The 2002 East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
conference will be held from October 17-20, 2002 at Rosemont College, located
on the Main Line in Philadelphia's western suburbs.
Sessions and papers at our conference will explore the myriad ways in which
the eighteenth century interpreted "performance." We seek appers and panels
on gender as performance, colonization as performance, libertinism, as
performance, regeneration as performance; physical theories of the late
eighteenth century; the performative body; fashion, spectacle, fairs and
markets, or sports as performance; travel as an extended performance; the
performance of scientific lectures, as on electromagnetism; performance or
performativity in social institutions, and, of course, rhetorical performances
and performances in the arts, in music, in portraiture, and at courts--and the
criticism and consequences of performances. As ever, papers on topics
unrelated to the theme are welcome.
The Program Committee, chaired by Erlis Wickersham, has already received many
session proposals (listed below). We will be updating our list of proposed
panels shortly. Abstracts of individual papers may also be sent to Erlis at
Rosemont College, 1400 Montgomery Ave, Rosemont, PA 19010-1699 or email:
ewicksersham@rosemont.edu. If you are interested in proposing a paper for any
of the sessions listed below, please contact the appointed chair of the
session.
Participants in the conference will stay at the Radnor Hotel on Route 30
(Lancaster Ave.). Shuttle bus service from the hotel and parking on campus
will be available. We have reserved a limited block of rooms at the hotel (@
$119 per night, single occupancy: participants should phone for reservations:
610 688-5800 or 800 537-3000).
Proposed Panels
1. "Performing Parenthood." Papers might focus on the constructed,
performative nature of parenthood, as evinced in both biological and surrogate
parenting in 18th-century literature and culture. Marilyn Francus, Dept. of
English/West Virginia U./230 Stansbury Hall/P. O. Box 6296/Morgantown, WV
26506. E-mail: francus@wvnvm.wvnet.edu.
2. "Nation and Performance." Topics include national identity as reflected or
constructed in writings about or in the performing arts, dramatic and musical;
national theatres; national identities tied to specific dramatic or musical
forms; and any other connections between nation and performance. John P.
Heins, Germanic & Slavic Dept., Room 627/George Washington U., 2130 H. St., N.
W., Washington D. C. 20052. E-mail: jpheins@gwu.edu.
3. "Performing Friendship in the 18th Century." Joe Johnson, Dept. of Foreign
Languages/Georgia Southwestern State U./Americus, GA 31709-4693. E-mail:
jjohnson@canes.gsw.edu.
4. "Ecocriticism and Performativity: Or, Nature as Performance Art." Peter
Perreten, English Dept./Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA 19426. E-mail:
ppereten@ursinus.edu.
5. "Performing Selves: 18th-Century Autobiography and Biography." Papers on
the performance of self and the construction of identity in autobiographies
and biographies written within the long 18th century and/or in biographies of
18th-century figures. Elisabeth Ellington, English Dept./MS 023, Brandeis U.
E-mail: Ellington@brandeis.edu.
6. "Publishing on the Web: Differing Approaches and Experiences." (Two
panels, possibly.) T. E. D. Braun, Dept. of Foreign languages & Literatures/U.
of Delaware/Newark, DE 19716. E-mail: braun@udel.edu.
7. "Performance and Issues of Audience in the 18th Century." Steve Newman,
English Dept./Temple U./Anderson Hall, 10th Floor/1114 W. Berks
St./Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090. E-mail: snewman@temple.edu. Papers might
discuss how readers or novels, theatergoers, auditors (and readers) of
ballads, as well as other 18th-century audiences make sense of these texts,
and, conversely, how authors imagine, propitiate, seek to forestall, worry
over, or rage against their prospective audiences. Some questions we might
address: How do changes in the cultural market alter the reception of
particular texts or the idea of reception itself? What role does genre play
in structuring the responses of audiences? How do broader theories of the
public sphere and/or the sphere of cultural production inform, supplement, or
conflict with more detailed historical studies? How do we even begin to go
about inferring responses, which so often leave no marks?
8. "The Performance of Sympathy in the Scottish Enlightenment." Steve
Newman, English Dept./Temple U./Anderson Hall, 10th Floor/1114 W. Berks
St./Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090. E-mail: snewman@temple.edu. The papers on
this panel will seek to follow Richard Sher and others in filling the gap
between Scottish intellectual and cultural history by focusing on how the
Enlightenment dynamics of sympathy and spectatorship were integrated into
formal and informal pedagogies of social performance. Papers are also welcome
on how those dynamics were themselves informed by Scottish cultural
institutions, not only the law and the universities but also the book trade,
popular songs, and other non-elite forms and practices.
9. "Teaching the Eighteenth Century." EC/ASECS annual seminar on the
subject. Contact Erlis Wickersham, German Dept./Rosemont College/1400
Montgomery Ave./Rosemont, PA 19010-1699. E-mail: ewickersham@rosemont.edu.
10. "Performing Research on 18th-Century Primary Sources." Jim May, English
Dept./Penn State U./College Place, Du Bois, PA 15801. E-mail: jem4@psu.edu.
11. "Recent Research on Swift and his Contemporaries: A Roundtable
Discussion." Don Mell, English Dept./U. of Delaware/Newark, DE 19716.
E-mail: dmell@udel.edu.
12. "The Eighteenth-Century Traveler as Performer and/or Audience." Linda E.
Merians//330 Administration Bldg./Stony Brook U./Stony Brook, NY 11794-1601.
E-mail:lemeria@aol.com
13. "The Performance of Print in the Long Eighteenth-Century." Eleanor
Shvelin(English Dept., West Chester U.)/2006 Columbia Rd. NW, Apt.
42/Washington, DC 20009. Email: eshevlin@wcupa.edu. Papers are welcome on
any aspect of print culture and the role it played in the period. Of
particular interest are papers on the roles performed by editors and compilers
in the production of texts and on the intersection between reviewers,
journalists, illustrators, and the theater--and the ways these relationships
enabled print to become a performer in theater. Plase send one-page
proposals.
14. "Trans-Atlancticism, or Why Colonial America Is (or Isn't) Essentially
British?" Kevin Berland, English Dept./Penn State U./147 Shenango Ave./Sharon,
PA 16146. E-mail: bcj@psu.edu.
15. "Translation as Performance." Robert Frail, Dept. of English &
Communication/Centenary College of New Jersey/400 Jefferson St./Hackettstown,
NJ 07840. e-mail: glbaled1@mindstrping.com or frail@centenarycollege.edu.
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