We look forward to a stimulating ASECS conference in Minneapolis, MN, March 29-April 1, 2017.
Please plan to attend the IASECS Business Meeting will be held Friday, March 31, 6-7 PM in Greenway Ballroom A. We will elect next year’s officers and brainstorm session proposals for next year’s ASECS conference in Orlando, FL – March 22-25, 2018.
We hope everyone can attend the IASECS dinner that will be held Friday evening after the business meeting. Please let our current president Madeline Sutherland know if you plan to attend and if you have any dietary needs.
The Renewal of Membership and Dues form is available, which can be mailed to Cathy Jaffe or turned in at the conference. IASECS membership is on a calendar year basis.
There is still time for graduate or advanced undergraduate students to submit an essay for the Pilar Sáenz Annual Student Essay Prize. Essays are due February 15.
See you in Minneapolis!
IASECS RELATED PANELS : ASECS MINNEAPOLIS, MN, MARCH 30-APRIL 1, 2017
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017
SESSIONS I 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
- “Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Other Sins of the Flesh”
(Roundtable) Greenway Ballroom E
Chair: Margaret EWALT, Wake Forest University
- Corey GOERGEN, Emory University, “‘Honourable Scars’:
Rochester’s Syphilitic Authority”
- Dawn NAWROT, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Dangerous
Occupations: The Feme Sole as Rape Accomplice in the Eighteenth-
Century Domestic Novel”
- Nichol WEIZENBECK, University of Denver, “Willed Away: Incest
and Inheritance in Mary Davys’s The Reform’d Coquet”
- Mehl PENROSE, University of Maryland, “Refusing Carnal
Knowledge: Women Warriors, Gender Inversion, and Cross-Dressing in
Ramón de la Cruz’s La república de las mujeres”
- Joseph D. ROCKELMAN, Hampden-Sydney College, “Incest as
Punishment in Ludwig Tieck’s ‘The Blond Eckbert”’
- James MULHOLLAND, North Carolina State University, “The
Dancing Boys of Mysore: Captivity, Coercion, and Sexual Knowledge
in Late-Eighteenth-Century India”
- Yvonne FUENTES, University of West Georgia, “Antonio Xavier
Pérez y López’s Rationale for ‘Loving’ a Sibling but not a Parent”
- “New Jews: Debating Modernity in the Long Eighteenth
Century” Greenway Ballroom G
Chair: Hazel GOLD, Emory University
- Sarah STEIN, Arkansas Tech University “Hebrew without Jews:
Sublime Hebrew as a Christian Inheritance in Eighteenth-Century
England”
- Ann Luppi VON MEHREN, Drexel University, “Debating the
Jewish Naturalization Bill (1753) in the English Press: Samuel
Johnson Responds to the Brothers Warton”
- Zoe BEENSTOCK, University of Haifa, “Back to Jerusalem:
Conjectural History and the Enlightenment Holy Land”
- Waltraud MAIERHOFER, University of Iowa “The Representation
of the Jew in the Satirical Picture Story of ‘Strunk the Upstart’”
SESSIONS II 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
- “Women of Power and the Power of Women: Rethinking
Female Agency in Honor of Maria Theresa” – I
Nicollet D-2
Chair: Rita KRUEGER, Temple University
- Kate MULRY, California State University, Bakersfield, “Mary
Rich’s ‘Strong Cryes for Mercy’: Signing, Groaning, and Fasting
on Behalf of the Nation”
- Kelsey RUBIN-DETLEV, Queen’s College, University of Oxford,
“The Epistolary Strategies of Catherine the Great and Maria
Theresa”
- Mandy PAIGE-LOVINGOOD, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, “Marie-Antoinette: Une Identité Melange”
- Yolopattli HERNÁNDEZ-TORRES, Loyola University Maryland,
“Women and Productivity in Late Colonial Mexico”
- Amanda STRASIK, Eastern Kentucky University,
“Revolutionizing Royal Motherhood: Marie-Antoinette and her
Children”
- “Disease, Disability, and Medicine in the Ibero-American
World” Greenway Ballroom H
Chair: Madeline SUTHERLAND-MEIER, The University of Texas at
Austin
- Stan BOOTH, University of Winchester, “The Language of
Vilification” 11
- Karissa BUSHMAN, University of Alabama in Huntsville, “Illness
and Medicine in Goya’s Works”
- Cindy ERMUS, University of Lethbridge, “The Plague of
Provence and Bourbon Reform in the Eighteenth Century”
- Silvia ROCHA, Washington University in St. Louis, “Theorhetoric
of Disease: Appealing to Saints from the Head to the Toe in
Colonial Mexico”
- “The Library as Institution in the Long Eighteenth-Century
Atlantic World” (The Bibliographical Society of America and the
Community Libraries Network) Greenway Ballroom J
Chair: Rob KOEHLER, New York University
- Gabriella ANGELONI, University of South Carolina, “‘Carefully and
Deliberately’: Personal Libraries and the Cultivation of Identity in
Eighteenth Century South Carolina”
- Kevin SEDEÑO-GUILLÉN, University of Kentucky, “From Baroque
Library to Enlightened Library: The Cuban Mestizo Manuel del
Socorro Rodriguez and the Royal Public Library of Santafe de Bogota”
- Marta KVANDE, Texas Tech University, “Dedications and Prefaces
16601700: Institutions of Print and Manuscript Cultures in Fiction”
- Omar MIRANDA, New York University, “Francisco de Miranda’s
Library of Exile and Revolution on Grafton Street”
SESSIONS III 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
- “Empire and the Antique in Art and Design” Greenway Ballroom E
Chairs: Jocelyn ANDERSON, Independent Scholar AND
Holly SHAFFER, Dartmouth College
- J. Cabelle AHN, Harvard University, “Arcadia ‘sous la latitude des
Iroquois:’ Representing Indigenous Canadians in the Salon”
- Susan DEANS-SMITH, The University of Texas at Austin, “‘This
Mexican Marvel:’ Manuel Tolsá’s Bronze Equestrian Statue of Charles
IV All’Antica”
- Amelia RAUSER, Franklin & Marshall College, “Neoclassical Dress
and Imperial Cotton”
- “Illustrating the Ilustración/Iluminismo: Visual Culture and
Transnational Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America”
Greenway Ballroom I
Chair: Nicholas WOLTERS, Wake Forest University
- Tijana ZAKULA, University of Utrecht, “Gerard de Lairesse in
Portuguese: from Lisbon to Rio”
- Gabrielle MILLER, Baylor University, “Illustrating the Eighteenth-
Century Spanish Press: The Grabados of Espíritu de los mejores diarios
que se publican en Europa (17871791)”
- Verónica MUÑOZ-NÁJAR, University of California, Berkeley, “Art
and Civility: Moxos and the Implementation of the Bourbon Reforms”
- Catherine JAFFE, Texas State University, “A Woman’s Enlightenment
Trajectory: Portraits of María Lorenza de los Ríos and her Two
Husbands”
SESSIONS IV 2:30 – 4 P.M.
- “The Birds and the Bees (and Other Beasts) : Thinking and
Writings about the Human-Animal Connection” – II
Chair: Mary E. ALLEN, University of Virginia Greenway Ballroom D
- Adela RAMOS, Pacific Lutheran University, “‘This Admirable
Machine’: Mousers and Mousetraps in William Gutherie’s The Life
and Adventures of a Cat”
- Peter DEGABRIELE, Mississippi State University, “An (Un)
Limited War Against Brutes: Pufendorf, Animals, and the Natural
Law of War”
- Pamela PHILLIPS, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, “Cats
- Mice: The Feline Debate in Eighteenth-Century Spain”
SESSIONS V 4:15 – 5:45 P.M.
- “Humor in Spain and its Colonies during the Enlightenment”
Chair: Elena DEANDA, Washington College Nicollet D-1
- Ana María Díaz BURGOS, Oberlin College, “‘Honest Entertainment:’
Humor, Satire and the Tertulia Eutropélica (17921794)”
- Sean GULLICKSON, University of Kansas, “Looking in from the
Outside: Satire, National Identity and the Other in José Cadalso’s
Cartas marruecas”
- Álvaro ALCÁNTARA, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios
Superiores en Antropología Social, México, “La burla y denuncia de un
diablo observador: Prácticas sociales y cultura festiva en el puerto de
Veracruz en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII” 26
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
SESSIONS VI 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
- “Eighteenth-Century Habits: Nuns in Fact and Fiction, in the
Cloister and Beyond” (Roundtable) Greenway Ballroom A
Chair: Tonya MOUTRAY, Russell Sage College
- Ana RUEDA, University of Kentucky, “Convents in Flames: Sexual
Encounters and the Ruse of Letters in Spanish Romantic Novels”
- Sabrina Norlander ELIASSON, Stockholm University, “‘Saggia
Donzella, onor del Tebro e della nostra etade’: Becoming an Elite Nun
in Eighteenth-Century Rome”
- Preea LEELAH, Oberlin College, “Nuns in French Enlightenment and
Counter-Enlightenment Literature: Fact as Fiction/Fiction as Fact?”
- Jennifer VANDERHEYDEN, Marquette University “Illegitimate
Reality Makes for Legitimate Fiction: The Convenience of Convents”
- Frieda KOENINGER, Sam Houston State University, “The Letters of
María Ignacia de Aslor: A Nun’s Determination Confronts Male
Authority”
- Barbara ABRAMS, Suffolk University, “Obscure But Not Hidden: The
‘lettres de cachet’ (hidden letters) and Diderot’s La Religieuse”
- “The Postsecular Enlightenment” Greenway Ballroom E
Chair: David ALVAREZ, DePauw University
- Jeffrey GALBRAITH, Wheaton College, “Defoe’s Secular Faith: A
Postcritical Reading of The Shortest Way with Dissenters”
- Rachael Givens JOHNSON, University of Virginia, “Forging
‘Pure’ Religion: Collisions between Baroque and Enlightenment
Devotional Imaginaries in Eighteenth-century Iberian Catholicism”
- Roger MAIOLI, University of Florida, “David Hume and the Specter
of Relativism”
- Juliette PAUL, Christian Brothers University, “Aphra Behn and the
West Indian Church”
SESSIONS VII 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
- “Science Fiction” – I Greenway Ballroom B
Chair: Jeff LOVELAND, University of Cincinnati
- Crystal MATEY, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “Science
Fiction without Science? Speculation and the Problem of Terminology in
Understanding Eighteenth-Century Science and Literature About
Science”
- Theodore E. D. BRAUN, University of Delaware, “Cyrano de Bergerac,
Precursor of Swift and Voltaire”
- Shifra ARMON, University of Florida, “Halfway There: Fictions of
Science in Eighteenth-Century Spain”
SESSIONS VIII 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
- “Rococo Queens” Nicollet A/B
Chair: Melissa HYDE, University of Florida
- Tara ZANARDI, Hunter College, City University of New York, “Surface
Play and Rococo Ambition: Isabel de Farnesio’s Lacquered Bedroom”
- Christina LINDEMAN, University of South Alabama, “Composing the
Rococo: Representations of Musical Princesses in Eighteenth-Century
Germany”
- Amy FREUND, Southern Methodist University, “Killer Queens: Royal
Women and Hunting Guns in Rococo Europe”
- Susan WAGER, University of New Hampshire, “Van Loo, Pompadour,
Rococo: A Material Media Event”
SESSIONS IX 4:30- 6 p.m.
- “Ilustrados y Afrancesados: A Session in Honor of Professor
Theodore E. D. Braun” Greenway Ballroom A
(Ibero-American Society on Eighteenth-Century Studies (IASECS)
Chair: Elizabeth Franklin LEWIS, University of Mary Washington
- Gloria EIVE, San Leandro, California, “Francisco Barbieri y Asenjo’s
zarzuela Jugar con Fuego (1851) and its Consequences for Spanish
Popular Theatre”
- Elena DEANDA, Washington College, “French Porn/Spanish Porn:
Mimesis and Difference”
- Madeline SUTHERLAND-MEIER, The University of Texas at Austin,
“Los franceses generosos: An Unfinished Comedia by Antonio
Valladares de Sotomayor”
- Theodore E. D. BRAUN, University of Delaware, “An Aspect of the
Spanish Enlightenment: Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa”
- “A Case for the Italian Enlightenment” (Roundtable)
(Italian Studies Caucus) Nicollet D-3
Chair: Francesca SAVOIA, University of Pittsburgh
- Cecilia MILLER, Wesleyan University, “On the Italian Enlightenment”
- Clorinda DONATO, California State University, “The (Unknown)
European Networks of the Italian Enlightenment”
- Irene ZANINI-CORDI, Florida State University, “Enlightened Salons
as Faulty Social Media”
- Paolo PALMIERI, University of Pittsburgh, “Muratori and Vico,
Champions of Galileo Against Descartes”
- Rebecca MESSBARGER, Washington University, “Italy and the
Making of a Post-Secular Enlightenment”
- Adrienne WARD, University of Virginia, “The Italian Theatre”
- Shane AGIN, Duquesne University, “The Varied Fortunes of the
Milanese Enlightenment”
- Sabrina FERRI, University of Notre Dame, “Defining the Italian
Eighteenth Century: Hegemony and Anachronism”
6 -7 p.m.
Friday, MARCH 31, 2017
Business Meeting
Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Greenway Ballroom A
IASECS DINNER TO FOLLOW. LOCATION TBA
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017
SESSIONS X 8:00 -9:30 a.m.
- “Cities and Disasters in the Eighteenth Century” Nicollet D-2
Chair: Cindy ERMUS, University of Lethbridge
- Yaron AYALON, Ball State University, “Confronting Natural Disasters
in Ottoman Cities”
- Quinn DAUER, Indiana University Southeast, “Catastrophes and
Urban Landscapes: State and Societal Responses to Natural Disasters in
Eighteenth-Century Chile”
- Andreas K.E. MUELLER, University of Worcester, “Collective Trauma
and the Mimetics of Pain: Remembering London in Defoe’s A Journal
of the Plague Year”
- Kristin TREMPER, Lehigh University, ‘“Tempest of Mortality:’ Social
and Political Responses to Mass Casualties in Early Urban America”
- “Ecology and Natural Disasters in Eighteenth-Century Spanish
America” Greenway Ballroom A
Chair: Mariselle MELÉNDEZ, University of Illinois
- Karen STOLLEY, Emory University, “‘The Earth Shook:’ Natural
Disasters and Enlightened Lessons in Rafael de Landívar’s Rusticatio
Mexicana (1782)”
- Rocío CORTÉS, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, “Hunger,
Epidemics and Survival in Colonial Mexico”
- Santa ARIAS, University of Kansas, “On Public Health, Population and
the Environment: Jose Hipólito Unanue’s Revolutionary Geography”
Respondent: David F. SLADE, Berry College.
SESSIONS XI 9:45 -11:15 a.m.
- “The Enlightenment since Besterman: Exploring 60 Years of
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century” (Roundtable) Greenway Ballroom I
Chair: Melissa HYDE, University of Florida
- Nicholas CRONK, Voltaire Foundation/ University of Oxford,
“Gustave Lanson and Theodore Besterman, Studies on Voltaire and the
Eighteenth Century”
- Karen STOLLEY, Emory University, “Françoise de Graffigny, ‘Lettres
d’une péruvienne’ as a Source for Eighteenth-Century Latin American
Studies”
- Gregory BROWN, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Voltaire
Foundation/ Oxford, “Frank Kafker, ‘The Encyclopedistes,’ and the
Social History of the Enlightenment”
- Kelsey RUBIN-DETLEV, University of Oxford, “Christiane Mervaud,
‘Voltaire et Frédéric II’ as a Turning Point in Epistolary Studies”
- Geoffrey TURNOVSKY, University of Washington, “JoAnn
McEachern, ‘Bibliography of the Writings of J-J Rousseau’ as a Work
of Scholarship”
SESSIONS XII 2 -3:30 p.m.
SESSIONS XIII 3:45 -5:15 p.m.
- “Disciplined Mobility and Carceral Spaces in the Eighteenth-
Century Atlantic World” Nicollet D-3
Chair: Jonathan NASH, College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University
- Michael BRADLEY, Eastern Illinois University, “Incarcerated,
Transported, and Bound: Deference, Resistance, and Assimilation,
Constructing Community among Transported Convicts from London to
the Chesapeake, 17391776”
- Eva M. MEHL, University of North Carolina Wilmington, “Trans-
Oceanic Connections in a Polycentric Monarchy: Convict
Transportation and Military Recruitment in the Spanish Empire, 1765
1811”
- Tristan J. SCHWEIGER, University of Chicago, “‘Among a Parcel of
Wretches’: Roderick Random and the Prison of Empire”
- Jeffrey A. MULLINS, St. Cloud State University, ‘“Liberia is a Prison
and Charnel House’: Debating African Colonization as Carceral
Colonies or Provinces of Freedom, 17801840”
- “The Delusional Self or the Artful Self” Greenway Ballroom F
Chair: Enid VALLE, Kalamazoo College
- Kathleen FUEGER, Independent Scholar, “Staging the Self: Play,
Performance, and Delusion in the Comedies of Moratín”
- Katherine MULLINS, Vanderbilt University, “Sensory Signs:
Perception, Passion, and Identity in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina”
- Elizabeth Franklin LEWIS, University of Mary Washington, “An Old
Woman’s Guide to Love: María Gertrudis Hore’s Amor caduco”
- Amber LUDWIG, Independent Scholar, “Anne Damer, Identity, and
the Practice of Collecting”
- Susan SPENCER, University of Central Oklahoma, “Saikaku Ihara’s
Amorous Woman and the Cash Nexus in Genroku-era Osaka”