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Portraits and Poses. Representations of female Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (Leuven, BE)

Portraits and Poses. Representations of female Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (Leuven, BE)

Publié le par Romain Bionda (Source : Beatrijs Vanacker)

Les 21 et 22 mars 2019, la Société néerlandophone d'études 18istes organise son colloque annuel à Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgique).

Le colloque réunit des spécialistes en études littéraires et en histoire (de l'art) pour réfléchir aux représentations visuelles et textuelles de l'autorité intellectuelle au féminin sous l'Ancien Régime. Le colloque est ouvert à tous, mais les auditeurs intéressés sont priés de s'inscrire via courriel (beatrijs.vanacker@kuleuven.be; frais d'inscription: 25 euros/jour). Les communications seront en anglais (et en français); conférences plénières de Cordula van Wyhe, Biancamaria Fontana et Catriona Seth. 

Pour toute information: beatrijs.vanacker@kuleuven.be

 

PROGRAMME

Thursday, March 21

Justus Lipsius room (08.16), Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
 

9:00                    Registration / Coffee
9:30                    Welcome & Introduction
 

10:00-11:00     Keynote Cordula van Wyhe (York University - Art History)

                            'Engineered Through Fashion, Paint and Learning: Clever Women'

                            Chair: Lieke van Deinsen
 

11.00-12.30     Session I

Female Mentors and Female Networks
 

Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (University of Southern California) – Above Gender? Social and Intellectual Authority in the Letters of Eighteenth-Century Royal Women               

Seren Julia Nolan (Durham University) – Matronae Docta: Elizabeth Carter and Catharine Macaulay in the Guise of the Roman Matrona

Monica Bolufer (Universitat de València) – Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Perspectives on Women and Translation at the Start of a Collective Research Project

      Chair: Alicia Montoya

 

12:30-13:30     Lunch

 

13:30-15:30     Session II

Representing Intellectual Authority
 

Ann Öhrberg (Uppsala University) – “They Snare the Leg of the Eagle.” Female Intellectual Authorisation in the Eighteenth-Century Swedish Public Sphere

Feike Dietz & Nina Geerdink (Utrecht University) – Women Writers as Knowledgeable Authors: Paratextual Strategies of Dutch Women Writers during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Tanja Säily & Mark J. Hill (University of Helsinki) – Comparing Intellectual Poses: Public Authority, Actual and Represented

Lien Verpoest (University of Leuven) - Divergent Paths, Unequal Legacies. The Correspondence Between Amalia Golitsyna and Marie-Caroline Murray

Chair: Beatrijs Vanacker

 

15:30 -15:45    Coffee
 

15:45 -17:30    Session III

Portraying Authority
 

Caroline Paganussi (University of Maryland, College Park) – “A Woman of Total Goodness, and a Singular Talent”: Anna Morandi Manzolini’s Wax Portraits                

Dagmar Pichová (Masaryk University Brno) – Portraits of Émilie du Châtelet: Between Ornaments and Science 

Lieke van Deinsen (University of Leuven) – Female Faces, Intellectual Identities. Author Portraits and the Construction of Female Literary and Intellectual Authority in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

Chair: Cordula van Wyhe

 

17:30-18:30     Keynote Biancamaria Fontana (Université de Lausanne)
The Writer and the Queen: Germaine de Staël, Marie Antoinette and the Reign of Opinion

 

Chair: Anke Gilleir

 

18:45-19:30     Annual meeting (for members, Werkgroep Achttiende Eeuw)

 

20:00                  Conference dinner at Domus (speakers only)
 

Friday, March 22

Justus Lipsius room (08.16), Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven

8:30-9:00          Registration / Coffee

 

9:00-10:30        Session IV

Portraits and Poses of the Female Professional
 

Valerie Worth-Stylianou (Trinity College, University of Oxford) – Penning the Midwife’s Experience: Professional Skills, Publication and Female Agency in Early Modern Europe

Vera Viehöver (Université de Liège) – “It Wasn’t Enough for Me Just to Be a Singer”: (Self-Representations of the “German Prima Donna” Gertrud Elisabeth Mara               

Christina K. Lindeman (University of South Alabama) – Representing the Female Composer: Wilhelmine, Margravine of Bayreuth as Cultural Pilgrim   

Chair: Eric Jorink


10:30-11:00     Coffee
 

11:00-12:30     Session V

Rhetoric of Literary Authority

 

Helena Taylor (University of Exeter) – Marie de Gournay, Sçavante: Life and Afterlife           

Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol (Université Paris Est Créteil) – ‘Gouverneur’, éducatrice, auteure : les différents visages de Mme de Genlis dans ses paratextes et ses portraits

Rotraud von Kulessa (Augsburg University) – Entre défense et affirmation : l‘autoreprésentation discursive d’autrices du XVIIIe siècle en France et en Italie

Chair: Valérie André

 

12:30-13:30     Lunch

 

13:30-15:30     Session VI

Women, Literacy and Material Culture 
 

John Stone (Universitat de Barcelona) – Gender, Expatriation, and Book Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Spain

Joanna Rozendaal (Radboud University) – Creating the Female reader: The Representation of Women in Private Library Sales Catalogues

Belinda Scerri (University of Melbourne) – The Ascendancy of Women as Connoisseurs in Rococo Paris: Identity Construction and Cultural Aspiration

Carolina Blutrach (Universitat de València-CIRGEN) – Gender, Agency and Self- Representation in the Fernán Núñez Library

Chair: Nina Geerdink

 

15:30-16:00     Coffee  

 

16:00-17:30      Session VII

Afterlives of Female Authorities
 

Vicki Mistacco (Wellesley College, USA) – Piecemeal Keralio: Fragmented Representations of an Enlightened Woman Intellectual

Armel Dubois-Nayt (DYPAC, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin) – Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots as an Intellectual in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Collective Biographies

Laura Beck Varela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Women Jurists? Representations of     Female Intellectual Authority in the “Histories of Jurisprudence”

Chair: Monica Bolufer

 

17:30-18:30     Keynote: Catriona Seth (All Souls College, Oxford – Université de Lorraine)

                            (Self-)Portrait of the Woman as (a Reluctant?) Authority

                            Chair: Biancamaria Fontana

 

18:30-18:45     Closing remarks

18:45                 Drinks