A provisional printable version of a more detailed programme can be downloaded here. All times are CET.
Abstracts can be downloaded here (available soon).
Conference site:
Facultat de Geografia i Història
Room 3.4 – Sala Parmireno (3rd floor)
Avinguda Blasco Ibáñez, 28
46010 València (Spain)
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Avinguda Blasco Ibáñez, 28
46010 València (Spain)
Location in Google Maps
All presentations will be in English. Time allocation for invited speakers is 30 minutes. Time allocation for other participants is 15 minutes.
Wednesday 23 February
Registration: 9:00-9:30h
Welcoming Words: 9:30-9:45h
9:45-11:45h SESSION 1. Rewriting through Translation
Chair: TBA
Mirella Agorni (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia). Invited speaker.
The Role of Women in Translation History: Translating and Collaborating in the Re-shaping of Italy in the Early Romantic Period
Luisa Simonutti (CNR, Milan)
Elsewhere. Women Translators and Travelers in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin in the Age of Enlightenment
Elias Buchetmann (European University Institute)
Meta Forkel’s Politics of Translation
Elizabeth Franklin Lewis (University of Mary Washington)
Translating Genre and Gender for Madrid Audiences. The Case of María Rosa Gálvez
Elisavet Papalexopoulou(European University Institute)
Trans-Adriatic Enlightenments: Maria Petrettini’s Italian Translation of the “Turkish Embassy Letters”
12:15-13:45h SESSION 2: Religious Sensibilities: Catholicism and Modernity
Chair: TBA
Inmaculada Blasco (Universidad de La Laguna). Invited speaker.
When Catholicism Met Modernity: Some Reflections from Recent Spanish Gender Historiography
Patrizia Delpiano (Università di Torino)
Women and Novels. Educating Female Public in the Age of Enlightenment
Helena Queirós (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle/Universidade do Porto)
Fans and Enthusiasms: Embodying Political and Religious Change during the Reign of D. José I
María Tausiet (Universitat de València-CIRGEN)
Enlightened by God. Female Sensibilities and the Rhetoric of Submission
15:00-17:00h SESSION 3. Women of Letters Across Frontiers
Chair: TBA
Vanda Anastácio (Universidade de Lisboa). Invited speaker.
“Full of wit, gentleness and grace”: poetry, erudition, and other forms of participation in transnational communities of practice
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Gendering Readers, Authors, and Translators through Print, 1670-1700
Amélie Jaques and Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven)
Transnational Women of Intellect: (De)Constructing Gender Stereotypes in Various Voices
Lieke van Deinsen (KU Leuven)
Female Author Portraits and The Dissemination of a New Imagery of Gendered Intellectual Authority across Enlightenment Europe
Eve-Marie Lampron (Université du Québec à Montréal)“Since France Now Looks Down on Italy”: National Identity’s Impacts on Relationships amongst Women Writers
17:30-19:30h SESSION 4. Making Publics, Mediating Knowledge
Chair: TBA
Laura Beck (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). Invited speaker.
Jurisprudence Among Cooking Recipes: Notions of Law in the German, the Italian, the Iberian and the Mexican Contexts
Margaret Boyle (Bowdoin College)
Making and Testing Recipes across Languages. Multilinguistic Recetarios
Susan Dalton (Université de Montréal)
Mediating the Moral World: Women Popularizing Art and Literature in early 19th-Century Venice
Carolina Blutrach (Universitat de València-CIRGEN)
For Ladies and Other Readers: Popularizing Knowledge in the Spanish Monarchy and the Role of Translation in the Making of New Audiences
Laura Guinot (Universitat de València-CIRGEN)
The Production and Circulation of Literature for Women Between Europe and America: A Perspective from the Hispanic-American World
Thursday 24 February
9:30-11:30h SESSION 5. Debating Gender in Transnational and Transatlantic Settings
Chair: TBA
Mariselle Meléndez (University of Illinois). Invited speaker.
Contesting Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Newspapers
Clorinda Donato (California State University, Long Beach)
Translating Transgender in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Mediatic Ecosystem of Transmission, Reworking, and Circulation of The Brief Story of Catterina Vizzani
Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge)
Transatlantic Performances of Colonial Ways of Loving: Framéry’s La Colonie and the Anonymous Lettres de madame P***
Susan Carlile (California State University, Long Beach)
Spanish Modernity in the British Press, 1740-1760
Mónica Bolufer (Universitat de València-CIRGEN)
Discussing Gender, Discussing Modernities. The Many Lives of A Spanish Defence of Women in Europe and America
12:00-14:00h SESSION 6. Connecting Worlds: Self and Identity in Travel Narratives
Chair: TBA
Juan Pimentel (CCHS-CSIC) and Manuel Burón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). Invited speakers.
Hidden or Forbidden. On Female Roles in South Pacific Early Contacts
Leonie Achtnich (Freie Universität Berlin)
“This state is yet young, […] so we must not be rigorous in our judgment.” The We- Perspective in Eighteenth Century Travel Accounts by Women
Pedro Urbano (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
The Self and the Other in the Marchioness of Fronteira’s Diary
Michaela Mudure (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Enlightened Women’s Transnational Circuits from the Balkans to Russia.
Rhitama Basak (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
De-Constructing the Gaze: The Self and the Other in Women’s Travel Writing (to and from Colonial Europe)
15:30-16:30h ROUNDTABLE. Gender and Global Enlightenments: A Historiographical Focus (part 1/2)
Chair: TBA
Giulia Calvi (Università di Siena; European University Institute). Invited speaker.
The World in Dress. Costume Books across Italy, Europe and the East
Anthony La Vopa (North Carolina State University). Invited speaker.
A Woman of Two Cities: Louise d’Epinay, Paris, and Geneva
17:00-18:30h ROUNDTABLE. Gender and Global Enlightenments: A Historiographical Focus (part 2/2)
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS-CRH, Paris). Invited speaker.
“Man, secluded from the company of women is… a dangerous animal to society”: the New Historical Genre of the “History of Women” in Scotland’s Enlightenment
Bianca Premo (Florida International University). Invited speaker.
Blank Pages and Grey Vaults: Gender, Archive, Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic
Friday 25 February
9:30-10:30h SESSION 7. Perception, Material Culture and the Senses
Chair: TBA
Sandra Gómez Todó (Independent Scholar)
“To Surprise the Dear Society…in my White Masque and Man’s Hat”: Exploring the Influence of Venetian Culture in English and Continental Women’s Masking and Representation during the 1700s
Jeannette Acevedo Rivera (California State University, Long Beach)
On Gendered Communication and the Circulation of Attention: The Nineteenth-Century Album in France and Spain
Marta Manzanares Mileo (University of Cambridge)
Delightful Appetites: Representing Women’s Taste in the Hispanic Enlightenment
10:45-12:00h SESSION 8. Ways of Loving
Chair: TBA
Fred Parker (University of Cambridge). Invited speaker.
Unrequitable love? Passion, fiction, and Mary Robinson’s Sappho to Phaon
Mónica Burguera (UNED).
Romantic Love. Gender, Subjectivity and the Politics of Emotions (Spain, 1833-1850)
Elena Serrano (Universitat de València-CIRGEN)
TBA
12:30-14:00h SESSION 9. Reimagining the Enlightenment in the Nineteenth Century
Chair: TBA
Henriette Partzsch (University of Glasgow). Invited speaker.
Instructing, Delighting and Turning a Profit: The Circulation of Women’s Writing across Religious Borders
Natalia L. Zorrilla (CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires)
The Notion of Enlightenment in Juana Manso’s Feminist Writings
Isabel Burdiel (Universitat de València-CIRGEN)
TBA
15:30-17:30h SESSION 10. Gender, Human Diversity and Rhetorics of Feeling
Chair: TBA
Magally Alegre Henderson (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). Invited speaker.
Androginopolis or the Racialization of the Peruvian Strange Society
Catherine Jaffe (Texas State University)
Circulating Gender and Race in Two Early American Quixotic Novels
Estela Roselló (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Longings for equality: the French sensibility of Pierre Bailly, “a black man who felt like white”. New Orleans, 1794
Alberto José Esperón Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Redefining the Afrancesado: An Evolving Alterity during the Crisis of the Spanish Ancien Regime
Ester García (Universitat de València-CIRGEN)
Sensibility on Stage: Gender, Race and the Modulations of Feeling in Hispanic Theatre