Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 1 – Circles of Sociability

Friday, October 26

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA
Opening Remarks

Session Chair: Susan McClary, Musicology, UCLA

Session 1: Modes of Sociability 1

Jean Garapon, Université de Nantes
Mademoiselle de Montpensier, Madame de Caylus, Madame de Staal-Delaunay: The Worldly Set and the Force of Women’s Words in the Age of Classicism

Angela Borchert, The University of Western Ontario (presented via Internet)
Sociability at the Court of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach: The Journal von Tiefurt

David Harrison, Grinnell College
Saint-Simon, Theorist of Conversation

1:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Session 2: Modes of Sociability 2

Session Chair: Ann Goldberg, History, UC Riverside

Vera Keller, Princeton University
Circles of Invention: Cornelis Drebbel and the Lovers of Art

Brian Cowan, McGill University
English Coffeehouses and French Salons: Rethinking Habermas, Gender and Sociability in Early Modern French and British Historiography

Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida (David Sabean will present)
Epistolary Narratives of Royal Women: Sharing the Stage and Practicing Power in Baroque Tuscany

5:00 P.M.

Saturday, October 27

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Session 3: Fashioning Identities

Session Chair: Stephen Fleck, French, Cal State Long Beach

Jean-Pierre van Elslande, Université de Neuchâtel
The Social Invention of Childhood and the Literary Reinvention of Social Values in the French Renaissance

Déborah Blocker, University of California, Berkeley
Theatrical Identities: Fashioning Subjects through Drama in the House of Cardinal Richelieu (1635-1643)

Larry F. Norman, University of Chicago
Sociability, Self Identity and Modernity

1:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Session 4: Broadening the Limits

Session Chair: Patrick Coleman, French and Francophone Studies, UCLA

Amanda Herbert Bilby, The John Hopkins University
Gendering Space, Sociability and Self at British Health Spas, 1640-1714

Tamara Zwick, University of South Florida
The Private Party of a Public Circle: Neumühlen and the Landscape of Networks

David S. Shields, University of South
Carolina Selfhood and Sociability at the Center of England’s Culture of Print

David Sabean, UCLA
Closing Remarks