Canadian Society for
Eighteenth Century Studies

1997 Conference (October 16 to 19)
University of Western Ontario

Representations of Time in the 18th Century


Société canadienne
d'étude du dix-huitième siècle

Congrès 1997 (du 16 au 19 octobre)
Université Western Ontario

Le temps et ses représentations au XVIIIe siècle

SAMEDI 18 OCTOBRE / SATURDAY OCTOBER 18

Toutes les séances du congrès se dérouleront à l'hôtel Delta Armouries / All conference sessions will take place at the Delta Armouries Hotel.

9:00-11:00

Salle A: Musique, arts et littérature au XVIIIe siècle / Music, Arts and Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Paul Rice (Memorial University, Music)

Barbara Reul (Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft, Germany): "Aus 1 mach 2: Time Restrictions and Special Music at the Anhalt-Zerbst Court Chapel"

Helen Heller (Brescia College, University of Western Ontario, Français): "Voltaire's La Princesse de Babylone in Opera Form"

Frans De Bruyn (University of Ottawa, English): "The Dutch Literary Response to the South Sea Bubble: an Episode in the Internationalization of Literature and Art"

Jenny McKenney (University of Toronto): "Towards a Medallic History: Numismatics and Textuality (1678-1721)"
 
 

Salle B: Le XVIIIe siècle sur l'internet / The Eighteenth Century on the Web

Président/Chair: Ray Stephanson (University of Saskatchewan, English)

Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia, English): "Blake and the Microchip: Inscriptive Technologies and Textual Rendering"

Otto Selles (Calvin College, Français): "Huguenots and Philosophes Get Wired: Report on the Naples Conference on Electronic Editions of Eighteenth - Century Correspondences"

Barbara Reul (Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft, Music): "Fasch on the Web"

John Rempel (University of Manitoba, English): "The Extreme Conservatism of Online Discussions of the Eighteenth Century"
 
 

Salle C: Mathématique et métaphysique du temps au XVIIIe siècle / Mathematical and Metaphysical Time in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Peter Loptson (University of Saskatchewan, Philosophy):

Howard Pollack (Indiana University, German): "The Mathematics of Time in the Eighteenth Century"

Jean-Pierre Schachter (Huron College, University of Western Ontario, Philosophy): "Continuity and Causation in the Eighteenth Century"

Robert Walters (University of Western Ontario, Français): "The Role of Time in the Metaphysical Disputes of Voltaire and Madame du Châtelet"
 
 

Salle D: Religion, laïcité et identité au XVIIIe siècle / Religion, Laicity and Identity in the Eighteenth Century

Président / Chair: Jean-Jacques Tatin-Gourier (Université de Tours, Littérature)

Roland Bonnel (Dalhousie University, Français): "L'Abbé Claude Fleury: historien de l'Eglise universelle et apologiste de l'église primitive"

Bernard Andrès (Université du Québec à Montréal, Littérature): "La signature maçonnique dans les pétitions québécoises de Pierre de Sales Laterrière (1743-1815)"

Jacques Lemaire (Université Charles de Gaulle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Littérature): "Fondation et limites de la laïcité à la fin du Siècle des Lumières"

Alain Goldschläger (University of Western Ontario, Français): "L'Abbé Grégoire et la question juive ou la naissance d'une problématique identitaire"
 
 

Salle E: Correspondance et écriture féminine au XVIIIe siècle / Correspondence and Women's Writing in the Eighteenth Century

Présidente / Chair: Minnette Gaudet (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Susan Glover (University of Toronto, English): "Pliny, Swift, and Lord and Lady Orrery in the Epistolary Garden"

Wendy Stewart (McMaster University, English): "The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Barber, and the Conterfeit Letters"

Rosena Davison (Simon Fraser University, Études françaises): "Madame la Marquise Lage de Volude"

Henri Boyi (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Phillis Wheatley and The Other Text"
 
 

11:00-11:30 PAUSE-CAFÉ/COFFEE BREAK
 
 

11:30-12:30 SÉANCE PLÉNIÈRE/PLENARY SESSION

Présidente/Chair: Brigitte Glaser (University of Eichstaett, English)

Peter Wagner

(Universität Koblenz-Landau)

"Representations of Time in Hogarth's Graphic Art"
 
 

12:30-14:00 DÉJEUNER-LUNCH
 
 

14:00-15:30

Salle A: Diderot, le temps et l'esthétique / Diderot, Time and Aesthetics

Présidente/Chair: Catherine Volpilhac-Auger (Université de Grenoble, Littérature)

Marc-André Bernier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Études françaises): "La Lettre sur les sourds et muets de Denis Diderot: une rhétorique du punctum temporis"

Thierry Belleguic (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Temps de la terre, temps de la mémoire: géologie et généalogie dans Le Voyage de Bourbonne de Denis Diderot".

Daniel Dumouchel (Université de Montréal, Philosophie): "Modernité et temporalité dans l'esthétique philosophique"
 
 

Salle B: Philosophie, progrès et histoire à la fin du XVIIIe siècle / Philosophy, Progress and History at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Otto Selles (Calvin College, Français)

Diane Lamoureux (Université Laval, Sciences politiques): "Condorcet: la raison et le progrès"

Nancy Senior (University of Saskatchewan, Français): "La représentation du temps dans la pédagogie de la Révolution"

Nergis Canefe (York University, Social and Political Thought): "Time and Narratives of National History"
 
 

Salle C: Temps et histoire au XVIIIe siècle / Time and History in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Stuart Pierson (Memorial University, History)

Walter Zimmerman (University of Western Ontario, History): "Time and the Study of the Eighteenth Century"

George McElroy (University of Indiana, English): "Burke, Francis and India, or Why Hastings Was, and Should Have Been, Impeached"

Arthur Sheps (University of Toronto, History: "Joseph Priestley's Time Charts and the Teaching of History in the Late Eighteenth Century"
 
 

Salle D: Jane Austen au XXe siècle / Jane Austen and the Twentieth Century

Présidente/Chair: Sarah Frantz (University of Michigan, English):

Robert Eggleston (Okanagan University College, English): "My Date With Emma: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love T.V"

Cecily Devereux (University of Western Ontario, English): "Jane Austen and the Costume of Empire: Imperialist Nostalgia and the New Films"

Kathleen James Cavan (University of Saskatchewan, English): "The Primes of Miss Jane Austen: Twentieth Century Appropriations of Austen's Novels"
 
 

Salle E: Ebert, Goethe, Wieland: figures du XVIIIe siècle allemand / Ebert, Goethe, Wieland: aspects of the German Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: A.P. Dierick (University of Toronto, German):

Christa Fell (Queen's University, German): "Fortuitous Scholarship: the Case of Johann Arnold Ebert (1723-1795)"

Karin Barton (University of Toronto, German): "Devotionale Lästerungen: Klopstock-Lob bei Goethe"

Rod Milne (University of Toronto, German): "Madness as a (Re)current Event: the Olympics in Wieland's Aristipp"
 
 

15:30-16:00 PAUSE-CAFÉ/COFFEE BREAK
 
 

16:00-17:30

Salle A: Temps et méthode chez Bacon, Vico et Corvisart / Time and Method in Bacon, Vico and Corvisart

Président/Chair:

Dennis Desroches (McMaster University, Philosophy): "The Forgotten Limits of Method: Remembering Bacon"

Andreas Motsch (University of Toronto, French): "The Cognitive category of Time in Vico and Lafitau"

John O'Neal (Hamilton College, Romance Languages): "A New Temporality in Medicine: Corvisart's Rescue of Percussion"
 
 

Salle B: Jane Austen

Présidente/Chair: Cecily Devereux (University of Western Ontario, English):

Sarah S.G. Frantz (University of Michigan, English): "Re-Editing Jane Austen: The Lost Chapters of Persuasion"

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (McGill University, Education): "The Ceaseless Country Dance: Country Dancing as a Temporary Dissolution of Time in Austen's Fiction"
 
 

Salle C: Femmes écrivains dans l'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle II / British Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century II

Présidente/Chair: Katherine Binhammer (University of Alberta, English):

Jane Magrath (University of Alberta, English): "Prolific Punk, Promiscuous Pen: Teresia Constantia Phillips"

Anne Milne (McMaster University, English): "Labouring-Class Women, Animals and Time"
 
 

Salle D: État des études dix-huitiémistes en littérature française au Canada / Canadian Eighteenth Century French Studies Today

Table ronde animée par Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal), avec la participation de Marie Laure Girou-Swiderski (Université d'Ottawa) et Servanne Woodward (University of Western Ontario).
 
 

20:00 CONCERT

Talbot Theatre, University of Western Ontario Campus.

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