Dallas, TX
21-23 February 2019
You will find the full program below, beneath the information about our two plenary speakers.
Events commenced Thursday evening with a welcome reception featuring food, drinks, and live music. Sessions ran on Friday and Saturday, closing with a farewell banquet and plenary session on Saturday evening in the spectacular Pegasus Room.
Jacqueline Chao is Curator of Asian Art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art. Her presentation on Friday will feature a discussion of art and artifacts from the Crow’s holdings. We will be able to view some of these artifacts in person during a private tour of the collections later that afternoon.
Dr. Chao’s recently curated exhibitions include Invisible Cities: Moving Images Asia, Hidden Nature: Sopheap Pich, and Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney. She has curated and organized many exhibitions at the Crow, as well as at Phoenix Art Museum, ASU Art Museum, ASU Institute for Humanities Research, Chicago Artists Coalition, and the University of Toronto Art Centre, in the areas of ink painting, Tibetan sculpture, Japanese woodblock prints, and contemporary site-specific installation, photography and new media.
She has authored and edited several articles, books and catalogs on Chinese art and Buddhist art, and has presented her research at Harvard University, University of Hawaii, University of Washington, and other universities, museums, academic conferences and symposia. She previously taught Asian Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was Director of Exhibitions and Residencies at Chicago Artists Coalition, and contributed research to the Chinese painting collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds an MA and PhD in Chinese Art History from Arizona State University, and a BA in Art History from the University of Toronto.
In her presentation on Saturday, Phyllis Thompson will unpack our custodial responsibility as scholar-archivists to bear witness to the material and affective conditions of women’s lives in the eighteenth century. Using the recipe books, commonplaces, and journals of Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough, as a concrete point of reference, she will challenge us to embrace not only the order and organization of archives and archival materials but also the untidy messiness we find there.
Suggesting that it is often in the clutter, disarray, scraps and specks that we find testaments to experience, Dr. Thompson demonstrates that by opening our archival practices to include locating absence, valuing disorder, and surfacing affect we change our relationship to the archive in a way that can help us better bear witness to women’s lived experiences in the eighteenth century and to an expanded notion of archive and archival practice in the twenty-first.
In conjunction with this presentation, we will have on display a selection of eighteenth-century cookbooks from the Texas Woman’s University Special Collections in a traveling exhibit curated by graduate students at TWU.
Dr. Thompson is Director of Women’s Studies and Associate Professor of English at East Tennessee State University. She earned her Ph.D. in eighteenth-century British literature and Gender Studies from Louisiana State University, and she is a long-time member of the SCSECS Executive Board. She teaches graduate- and undergraduate-level courses on the eighteenth-century and women authors, archival studies, girls' studies, feminist pedagogies, and gender-based violence.
Her scholarship emerges
from her interests in women’s health, healing, and well-being; the eighteenth century; and archival
studies and takes her up windy mountain roads and into dusty attics and modern archival repositories,
where she examines women’s medicinal recipes, letterbooks, and diaries from the eighteenth century to
discover what we might learn about daily life, reading and writing, healing women and their
communities, and the archive itself from reading women’s unpublished life writing. Her book
project, Kitchen Physik, examines women's contributions to family medicine and community healthcare in
early eighteenth-century Britain, illuminates the ethics of care women fostered in rural communities,
and showcases the ways in which 18th-century women’s work can provide a conduit to
conceptualizations of the new archive.
This year's theme is The Eighteenth Century in Perspective, considered in its
broadest sense, although we welcome papers addressing any aspect of the long
eighteenth century. There is something here for everyone!
“The Queen’s Closet Reopened: Eighteenth-Century Cookbooks from the TWU Special Collections”
Friday, February 22, 8:30–10:00
The Enlightenment in Literature and the Arts: Light, Darkness, and Truth
Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Theater and Performance, Part 1
Approaches to Overlooked Texts
Friday, February 22, 10:15–11:45
Paragons of Their Sex: Gender, Identity, and Desire in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century, Part 1
Religious Perspectives and Perspectives on Religion in the Long Eighteenth Century, Part 1
Lunch & Plenary
“Imperial Taste, Global Ambitions: Art from China’s Qing dynasty (1611-1911) in the Crow Museum of Asian Art.”
Friday, February 22, 2:00–3:30
Asia in the Eighteenth Century
Fortune’s Favorites: Politics, Prophecy, and the Gothic
The Long Reach of the Long Eighteenth Century: Long Eighteenth-Century Influences on Later Literature
Tour of Crow Museum of Asian Art
5:30–7:00
Perspectives on Publishing in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
Cocktail Hour & Roundtable
Samara Cahill
Saturday, February 23, 8:00–10:00
Graduate Student Breakfast & Professional Development Session
Saturday, February 23, 8:30–10:00
Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Theater and Performance, Part 2
Perspectives on Retirement (Roundtable)
Biography, Autobiography, & Self-Fashioning in 18C Literature & Art
The “Invisible” Woman of the Eighteenth-Century
Saturday, February 23, 10:15–11:45
Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Female Rhetorical Performance
The Eighteenth-Century Self
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Grammars
Romantic Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
Saturday, February 23, 1:30–3:00
(Self) Portraiture in the Eighteenth-Century
Gulliver (and his Contemporaries) in Asia
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century, Part 2
Religious Perspectives and Perspectives on Religion in the Long Eighteenth Century, Part 2
Saturday, February 23, 3:15–4:45
Scarcity, Economy, Survival: Enlightenment Perspectives on the Environment
Negotiating Transatlantic Identity: New World and Old World Perspectives
Human Subjects in History and Literature, 1690–1820
Place, &c. in London
Plenary Presentation:
Dr. Phyllis Thompson
“Scribbled Recipes, Tattered Pages, and Absent Affections: Bearing Witness and the Stuff of the Archives.”
6:15/30-8:00
Closing Banquet
Leng Mei (active 1677-1742), Spring Evening Banquet at the Peach and Pear Blossom Garden (detail)
2019 Program
Welcome Reception
The Library
Presentation & Exhibit
Shannon Baughman, Madison Gravens, & Taylor Fitzgerald, Texas Woman’s University
Chair: Stacey Jocoy, Texas Tech University
Chair: Ashley Bender, Texas Woman's University
Chair: Mimi Gladstein, University of Texas at El Paso
Chair: Lindsay Emory Moore, University of Texas at Dallas
Chair: Phyllis Thompson, East Tennessee State University
Chair: Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University
Dr. Jacqueline Chao, Curator
Crow Museum of Asian Art
Chair: Samara Cahill, Nanyang Technological University
Chair: Brian Fehler, Texas Woman's University
Chair: Janet Wolf, SUNY Cortland
Kit Kincade
Brett McInelly
Mona Narain
J. T. Scanlan
“‘Tell Us about Your Research’: Writing and Talking about What You Do for Multiple Audiences”
Host: Gretchen Busl, Texas Woman’s University
Chair: Ashley Bender, Texas Woman's University
Chair: C. Earl Ramsey, UA Little Rock
Chair:
Chair: Randy Phillis, Colorado Mesa University
Chair: Elizabeth Tasker-Davis, Stephen F. Austin State University
Chairs: Danielle Ezor, Southern Methodist University and Kelsey Rozema, Southern Methodist University
Chair: J. T. Scanlan, Providence College (hambone@providence.edu)
Chair: Michael Cerliano, Texas Woman's University
Lunch Break
Business Meeting
Chair: Aria Cabot, Southern Methodist University
Chair: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
Chair: Brian Tatum, Tarrant County College
Chair, Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University
Chair: Samara Cahill, Nanyang Technological University
Chair: Heather Robinson-Lauer, Independent Scholar
Chair: Victoria Warren, Binghamton University
Chair: Heather Scheele, University of Central Oklahoma
Associate Professor
Director of Women’s Studies Program
East Tennessee State University
National Palace Museum, Taipei