Friday, February 3

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

SESSION 1
FOOD AND HEALTH
Chair: Deborah Harkness, University of Southern California

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

PAOLA BERTUCCI, Università di Bologna
Electric Conceptions. (Un)orthodox Thinking about Life and Health in Eighteenth-Century London

ELIZABETH A. WILLIAMS, Oklahoma State University
Feeling and Food: Sensation, Emotion, and Digestion in Eighteenth-Century French Medicine

E. C. SPARY, University of Cambridge
“Making Marble Edible”: Food and its Assimilation in Eighteenth-Century France

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

SESSION 2
CIRCULATING FLUIDS
Chair:
Patrick Coleman, UCLA

SOPHIE VASSET, Université de Paris, Maison Française d’Oxford
Blood, Fluids and Juices: Circulation as a Pattern for Human Health and its Metaphors in Eighteenth-Century Britain

CHRISTOPHER LOOBY, UCLA
American Embodiment,1793

4:30 P.M.

Saturday, February 4

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

SESSION 3
VERSIONS OF VITALISM
Chair: Mary Terrall, UCLA

DROR WAHRMAN, Indiana University, and JONATHAN SHEEHAN, University of Michigan
Life and Everything Else: Self Organization in the Eighteenth Century

MARC J. RATCLIFF, Université de Genève
Authorship, Censorship, and Vital Matter in the 1740s

PHILLIP R. SLOAN, University of Notre Dame
History, Vitalism and the Critical Philosophy: Kant’s Response to Herder’s Vital Historicism

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

SESSION 4
THINKING MATTER
Chair: Lorna Clymer, California State University, Bakersfield

HELEN THOMPSON, Northwestern University
Animals, Vegetables, and Women

NATANIA MEEKER, University of Southern California
Voluptuous Figures: Translating Lucretian Materialism in Eighteenth-Century France