Tentative schedule
- Wednesday 22 May (Abstracts)
- 2:30pm Welcome
- 3:00-5:00
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- Yota Batsaki (Comparative Literature, Harvard University):
Eighteenth-Century Confessional Autobiography and the Rise of the
Privilege Against Self-Incrimination.
- Dirk Oschmann (German Dept, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison): Karl Philipp Moritz's Dialectics of Self and Language
- Elliott Schreiber (German, Indiana University): Reorienting the Self: Spatial Configurations of Subjectivity in Rousseau and Moritz.
- Commentator: Michel Chaouli (German, Indiana University)
- Dirk Oschmann (German Dept, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison): Karl Philipp Moritz's Dialectics of Self and Language
- 3:00-5:00
- Thursday 23 May (Abstracts)
- 9:00-10:30am:
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- Konstantin Dierks (History, Indiana University): What Is the
Opposite of
'the Self'? Problems in Conceptualizing and Historicizing Selfhood.
- Daniel Rosenberg (History, Univ of Oregon): Sign and Self in Condillac.
- Commentator: Sarah Maza (History, Northwestern University)
- Daniel Rosenberg (History, Univ of Oregon): Sign and Self in Condillac.
- 11:00-12:30
- Dana Rabin (History, Univ of Illinois): The Self and Sensibility in
Eighteenth-Century England.
- Cornelia Dayton (History Dept, University of Connecticut): The Frames of Distraction: Negotiating the Boundaries of the Sane Self in Early New England.
- Commentator: Constance Furey (Religious Studies, Indiana University)
- Cornelia Dayton (History Dept, University of Connecticut): The Frames of Distraction: Negotiating the Boundaries of the Sane Self in Early New England.
- Restaurant lunch
- 2:45-4:45:
- Mark Phillips (History Dept, University of British Columbia):
Historical Distance and the Romantic Critique of Enlightenment Histories.
- Sara Eigen (Germanic Languages, Vanderbilt University): The Struggle between "Self" and Species.
- Chenxi Tang (Germanic Studies, Univ of Chicago): The Self as a World-historical Project: Empirical Psychology and Philosophy of History in the Eighteenth Century.
- Commentator: Jonathan Elmer (English, Indiana University)
- Sara Eigen (Germanic Languages, Vanderbilt University): The Struggle between "Self" and Species.
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- Friday 24 May (Abstracts)
- Morning free for reading
- 11:00-12:30
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- Sarah Knott (History, Indiana University): Sensibility and the
Socially-Turned Self.
- Dror Wahrman (History, Indiana University), Proteus Unbound: Personal Identity before the Self.
- Commentator: Felicity Nussbaum (English, UCLA)
- Dror Wahrman (History, Indiana University), Proteus Unbound: Personal Identity before the Self.
- 2:30-4:30:
- Amelia Rauser (Art and Art History, Skidmore College): Unmasking the
Modern Self in 18th-century Caricature.
- Scott Juengel (English Dept, Michigan State University): Oroonoko's Scar.
- Felicity Nussbaum (English Dept, UCLA): The Scarred Self of Smallpox.
- Commentator: Deidre Lynch (English, Indiana University)
- Scott Juengel (English Dept, Michigan State University): Oroonoko's Scar.
- Festive Dinner
- 11:00-12:30
- Saturday 25 May (Abstracts)
- 9:00-10:30
- Natania Meeker (French and Italian, University of Southern California):
Lire
et devenir: The Woman Reader and the Social Transformation of the Self in
Eighteenth-Century France.
- Mary Catherine Moran (History, Queens College, CUNY): Partial and Impartial Spectators: Self Scrutiny and Self Governance in Eighteenth-Century Female Conduct Literature.
- Commentator: Mary Favret (English, Indiana University)
- Mary Catherine Moran (History, Queens College, CUNY): Partial and Impartial Spectators: Self Scrutiny and Self Governance in Eighteenth-Century Female Conduct Literature.
- 11:00-12:30:
- Adriana Benzaquen (History Dept, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada):
Childhood and Identity in Enlightenment Human Science.
- Fritz Breithaupt (Germanic Studies, Indiana University): The Origin of Trauma as an Idea.
- Commentator: Jonathan Sheehan (History, Indiana University)
- Fritz Breithaupt (Germanic Studies, Indiana University): The Origin of Trauma as an Idea.
- 12:30-1:30pm: Lunch (catered)
- 1:30-3:30
- Daniel Gross (Rhetoric Dept, University of Iowa): The Politics of
Pride in David Hume and David Simple.
- Benjamin Bennet (Germanic Studies, Univ of Virginia): The De-Theorizing of the Cartesian Self in "Classical" Weimar.
- Commentator: Hans Adler (German Dept, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Benjamin Bennet (Germanic Studies, Univ of Virginia): The De-Theorizing of the Cartesian Self in "Classical" Weimar.
- 3:30: Good Byes
