[Toby Wikström]

(GUARANTEED SESSIONS)

Theory’s Seventeenth Century
Reassessing seventeenth-century French texts’ and contexts’ role in twentieth-century theory. How can current dix-septiémiste work shed new light on the theory canon? 300-word abstracts to Ellen Welch (erwelch@email.unc.edu) by 15 March 2019.

The Discourses of Luxury in 17th-century France
Intersection of politics, myth-making, and aesthetics in development of luxury; its impact on social culture, artistic practices, and national identity forging process; place of 17th century in emerging field of luxury studies. 300-word abstracts to Sylvaine Guyot (guyot@fas.harvard.edu) by 15 March 2019.

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Troubles et tourbillons: Toward a Materialist Poetics of Turbulence in the 17th Century
Disturbance, broadly construed: vortex, squall, drift, entropy, noise. Relation of natural philosophical principles of scattering, flux, or disarray to early modern poiesis. 250-word abstracts to Jeffrey N. Peters (jnp@uky.edu) by 15 March 2019.

Print and Digital Interfaces in Early Modern Literature Role of interface (layout, multimedia, reference mechanisms: links, notes) in print and digital editions of early modern works. 200-word abstracts to Christophe Schuwey (christophe.schuwey@yale.edu) and Geoffrey Turnovsky (gt2@uw.edu) by 15 March 2019.

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[Domna C. Stanton]

Thanks Toby: plan to send in an abstract for the theory session. h ope all is well! best domna
Domna C. Stanton
Distinguished Professor of French
Graduate Center CUNY

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