Portraits and Poses. Representations of female Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (Leuven, BE)
Les 21 et 22 mars 2019, la Société néerlandophone d'études 18istes organise son colloque annuel à Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgique).
Le colloque réunit des spécialistes en études littéraires et en histoire (de l'art) pour réfléchir aux représentations visuelles et textuelles de l'autorité intellectuelle au féminin sous l'Ancien Régime. Le colloque est ouvert à tous, mais les auditeurs intéressés sont priés de s'inscrire via courriel (beatrijs.vanacker@kuleuven.be; frais d'inscription: 25 euros/jour). Les communications seront en anglais (et en français); conférences plénières de Cordula van Wyhe, Biancamaria Fontana et Catriona Seth.
Pour toute information: beatrijs.vanacker@kuleuven.be
PROGRAMME
Thursday, March 21
Justus Lipsius room (08.16), Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
9:00 Registration / Coffee
9:30 Welcome & Introduction
10:00-11:00 Keynote Cordula van Wyhe (York University - Art History)
'Engineered Through Fashion, Paint and Learning: Clever Women'
Chair: Lieke van Deinsen
11.00-12.30 Session I
Female Mentors and Female Networks
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (University of Southern California) – Above Gender? Social and Intellectual Authority in the Letters of Eighteenth-Century Royal Women
Seren Julia Nolan (Durham University) – Matronae Docta: Elizabeth Carter and Catharine Macaulay in the Guise of the Roman Matrona
Monica Bolufer (Universitat de València) – Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Perspectives on Women and Translation at the Start of a Collective Research Project
Chair: Alicia Montoya
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Session II
Representing Intellectual Authority
Ann Öhrberg (Uppsala University) – “They Snare the Leg of the Eagle.” Female Intellectual Authorisation in the Eighteenth-Century Swedish Public Sphere
Feike Dietz & Nina Geerdink (Utrecht University) – Women Writers as Knowledgeable Authors: Paratextual Strategies of Dutch Women Writers during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Tanja Säily & Mark J. Hill (University of Helsinki) – Comparing Intellectual Poses: Public Authority, Actual and Represented
Lien Verpoest (University of Leuven) - Divergent Paths, Unequal Legacies. The Correspondence Between Amalia Golitsyna and Marie-Caroline Murray
Chair: Beatrijs Vanacker
15:30 -15:45 Coffee
15:45 -17:30 Session III
Portraying Authority
Caroline Paganussi (University of Maryland, College Park) – “A Woman of Total Goodness, and a Singular Talent”: Anna Morandi Manzolini’s Wax Portraits
Dagmar Pichová (Masaryk University Brno) – Portraits of Émilie du Châtelet: Between Ornaments and Science
Lieke van Deinsen (University of Leuven) – Female Faces, Intellectual Identities. Author Portraits and the Construction of Female Literary and Intellectual Authority in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic
Chair: Cordula van Wyhe
17:30-18:30 Keynote Biancamaria Fontana (Université de Lausanne)
The Writer and the Queen: Germaine de Staël, Marie Antoinette and the Reign of Opinion
Chair: Anke Gilleir
18:45-19:30 Annual meeting (for members, Werkgroep Achttiende Eeuw)
20:00 Conference dinner at Domus (speakers only)
Friday, March 22
Justus Lipsius room (08.16), Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
8:30-9:00 Registration / Coffee
9:00-10:30 Session IV
Portraits and Poses of the Female Professional
Valerie Worth-Stylianou (Trinity College, University of Oxford) – Penning the Midwife’s Experience: Professional Skills, Publication and Female Agency in Early Modern Europe
Vera Viehöver (Université de Liège) – “It Wasn’t Enough for Me Just to Be a Singer”: (Self-Representations of the “German Prima Donna” Gertrud Elisabeth Mara
Christina K. Lindeman (University of South Alabama) – Representing the Female Composer: Wilhelmine, Margravine of Bayreuth as Cultural Pilgrim
Chair: Eric Jorink
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session V
Rhetoric of Literary Authority
Helena Taylor (University of Exeter) – Marie de Gournay, Sçavante: Life and Afterlife
Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol (Université Paris Est Créteil) – ‘Gouverneur’, éducatrice, auteure : les différents visages de Mme de Genlis dans ses paratextes et ses portraits
Rotraud von Kulessa (Augsburg University) – Entre défense et affirmation : l‘autoreprésentation discursive d’autrices du XVIIIe siècle en France et en Italie
Chair: Valérie André
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Session VI
Women, Literacy and Material Culture
John Stone (Universitat de Barcelona) – Gender, Expatriation, and Book Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Spain
Joanna Rozendaal (Radboud University) – Creating the Female reader: The Representation of Women in Private Library Sales Catalogues
Belinda Scerri (University of Melbourne) – The Ascendancy of Women as Connoisseurs in Rococo Paris: Identity Construction and Cultural Aspiration
Carolina Blutrach (Universitat de València-CIRGEN) – Gender, Agency and Self- Representation in the Fernán Núñez Library
Chair: Nina Geerdink
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:30 Session VII
Afterlives of Female Authorities
Vicki Mistacco (Wellesley College, USA) – Piecemeal Keralio: Fragmented Representations of an Enlightened Woman Intellectual
Armel Dubois-Nayt (DYPAC, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin) – Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots as an Intellectual in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Collective Biographies
Laura Beck Varela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Women Jurists? Representations of Female Intellectual Authority in the “Histories of Jurisprudence”
Chair: Monica Bolufer
17:30-18:30 Keynote: Catriona Seth (All Souls College, Oxford – Université de Lorraine)
(Self-)Portrait of the Woman as (a Reluctant?) Authority
Chair: Biancamaria Fontana
18:30-18:45 Closing remarks
18:45 Drinks