April 5–6, 2002
at the Clark Library
arranged by
arranged by Kirstie M. McClure, UCLA
Philosophical writing was only one site for the elaboration of sensibilities associated with the language of rights. Others worth considering are essays, periodical literatures, and historical writing, as well as epistolary, autobiographical, novelistic, and poetic forms. Here we will invite attention to the circulation of political claims through the diverse literary forms and genres of the public spheres, “bourgeois” or otherwise, across the many geographies touched by early modern European political contestation.
Friday, April 5
9:30 a.m. • coffee
10:00 a.m. Session I
Kirstie M. McClure,UCLA
Introductory Remarks
Malina Stefanovska, UCLA
Sarah Ellenzweig, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
12:30 p.m. • lunch
2:00 p.m. • session 2
Theresa Ann Smith, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
A la luz pública: Female Authors and the Search for a Public Voice
Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College
The Right To Lose Your Voice: Poetic and Political Deaths in Hölderlin and Novalis
4:00 p.m. • reception
Saturday, April 6
9:30 a.m. • coffee
10:00 a.m. • session 3
Elizabeth Rose Wingrove, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Privacy, Property, and Sovereign Expressions: The Letter in Eighteenth-Century France
Darline Gay Levy, New York University
Political Imagination/Political Rights: Olympe DeGouges Practices the Impossible Citizenship
12:00 noon • lunch
1:30 p.m. • session 4
Jeff Lomonaco, University of Minnesota
John Plotz, National Humanities Center
Concluding discussion
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Writing Rights: Literatures and Public
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—— April 5-6, 2002 ——
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