THURSDAY, February 21
Registration 8:00- 4:30

Graduate Student Lunchbox Bash and Mentoring Session 11:00-12:15
Facilitated by Gloria Eive and Colby Kullman

SESSION ONE 12:30-2:00

PANEL 1: From Friendship to Citizenship: Conversations Across Political Boundaries
Chair: Rafael Saumell-Muñoz, Sam Houston State University
Peter C. Messer, Mississippi State University
“The Conservative Friendships, Radical Politics: Public Socializing and the Coming of the American Revolution”
Andrés Ruiz Olaya, Sam Houston State University
"The Meeting in Paita, Perú (1843): Manuela Saenz and Simón Rodríguez, the Eccentric and Loyal Friends of the Liberator Simón Bolívar"

PANEL 2: Notable Friendships: Fostering Patronage through Correspondence
Chair: Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Georgia State University
Marta Hess, Georgia State University
"'Your Most Devoted and Obliged Servant’: Elisabetta Caminer Turra and Communities of Friendship”
Lynée Lewis Galliet, Georgia State University
“'I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends': Scottish Rhetorician George Jardine’s Bid for the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow”
Lara Smith-Sitton, Georgia State University
“A Woman’s Reading List: Pedagogical Practices and curriculum in Ladies’ Literary Societies and Reading Circles”

COFFEE BREAK 2:00-2:15
SESSION TWO 2:15-3:45

PANEL 3: Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Chair: Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University
Leann Fischel, Sam Houston State University
“‘Mine Eyes have seen the Glory of God’: A Spiritual Exploration of Puritan and Quaker Convictions in the Narratives of Jonathan Edwards and Elizabeth Ashbridge”
David Alvarez, De Pauw University
“Resentment, Suffering, and Religious Tolerance in Daniel Defoe’s The Shortest Way with the Dissenters”
Robin Runia, Xavier University of Louisiana
“'Oppressed with My Own Sensations': The Histories of Some of the Penitents and Principled Piety"

PANEL 4: Overlooked Texts I
Chair: Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi
Calinda Cae Shely, University of New Mexico
"An Ailing Body Politic: Gouty Gentlemen as Cultural Metaphor in Sarah Fielding's The History of the Countess Dellwyn and Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random"
Paul Young, Georgetown University
"The Libertine Novel Comes of Age: Friendship in Themidore"

COFFEE BREAK 3:45-4:00
SESSION THREE 4:00-5:30

PANEL 5: Imagining (Dis)Connection in the Long Eighteenth-Century
Chair: Jordan Fletcher Hobson, Georgia State University and Emory University
Mary Katherine Mason, University of North Georgia
“Caught Between a Shrine and an Ocean: Aphra Behn’s Complex Use of Imagery in The Rover”
Kathryn Harrison, Georgia State University & Emory University
“My Mother, Myself: Anne Elliot and the Creation of Subjectivity through Surrogate Motherhood”
Jordan Fletcher Hobson, Georgia State University and Emory University
“Formal Hybridity in Phrenological Discourse: A Case Study of the Transactions of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh”

PANEL 6: Alternative Social Dynamics on the Margins
Chair: Melissa Smith, University of Texas at Austin
Joseph Chaves, University of Northern Colorado
"The Country in the City in the Colony: Stranger Sociability at Center and Periphery"
Kate Ozment, Texas A&M University
"The Social Economics of Friendship in Jane Austen's 'Love and Freindship' "
J. David Macey, Jr., University of Central Oklahoma
"'The Only Friend She Had in the World’: Friendship and the Frontiers of Intimacy”

SPECIAL SESSION: OPERA 8:00 p.m.
Adventures in Opera: Whimsy? Humor? Ferocious Beasts?: Mozart's The Magic Flute
Presentation by Gloria Eive, Stacey Jocoy & Francien Markx

FRIDAY, February 22
Registration 8:00-4:30
Continental Breakfast 8:00-8:30

SESSION FOUR 8:30-10:00

PANEL 7: Friendships, Proposals, Engagements: Friends, Lovers, Heroes, and Anti-Heroes I
Chair: Gloria Eive, ECCB: Fine Arts Editor
Linda Reesman, CUNY/ Hofstra University
“Friendship in Marriage: England, 1794”
J. T. Scanlan, Providence College
“’How Like You the Eloquence of a Young Barrister?’ Love and the Law in Boswell’s Journal of the late 1760s”
Martha Lawler, James Smith Noel Collection, Louisiana State University—Shreveport
“A Boy and His Books: Book Collectors and Their Literary ‘Friends and Frienemies’ ”

PANEL 8: Objects and Images in Eighteenth-Century English Society
Chair: Paul Child, Sam Houston State University
Barbara M. Benedict, Trinity College
“Death, Collecting and The Object: The Rape of Meaning in Pope’s Rape of the Lock”
Melissa Smith, University of Texas at Austin
“Stewarding Affective Landscapes in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho”

PANEL 9: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: Kathryn Stasio, Saint Leo University
Joshua Davis, University of Mississippi
"’Fancies in the Brain': Margaret Cavendish's Strange Physiognomies"
Cecilia Bolich, Saint Leo University
“Mystery, Mind-Reading, and the Modern Horror Film in Northanger Abbey”
Klara Stephanie Szlezák, Universität Regensburg
“Evoking the Long Eighteenth Century at 19 North Square, Boston: A Museal Approach to Spanning a Century”

PANEL 10: Women's Friendship and Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: Catherine Jaffe, Texas State University
Kathleen Abrams, Oklahoma State University
"Women on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Aristocratic Widows and False Friendships"
Margaret Dunaway, Texas State University
“Captive Confidantes: True Friendship in Superficial Social Networks”

COFFEE BREAK 10:00-10:15
SESSION FIVE 10:15-11:45

PANEL 11: Friendships, Proposals, Engagements: Friends, Lovers, Heroes, and Anti-Heroes II
Chair: Stacey Jocoy, Texas Tech University
Ana María Díaz Burgos, Miami University
“Echoes of Violence in Potosí: Courtship, Promise, and Vengeance”
Ian Small, University of York
“Friendships in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre: The Back Unbitten”
Enrique Mallén, Sam Houston State University
“On Friendly Terms with the Nobility [of Art]: Diego Velásquez, Pablo Picasso and the Affirmation of the Artist”

PANEL 12: Diverse Elements in the Thought of Jonathan Swift, I
Chair: Connie Capers Thorson, University of New Mexico
Paul W. Child, Sam Houston State University
“Jonathan Swift and Sick Talk”
Louise K. Barnett, Rutgers University
“Swift and Dementia”
James L. Thorson, University of New Mexico
“Swift and Death”

PANEL 13: Play It Again, Singapore I: SCSECS Members Reprise Their Citizens of the World Presentations
Chair: Samara Cahill, Nanyang Technological University
Kathryn Stasio, Saint Leo University
“Avast Ye Mateys! There Be Pirates Here—But How Will We Recognize Them?”
Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University
“Faith or Folly? Rhetoric, Religiosity, and the Foundations of Belief in Early Methodism”
Samara Cahill, Nanyang Technological University
“Madonella’s Other Convent: Platonick Ladies and Muslim Masculinity”

PANEL 14: Friendships and Race
Chair: Philippe Seminet, St. Edward's University
Wendy Hanks, Sam Houston State University
“Black Skin /White Soul: Romantic Representations of Race”
Rafael Saumell-Muñoz, Sam Houston State University
“Autobiography of the Cuban Slave; Juan Francisco Manzano, 1835”
Hilary N. Fezzey, University of Wisconsin – Superior
“From Slavery to Métayage: Unlikely Bonds in the Discourse of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Beyond”

WELCOME LUNCHEON 12:00-1:00
SESSION SIX 1:45-3:15

PANEL 15: Friendships, Proposals, Engagements: Friends, Lovers, Heroes, and Anti-Heroes III
Chair: Linda Reesman, CUNY/ Hofstra University
Jim McGlathery University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Passion and Renunciation in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito”
Stacey Jocoy, Texas Tech University
“John Playford and the Middle Temple: Restoration Social Networking”
Francien Markx, George Mason University
“Of Snakes, Cats, and Fleas: Men’s Best Friends in a Hoffmannesque World”

PANEL 16: Diverse elements in the Thought of Jonathan Swift, II
Chair: Connie Capers Thorson, University of New Mexico
Elizabeth Battles, Texas Wesleyan University
“Is Gulliver a Yahoo?: Human Nature, Animal Nature, and Physical Space in Gulliver’s Travels”
Robin Runia, Xavier University of Louisiana
“Swift and the Spirit”
Clement Hawes, University of Michigan
“Swift and Science Reconsidered”

PANEL 17: Play It Again, Singapore II: SCSECS Members Reprise Their Citizens of the World Presentations
Chair: Baerbel Czennia, McNeese State University
Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University
“The Coziness of Crisis: The Invigorating Enlightenment Art of Adapting to Almost Anything”
Baerbel Czennia, McNeese State University
“Change of Air, Change of Self: Adapting to Sudden Changes of Venue in Imaginary Voyages of the Long Eighteenth Century”
John Burke, University of Alabama
"John Dryden inside the Temple of Juno in 1688; John Ogilby inside the Temple of Juno in 1649: the Politics of Translating Virgil in the Seventeenth Century"

PANEL 18: Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature
Chair: Madeline Sutherland-Meier, The University of Texas at Austin
Sandra Bernal Heredia, The University of Texas at Austin
"Feijoo's 'Defensa de la Mujer' ('In Defense of Women')?as Subaltern Discourse"
Ignacio Carvajal, The University of Texas at Austin
“Heroes, Gender and Space: The Binary Opposition Masculinity/Femininity in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Romances de Ciego (Blindman's Ballads)"
Stephanie Malak, The University of Texas at Austin
“The Altered Orient in the Comedias de Magia of Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor”

COFFEE BREAK 3:15-3:30
SESSION SEVEN 3:30-5:30

PANEL 19: Fueling Friendship: The Mutual Expenditure of Energy
Chair: Baerbel Czennia, McNeese State University
Alistair Maeer, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
"Lackadaisically Befriending Modernity: British Marine Charting during the Enlightenment, 1650-1850”
Carolyn Woodward, University of New Mexico
"'Sally's and Jenny's Emblem' and the Mid-Century Silk Weavers"
Baerbel Czennia, McNeese State University
“Friendship with Aliens in Early Modern Science Fiction”
Cory Reed, University of Texas at Austin
"Aesthetics of Instrumentality: Machines, Literature, and Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Spain"

PANEL 20: Overlooked Texts II
Chair: Andrés Ruiz Olalla, Sam Houston State University
Mimi Gladstein, University of Texas at El Paso
"Equal Opportunity Villainy in Behn's Little Known Narratives"
Lindsey Randolph, Sam Houston State University
"Olaudah Equiano: Man of Many Schemes"
Victoria Warren, Binghamton University
"Social Situatedness in Helen Leigh's Miscellaneous Poems (1788)"

PANEL 21: Origins of the Gothic
Chair: John Burke Jr., University of Alabama
Annie Pécastaings, Case Western Reserve University
“William Marshal and the Origins of The Castle of Otranto”
John Burke Jr., University of Alabama
“Horace vs. Horace; or Search for Wholeness in the Gothic"
Amanda Himes, John Brown University
"Inside the Madhouse: Gothic's Complicit Descent into the Abyss"

PANEL 22: Hume and the Usual Suspects
Chair: James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
Dabney Townsend, American Society for Aesthetics
"Beattie and Hume"
Darian De Bolt, University of Central Oklahoma
“Berkeley contra Mandeville”
Zak Watson, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Burke’s Evolving Recapitulation and the Closure of Sublime”
J.W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
“The Association of Ideas and David Hume’s Aesthetics”

6:30-7:30
Gabes's Gathering: A Reception and Open, Hosted Bar
Sponsored by AMS Press, New York
With Special Thanks to Gabriel Hornstein, President

SATURDAY, February 23
Registration 8:00-4:30
Coffee and Continental Breakfast 8:00-8:30

SESSION EIGHT: 8:30-10:00

PANEL 23: Publishing in an International Context
Chair: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
Marijn S. Kaplan, University of North Texas
"Publication, Authorship and Ownership in Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (1713-1792)"
Daniella Berman, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
"Jews in Print: Bernard Picart and the Two Jewish Communities of Amsterdam"
Molly O'Hagan Hardy, St. Bonaventure University
"Remediating Authorship in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century"

PANEL 24: Selfhood and Freedom in the Enlightenment
Chair: Michael Matthis, Lamar University
Kevin Dodson, Lamar University
“Liberty, Equality and the Chains of Desire”
Josh Richards, Palm Beach Atlantic University
“Is There a Pattern in Foucaltian Discipline in Lawrence Stern’s Tristram Shandy?”
Michael James Matthis, Lamar University
“Kant's Problem with Reality”

COFFEE BREAK 10:00-10:15
SESSION NINE: 10:15-11:45

PANEL 25: Publishers, their Circles and their Impact in the Americas, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
Yolopattli Hernández Torres, Loyola University Maryland
“Medicine, Women’s Health, and Press: The Role of Gaceta de México and Diario de México in Public Health in Late Colonial Mexico”
Judy Ridner, Mississippi State University
“The Wonders, Curiosities and Rarities of America’s Violent Frontier Past: Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Archibald Loudon and The Most Interesting Narratives of 1808-1811”

SPECIAL SESSION: DANCE 2:00-4:00
Dancing with Jane
Learn to dance like Miss Bennett and Mr. Darcy: 2-4 easy English country dances taught for true beginners by Austin dance mistress, Linda Beamer, with help from Oklahoma musicians, "Ladies at Play"

SESSION TEN: 1:15-3:00

PANEL 26: Asian Influences and Echoes in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: John Burke, University of Alabama
Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
"Nguyen Du: Vietnam's Epic Poet"
Samara Cahill, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
"Gardens of Accommodation: Cultivating the Natural World in the Works of Samuel Richardson and Yuan Mei"

PANEL 27: Strange Bedfellows on and off Stage
Chair: Mary Jenke, Sam Houston State University
Luis Cordón, Eastern Connecticut State University
“Margaret Cavendish and the Evolution of Materialist Natural Philosophy”
Joanne Cordón, University of Connecticut
“Actresses Managing the Stage: Susannah Cibber and Kittle Clive Write Their own Afterpieces”
Janet Wolf, SUNY Cortland
"Make War, not Love: Amorous Amazons on the Baroque Opera Stage
Kevin Bourque, Southwestern University
"Elizabeth Needham, A Harlot's Progress, and the Seriality of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity"

COFFEE BREAK 3:00-3:15
SESSION ELEVEN: 3:15-5:30

PANEL 28: Overlooked Texts III
Chair: Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi
Mary Rooks, Kent State University at Stark
“The Best of Women, The Worst of Women: Sarah Fielding’s Dual(ing) Gender Ideologies”
Marilyn Robitaille, Tarleton State University
"The Glorious Snort as Celebrated in 'Snuff: A Poem' "
Gloria Eive, ECCB: Fine Arts Editor
"Musical 'Social Networking': The Unwritten Evidence"

5:45-6:30 BUSINESS MEETING

7:00
SCSECS ANNUAL BANQUET

Keynote Address:
"Romantic Interludes in Eighteenth-Century Northern New Spain"

Caroline Castillo Crimm
Sam Houston State University

Eighteenth-Century English Country Music & Dancing
"Ladies at Play"
Miranda Arana, Kathy Dagg and Shanda McDonald
Dance Mistress: Linda Beamer