9-12 January 2020
Guaranteed Sessions:
Theory’s Seventeenth Century
Reassessing the central role of seventeenth-century French texts and contexts in twentieth-century theory. How have theorists (mis-)read the seventeenth century? How can current dix-septiémiste work shed new light on the theory canon? 300-word abstracts to Ellen Welch (erwelch@email.unc.edu) by 15 March 2019.
The Discourses of Luxury in 17th-Century France
Intersection of politics, myth-making, and aesthetics in development of luxury; its impact on social culture, artistic practices, and national identity forging process; place of 17th century in emerging field of luxury studies. 300-word abstracts to Sylvaine Guyot (guyot@fas.harvard.edu) by 15 March 2019.
Non-Guaranteed Sessions:
(subject to approval by the MLA program committee once the panelists are chosen)
Troubles et Tourbillons: Toward a Materialist Poetics of Turbulence in the 17th Century
Disturbance, broadly construed: vortex, squall, drift, entropy, noise. Relation of natural philosophical principles of scattering, flux, or disarray to early modern poiesis. 250-word abstracts to Jeffrey N. Peters (jnp@uky.edu) by 15 March 2019.
Print and Digital Interfaces in Early Modern Literature
Role of interface (layout, multimedia, reference mechanisms: links, notes) in print and digital editions of early modern works. 200-word abstracts to Christophe Schuwey (christophe.schuwey@univ-ubs.fr) and Geoffrey Turnovsky (gt2@uw.edu) by 15 March 2019.