— Factions and Fictions in Early Modern Europe —

a conference arranged by
Malina Stefanovska, UCLA

November 1–2, 2002


Friday, November 1 ______________________________

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m. – Session 1

Bruce Whiteman, Clark Library, UCLA
Welcome

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA
Opening Remarks

M. Frédéric Gabriel, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne
Gallicanism and Political Factions in France, 1600–1650

Henriette Goldwyn, New York University
The Agony of Words: Jurieu's Rebuttal of Bossuet

12:30 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 p.m. – Session 2

J. Douglas Canfield, University of Arizona
Catholic Conspirators in English Comedy of the Glorious Revolution

Sara Melzer, UCLA
The Politics of Purity: Taming the Monster of Diversity in the Battle over the French Language and Memory

4:00 p.m. – Reception

Saturday, November 2 ______________________________

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m. – Session 3

Juliette Cherbuliez, University of Minnesota
Grassroots Organizing: Reading Montpensier's Literary Coterie

Elizabeth Goldsmith, Boston University
The Advantages of Distance: Travel, Secrecy, Faction, and Fiction in the Letters of Runaway Women

Peter Bayley, Cambridge University
Political Fact or Convenient Fiction? The Curés de Paris at Times of Crisis


1:00 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 p.m. – Session 4

Abby Zanger, Harvard University
To Print or Not to Print, That is the Question: Staging the Fictions of Faction in the Discours de la méthode

Kirstie McClure, UCLA
Damon's Dæmons: Factions, Fictions, and Locke's Second Treatise of Government

Concluding Discussion


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