SE17 2006

SHERATON, IOWA CITY

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER--VETRO (next to Sheraton), Conference Room #1

 

1:00pm: Opening Remarks, Linda Maxson, Dean, University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

 

1:15-3:15pm:    Heaven and Hell 1

 

Chair: Downing Thomas, University of Iowa

 

Virginie Cassidy, University of Maryland, "Un paradis artificiel dans les Nouvelles de Segrais"

 

Ellen McClure, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Paradise and the Afterlife in Seventeenth-Century French Travel to the East"

 

Helen Harrison, Morgan State University, "Force Them into Paradise: Pierre Bayle and the Civic Hell of Intolerance"

 

Anne Duggan, Wayne State University, "Diabolical Schemes and Infernal Punishments, or French Politics Gone to Hell"

 

3:30-5pm         Heaven and Hell 2

 

Chair: Suzanne Toczyski, Sonoma State University

 

Marc Court, Universtié de Paris, "Quand le Démon collabore au salut des âmes"

 

Phillip Wolfe, Allegheny College, "Diable et diableries dans les Historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux"

 

Kathryn Willis Wolfe, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, "A Comic Devil's Descent into Hell or the Final Escape of Molière's Dom Juan"

 

 

FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER--Dean C, Lower Level, Sheraton

 

8:30-10            Body and Soul 1

 

Chair: Jeffrey Peters, University of Kentucky

Discussant: Sarah Hanley, University of Iowa

 

Mike Taormina, Hunter College, "Gender and Souls in Corneille's Tragic Theatre"

 

Francis X. Mathieu, University of California Santa Barbara, "La Passion corps et âme. Lecture pascalienne de La Princesse de Clèves"


David Gallo, College of Mount Saint Vincent "Royal Bodies, Royal Bedrooms: Louis XIV’s Lever Du Roy And The Theory Of 'The King’s Two Bodies'"

 

10:30-12          Body and Soul 2

 

Chair: Jeffrey Peters, University of Kentucky

 

Richard Hodgson, University of British Columbia, "'Faux témoins', 'faux jugements', 'fausses conclusions': le corps et l’âme chez Malebranche"

 

Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore College, "Descartes, flâneur à Amsterdam. Le Corps politique de la modernité"

 

Richard Goodkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, " 'Clear and Distinct': Two Ways of Seeing in Descartes"

 

1-2:30              Myths, Tales and Legends 1

 

Chair: Charlotte Trinquet, University of Central Florida

 

Allison Stedman, Bucknell University: "The late Seventeenth-Century Ghost story and the Nobility in Crisis: Legends of Origin"

 

Brian Brazeau, The American University of Paris: "Nos Ancêtres les Américains : The Myth of Origins in Early New France"

 

Faith Beasley, Darmouth College: "Mythical India and the French Imaginary"

 

3-4:30:             Myths, Tales and Legends 2

 

Chair: Charlotte Trinquet, University of Central Florida

 

Isabelle Mullet, New York University: "Fontenelle mythologue et mythographe, ou qu’est-ce qu’être moderne?"

 

Stella Spriet, Université de Paris 8: "Les sujets mythiques dans les pièces à machines: un retour du merveilleux en plein classicisme"

 

Gilles Declercq, Université de Paris 3/Sorbonne Nouvelle, "Fureurs mythiques : figures sceniques de la passion dans Phedre de Racine"

 

5:6:30               Disease and Contagion

 

Chair: Ellen McClure, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Katherine Dauge-Roth, Bowdoin College, "Plagued by Love: Tales of Infectious Affections"

 

Tom Finn, Ohio Northern University, "The Changing Face of Disease"

 

 

SATURDAY, 14 OCTOBER--Dean C, Lower Level, Sheraton

 

8:00-9:30         Natural Disasters

 

Chair and Respondent: David Harrison, Grinnell College

 

Claire Goldstein, Miami University of Ohio, "Lunettes à la Mode: the Comet and Telescopes in 1680"

 

Vincent Grégoire, Berry College, "L'interprétation du tremblement de terre de 1663 en Nouvelle-France d'après les écrits des missionnaires"

 

Francis Assaf, University of Georgia, "L'hiver de 1709"

 

9:45-12            Female Friendship

 

Chair: Jennifer Perlmutter, Portland State University

 

Bertrand Landry, "Un arrière-ban féminin dans la Correspondance: les amies de Madame de Sévigné"

 

Jolene Vos-Camy, Calvin College, "L’amitié et l’amour dans « Eléonor d’Yvrée » de Catherine Bernard"

 

Derval Conroy, University College Dublin, "Did Virginia Woolf get it wrong? The friendship of sisters in early modern tragedy and tragi-comedy"

 

Perry Gethner, Oklahoma State University, "Female Friendships in Plays by Women Writers"

 

Deborah Steinberger, University of Delaware, "Female Friendships in the Mercure galant"

 

12-1                 Business Lunch

 

1:30-3:30         Teaching the 17th Century

 

Chair: Geoffrey Hope, University of Iowa

 

Larry Riggs, Butler University, "Modernity, Motives, and Further Reflections on Critical Literacy"

 

Kate Jensen, Louisiana State University, "Daughters as Maternal Masterpieces: Teaching Sévigné and Lafayette"

 

Roxanne Decker Lalande, Lafayette College, "Madame de Villedieu and the Cornelian Paradigm: Problems of Gender and Genre in Le Favori"

 

James F. Gaines, Mary Washington College, "Teaching the Unreasonable 17th Century"

 

4-5                   Concert-- Krapf Organ Studio at the U. of Iowa School of Music

 

7-9                   Cash Bar and Banquet--VETRO, Room #1