ECSG Past Events

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Academic Years: 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 | 1999-2000 | 1998-1999 | 1997-1998  

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2007-2008
March 4, 2008:	Adam Potkay, Professor of English, College of William and Mary Workshop: "Music vs. Conscience in Wordsworth's Poetry."
March 11, 2008:	Misty Anderson, Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee Workshop: "Queer as Folk: Henry Fielding, Methodism and Gender Transitivity in Early Eighteenth-Century England."
April 10, 2008:	Betty Joseph, Associate Professor of English, Rice University Workshop: "Archaic Globalization: Women in the Early Modern Transnational World."
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2006-2007
October 5, 2006:	Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University Seminar: "Race in the 18^th century: Philosophical History of an Idea."
October 19, 2006:	Uday Singh Mehta, Professor of Political Philosophy, Amherst College Seminar: "Montesquieu and Burke."
November 10, 2006:	Srinivas Aravamudan, Professor of English, Duke University Seminar: "Satire and Pseudoethnography in Elizabeth Hamilton's Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah."
December 7, 2006:	Vanessa Agnew, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Seminar: "Music and the Eighteenth-Century Imperial Imaginary."
January 10, 2007:	Stuart Gillespie, Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow, Scotland Seminar: "Lucretius and the Moderns: Enlightenment to Victorian (and beyond)."
February 18, 2007:	David Marshall, Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, Kettering University Seminar: "The Sublimation of Rhtetoric: What Giambattista Vico did to the Art of Persuasion."
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2004-2005
January 3, 2005:	Suzanne Desan, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison Seminar: "Fantasies of the Foreign:  The French Revolution, Fraud, and American Land Speculation."
March 9, 2005:	Natasha Eaton , Professor of Art History, University of Michigan Seminar: "Nostalgia for the Exotic: Creating an Imperial Art in London, 1750-1793"
April 11, 2005:	Viv Soni, Professor of English, University of Michigan Seminar: "The Tragedy of Sentimentalism"
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February 3, 2004:	Lincoln Faller, Professor of English, University of Michigan Seminar: "Ladies in Distress, or, Tales of a Poisoning Female Parricide and a Prostitute Treated 'in a Manner Too Shocking to Mention': Two Criminal Cases and 'the Clarissa Effect.'"
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October 31 , 2002:	Daryl Hafter, Professor of History, Eastern Michigan University Seminar: "Women in the Underground Business of Eighteenth-Century Lyon"
November 21 , 2002:	Julius Scott, Professor of History/CAAS, University of Michigan Seminar: "Sasportas's Jamaican Conspiracy, 1799"
March 26, 2003	Michael MacDonald, Professor of History, University of Michigan Seminar: "The Nightmare: The Picture and the Legend"
April 3, 2003	Susan Staves, Professor of English, Brandeis University Lecture: "Women's Originality," 4:00pm, 3222 Angell Hall Seminar: "1689-1702: Partisans of Virtue and Religion"

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September 27, 2001	Dena Goodman, Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan Seminar: "Furnishing Discourses: Readings of a Writing Desk in Eighteenth-Century France"
November 29, 2001:	Simon Dickie, Visiting Professor of Literature, University of Michigan Seminar: "The Unsentimental Eighteenth Century: Jestbook Humor and the Distortions of Teleology"
February 7, 2002:	Julia Adams, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan Seminar: "Federalism, Family, and the Decline of the Netherlands"
March 7, 2002:	Jonathan Lamb, Professor of Literature, Princeton Lecture: "Seven Types of Litotes" Seminar: "Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales: Eighteenth-Century Fictional 'It-Narratives'"

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February 15, 2001:	David Shields, Professor of American Literature, The Citadel Lecture: "Transatlantic Print Culture and the Science of Lying" (4:00 at the Clements Library) Seminar: "The Confederation Court"
March 8, 2001:	Michael McKeon, Professor of English, Rutgers University Lecture: "The Public and the Private in Aphra Behn's Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister" (4:00 3222 Angell Hall) Seminar: "Tacit Knowledge: Tradition and its Aftermath"
April 5, 2001:	Susan Juster, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan Seminar: "Mystical Pregnancy and Holy Bleeding: Visionary Experience in Early Modern Britain and America" Seminar Paper (No longer available)
April 11, 2002	Phyllis Mack, Professor of History, Rutgers University Seminar: "Religion, Feminism, and the Problem of Agency (with an account of some 18th century Quakers)"
top 1999-2000
October 21, 1999:	Bill Miller, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Seminar: An Anatomy of Disgust
November 11, 1999:	Scotti Parrish, Assistant Professor of English, University of Michigan Seminar: "Female Curiosity in British America: Between Natural History and Allegory"
October 26, 2000:	Suvir Kaul, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois Seminar: Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth-Century"
November 16, 2000:	Domna Stanton, Professor of Romance Languages, University of Michigan Seminar: "From the Maternal Metaphor to Metonymy and History: Seventeenth-Century Discourses of Maternalism and the Case of Sevinge"
December 7, 2000:	Thomas Hill, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina Seminar: "Kant's Theory of Race"

top 1998-1999
March 18, 1999:	J. Paul Hunter, Professor of English, University of Chicago Seminar: "Serious Reflections on Farther Adventures: Resistances to Closure in Eighteenth-Century English Novels" Lecture: "The Gendering of Poetry and Nation: Shaping the Career of Alexander Pope"
April 8, 1999:	Celeste Brusati, Professor of Art History, University of Michigan Seminar: "Authorized Counterfeits: Negotiating the Values of Trompe L'Oeil in 17th-Century Still Life Painting"
top 1997-1998
February 12, 1998:	David Bien, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Michigan Seminar: "Aristocracy"
March 11, 1998:	Donna Landry, Professor of English, Wayne State University Seminar: "Love Me, Love My Turkey Book: Letters and Turkish Travelogues in Early Modern England" Lecture: "'Hardly Hedge-Rows': Field Sports, Natural History, Picturesque Theory, and Poetry as Competing Discourses in Eighteenth-Century British Ecology"
April 16, 1998:	Michael MacDonald, Professor of History, University of Michigan Seminar: "The Nightmare: The Picture and the Legend"
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Academic Years: 2006-2007 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 | 1999-2000 | 1998-1999 | 1997-1998