VENAL BODIES: PROSTITUTES AND PROSTITUTION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE
4 April 2009, Stewart House, IGRS, University of London
Co-organised by Prof. Markman Ellis (School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London) and Dr. Ann Lewis (French Department, School of Languages, Linguistics & Culture, Birkbeck, University of London) with the support of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London; and the Faculty of Arts and School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London.
For details of the programme, see below.
For details of how to register, please click on the following link:
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences-workshops/call-for-papers-venal-bodies-prostitutes-and-prostitution-in-eighteenth-century-culture.html
PROGRAMME (provisional)
9.30: COFFEE and registration
10.00: PLENARY 1: Prof. Kathryn Norberg (UCLA):
The House on the Rue Saint Fiacre and its Mistress: A Parisian Brothel, 1750-1757
11-12.30: Chair: Dr Julie Peakman
i) Claudine Van Hensbergen (St. Edmund Hall, Oxford):
‘Wherever she goes, we see nothing but her; and if we see her, we see everything’: The Many Faces of the Duchess of Mazarin 1646-1699)’
ii) Dr Katherine MacDonald (UCL):
Marie Petit’s Persian Adventure (1705-1708): The Eastward Travels of a French ‘Concubine’
iii) Dr Lena Olsson (Lund University, Sweden):
‘A First-Rate Whore’: Prostitution and Strategies of Empowerment in the Early Eighteenth-Century
LUNCH 12.30 - 1.30
1.30 – 3.00: Parallel Session (A): Chair: Dr Will McMorran
(i) Dr Tom Wynn (University of Exeter):
Prostitutes and Erotic Performances in Eighteenth-Century Paris
(ii) Prof. Edward Langille (St. Francis Xavier University):
Voltaire’s Debt to Fougeret de Montbron: The Venetian Episode, or Prostitution in the ‘Best of all Possible Worlds’
(iii) Dr Olivier Delers (University of Richmond, Virginia):
The Prostitute as Neo-Manager: Sade’s ‘Juliette’ and the “New” Spirit of Capitalism
Parallel Session (B): Chair tbc
(i) Dr Charlotte Grant (King’s College, Cambridge):
Visible Prostitutes: Hogarth and the ‘Harlot’s Progress’
(ii) Johanne Bergvist (University of Oslo):
Making a Living by ‘Indecency’ in Christiania, Norway
(iii) Prof. Randolph Trumbach (Baruch College and the Graduate Centre City University of New York):
Male and Female Prostitutes and their Clients in Traditional and Modern Sexual Systems in Europe and Asia, before and after 1700
TEA: 3.00-3.30
3.30-5.00: Chair: Prof. Anne Janowitz
i) Dr Mary Peace (Sheffield Hallam University):
Asylum, Reformatory or Penitentiary?: Secular Sentiments vs Proto Evangelical Religion in ‘The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House’ (1760)
ii) Dr Megan Hiatt:
Preventing Prostitution: Radical Re-Imaginings of Marriage in ‘Histories of Some of the Penitents of the Magdalen-House’ (1759) and ‘Thelyphthora’ (1780)
iii) Dr Jennie Batchelor (University of Kent)
Mothers and Others: Sexuality and Maternity in Eighteenth-Century Prostitution Narratives
5-6: PLENARY 2: Prof. Emma Clery (Southampton):
‘Love throws the fences down, and makes a gen'ral waste’: Eliza Haywood and the anti-economics of luxury
6.00 - 7.30 Drinks reception
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