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Philosophical Questions, Literary Practices:
Fiction and Form in the Long Eighteenth Century
1:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 7th
9:30 a.m.
This conference features the work of up and coming scholars working at the intersection of eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, and aesthetics. We plan to examine literature and philosophy's formal techniques not merely as receptacles for ideas, but as integral components of the investigations in which both are engaged. Working across genres and disciplines, participants will pursue the relationship of literature to philosophy as at once a historically specific eighteenth-century phenomenon—a phenomenon that sheds light on important eighteenth-century cultural contexts—and also as a conceptual model that may anticipate several current critical trends. Possible areas of inquiry therefore include: What are the literary consequences of eighteenth-century ontological debates? What happens when questions of belief are situated within a rhetorical framework (the novel) that itself challenges c redulity? How do philosophical considerations of personal identity bear upon ongoing critical discussions about the status of the subject? How might eighteenth-century theories of mind and the passions historicize literary discussions of reader response? Most broadly, this conference asks what it means for philosophical questions to be posed through a range of artistic and textual forms.
Registration Deadline: April 29Registration Fees: $20 per per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*UC faculty and staff may register via e-mail by sending their name and phone number to c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.Complimentary lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
The British and Irish Studies Colloquium
The British and Irish Studies Graduate Colloquium offers a forum for members of the USC community to meet and help one another with ongoing research on literary, political, cultural, economic, and legal topics. Work ranges from medieval to modern, and across England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and their colonial and cultural relatives. The IBIS colloquium bring together faculty, students, and postdoctoral fellows from a range of departments, including Art History, Comparative Literature, English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. This interdisciplinary research colloquium offers a comfortable environment for graduate students to present work-in-progress on any aspect of British or Irish culture. Graduate student presentations—of article drafts, dissertation proposals or chapters, and ideas in progress—are our first priority. We also invite members of USC's faculty and scholars from other institutions to participate and present work-in-progress. Sessions feature a precirculated paper, talk or panel discussion.
In 2010-11, the IBIS colloquium is being run by Lindsay O'Neill (IBIS postdoctoral fellow, History), with assistance from Penny Geng (PhD candidate, English). The colloquium meets, depending on participants' schedules, once a month on Thursday afternoon in USC's Doheny Library. Sessions are open to all.
2010 Fall Schedule
09/30: Lindsay O’Neill, USC Department of History, “The Sociability of Letters: Epistolary Networks & the British Elite, 1660-1760.”
10/2: Penelope Geng, USC Department of English, “Post-Mortem: Elizabethan Literature on the Murder of George Sanders.”
11/18: Mary Traester, USC Comparative Literature, "Yeats’s Melancholy."
12/02: Tiffany Werth, Simon Fraser University, Department of English, “A Heart of Stone: The Ungodly in Early Modern England.”
2011 Spring Schedule
01/20: Rebecca Lemon, USC Department of English, "Shakespeare's Richard II and Elizabethan Politics."
02/24: Keith Pluymers, USC Department of History, “Cultivating Curiosity in Seventeenth-Century Gardens”
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PAST EVENTS IN 2009-10
Cormac Bourke, "The Archaeology of Irish Rivers"
Bourke, former curator of medieval antiquities at the Ulster Museum,
will discuss a range of finds, preservation and collection,
and methods for interpreting objects.
March 4, 2010
Noon-1.30 p.m.
SOS 250
For FREE LUNCH please rsvp: bitel@usc.edu
Katharine Simms, Senior Lecturer in History, Trinity College Dublin
"Irish Queens"
Tuesday, March 2 (at UCLA, time and place TBA)
for info: Joseph Nagy jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu
32nd Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference
March 4-7, 2010
For full program, click on Area Resources
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PAST EVENTS IN 2008-9:
Christopher Whittick (Deputy Archivist, East Sussex Record Office) will speak on "The Words We Have Lost: Archival Anti-Matter and Medieval Illiteracy" on Thursday, 6 November at 2 p.m. in SOS 250.
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Past Events in 2007-8:
IBIS is sponsoring or co-sponsoring the following visits this academic year (further details will be posted as they come available):
October 6, 2007: CV/Research Proposal Workshop (for graduate students) at the Huntington Library.
October 24, 2007. Richard Ross (Univ. of Illinois School of Law), speaking on "Legal Communications and Imperial Governance," 12:30-1:30, Law School.
February 28, 2008: Film Screening: "The Other Boleyn Girl" with author, Philippa Gregory. LOCATION: University of Southern California, Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre, time tbd. For more information on this venue, http://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/event_venues/norris.html
February 28 and March 1. Two events for the MDA course Image/Word/Object: rethinking the history of books and reading taught by Deborah Harkness and Daniela Bleichmar:
- ‘Words and Images: exploring Cesare Vecellio’s Habiti antichi et moderni’. Location: USC, SOS 250, 1:30 (lunch from 1)-5 p.m. February 28. This is a master class conducted by Professor Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College) and Professor Margaret Rosenthal (USC) with readings and discussion. If you are interested in attending, please email emsi@usc.edu as space is limited and priority will be given to students in the class
- A roundtable on current research and the state of the field of book history led by Professors Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania), Janine Barchas (University of Texas, Austin) and Ellen Gruber Garvey (New Jersey City University). Location: Huntington Library, Seaver classrooms #1 and #2, 9:30am-1pm. March 1
March 6: Amy Eichorn-Mulligan (University of Memphis, English) will speak in Royce Hall 314 (UCLA) at 4:30 on “Playing for Power: Macha Mong-rúad’s Sovereign Performance.” IBIS is co-sponsoring this event with USC's Center for Feminist Research. It is part of the Thirtieth Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference. Reception to follow. . Details of the conference will be available at: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/celtic/
March 27: Christine Casey (School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College, Dublin),’River, rivalry and revolt: history and the built fabric of Dublin City’ Location: Gamble House, Pasadena, time TBA
March 28-29: A reception at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies annual meeting Location: The Huntington Library. March 28-29. Details of the conference will be available at: http://www.pccbs.org
April 2: Josephine McDonagh (King's College, London, English), ‘On settling and being unsettled: motion and emotion in Dickens’ Bleak House’ Center for Law, History and Culture workshop. Location: USC, 118/120 Gould School of Law, 12:20-1:30.
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PAST EVENTS IN 2006-7:
October 9, 2006: Dennis Dworkin (Chair and Professor of History, University of Nevada, Reno) on "Class Struggles: Recent Debates in Social and Cultural History." SOS 250, 4 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the History Department.)
October 30, 2006: Angela John (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) on "Words in Deed: Henry W. Nevinson, Evelyn Sharp and Women's Suffrage in Britain" SOS 250, 4 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the History Department.)
November 27, 2006: Thomas Laqueur (Professor of History, UC-Berkeley) on "Regarding Death." SOS 250, 2-4 p.m. (Co-sponsored by USC's History Department and Literary, Visual, and Material Culture Initiative.)
January 22, 2007: Ruth Mazo Karras (Professor of History, University of Minnesota) will speak on "The Policing of Non-Marital Sex in Late Medieval London and Paris." SOS 250, 4-6 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.)
26 February, 2007: Susan Dwyer Amussen (Professor, Graduate College of the Union Institute) will talk about "To the Caribbean and Back: Caribbean Settlement and English Society in the Seventeenth Century." SOS 250, 2-4 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.)
March 5, 2007: Deborah Valenze (Professor of History, Barnard College) will talk about her new work on money in English culture as part of a forum on "Heads or Tales: Representations of/as Money in 18th-Century Britain and 20th-Century China." SOS 250, 4-6 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the History Department.)
April 9, 2007: Lucie Skeaping will give a illustrated lecture-recital on "The English Broadside Ballad: Street Songs of the 17th Century." (Co-sponsored by the English Department, the Early Modern Studies Institute, and the early music program in the Thornton School of Music.) Doheny International Commons, 5 p.m.
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PAST EVENTS IN 2005-6:
October 15, 2005: Overseer's Room, Huntington, 10 a.m.- Michelle Tusan (University of Nevada Las Vegas) will be speaking to the Nation/Empire seminar on her work on women and print journalism in the early 20th century.
November 5, 2005: (Guy Fawkes Day!), room and time TBA, James Epstein (Vanderbilt University) will give a paper to the Nation/Empire seminar entitled 'The Politics of Colonial Sensation: The Trial of General Thomas Picton and the Cause of Louisa Calderon.'
January 21, 2006: Early Modern British History Seminar at the Huntington Library:
"Nursing Fathers of Religion: Puritan Preachers and their Patrons," Paul Seaver, Stanford University, Huntington Library, Overseers' Room, 10:00-12:00
January 28, 2006: Renaissance Literature Mini Conference, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Anthony Parr, University of the Western Cape
"'For his Travailes let the Globe Witnesse': Venturing on the Stage in Early-Modern England."
Edmund Campos, Swarthmore College
"Culinary Travels in New Spain: Religion, Race and Chocoholism"
Mary Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Writing the Long Voyage: Drake, Cavendish, Fenton"
Michael Householder, Southern Methodist University
"Eden's Translations: Women and Temptation in Early America"
January 30, 2006: American Origins seminar, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
"Reformulating Englishness: Cultural Adaptation and Provinciality in the Construction of Corporate Identity in Colonial British America."
Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University
February 11, 2006: Renaissance Literature Seminar, Patricia Parker, Stanford University, "Looking for Illyria: Early Modern Cultural Geographies"Munger Classroom #3, Huntington Library, 10:00 AM -12:00 PM
February 13, 2006: USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, John Demos, Yale University
"Witchcraft in Early Modern England and America: An Overarching Perspective?"
February 18, 2006: Early Modern British History Seminar, Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California
"Edward Barlow's Books: Collecting and Circulating Scientific, Medical, and Technical Books in Elizabethan London"
February 25, 2006: Nation and Empire Seminar, Maya Jasonoff, University of Virginia. "Imperial Exiles: Loyalists in the British Empire"
March 16-20, 2006: Celtic Studies Association of North America/California Celtic Conference Joint Annual Meeting
USC guest speakers: Niall Ó Ciosáin (NUI Galway), "The Celtic Languages in Print 1700-1900: Contrasting Fortunes" (March 17, 5 p.m.)
John Patrick Montaño (University of Delaware), "Civilize This: Irish Responses to the Tudor Plantations" (Marcy 20, 10 a.m.)
For events sponsored by other local organizations, go to:
Huntington Library
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Getty Library
Art History Department
English Department
History Department
UCLA Clark library
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
UC-Berkeley Center for British Studies
For website enquires, contact Judith Bennett.
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