Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Networks”
Bahij Tamer, Harvard University, “The Crux of Luxury: Marketing Wonder under the Sun King”
Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore College, “‘Ce Ne Sont Que Festons, Ce Ne Sont Qu’Astragales’: Luxury as a Spatial Category”
Christophe Schuwey, Yale University, “Luxury and the Commodification of Literature”
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 8:30-9-45am, WSCC – 201
NATURE/CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES FROM 16TH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE
Presiding: Elizabeth C. Black, Old Dominion University
Chad A. Córdova, Emory University, “It’s Time for Montaigne’s Cat. Animal Pastimes and Disdain for Man in the Apologie”
Elizabeth A. Kirby, New York University, “’Je naturaliserois l’art’: Eros in Montaigne’s Self-Portrait”
Pauline Goul, George Washington University, “The Renaissance Culture of American Natures”
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 12:00–1:15pm, WSCC – Yakima 2
THEORY’S SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Presiding: Ellen Welch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lewis Seifert, Brown University, “Queering the Grand Siècle with Foucault”
Domna C. Stanton, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Countering Said’s Orientalist Binarism: The Significance of Seventeenth-Century France”
Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky, “Toward an Incorporeal Criticism: Theory, Judgment, and the Early Modern”
Hall Bjørnstad, Indiana U, Bloomington, “At the Threshold: Theory and Seventeenth-Century French Studies”
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 8:30-9-45am, WSCC – 612
NEW WORK IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Presiding: Robert J. Hudson, Brigham Young University
Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley, “Diplomatic Time, Literary Authority and the Poetics of Ratification”
Rupinder Kaur, University of California, Berkeley, “Paradoxical commemoration: triumph and trauma in Rabelais’ Pantagruel”
Claude La Charité, Université du Québec à Rimouski, “New Perspectives on Rabelais and Medicine”
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 10:15–11:30am, WSCC – 214
TOURBILLONS ET TROUBLES: TOWARD A MATERIALIST POETICS OF TURBULENCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Presiding: Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky
Alison Calhoun, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Aeolus ex machina: Staging Whirlwinds in Descartes’s Time”
Brendan Ezvan, University of Pittsburgh, “Fiery Affects: Emotions, Elements, and Disorder in the French Seventeenth Century”
Ellen Welch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Lafayette’s Material Poetics of Noise”
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 12:00–1:15pm, WSCC – 603
PRINT AND DIGITAL INTERFACES IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH LITERATURE
Presiding: Christophe Schuwey, Yale University, and Geoffrey Turnovsky, University of Washington, Seattle
Timothy J. Tomasik, Valparaiso University, “Rediscovering Renaissance Recipes: Digitizing Platine en francoys (1505)”
Hélène Bilis, Wellesley College, “Reading Lafayette from a Distance: A Network Analysis of La Princesse de Clèves”
J.B. Shank and Benjamin Wiggins, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, “Building a Digital Portal for Exploring Bernard and Picart’s Céremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde”
