Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England

22-24 February, 2008
International Symposium

"Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England"

(Otto Friedrich Universität Bamberg, An der Universität 2, Room 025)

Friday, February 22

16:00-16:30 Opening of the Conference

Welcome Addresses:

Prof. Dr. Dr. Godehard Ruppert (President of BambergUniversity )

Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Marx (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies)

Dr. Isabel Karremann and PD Dr. Anja Müller (Organizers)

16:30-18:00 Plenary Lecture:

Prof. Dr. Felicity Nussbaum (Los Angeles ): "Owning Identity: The Eighteenth-Century Actress and Theatrical Property"

c. 19:30 Conference Warming

Saturday, February 23

Section I: "Public Negotiations: Observation, Performance and Recognition of Identities

9:00-10:00 Plenary Lecture:

Prof. em. Dr. Uwe Böker (Dresden ): "Sites of Discourse, Identities, and the Concept of the Public Sphere"

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Project Presentations:

Dr. Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos (Chemnitz/Dresden): "Constructions of Political Identity: The Example of Impeachments"

Dr. Christian Huck (Erlangen ): "Mediating Identities: The Public Sphere, Mass Media, Fashion and the Identity of the Individual"

Prof. Dr. Anette Pankratz (Bochum ): "Constructing Identity in 17th- and 18th-Century Theatre and Drama: Dual Publics and Asymmetrical Inclusion"

Response Prof. Dr. Günter Lottes (Potsdam )

Discussion

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

Section II: "Literature and the Discursive Constructions of Identities"

14:00-15:00 Plenary Lecture:

Prof. Dr. Frédéric Ogée (Paris): "Sterne's Yorick"

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:30 Project Presentations:

Dr. Isabel Karremann (Frankfurt/Munich): "Masculinity Found and Lost: The Double Mediality of Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year "

Prof. Dr. Franz Meier (Braunschweig): "Prototypes of Sentimentalism and Pornography: Gender Identity in Pamela and Fanny Hill "

PD Dr. Anja Müller (Bamberg ): "Identifying an Age-Specific Literature for Children, 1689-1789"

PD Dr. Katharina Rennhak (Munich ): "Paratexts and the Construction of Author Identities: The Preface as Threshold and Thresholds in the Preface."

Response Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig (Regensburg )

Discussion

c. 19:00 Conference Dinner

Sunday, February 24

Section III: "Topographical Constructions of Identity”

9:00-10:00 Plenary Lecture:

Prof. Dr. Isabelle Baudino (Lyons): "Topography and Aesthetics: Mapping the British Identity in Painting"

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Project Presentations:

Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka (Bamberg): "Labelling Deviancy and the Peripatetic of Cultural Citizenship in the 1790s"

Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer (Koblenz): "The Panoramic Gaze: the Control of Illusion and the Illusion of Control"

Dr. Sigrid Rieuwerts (Mainz): "Re(Constructing) Collective Identity in Literature and Landscape of the Eighteenth Century"

Response PD Dr. Christoph Heyl (Frankfurt)

Discussion

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:00 Concluding Plenary Discussion; End of Symposium

We wish to thank our sponsors:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Kommission für Forschung und wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs der Universität Bamberg

Universitätsbund Bamberg

Fakultätsfrauenbeauftragte (SpLit) der Universität Bamberg