Friday, October 28

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcome – Peter Reill, UCLA
Introduction – Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall, UCLA

Session 1 – Inheritance, Resemblance and Monstrosity
Kirstie McClure, UCLA - Session Chair

Mary Terrall, UCLA
Material Impressions: Force, Conception and the Maternal Imagination

Jenny Davidson, Columbia University
Inheritance and the Science of Resemblance

Sean M. Quinlan, University of Idaho
Doctors, Generation, and Monstrosities in France, ca. 1780-1820

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

Session 2 – Conceptions of Procreation
Natania Meeker, USC - Session Chair

Richard C. Sha, American University
Artificial Insemination in the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Stephanson, University of Saskatchewan
Tristam Shandy and the Art of Conception

4:30 P.M.

Saturday, October 29

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Session 3 – Birth, Legitimacy, Disease
Christopher Looby, UCLA - Session Chair

Lisa Forman Cody, Claremont McKenna College
Gender and Conception: Tales of Pregnant Men, Virgin Mothers, and Insect Analogies in Enlightenment Britain

Corrinne Harol, University of Alberta
Conceiving the Heir: The Tragi-Comedy of the Suppositious Prince, 1688-1745

Susan Staves, Brandeis University
Blighted Conception: Venereal Disease, Conception, and Birth

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

Session 4 – Intellectual Motions
Helen Deutsch, UCLA - Session Chair

Matthew Wickman, Brigham Young University
The Poetry of ‘Nascent Quantities’; or Scotland’s Newton and the Modern Origins of Curved Space

Jonathan Kramnick, Rutgers University
Life, Death, and the Nature of Things