Public and Private / Public et privé
Forty-Third Annual Conference, King’s College London
To Be Held Virtually 8-10 September 2021
Twitter: #SEMFS21
Wednesday 8 September
11.00 Online PG Workshop
14.00 Welcome: Katherine Ibbett, Chair of the Society
14.00-15.00 Session 1: Public Space, Women’s Lives
Chair: Joanna Barker
Sarah NELSON (University of Idaho)
The Public Import of a Woman’s Life: The Example of Marie Mancini Colonna
Annalisa NICHOLSON (University of Cambridge)
Public Life, Private Death: Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, and her daughter Marie-Charlotte de Richelieu
15.15-16.45 Session 2: Spiritual Direction and Reading
Chair: Mette Birkedal Bruun
Lisa AL-FARADZH (University of Cambridge)
Private Devotion and Books: Spiritual Reading in Seventeenth-Century France
Lars Cyril NØRGAARD (University of Copenhagen)
Private Politics?
Bastian VAUCANSON (University of Copenhagen)
A Private Matter? Spiritual Intimacy in the Correspondence between Mme Guyon and Fénelon (1688-1690)
17.00-18.00 Session 3: Public Exchanges
Chair: Emily Butterworth
Frank EJBY POULSEN (University of Copenhagen)
Eighteenth-Century French Cosmopolitanism: Transcending the Public and the Private for the Common Good of Humanity in a Universal Republic
Emma GILBY (University of Cambridge)
Part of the Public, Confusedly: Moving Towards Others in the Work of Descartes and Elisabeth of Bohemia.
Thursday 9 September
14.00-15.00 Session 4: Dramatic Theory and Practice
Chair: Noel Peacock
Allen WOOD (Purdue University)
‘Shortly They Will Play Me in What Forms They List’: Essex on the French Stage
Joseph HARRIS (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘La Commune Voix’: Reputation between Public and Private in Le Misanthrope
15.15-16.15 Session 5: Racine
Chair: Nicholas Hammond
Tristan ALLONGE (Université de La Réunion)
Le Silence de Dieu et les rumeurs des hommes. Pour une relecture politique de l’Esther de Racine
Suzanne JONES (University of Oxford)
Translating the Private into the Public for a Public: Racine’s Bajazet
16.30-17.45 Keynote Paper
Chair: Katherine Ibbett
Mette BIRKEDAL BRUUN (University of Copenhagen)
‘La Vie privée, la retraite, la solitude, le silence’: Vocabularies of Privacy and the Private
Friday 10 September
14.00-15.00 AGM
15.15-16.15 Session 6: Law and the Political
Chair: Adam Horsley
Joséphine GARDON-GOUJON (Sorbonne Université)
Passions privées, actions publiques: les paratextes de nouvelles historiques du XVIIe siècle et le dévoilement des passions au cœur de la politique
Marina PERKINS (University of Cambridge)
Acts of Deeming in the Case of Martin Guerre: Category Extension, Legal Fiction, and Identity Formation in Private and Legal Contexts
16.30-18.00 Session 7: Inner to Outer
Chair: John O’Brien
Emily BUTTERWORTH (King’s College, London)
Marguerite de Navarre and the Privé
Jonathan PATTERSON (University of Oxford)
Early Modern Récolement: Montaigne, Naudé and the Bureau de la ville de Paris
Michael MORIARTY (University of Cambridge)
Stairs, Passages, and Go-Betweens
Concluding remarks: Katherine Ibbett, Chair of the Society, followed by an online drink
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