Durham Castle, 11-13 September
The Programme for the conference will be as follows:
Monday 11 September
14.15 Arrival and Registration
14.45 Welcome, Richard Parish, Chairman of the Society
Session 1: Cécile TRESFELS (Stanford University): Remembering the Past, Apprehending the Future: Fear and Knowledge in Marguerite de Valois’ Memoirs
John O’BRIEN (Durham University): Modernity, the Dispassionate Historian and the Reader in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Histoire Universelle
Session 2: Alice ROULLIÈRE (Trinity Hall, Cambridge): Ronsard and the ghost of Astyanax
Anthony BRUDER (King’s College, Cambridge) Counter-Cultural Poetics in the Recueil of Claude Fauchet
Rowan TOMLINSON (University of Bristol): ‘Escrivons tous, sçavans et non sçavans’: the profession of writing, social status, and ideals of style in the vernacular Republic of Letters (1556-1621)
Tuesday 12 September
Session 3: William McKENZIE (Durham University): ‘Un fond […] limonneux et poisant’ (or) How Montaigne muddies the pool of modern narcissism
Adam HORSLEY (University of Nottingham): ‘Imite qui voudra les merveilles d’autrui’: Modernity and Imitation at the Trial of Théophile de Viau
Jonathan PATTERSON (St Hilda’s College, Oxford): In whose interest? Rhetorical arguments about monetary reform in the early seventeenth century
Session 4: Jan CLARKE (Durham University): Modern versus Ancient in the Décor of the Seventeenth-Century French Stage
Ramona-Dana LUNGU (University of Bristol): Longepierre’s Électre: a different way of telling the same story
Joanna BARKER (Durham University) ; Ancient Men & Modern Women: Madame Dacier and the Querelle d’Homère
Session 5: Keynote paper. Michael MORIARTY (Cambridge University): Pascal’s Modernity
Conference Dinner, Senate Room, Durham Castle
Wednesday 13 September
Session 6: William DINNING (London): Pascal, Reluctant Modernist?
Lisa AL-FARADZH (Murray Edwards College, Cambridge): The Port-Royal Bible and the challenge of modernity
Session 7: Jean-Alexandre PERRAS (Jesus College, Oxford): The Decay of Genius: Petits Maîtres and Butterflies
Robin HOWELLS (Birkbeck, Uiversity of London): Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s ‘Entretiens’ (1773): rewriting Fontenelle
Session 8: Linda NAUNAPPER (Independent Scholar, Wisconsin and Illinois Archaeological Surveys, USA): Leaving the Ancien Régime Behind: Archaeology and the Culture History of frontier New France
Lunch
2pm Conference close
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