Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 3 – The “Inner Self”

A conference at the Clark Library directed by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08

Friday, February 22

 

 

9:30 A.M.

Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Session 1: The “Innermost Recesses”

Andreas Bähr, Freie Universität Berlin
Spaces of Dreaming: Self-Constitution in Early Modern Dream Narratives

Robert G. Dimit, New York University
Divine Grace, the Humoral Body, and the ‘Inner Self’ in Seventeenth-Century France and England

Jean-Philippe Antoine, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3
Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's Outer Selves and the Body without Organs

1:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:30 P.M.

Session 2: Language and Thought

Misia Sophia Doms, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
Souls and Spaces – Spatial Metaphors for the Soul in German Baroque Poetry and their Anthropological Implications

Nicholas Paige, University of California, Berkeley
How to Read a Mind: The Language of Thought in Crebillon

4:30 P.M.

Reception
   

Saturday, February 23

 

 

9:30 A.M

Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session 3: Motion and Sound

Erec R. Koch, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Nicole’s Tourbillions: Materiality, Motion, and the Passions

Ljubica Ilic, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow
Sound, Self and Space

 

12:00 P.M.

Lunch

1:30 P.M.

Session 4: From the Personal to the Social

Claudia Jarzebowski, FU Berlin/Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut & University of Pennsylvania
Spaces of Her ‘Self’ in the Memoirs of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth (1709-1758)

Karin Sennefelt, UCLA Ahmanson Getty Fellow
Virtue, Property and Space in Eighteenth-century Stockholm


 



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