The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies
Thirty-first Annual Conference
Power and Perspective
Dublin
11 - 13 September 2008
Programme
Thursday 11 September: Newman House
| 10.00-11.00 | Registration |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee and conclusion of registration |
| 11.30-1.00 | Welcome, Noël Peacock, Chairman of the Society Session 1 |
| Rick CALDICOTT (University College Dublin): 'The Communauté des Libraires as an agency of monarchic authority under Louis XIV' | |
| Hall BJØRNSTAD (University of Oslo): 'The Perspective of the Prince in Louis XIV's Mémoires pour l'instruction du dauphin' | |
| 1.00-2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00-3.30 | Sessions 2 and 3 (parallel) Session 2 |
| J. Christopher COOPER (Montreal, Canada): 'Perceptions of Power for Career Success at Court : the organizational advice of Eustache de Refuge in Book Two of the Traicté de la cour (Holland, 1615/1616)' | |
| Linda KIERNAN (University College Dublin): 'Assessing Informal Power : the role of the Maîtresse Royale at the court of Louis XIV 1660-1715' | |
| Pierre ZOBERMAN (Université Paris XIII): 'Marginality near the Center and Subversion of Order: discursive perspectives' | |
| Session 3 Twyla MEDING (West Virginia University): 'The Old Witch and the Shepherdess Disfigured : the power of the ugly woman in L'Astrée' |
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| Ruth VORSTMAN (New College, Oxford): 'The Power of Words and the Power of Beauty: female characters as created by female dramatists in 17th-century France' | |
| David WETSEL (Arizona State University): 'Subversion of Masculine Power : the French attack upon the Castrati in the 17th and 18th centuries' | |
| 3.30-4.00 | Tea |
| 4.00-5.00 | Session 4 James GAINES (University of Mary Washington): 'Néron as Student and Dunce in the Schoolroom of Molière' |
| Steve FLECK (California State University, Long Beach): 'Speaking Folly to Power : Comedy-Ballet and its Context' | |
| 5.00-6.00 | Sessions 5 and 6 (parallel) Session 5 Joseph HARRIS (Royal Holloway, University of London):'Oser pleurer : Corneille's Horace and the Power of Tears' |
| Jean-Luc ROBIN (University of Alabama): 'La raison au pouvoir : la démolition de l'astrologie dans Les Amants magnifiques de Molière' | |
| Session 6 Brody SMITH (University of California, Davis): 'First Among Equals or Sole Legislator ? Decoding Blaise Pascal's definition of Papal authority in the Pensées' |
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| Carol BAXTER (Independent Scholar): 'Women, Religious Conviction and the Subversion of Power' | |
| 6.15 | Vin d'honneur, hosted by the Service culturel de l'Ambassade de France à Dublin |
| Dinner | |
| After dinner free |
Friday 12 September: Royal Irish Academy
| 9.30-11.00 | Session 7 Marie-Claude CANOVA-GREEN (Goldsmiths College, London): 'Du cabinet au livre d'histoire : les deux éditions de La France métallique de Jacques de Bie' |
| Derval CONROY (University College Dublin): 'Perspectives on the Gallery : Le Moyne's Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647)' | |
| Jean-Vincent BLANCHARD (Swarthmore College, PA): 'Rêves de pierre: monuments parisiens pour Louis XIV (1685-1699)' | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30-1.00 | Session 8 Richard HODGSON (University of British Columbia): 'Power and the Abuse of Power in Gabriel Naudé' |
| Isabelle MOREAU (University College London): 'Le Mascurat de Gabriel Naudé : l'art du libelle au service du pouvoir' | |
| Paul SCOTT (University of Kansas): 'The Miliade and the Monarchy: 17th-century polemic strategies' | |
| 1.00-2.30 | Lunch, followed by AGM |
| 2.30-4.00 | Sessions 9 and 10 (parallel) Session 9 Michael W. MEERE (University of Virginia): 'Towards a Semiotics of Staged Violence: La Victoire de Phébus, La Magicienne estrangere, and Louis XIII's symbolic rite of passage (1617)' |
| Francis ASSAF (University of Georgia): 'Amadis de Grèce ou la mise en fiction du pouvoir royal' | |
| Kenneth O. SMITH (University of Nicosia): 'Allegorical Representations of Louis XIV's Dutch War in Lully and Quinault's Alceste' | |
| Session 10 Michael HARRIGAN (NUI Maynooth): 'Ces braves Conquerans ayant inventé une nouvelle navigation : 17th-century travellers' perspectives on colonial power in the Indian Ocean Basin' |
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| Micah TRUE (Duke University): 'Maistre et Escolier : Amerindian languages and 17th-century French missionary politics in the Jesuit Relations from New France' | |
| Ina Baghdiantz McCABE (Tufts University): 'Heteropia : Louis XIV Emperor of Gallia Orientalis' | |
| 4.00-4.30 | Tea |
| 4.30-5.30 | Session 11 Stephanie BUNG (Freie Universität Berlin): 'Le pouvoir du rire: sanctionner par "figuration" dans les salons' |
| Sophie ROLLIN (Durham University): '"Le pouvoir des fleurs" ou la galanterie comme modèle de représentation du pouvoir' | |
| 6.00-7.00 | Reception |
| 8.00 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday 13 September: Trinity College Library
| 9.30-10.00 | Talk on the Library collections |
| 10.00-11.00 | Session 12 John D. LYONS (University of Virginia): 'Cleopatra's Nose: Love, Reason, and Power' |
| Henriette GOLDWYN (New York University): 'Les représentations du pouvoir dans le théâtre de Mme de Villedieu' | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30-1.00 | Session 13 Gabor GELLERI (NUI Galway): 'Representations of Royal Power in the Discourse of Huguenot Refugees' |
| Ruth WHELAN (NUI Maynooth): 'Subversions of Power in the Narratives of French Protestant Galley Slaves' | |
| Concluding remarks: Noël Peacock, Chairman of the Society |
END OF CONFERENCE
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