NOTE: FOR MONTALTO (2 March), EVERYONE MUST REGISTER because space is limited. Send name and number of guests to Michelle Hammond (mhammond@monticello.org)
Friday, March 1, Harrison Small Institute
| 8:30 | Coffee |
| 9:15 | Welcome and Opening Remarks David T. Gies (Spanish) and Cynthia Wall (English) Andrew O’Shaughnessy (Monticello) |
| 9:30 | PANEL 1: “Knowledge” Moderator: Sophia Rosenfeld (History) Brad Pasanek (English) and Chad Wellmon (German): “(S. Decemb. 1783. S. 516)” Michael Pickard (English): “William Strahan and His Ledgers: What We Know” Jessica Riskin (History, Stanford): “Lamarck’s More Dangerous Idea” |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:15 | PLENARY: Patricia Meyer Spacks (English): “Musing on Interdisciplinarity” |
| 12:30 | Lunch, Colonnade Club (by invitation) |
| 2:00 | PANEL 2: “Intersections” Moderator: Andrew O’Shaughnessy (Monticello) Katelyn Crawford (Art History): “Painting New England in the Dutch West Indies: John Greenwood’s Surinam” David L. Vander Meulen (English): “Rewriting the Psalms of David: Isaac Watts in the U.S.A” David Whitesell (Small Special Collections): “What Then Is the American Antiquarian, This New Man?: Jeremy Belknap, Isaiah Thomas, and the American Antiquarian Society” Ruth Hill (Spanish, Vanderbilt): “From Madrid to Monticello: Whitening Equations and the Human-Animal Continuum” |
| 3:30 | Coffee |
| 4:00 | Entertainment Kiera Allison: Songs from the Eighteenth Century Victorian Theatrical Society: Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb (1730) |
| 5:00-6:30 | Free Time |
| 7:00 | Dinner (by invitation) (Tempo) |
Saturday, March 2, Montalto
FOR MONTALTO (2 March), EVERYONE MUST REGISTER because space is limited. Send name and number of guests to Michelle Hammond (mhammond@monticello.org)
| 8:30-9:00 | Assemble at Jefferson Library (1329 Kenwood Farm) for transportation to Montalto |
| 9:30 | PANEL 3: “Aesthetics” Moderator: Richard Will (Music) Jennifer Tsien (French): “Authorities of Taste” Louis Nelson (Architecture): “The Jamaican Plantation: Industry, Empire, and Resistance” Downing Thomas (Liberal Studies, Iowa): “Music in the Eighteenth Century: mode d’emploi” Casey Eriksen (Spanish) “The Aesthetics of Excess: Rococo Vestiges of Tartuffe in Isla’s Father Gerundio” |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:15 | PLENARY: Mary Sheriff (UNC, Chapel Hill): “Emotional Geographies: Watteau and the Fate of Women” |
| 12:30 | Lunch (Open to all; buffet sandwiches) |
| 2:00 | PANEL 4: “Performance” Moderator: Bonnie Gordon (Music) Adrienne Ward (Italian): “The Drama of Marriage in 18th-Century Venice” Pierpaolo Polzonetti (Music, Notre Dame): “Mozart and the American Revolution” Jennifer Foy (English): “Performances of Suffering and the Stagecraft of Sympathy” |
| 3:30 | Closing Remarks |
| 4:00 | Tour of Monticello (by invitation) |
| 6:00 | Cocktails (by invitation) (Montalto) |
| 7:00 | Dinner (by invitation) (Montalto) |