 The Body, Medicine, and Disease
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 62 Daniel Defoe
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 63 Europe and America
The BoardroomPanel 64 Women, Religion, and Autobiography
The ButteryPanel 65 Ann Radcliffe
Wordsworth RoomPanel 66 Freemasonary and the emergence of religious privacy during the eighteenth century

13:00 - 14:00   (Saturday)    
Dining room  Lunch

14:00 - 15:45   (Saturday)    
Junior Common RoomPanel 67 Round table: Laurence Sterne: Heteroclite Parson
Maplethorpe Seminar RoomPanel 68 Education, Elite Culture, and Religion in the Long Eighteenth Century
Mary Gray Allen Lecture RoomPanel 69 Eighteenth-Century London
Mary Gray Allen Seminar RoomPanel 70 Religion and the Natural Philosophers
Small Senior Common RoomPanel 71 Writing Slavery and Abolition
The BoardroomPanel 72 Asia, Religion, and the West
The ButteryPanel 73 Satire
Wordsworth RoomPanel 74 Later Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

15:45 - 16:00   (Saturday)    
(No venue)  Interlude

16:00 - 17:30   (Saturday)    
Maplethorpe Hall  Keynote Address: John Barrell (University of York)

Rus in Urbe, or Pastoral for Plebeians

Chair: Frank O'Gorman (University of Manchester)

17:30   (Saturday)    
Maplethorpe Hall  End of conference



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