The Dream in Western Europe 1500-1800
Friday, February 23 - Saturday, February 24, 2001
Princeton University
Programme:
Friday, February 23
2:00-3:45, Dickinson 211
François Rigolot (Princeton, Romance Languages)
"Songes/ Mensonges: Oneiromancy and Indeterminacy in Rabelais's Humanistic Comedy"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton, History)
"Reforming the Dream"
Comment: Joanna Picciotto
4:30-6:00, Woolworth 102
Stuart Clark(Professor of Early Modern History, University of Wales Swansea)
Eberhard Faber Memorial Lecture
"Dreams and Visual Paradox: Montaigne to Descartes"
Saturday, February 24
9:00-10:45, Dickinson 211
Nigel Smith (Princeton, English)
"Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe"
Jane Stevenson (Aberdeen, English)
"Dreams and Dreamers in Seventeenth-Century England"
Comment: Oliver Arnold
11:15-1:00, Dickinson 211
Phyllis Mack (Rutgers, History)
"Agency and the Unconscious: Spiritual Dreams in 18th-Century Britain"
Robert Markley (West Virginia, English)
"'Inhuman tortures and barbarities': Crusoe, the Dutch, and the Dissolution of Identity"
Comment: Jonathan Lamb
The conference is presented by the Council of the Humanities, the Centennial of the Graduate School, the Departments of English and History,and the Davis Center for Historical Studies; the organizers are Nigel
Smith and Kristine Haugen (Department of English).