Program 2025

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Two small exhibits will be on display during the conference, one at the Cunningham 

Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs and the other at the Mortimer Rare Book Collection. 

Thursday, 6 November - Neilson Library Browsing Room 11a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Executive Committee Meeting Lunch

1-1:30 p.m.: General Registration and Coffee

1:30-1:45 p.m.: Welcome Remarks

Hélène Visentin, SE17 President, Professor of French Studies (Smith College)

1:45-3:15 p.m.: POWER, JUSTICE AND TYRANNY I

Co-Chairs: Ann Delehanty (Reed College) & Dinah Ribard (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

● John Boitano (Chapman University), Power, Justice and Tyranny in Pascal’s Pensées

● Ainan Liu (Princeton University), ‘Je n’en ai que la honte, il en a tout le fruit': Unjust Exchanges in Corneille’s Médée

● Valérie Dionne (Colby College), La juste colère de Médée

● Catherine Theobald (Brandeis University), Bodies of Power in Early Depictions of Indigenous North Americans

Coffee Break

3:30-5:30 p.m.: EDUCATION OF WOMEN

Co-Chairs: Faith Beasley (Dartmouth College) & Deborah Steinberger (University of Delaware)

● Anouk Delpedro (Université de Fribourg), Les trois Écoles des filles ● Theresa Kennedy (Baylor University), Critical Thinking through Role Play: Madame de Maintenon’s Educational Legacy

● Caroline Mogenet (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Femmes dramaturges au XVIIe siècle: des autrices sans école? ● Angeline Nies-Berger (Rutgers University), Enjeux de l’ironie polyphonique chez Madeleine de Scudéry

5:45-7:30 p.m.: Reception - Green Street Jazz Trio Neilson Library Skyline Reading Room

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Friday, 7 November - Alumnae House Conference Hall

8:30-9 a.m.: Light Breakfast

9-10:30 a.m.: CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE

Co-Chairs: Benoît Bolduc (New York University) & Sanam Nader-Esfahani (Amherst College)

● Anne E. Duggan (Wayne State University), Knowledge about Women and Women as Purveyors of Knowledge: Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier’s Feminist Compendiums

● Abby E. Zanger (Independent Scholar) and Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University), Mapping the Nature of Urban Landscape in Louis XIV’s Paris: History, Print, and the Circulation of Knowledge in a Collection of Plans Historiques of the City

● Julie Landweber (Montclair State University), Circulating Knowledge of Coffee from Arab Medicine and Ottoman Custom into

Seventeenth-Century France

● Peter Sokolowski (Merriam-Webster), Vernacular Dictionary Origins in the Early 17th Century

Coffee Break

10:45 a.m.-12 p.m.: CONTEMPORARY APPROPRIATIONS OF THE 17th CENTURY

Co-Chairs: Jean-Vincent Blanchard (Swarthmore College) & Tiphaine Karsenti (Université Paris Nanterre) 

● Sylvaine Guyot (New York University), De l’appropriation comme mise en résonance: à partir de Bérénice de Romeo Castellucci

● Camille Leclère-Gregory, (Bryn Mawr College), Branding Power: Dior’s Versailles and the Performance of Luxury

● Tiffany Premand (Yale University), Dom Juan, de l’ère galante à #MeToo 12- 1 p.m.: Lunch (box lunch provided to all participants)

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1-1:30 p.m.: STUDENT POSTER SESSIONS

Student posters will be displayed in the Alumnae House Gallery

1:45-3 p.m.: SOUNDSCAPES

Co-Chairs: Mary Beth Allen (University of Connecticut) & Sara Harvey (University of Victoria)

● Ellen R. Welch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Marvelous Soundscapes: Auditory Strangeness in d’Aulnoy’s Contes

● Rose Pruiksma (University of New Hampshire), Imagined Soundscapes in French Ballet Livrets

● TBD

Coffee Break

3:15-4:45 p.m.: TEACHING HISTORY THROUGH THEATRE 

Co-Chairs: Camille Leclère-Gregory (Bryn Mawr College) & Anna Rosensweig (University of Rochester)

● Deborah Steinberger (University of Delaware), Staging the French Revolution

● David Harrison (Grinnell College), Theatrical and Medical History in Stagings of Le Malade imaginaire

● Stella Spriet (University of Saskatchewan), Torsions de l’Histoire et visée édificatrice : la relecture des textes grecs et romains proposée par Boyer ● Adrienne Eldredge (Tufts University), Emotions at the Comédie-Italienne: Arlecchino/Arlequin of Seventeenth-Century France

5- 6:30 p.m.: CLOSED WORKS-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOPS I (Locations TBA)

Co-Organizers: Katherine Dauge-Roth (Bowdoin College) & Jean Leclerc (Western University)

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Gender and Literature: 

● Mary Beth Allen (University of Connecticut) 

● Stéphanie Beauval (University of Chicago) 

● Laura Burch (College of Wooster) 

● Caitlin Dahl (University of Tennessee) 

● Anna Klosowska (Miami University) 

Theatrality: 

● Ann Delehanty (Reed College) 

● Maria Flynn (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 

● Ellen Welch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 

● Toby Wikström (University of Iceland) 

Representations and Knowledge: 

● Therese Banks (Middlebury College) 

● Anouk Delpedro and Arnaud Wydler (University of Fribourg) ● Francis Mathieu (Southwestern University) 

● Matthew Senior (Oberlin College) 

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Saturday, 8 November - Neilson Library Browsing Room 8:30-9 a.m.: Light Breakfast

9-:15 a.m.: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE NATURAL WORLD Co-Chairs: Theresa Brock (Smith College) & Lewis C. Seifert (Brown University)

● Arianne Margolin (Independent Scholar), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique ● Katherine Dauge-Roth (Bowdoin College), Different by Nature? Environment and the Theorization of Skin Color in Early

Seventeenth-Century France

● Jeffrey N. Peters (University of Kentucky), The Air in Scudéry’s “De l’air galant”

Coffee Break

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: CLOSED SESSIONS (Locations TBA)

Reading Groups

Women and Allegory in Intaglio Print: Nature, Nation, Knowledge Co-Organizers: Abby Zanger (Independent Scholar), Benoît Bolduc (New York University), Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University), and Julia Landweber (Montclair State University)

Access at SE17: Academic Ableism and Communities of Care Organizer: Ashley Williard (University of South Carolina Union)

Works-in-Progress Workshops II

(For a list of participants, go to page 5)

12:30-2 p.m.: Business Lunch / General Assembly (Open to all members) 

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2:15-3:45: ORALITIES AND ORAL TRADITIONS

Co-Chairs: Therese Banks (Middlebury College) & Michael Meere (Wesleyan University)

● Louise Barbosa (Northwestern University), Maternal Authority and Female-Centered Realms in Seventeenth-Century Fairy Tales ● Ashley Williard (University of South Carolina Union), Circulating Conceptions of Madness in the French Atlantic

● Cameron Bonnevie and Michael Meere (Wesleyan University), Talking about Transition in Early Modern France: The Case of Germain Garnier

Coffee Break

4-5:30 p.m.: POWER, JUSTICE AND TYRANNY II

Co-Chairs: Ann Delehanty (Reed College) & Dinah Ribard (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

● Fanny Marchaisse (Northwestern University), Once Upon a Tyranny: How Power Shapes the Narrative in La Tyrannie des fées détruite

● Yann Lignereux (Nantes Université-CRHIA), Aux frontières de la tyrannie, la Nouvelle-France du Baron de Lahontan (1683-1693)

● Rupinder Kaur (Vassar College), Pure Joy: Power and Positive Affect in Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves

7-9:30 p.m.: Banquet

Wiggins Tavern Restaurant at the Hotel Northampton

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