Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule

Ongoing Events:
Map exhibit from the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, Ballroom Balcony
Book exhibit by The Scholars Choice, Rib Room

Thursday, October 26
Registration 3:00-6:00 Eastland Park Lobby

Sessions I - 3:30-4:45

Skepticism, Ambiguity, and the Mapping of Social Space
Mapping Adventure: The Intersection of 18^th-Century Travel Narratives and 20^th-Century Extreme Adventure Texts
France Encounters "the East"
Women on the Margins of the Public Sphere

Sessions II - 5:00-6:15

Gender and the Politics of Love
Gothic Fiction and the Space of Nations
Historiography and the Nation
Tasteful Objectsand Politics

Reception Sponsored by AMS Press 6:15-7:00 Cumberland Room
Dinner and Plenary Lecture 1
                        Robert Markley, Professor of English and Jackson Distinguished Chair of British Literature, West Virginia University,
                        "The Cartography of Desire: The Far East and the European Imagination, 1650-1800"

                         Introduction by Craig McEwen, Dean for Academic Affairs, Bowdoin College

Friday, October 27

Continental Breakfast 7:00-8:00 Rib Room
Registration 7:30-3:00 Eastland Park Lobby

Sessions III - 8:00-9:15

Touring With Boswell and Johnson
Evolving Landscapes of the Mind
Trials, Punishment, and the Law
Uncharted Territory: The Grotesque Body in 18^th-Century Russian Literature and Culture

Refreshments: Mezzanine Lobby

Sessions IV - 9:30-10:45

What Is Counter-Enlightenment?
French Representations of Islands
Mapping the "Other"
The Shaping of Men: 18^th-C. Masculinity and Empire

Refreshments: Mezzanine Lobby

Sessions V - 11:00-12:15

The Sacred and the Sacrilegious in Dryden and Pope
Theories of Light and Color
Family Values and Sexual License in 18^th-C. France
Women and Education

Luncheon and Plenary Lecture 2, 12:30-2:00 Eastland Park Ballroom
                 Julia Douthwaite, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters, Associate Professor of French, and Director, Institute for Scholarship
                in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, "How French Were Those Dangerous French Ideas? Mapping the Menace in the
                1790s."
                Introduction by F. C. McGrath, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, University of Southern Maine.

Sessions VI - 2:00-3:15

18^th-C. Europe Across National Boundaries
Popularizing Science
Genre and Empire
Clarissa

Sessions VII - 3:30-4:45

Roundtable: The French Revolution as Epistemological Shift?
Republicanism and the Georgic
Speculations on the Female Gaze
Women Write the Nation I

Plenary Lecture 3 and USM Reception Eastland Ballroom 5:00-6:30 Matthew Edney, Professor of American and New England Studies and Geography/Anthropology, University of Southern Maine
"Manuscript and Print Practices and the Cartographic Representation of New England in the Eighteenth Century" Buses depart for Stone House Lobster Bake at 6:00 (ticket required)

Saturday October 28

Continental Breakfast 7:00-8:00 Rib Room
Registration 7:30-3:00 Eastland Park Lobby

Sessions VIII - 8:00-9:15

The Iconography of Nationalities
The Land and Conceptions of the Social
Virtue and the Collective
The State and the Individual in Enlightenment France

Refreshments: Mezzanine Lobby

Sessions IX - 9:30-10:45

Mapping Knowledge in 18^th-C. Europe
Curious Perspectives on Nature and Culture
Theater, Politics, and Gender in the Late 18^th Century
Music and Society

Refreshments: Mezzanine Lobby

Sessions X - 11:00-12:15

Identity and Commercial Culture
Roundtable: Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution
Topographies of the Self
Women Write the Nation II

Lunch Break 12:15-2:00
NEASECS Executive Board Luncheon Greenhouse Room

Sessions XI - 2:00-3:15

The Circulation of Texts, The Circulation of Knowledge
Gender, Genre, and Political Critique in Britain and France
Discursive Exchanges Between Theater and the Novel in the Enlightenment
Chaste Women/Corrupt Women

Sessions XII - 3:30-4:45

Identity and the Tour
Frances Burney: The Self and the World
Kant and Herder
Roundtable: Civility and Power in 18^th C. France: Debating the Utility of Elias in Cultural History

High Tea and Plenary Lecture - 4 Eastland Ballroom 4:45-6:00
Larry Wolff, Professor of History, Boston College, "The Discovery of the Slavs and the Dilemma of Eastern Europe:
Mapping Dalmatia in the Venetian Enlightenment"

NEASECS Annual Banquet - 8:00 Cumberland Room (ticket required)
Cash Bar and Entertainment - 9:30-11:00
Society for Historically Informed Performance (Longy School, Boston) Rib Room
Moliere at the Sorbonne: Four One-act Plays Greenhouse Room

Sunday October 29

Farewell Breakfast 6:30-9:00 Greenhouse Room
Portland tour leaves 9:00 (ticket required)

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