Past ECSG Events
2012-2013
March 2013:Matters of Fact in Jane Austen, a roundtable discussion, and "What Jane Saw," a lecture with Janine Barchas, Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin.
February 2013:Elisabetta Pilotti Schiavonetti and Collaboration in Handel’s Operas, 1711-1715," a dissertation workshop with Alison DeSimone, PhD candidate in the Department of Musicology.
December 2012:"Desperately Seeking Emile: Epistolary Ads and Personal Fictions in the Era of the French Revolution," a chapter workshop and "Economic Liberalism and the Weakness of the State: Monetary Lessons from the French Revolution," a lecture with Rebecca Spang, Associate Professor of History, University of Indiana.
November 2012:"Strategies of Toleration: Talking Across Confessions in the Alpine Republic of Letters," a workshop with Lydia Barnett, Professor of History and Society of Fellows, U-M.
October 2012:"The Vanishing Place of Judgment between Empiricism and Aesthetics: The Case of Locke’s Essay," a workshop with Vivasvan Soni, Professor of English, Northwestern University.
September 2012:Transporting Bodies and Minds: 18th- and 19th-Century Travel," an interdisciplinary graduate student conference co-hosted by ECSG and the Nineteenth-Century Forum
Keynote speaker:Kate Flint, Provost Professor of English and Art History at the University of Southern California
2011-2012
May 2012:An Eighteenth Century Gathering
Featuring papers given by: Melissa Patterson, Ruth McAdams, Geremy Carnes, Simon Dickie, David Porter, Emily Howard, Nina Budabin McQuown, Alpen Razi, Matt Risling, Karen McConnell, Thomas Keymer, Sean Silver, Aran Ruth, Tina Lupton, Morgan Vanek, and Daphna Atias
April 2012:Clare Crowston (History, U of Illinois)
A Lecture: The Value of Time: Credit and Fashion in Eighteenth-Century France
March 2012:Nick Valvo (English, UC Davis.)
Dissertation Chapter Workshop: Strangers: Narrative and Community in Daniel Defoe's Roxana.
December 2011:Robert Markley, English, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, and Writing Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Lecture: Time, Climate, and the Unsustainable Countryside in Austen's Mansfield Park"
October 2011:Sandra McPherson, English, Ohio State University and Tina Lupton, English, University of Michigan
Conversation: The Shapes of Form: New Work on the Novel and its Matter"
September 2011:John Rowland, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Workshop: “British literary historicism and the fantasy of premodern community, 1735-60"
2010-2011
March 2011:Geremy Carnes, English, University of Michigan
Workshop: “Bigotry and Alienation in A Simple Story"
March 2011: Susanna Linsley, History, University of Michigan.
Workshop: "Religious Liberty on Trial"
March 2011: Monica Najar, Associate Professor of History, Lehigh University.
Lecture: "Wicked Intriguers,or How Power and Pornography Intersected to Define the Catholic Menace in the Eighteenth-Century Anglophone World"
February 2011: J. Paul Hunter, Professor of English, University of Virginia
Roundtable Discussion: "Historical Aesthetics" with Michigan faculty members Lucy Hartley, Adela Pinch, Yopie Prins, and Sean Silver.
February 2011: J. Paul Hunter, Professor of English, University of Virginia
Lecture: "Poetry on the Page and the Mind's Ear"
February 2011: Karen McConnell, English, University of Michigan
Workshop: "Martyred Covenanters and Recuperated Cavaliers: Religion, History, and the Problem of Legacy in Walter Scott's Old Mortality"
January 2011: Alison Carr, English, University of Michigan
Workshop: “The Darkest Cavities: Stomachs and Sinkholes in Early
U.S. Texts”
December 2010: Helen Deutsch, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Lecture: “Truth and Beauty: Women, Disability, and Literary Form”
November 2010: Andromeda Hartwick, English, University of Michigan
Workshop: “Public Spaces, Periodicals, and Collaborative Identity”
September 2010: Geremy Carnes, English, University of Michigan
Workshop:“Dryden’s Catholic Tragedy”
2009-2010
March 2010: Elise Lipkowitz, History, University of Michigan
Workshop: “Contrasting Visions of Scientific Internationalism: France, Britain, and the Contested Status of Scientific Objects”
February 2010: Christian Thorne, Professor of English, Williams College
Lecture: “Of Cucumbers and Zionists; or, True We Have Lost an
Empire”
January 2010: Geremy Carnes, English, University of Michigan
Workshop: “Roxana, the English Captivity Narrative, and the Myth of
English Empire”
December 2009: Sean R. Silver, Professor of English, University of Michigan
Workshop: “Paper Anatomy”
November 2009: Lori Branch, Professor of English, University of Iowa
Lecture: “Enlightenment Erotica’s Sacred Spaces: Seduction and
Secularization”
2007-2008
March 2008: Adam Potkay, Professor of English, College of William and Mary
Workshop: "Music vs. Conscience in Wordsworth's Poetry."
March 2008: Misty Anderson, Professor of English, University of Tennessee
Workshop: "Queer as Folk: Henry Fielding, Methodism and Gender Transitivity in Early Eighteenth-Century England."
April 2008: Betty Joseph, Professor of English, Rice University
Workshop: “Archaic Globalization: Women in the Early Modern
Transnational World."
2006-2007
October 2006: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul
University
Seminar: "Race in the 18th century: Philosophical History of an Idea"
October 2006: Uday Singh Mehta, Professor of Political Philosophy, Amherst College
Seminar: "Montesquieu and Burke"
November 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 2006:Vanessa Agnew, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Seminar: "Music and the Eighteenth-Century Imperial Imaginary"
January 2007: Stuart Gillespie, Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow
Seminar: "Lucretius and the Moderns: Enlightenment to Victorian (and
beyond)"
February 2007: David Marshall, Professor of Liberal Studies, Kettering University
Seminar: "The Sublimation of Rhtetoric: What Giambattista Vico did to the Art of Persuasion"
2003-2004
February 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'"
2002-2003
October 2002: Daryl Hafter, Professor of History, Eastern Michigan University
Seminar: "Women in the Underground Business of Eighteenth-Century
Lyon"
November 2002: Julius Scott, Professor of History/CAAS, University of Michigan
Seminar: "Sasportas's Jamaican Conspiracy, 1799"
March 2003: Michael MacDonald, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Seminar: "The Nightmare: The Picture and the Legend"
April 2003: Susan Staves, Professor of English, Brandeis University
Lecture: "Women's Originality”
Seminar: "1689-1702: Partisans of Virtue and Religion"
2001-2002
September 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 2001: Simon Dickie, Visiting Professor of Literature, University of Michigan
Seminar: "The Unsentimental Eighteenth Century: Jestbook Humor and the Distortions of Teleology"
February 2002: Julia Adams, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Seminar: "Federalism, Family, and the Decline of the Netherlands"
March 2002: Jonathan Lamb, Professor of Literature, Princeton
Lecture: "Seven Types of Litotes"
Seminar: "Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales: Eighteenth-Century Fictional 'It-Narratives'"
2000-2001
February 2001: David Shields, Professor of American Literature, The Citadel
Lecture: "Transatlantic Print Culture and the Science of Lying"
Seminar: "The Confederation Court"
March 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"
Seminar: "Tacit Knowledge: Tradition and its Aftermath"
April 2001: Susan Juster, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Seminar: "Mystical Pregnancy and Holy Bleeding: Visionary Experience in Early Modern Britain and America"
April 2002: Phyllis Mack, Professor of History, Rutgers University
Seminar: "Religion, Feminism, and the Problem of Agency (with an account of some 18th century Quakers)"
1999-2000
October 1999: Bill Miller, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Seminar: “An Anatomy of Disgust”
November 1999: Scotti Parrish, Professor of English, University of Michigan
Seminar: "Female Curiosity in British America: Between Natural History and Allegory"
October 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 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 2000: Thomas Hill, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
Seminar: "Kant's Theory of Race"
1998-1999
March 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 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"
1997-1998
February 1998: David Bien, Professor Emeritus, History, University of Michigan
Seminar: "Aristocracy"
March 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 1998: Michael MacDonald, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Seminar: "The Nightmare: The Picture and the Legend"