Wednesday, May 21 (Indiana Memorial Union Faculty Club) 2:30 pm Welcome Dean Kumble R. Subbaswamy (College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University) 3:00-5:00 pm Sophie Gee (English, Princeton University): Holding onto the Corpse: Fleshly Remains in A Journal of the Plague Year (abstract) Anita Guerrini (History, University of California Santa Barbara): An Impolite Science: Public Anatomical Demonstration in the Eighteenth Century (abstract) Commentator: Sarah Knott (History, Indiana University) 6:30 pm Festive dinner at the Kenshur residence Thursday, May 22 (Indiana Memorial Union Distinguished Alumni Room) 9:30-11:00 am Sarah Cohen (Fine Arts, State University of New York Albany): Fashionable Corpses: Animal Death in Hunt Portraiture (abstract) Paul Friedland (History, Bowdoin College): Beyond Deterrence: Animals, Effigies, Suicides and the Logic of Executions in Pre-Modern France (abstract) Lee Sterrenburg (English, Indiana University): Narratives of Extinction in the Eighteenth Century (abstract) Commentator: Richard Nash (English, Indiana University) 11:30 am-1:00 pm Mark Jenner (History, University of York): Death, Decomposition and Dechristianization? Church Burial and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century England (abstract) Erik Seeman (History, State University of New York Buffalo): Jewish Deathways in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (abstract) Commentator: Jonathan Sheehan (History, Indiana University) 1:15 pm Lunch, Samira 3:00-4:30 pm Jonathan Elmer (English, Indiana University): On Lingering and Being Last (abstract) Robert Travers (History, Harvard University): Death and the Nabob (abstract) Commentator: Constance Furey (Religious Studies, Indiana University) Friday, May 23 (Indiana Memorial Union Distinguished Alumni Room) [Morning free for reading] 11:00 am-1:00 pm Adam Potkay (English, College of William and Mary): Joy in Life and in Death (abstract) Faye Stewart (Germanic Studies, Indiana University): Towards a Vocabulary of Same-Sex Desire: Death and the Afterlife (abstract) Jane Taylor (School of Dramatic Art, University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa): Grave Misgivings: Willed Gifts and willful commodities in Richardson's Clarissa (abstract) Commentator: Michel Chaouli (Germanic Studies, Indiana University) 3:00-4:30 pm Paula Lee (Humanities, Univ of South Florida): Death of the King (abstract) Miranda Spieler (History, Columbia University): Legal Fictions of Death in Eighteenth-Century France (abstract) Commentator: Konstantin Dierks (History, Indiana University) 6:30 Banquet dinner, The Runcible Spoon Saturday, May 24 (Indiana Memorial Union Distinguished Alumni Room) 8:30-10:30 am Luke Davidson: The Eighteenth-Century Fascination with Resuscitation (abstract) Howard Pollack-Milgate (Modern Languages, De Pauw University): Death as Screen: Lavaters Aussichten in die Ewigkeit (abstract) Lee Ravitz (History, University of York): Not an Apparition, but an Audition: The Ghost as Public Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England (abstract) Commentator: Oscar Kenshur (Comparative Literature, Indiana University) 11:00 am-12:30 pm Sum-up Session 12:30 Lunch, Indiana Memorial Union Federal Room