Location: University of California, Berkeley
July 19-22, 2012
THURSDAY, July 19
5:30-7:00 Opening Lecture 315 Wheeler (Maud Fife Room)
‘Blind Man on the Mountain: The Paradox of Enlightenment Mathematics’
- Amir Alexander (UCLA)
7:00-8:30 Reception / buffet 330 Wheeler (English Department Lounge)
FRIDAY, July 20
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast Lounge
9:00-10:30 Session I Readings (1) 203 Wheeler
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
- David Bates (Berkeley)
Suggested/supplementary readings: Paul de Man, “Metaphor: Second Discourse” (Allegories of Reading, ch. 7); David Bates, “Rousseau’s Cybernetic Political Body” (States of War, ch. 5)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session II Readings (2) 203 Wheeler
Diderot, ‘Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville’; ‘Letter on the Blind’
- David Bates, Amir Alexander
12:30-2:00 Lunch Lounge
2:00-3:40 Session III Papers (1) 203 Wheeler
- Alex Eric Hernandez (UCLA), ‘Curious Ambitions: George Lillo and the Domestic Tragic Imagination’
- Michael Nicholson (UCLA), ‘Of Secondary Significance: Women Poets and the Rewriting of Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century’
- Fuson Wang (UCLA), ‘Keats and Romantic Disease Discourse’
- Ian Thomas-Bignami (Berkeley), response
- Melissa Wills (Davis), response
- Ian Duncan (Berkeley), Chair
3:40-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:15 Session IV Papers (2) 203 Wheeler
[The papers for this session have been circulated for reading beforehand]
- Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA), ‘That a Stone Will Fall’
- Charity Ketz (Berkeley), response
- Batya Ungar-Sargon (Berkeley), ‘Novel Foundations: The Example of Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress’
- Trevor Sanders (Berkeley), response
- Adriana Craciun (Riverside), Chair
5:15-6:45 Reception / buffet Lounge
6:45-8:15 Session V Forum (1) 300 Wheeler
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Reflections at 300
- David Bates (Berkeley)
- Susan Maslan (Berkeley)
- Paul Rabinow (Berkeley)
- David Simpson (Davis)
SATURDAY, July 21
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast Lounge
9:00-10:30 Session VI Readings (3) 203 Wheeler
George Forster, A Voyage round the World. Vol. 1, Ch. V: ‘Stay at Dusky Bay’;
Ch. IX: ‘Account of our Transactions in Matavai Bay’
- Adriana Craciun
Optional reading: Nicholas Thomas, ‘Liberty and License’ (In Oceania, Ch. 3)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session VII Readings (4) 203 Wheeler
Charles Darwin, from Journal of Researches (‘The Voyage of the Beagle’), 2nd edition (1845): Ch. X, ‘Tierra del Fuego’; ‘Conclusion’
Charles Darwin, Beagle Diary, excerpts (Tierra del Fuego)
- Ian Duncan
12:30-2:00 Lunch Lounge
2:00-3:40 Session VIII Papers (3) 203 Wheeler
- Julia Kark Callander (UCLA), ‘Eating and Authority in Matthew Lewis’s Journal of a West India Proprietor’
- Matt Suazo (Santa Cruz), ‘Disputing America’s Wetlands: the Place of Chateaubriand’s Atala in the Work of Fray Servando’
- Ryan Tripp (Davis), ‘Sachemauonck: Enlightened Studies of the Narragansett “Ancient Constitution” by Matthew Robinson, Esq.’
- Jonathan Haddad (Berkeley), response
- Kelly Kawar (Santa Barbara), response
- Sarah Kareem, Chair
3:40-4:10 Tea
4:10-5:45 Session IX Forum (2) 203 Wheeler
Spaces of Enlightenment
- Andrew Hao (Berkeley)
- Nick Junkerman (Berkeley)
- Heather VanMouwerik (Riverside)
- Jordan Wingate (UCLA)
- David Bates, Chair
Suggested reading/viewing: Simon Schaffer, ‘Newton on the Ganges: The Asiatic Enlightenments of British Astronomy’ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeKWqoiMo3Y] (also available in essay form in Seminar Readings site)
Charles Withers, ‘The Enlightenment: Questions of Geography’ (Placing the Enlightenment, ‘Introduction’)
SUNDAY, July 22
10:00-11:30 Session X Forum (3) 300 Wheeler
Explorers
- Adriana Craciun, Ian Duncan, Amir Alexander
Suggested reading: Adriana Craciun, ‘What is an Explorer?’
11:30-1:00 Lunch and Wrap-up discussion Lounge