The Book and the City
Registration: 4 - 7 pm. The Conservatory, Heathman Hotel
Welcome Reception: 5 - 7 pm. Brief opening remarks by John Scanlan, Chair of the conference. The Conservatory, Heathman HotelFRIDAY, MARCH 1
Optional Fun Run: 7 am. A leisurely jog to various points of historical and contemporary interest in Downtown Portland, including a beautiful path by the Willamette River. We'll meet in the Lobby at 7 am, and we'll be back at the hotel in plenty of time to refresh ourselves and attend the first session. Come join us! Hosted by John Scanlan.
Registration: 8 - 3 pm. Second Floor, Heathman Hotel.
Collections, Libraries, Printed Tables, and Keepsakes. Chair, Kathryn Duncan (St. Leo University). Fremont Morrison Room
1. Martha Lawler (Louisiana State University). "At Home with Books: The Use of Domestic Information for Educating Children and Adults During the Eighteenth Century."
2. Joshua Swidzinski (University of Portland). "Artificial Versifying: AI Among the Scriblerians."
3. Todd Larkin (Montana State University). "Marie-Antoinette as the Muse of Music: Reconciling the Themes of Her Library Scores and Intimate Portraits."
Yale and the Study of the Eighteenth Century. Chair, Kevin Cope (Louisiana State University). Sellwood Room
1. C. Earl Ramsey (University of Arkansas, Little Rock). "What's Theory Got to Do with It?"
2. John Scanlan (Providence College). "Confessions of a Graduate Student, or, Scanlan at Yale."
The Eighteenth Century and Asia. Chair, Susan Spencer (University of Central Oklahoma [Emerita]) Fremont Morrison Room
1. Susan Spencer (University of Central Oklahoma). "A Boy and his Books: How the Untimely Demise of Obiya Chōkurō Rewrote a Significant Chapter of Book History in Japan."
2. Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos (The University of Hong Kong). "Books in Beijing: Manchu-language Book Production in Qing China."
3. Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University, "Pride and Prejudice and Compassion: A Buddhist Reading."
Politics, Theology, and Principles: Moral Responses to Crisis I. Chair, Gloria Eive (Musicologist, Independent Scholar) Sellwood Room
1. Linda Reesman (Queensborough Community College, City University). "Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Friend (1809-1810)"
2. Stacey Jocoy (Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington, DC). "'Cheerful Airs': The Loyalist Airs of Louisa Wells (1755-1831)"
3. Charles Tita (University of North Carolina at Pembroke). "Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) and Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) in London: Voices of Dissent"
Shakespeare, Shakespearean Adaptations, and Eighteenth-Century Cultural History. Chair, Brett McInelly (Brigham Young University) Fremont Morrison Room
1. Zerin Wetzel (Brigham Young University). "'Our Darker Purpose': Jean-François Duci's Le Roi Léar in Eighteenth-Century France."
2. Rachel Gouff (Brigham Young University). "'The Crooked-back Tyrant': Cibber's Richard III as a Reflection of Eighteenth-Century Cultural Shifts in Disability Representation."
Afternoon Free
Optional Fun Run: 7 am. A second day of leisurely jogging to points of historical and contemporary interest in Downtown Portland, including again the beautiful path by the Willamette River. We'll meet in the Lobby at 7 am, and we'll be back at the hotel in plenty of time to refresh ourselves and attend the first session. Come join us. Hosted by John Scanlan.
Registration: 8 - Noon
Politics, Theology, and Principles: Moral Responses to Crisis II. Chair, Stacey Jocoy (Library of Congress, Music Division). Linda L. Reesman (Queensborough Community College, City University) Sellwood Room
1. Francien Markx (George Mason University). "A Prussian in Paris: Johann Friedrich Reichardt, the Court Kappellmeister a(s) Republican Revolutionary?"
2. Gloria Eive (Musicologist; Independent Scholar). "Beethoven's Fidelio: A Musical Protest Against Tyranny." (Presentation includes musical examples.)
Long Eighteenth-Century Drama and the Ancients: in Honor of John Burke. Chair, Susan Spencer (University of Central Oklahoma) Fremont Morrison Room
1. Madison Maloney (Brigham Young University). "Escaping Plato's Cave: Platonic Influences on Female Education in Dryden and Davenant's The Tempest."
2. Claire Farnsworth (Brigham Young University). "'I'll Make a Man Out of You": Masculinity in Thomas Otway's The History and Fall of Caius Marius."
3. Can Okan (Independent Scholar, Istanbul). "Aesthetic Experience According to Hume"
William Shakespeare, John Wesley, David Garrick, and Benjamin Franklin: New Approaches to Influences and Sources. Chair, John Scanlan (Providence College). Sellwood Room
1. Brett McInelly (Brigham Yount University). "Evangelizing Shakespeare: John Wesley and Bardolatry."
2. Matthew Rudy (Brigham Young University). "Reimagining Place: David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee as Adaptation."
3. Colin T. Ramsey (Appalachian State University). "'I Know as Well as Thee, That I Am No Poet Born': Benjamin Franklin's Utilitarian and Autodidactic Use of Poetry."
Epistemological Regimes and the Production of Eighteenth-Century Genres. Chair, Dwight Codr (University of Connecticut). Fremont Morrison Room
1. Ramesh Mallipeddi (University of British Columbia). "'Tillage and Trade': The Ends of Improvement."
2. Dave Mazella (University of Houston). "Robert Fergusson and the Instruments of Correction."
3. Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State University). "'Ye Olde Amazing Stories': Thoughts on the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Origins of Modern Science Fiction."
4. Jacob Wilkenfeld (Northwestern University). "Robinson Crusoe's Brazilian Interlude and the Fluidity of National Identity."
Jack Lynch, Distinguished Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark. "Pope's Thames"
Reception: 3:15 -5:15. The Lower Lounge, The University Club
SCSECS Business Meeting: 5:30 - 6:30. The Board Room, Heathman Hotel.
