[Allison Margaret Bigelow]

Please join us at MLA 2020 for two panels on race, science, and the limits of the human in the global 18th c.:

Panel #1
074. Beyond the Border: Plant, Animal, Human. Jan 9, 2020, 1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sheraton – Ravenna C

\”Diagramming Race in Eighteenth-Century Science and History,\” Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara
\”Angelic Species in Enlightenment Ecologies: Pope’s Essay on Man,\” Bryan Alkemeyer, C of Wooster
\”Trans-species Solidarity in the Letters of Ignatius Sancho,\” Sören Hammerschmidt, GateWay Community C, AZ
\”Monstrosity, Visuality, and the Grammar of the Body in Late Georgian Visual Satire,\” Alexander Creighton, Harvard U
Presiders: Paul Kelleher, Emory U and Natania Meeker, U of Southern California

Panel #2
259. Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air, co-organized with LLS Early American. Jan 10, 2020, 10:15 AM–11:30 AM WSCC – Chelan 4

\”Piratical Hydrography,\” Jason Payton, U of Georgia
\”‘Supporting Sinking Nations’: John Dennis and the Red Atlantic Assemblage,\” Matthew Duques, U of North Alabama
\”‘Between Japan and California’: Cultural Imaginations of the Pacific Ocean in the Early Eighteenth Century\” Yoojung Choi, Texas A&M U, College Station (not delivered in person — look for it on HCommons)
\”‘Where Nature Has More Finely Wrought’: Freneau’s Republican Air,\” Micah Bateman, U of Texas, Austin
Presider: Martha Elena Rojas, U of Rhode Island

This topic was also posted in: CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC Early American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TC Science and Literature, CLCS 18th-Century.

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