Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 2 – Sites of Exteriority

Friday, November 30

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

David Sabean, UCLA
Opening Remarks

Jean-Claude Carron, UCLA
Session Chair

Session 1: The Self in the Sovereign’s Palace

Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore College
Louis XIV’s Royal Houses, Wondrous Epics, and the Somatics of Sovereignty

Tom Conley, Harvard University
« Ingénieurs du roy, ingénieurs du moi »: Spatial Design of the "Self" after the Age of Henry IV

Michel Jeanneret, Johns Hopkins University and Université de Genève
The Primitive and Versailles: The Return of the Repressed

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

Session 2: A Natural Self?

Muriel McClendon, UCLA
Session Chair

William T. Hendel, University of Memphis
The Theatrical Garden in Watelet’s Essai sur les jardins (1774): The Natural Self as Actor and Spectator

Michael Taormina, Hunter College, CUNY
Saint-Amant’s Nature Poetry and the Extravagant Self

4:30 P.M.

Saturday, December 1

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Session 3: Broader Reaches

Susan McClary, UCLA
Session Chair

Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University
Fashions for the Interstitial: Garden Stories from Beijing and Nagasaki in 1720’s London

Susan Johnson-Roehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis: The Mapping of Imperial Subjectivity at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1675-1729

Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University
Fashioning Bluestocking Conversation: Elizabeth Montagu’s Chinese Room

1:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Session 4: Limits Within and Without

Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Session Chair

Christopher Wild, UCLA
Melancholy and the Cartographic Self

Michael J. Sauter, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C.
Germans in Space: Astronomy and ‘Anthropologie’ in the Eighteenth Century

Malina Stefanovska, UCLA
Closing Remarks