Eighteenth-Century Studies

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Ludwig Pelzl, Visiting Fellow, Harvard University Calendar age is a foundational pillar of modern society—but how did it come to occupy this position? The talk will examine how social elites in eighteenth-century...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Dinner Symposium Speakers: Aditya Banerjee (Harvard University); Scott Karambis (Harvard University); Justin Brown-Ramsey (Boston College)

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Tita Chico, University of Maryland The long eighteenth century textual landscape is populated by wonders and by wondering: one encounters seemingly countless objects of wonder and just as many experiences of wonder...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Joseph Rezek, Boston University This talk examines the nominal emergence of the racial category “white” at the end of the seventeenth century through an analysis of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688). I argue that Behn...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Horace Ballard, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art, Harvard Art Museums Horace D. Ballard (he/they) is the Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art. He investigates the art, ideas, and visual...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Dinner Symposium Program: Visions of Transport: Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Enthusiasm, and Female Prophecy - Jack Rodgers, Harvard University " Such a Frightful Thing”: The Sublime Body in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Nancy Yousef, Rutgers University The relationship between philosophy and literature that Romantic poets and thinkers took for granted, and that was sustained in later 19th c. intellectual culture, came to be rejected in...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Rebekah Mitsein, Boston College At the end of the eighteenth century, the explorer James Bruce needed no introduction. As Frances Burney put it, “the narrations, and even the sight of Mr. Bruce, were at this time...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKERS: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University; Jason Farr, Marquette University; David Alvarez, DePauw University 'Lame Horses' & Alternative Black Humanisms - Jeremy Chow This talk unites theories of blackness, animality, and...