Fifth Conference / Cinquième Congrès

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
October 13-15, 1977 / 13-15 octobre 1977
Thursday, October 13 / Jeudi 13 octobre

13:00 - 14:00 -- Ewart Angus Lobby / Foyer Ewart Angus

Registration / Inscription

14:00 - 16:00 -- Room / Salle 1A4, Ewart Angus Center

BIOGRAPHIE / BIOGRAPHY

Directors / Directeurs : Paul S. Fritz, McMaster University; César Rouben, McMaster University

Participants :
Donald Greene, University of Southern California
"'Tis A Pretty Book Mr. Boswell, But --' (You Must Not Call it a Biography"

Raymond Joly, Université Laval
"Marivaux et le père absent. Du tragique romanesque au comique"

16:00 - 18:30

Fine Arts / Beaux-arts

Director / Directeur : David Goodreau, Carleton University

Participants:
Paul F. Marks, McGill University
"A Eighteenth-Century view on Folk Music: Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder Collection"

Pierre Mayrand, Université du Québec à Montréal
"Les relations spatio-temporelles de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme en Nouvelle-France : fondements historiographiques et directions de recherche"

Calvin Seerveld, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto
"Telltale Statues in Watteau's Paintings"

20:00

Welcome and Opening / Accueil et ouverture

Dr. A.N. Bourns, President, McMaster University

8:15 / 20 h 15

Lecture / Conférence (Illustrated / Illustrée)

Geneviève Miller, Director / Directrice -- Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medecine, Cleveland
"Mass Immunization in the 18th Century"

Friday, October 14 / Vendredi 14 octobre

9:30 - 12:00

Medecine and Survival / Médecine et survivance

Director/Directeur : Roseann Runte, Dalhousie University

Participants :
G.S. Rousseau, University of California
"'This Long Disease, My Life': Medecine in the Eighteenth Century"

Gérard G. LeCoat, Université Laval
"Medical Art and Artistic Expression in the Eighteenth-Century" (Illustrated / Illustrée)

13:30 - 15:00

Executive Meeting: CSECS / Réunion du Bureau

15:00 - 18:00

German / Allemand

Director / Directrice : Alison Scott-Prelorentzos, University of Alberta

Participants :
Gerhard Dünnhaupt, University of Michigan
"Enchanting a Reluctant Hero : the Danae figure in Wieland's Agathon"

Christa Fell, Queen's University
"Justus Möser's Social Ideas as Mirrored in Göethe's Götz Von Berlichingen"

Michael Hadley, University of Victoria
"Explorations in Dread: The Beginnings of the German Gothic Novel"

Commentators / Commentateurs:
John Whitton, University of Waterloo
Hans-Jürgen Schlütter, University of Western Ontario
Albert R. Schmitt, Brown University

French / Français

Director / Directeur : Roseann Runte, Dalhousie University

Participants :
Walter Moser, Université de Montréal
"Lafitau, l'éthnographe archéologue"

Timothy M. Scanlan, University of Toledo
"Animal Imagery in Les Dialogues : Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques"

Peter L. Smith, Northwestern University
"Error, Blindness and Structural Unity in Mahomet"

Marie Laure Swiderski, Université d'Ottawa
"La thématique féministe dans le roman français après 1750"

Laurent Lavoie, Collège du Cap Breton
"Bachelard et Rousseau : l'eau et les rêves"

HISTORY OF SCIENCE / HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES

Director / Directeur : Trevor H. Levere, University of Toronto

Participants :
Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario
"The Philosophical Society of Edinburgh 1748-1782"

Carleton E. Perrin, York University
"The Invisible College of Scientific Correspondents and the Diffusion of Ideas in Late Eighteenth-Century Science"

Martin S. Staum, University of Calgary
"The Class of Moral and Political Sciences in the French National Institute"

Larry Stewart, University of Saskatchewan
"Science, Religion and Post-Revolution Politics in England"

15:00 - 18:00

Director / Directeur : Ann T. Straulman, University of Western Ontario

Participants :
Brian Corman, Erindale College
"Jonsonian Comedy in the Restoration"

Sharyn Lea Hall, Hamilton
"English Dialogue Operas, 1762-1800"
(Illustrated / Illustrée)

James F. Woodruff, University of Western Ontario
"Idleness in Johnson's Idler"

19:30 / 19 h 30 -- Banquet

After-Dinner Adress / Allocution :

Richard Morton, McMaster University
"'A Step Beyond Ourselves': The Eighteenth-Century Journey into Exile"

Saturday, October 15 / Samedi 15 octobre

9:30 - 12:00 / 9 h 30

Aspects of the Enlightenment

Director / Directeur : Robert Walters, University of Western Ontario

Participants:
Pierre Conlon, McMaster University
"Christophe de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris"

Robert Darnton, Princeton University
"The Encyclopédie and the Workers of the Book Trade"

13:30 - 16:00

Censorship / Censure

Director / Directeur : James King, McMaster University

Participants :
Antony D. Hammond, McMaster University
"Dramatic Censorship in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England"

William Hanley, McMaster University
"The Policing of Thought : Censorship in Eighteenth-Century France"

History / Histoire

Director / Directeur : Arthur Sheps, University of Toronto

Participants :
David Higgs, University of Toronto
"The State in Eighteenth-Century Portugal and Popular and Religious Culture"

Robert Malcomson, Queen's University
"'A Set of Ungovernable People': Plebeian Independenceand the Limits of Authority in Eighteenth-Century England"

Bruce Tucker, Brown University
"The Anglicization of Religious Thought in Provincial New England"

Spanish / Espagnol

Director / Directeur : John Browning, McMaster University

Participants :
W.J. Callahan, University of Toronto
"The Crisis of the Spanish Church at the End of the Old Regime"

Catherine Hart, Université de Montréal
"Navigateurs espagnols du XVIIIe siècle et leur vision du monde"

Benjamin Keen, Northern Illinois University
"Vico, Boturini, and the Enlightenment Interpretation of New World History"

Charles E. Ronan, Loyola University
"Antoniuo de Alcedo : His Collaborators and His Letters to William Robertson"

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