Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life and Death

Part 3 – Death

Friday, March 10
	Please note there is no morning session on Friday, March 10.

1:30 P.M.	SESSION 1 ARTFUL ANATOMIES Chair: Jayne Lewis, University of California, Irvine Welcoming Remarks Peter H. Reill, UCLA ANITA GUERRINI, University of California, The Value of a Dead Body: William Hunter’s Anatomy Lectures LUCIA DACOME, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Wax and Death in Eighteenth-Century Italy SIMON CHAPLIN, The Royal College of Surgeons of England The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume and the Bishop of Durham’s Rectum
4:30 P.M.	Reception

Saturday, March 11
9:30 A.M	Morning Coffee
10:00 A.M.	SESSION 2 CORPSES AND COMMUNITY Chair: Maximillian Novak, UCLA LORNA CLYMER, California State University, Bakersfield British Corpses: Funerary Iconography and Early Modern Periodicals SOPHIE GEE, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th -Century Studies Holding onto the Corpse: Fleshly Remnants and A Journal of the Plague Year PETER WALMSLEY, McMaster University Death and the Nation
1:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:30 P.M.	SESSION 3 DEATH AND PUNISHMENT Chair: Robert S.Westman,University of California, San Diego MICHAEL MERANZE, University of California, San Diego Death and the State RANDALL MCGOWEN, University of Oregon Fraud, Fiction and the Gallows: Forgery in Eighteenth-Century England