Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 5 Family and Work Space

Friday, April 25

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Session 1: The Scholar’s Workspace

Craig Yirush, UCLA
Session Chair

Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University
At the Study: Who Was With Early Modern Scholars When They Were Alone?

Gabriele Jancke, Free University of Berlin Scholars’
Spaces – Households and the Practices of Hospitality

Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Scholar at Work: Habitus, Habitation, and the Identity of the “Learned” in Eighteenth-Century France

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

Session 2: The Philosopher Alone and in Public

Patrick Coleman, UCLA
Session Chair

Carole Martin, Texas State University
Framing the Philosopher’s Work Space: From Chardin’s Philosophe to Diderot’s Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre

Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University
The Philosopher's Studio

Carol Pal, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow
Ephemeral Academy: The Hague and the Republic of Letters in the 1630s

5:00 P.M.

Saturday, April 26

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Session 3: Household and Social Space

Massimo Ciavolella, UCLA
Session Chair

Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
The Familial and Working Spaces of a Tribade and Her Narrator in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Kimberley Skelton, Tufts University
A Socially Stratified Retreat: The 1650’s English Country House and Household

David Packwood, University of Warwick
Re-Negotiating Social Space in Poussin’s Louvre Self-Portrait of 1649-1650

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

Session 4: Workshops

Sean Silver, UCLA
Visiting Strawberry Hill

Jorge Tárrago Mingo, University of Navarre
Diffuse Boundaries: The Theatrical Workshop