SE17 2009 Annual Conference
Philadelphia – Swarthmore College
October 22-24

Thursday October 22, 2009
Philadelphia Holiday Inn - Hancock Room

*** Afternoon ***

Registration
1:00pm – 1:30pm

NOTIONS OF HISTORY AND PROGRESS
President: Claire Goldstein, Miami University
1:30pm – 3:15pm

Benjamin Narvey, EPHE, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne
On Writing Musical History: Canon and Temporality in the Tombeau Form

Bernadette Hoefer , Ohio State University
Times of Crisis or Progress? Honoré d’Urfé’s Literary Discourse on the Book

Helen Harrison, Morgan State University
Cosmic Time and Blessed Memory: Versions of History in Billard’s La Mort d’Henri IV

Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Historiciser la fin de l'histoire: Alexandre le Grand en scène, ou le corps du roi éclaté

Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky
Seeing History

Coffee break
3:15pm – 3:30pm

COLLECTING
President: Peter Shoemaker, Catholic University of America
3:30pm – 5:00pm

Ellen Welch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Collecting Curiosities in Gabriel Foigny’s La Terre australe connue (1676)

Michèle Bokobza Kahan, Tel-Aviv University
La Mise en recueil comme procédé d’accréditation du discours testimonial (La Vérité des miracles de Carré de Montgeron)

Catherine Theobald, Brandeis University
The Divers Portraits and the Drive to Collect

Emmanuel Bury, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin en Yvelines
Érudits et collectionneurs face à la Révolution scientifique : permanences et mutations de l’autorité savante

ANIMAUX
President: Volker Schröder, Princeton University
5:00pm – 5:45pm

Denis Augier, University of New Orleans
Le bestiaire alchimique

Jean Leclerc, University of Western Ontario
Les animaux héroï-comiques

Welcoming Reception
Sopra Lounge - 212 Walnut Street
6:00-8:00pm

Friday October 23, 2009
Philadelphia Holiday Inn - Hancock Room

*** Morning ***

DOUBLE-MEANING, AMBIGUITY
President: Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky
8:45am – 10:15am

Domenica L. Newell-Amato, Emory University
Dubbing and Doubling Identity in Racine’s Bérénice

Martine Pécharman, CNRS, Paris
The Status of Double Sense in Pascal’s Doctrine of Figurative Language

Stella Spriet, University of Saskatchewan
Ruses et discours équivoques dans les tragédies politiques du XVIIe siècle

Nicholas Dion, Université Laval, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
La Tragédie simple: l’ambiguïté d’une catégorie esthétique au tournant du siècle (1685-1708)

Coffee break
10:15am – 10:30am

WAR
President:Deborah Steinberger, University of Delaware
10:30am – 11:30am

Francis Assaf, University of Georgia
La Guerre dans L’Autre monde

Perry Gethner, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Verbal Depictions of War in Rotrou

Michael Taormina, Hunter College, CUNY
Malherbe’s Martial Odes:  War by Other Means

Lunch
(Executive Committee Meeting)

*** Afternoon ***

WAR
President:Deborah Steinberger, University of Delaware
1:30pm – 3:00pm

James F. Gaines, University of Mary Washington
Boileau's Ode to Namur and New World Order

Mark de Vitis, University of Sydney
The Devolved Image: Verity and the War of Devolution

Chloé Hogg, University of Pittsburgh
The Intersection Between News and Poetry in the Passage du Rhin “Media Campaign”

Rose Pruiksma, Independent Scholar
Le Bruit de guerre, tragédie en musique, and Louis XIV's Wars

WRITING HISTORY
President: Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College
3:00pm – 4:15pm

John Boitano, Chapman University
The Assault on Biblical Time and Pascal's Response

Gilles Declercq, Université Paris-III Sorbonne-Nouvelle
L'Écriture véhémente de l'histoire: l'histoire des schismes du père Maimbourg, S.J.

Nicolas Schapira, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
L'Invention du témoignage: l'écriture collective d'une histoire de la Fronde à Etampes

Coffee break
4:15pm – 4:30pm

AUTHORITY
President: Nicolas Schapira, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
4:30pm – 6:00pm

Hélène Bilis, Wellesley College
Embodying Justice: Corneille and the King's Legal Authority

Ellen McClure, University of Illinois in Chicago
Authority, Authorship, and Creation in the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes

Delphine Reguig-Naya, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne
Autorité et véracité dans le Traité de la foy humaine, d'A. Arnauld et P. Nicole

GUEST SPEAKER
6:00pm – 7:00pm

Jacob Soll, Rutgers University
Between Public and Secret Spheres: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Republic of Letters

Saturday October 24, 2009
Swarthmore College
Science Center 101

Departure time of bus to Swarthmore, from hotel: 8:45am

*** Morning ***

THE DOUBLE
President: Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky
9:45am – 11:15am

Françoise Lavocat, Université de Paris-VII Denis Diderot
Le Roman allégorique (XVIIe siècle): oeuvre ouverte?

Michael Meere, Princeton University/SUNY-FIT
‘Saintes’ and ‘Sorcières’ on Stage in Early Seventeenth-Century France

Sophie Marinez, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Minerva, Medusa, and Mlle de Montpensier: Doubling Images of Female Autonomy and Power

Claire Goldstein, Miami University
Blurry Focus

Coffee break
11:15am – 11:30am

TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY
President: Hélène Visentin, Smith College
11:30am – 12:15pm

Didier Course, Hood College
Student Research Institute: Introduction à la recherche à la BNF

Charlotte Trinquet, University of Central Florida
Teaching Early Modern French Fairy Tales to Disney Princesses: Report on the Newly Implemented Course

Roland Racevskis, University of Iowa
Virtual Versailles at Iowa

Catered Lunch and SE17 Business Meeting
Scheurer Room, Kohlberg Hall

*** Afternoon ***

GENDER AND HISTORY
President: Faith Beasley. Dartmouth College
2:15pm – 3:30pm

Allison Stedman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Revisiting Coulommiers: Lafayette Rewrites History, Murat Rewrites Lafayette

Gabrielle Verdier, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Piracy,'Entertaining Chat' or 'Merveilleuse Réalité'? D'Aulnoy's Mémoires de la cour d'Espagne

Kirk Read, Bates College
Le Caquet des hommes: Men Lying in Wait at Early Modern Births

Coffee break
3:30pm – 3:45pm

COLLECTIONS
President: Peter Shoemaker, Catholic University of America
3:45pm – 5:15pm

Virginie Cassidy, Georgetown College
De la Morale aux divertissements, il n’y a qu’un jeu de société

Benoît Bolduc, New York University
La Fête de cour dans la collection du Cabinet du Roi: entre l’histoire et l’encomium

Audrey Adamczak, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne
Illustrating French Society: Fashion Print Compendiums in Paris in the Seventeenth Century

GUEST SPEAKER
5:15pm – 6:00pm

Abby Zanger
Women in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men: Some Thoughts on Book in History

Cocktail
6:00 - 7:00pm

Bus departure time to Philadelphia hotel: 7:00pm

This conference is made possible by the generosity of Mr Kenneth Wynn, '74.

28th Annual Conference

Philadelphia and Swarthmore College

October 22-24, 2009

Conference Organizer/Responsable du colloque
Jean-Vincent Blanchard
jblanch1@swarthmore.edu