Emotions in Non-Fictional Representations of the Individual, 1600-1850

Malina Stefanovska is Professor of French Literature in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA, USA, specializing in 16-18th-century French literature and culture, in particular memoirs, autobiographies and other “ego texts.”  Yinghui Wu is assistant professor of Chinese literature at UCLA, USA, specializing in 16-18th-century Chinese literature and culture, in particular drama, print culture, and the interaction of text, sound, and visual media.  Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge is Professor of French Literature at the Université de Tours, France, specializing in 18th century literature, in particular the genre of memoirs and autobiographies.

• Part 1 : Encounters and Crossings.- 1. Frédéric Charbonneau (McGill) : Nou Nou: a Chinese inheritance quarrel at the Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 1713-1743.- 2. Shirley F. Tung: East Meets West in Elysium: Liminal Landscapes and Loss in Montagu’s Letters from Turkey and Italy.- 3. Daniel Williford, UCLA: “Buddhism and Emotions: Asian Enlightenment and the Anxieties of European Identity” Daniel Williford.- 4. Angelina Del Balzo, UCLA: Shakespeare’s Art of the Dervish: Elizabeth Montagu, Voltaire, and National Sentiment.- Part 2: Emotions: high and low, private and public, male and female.- 5. Yinghui Wu, UCLA: How to Manipulate Emotions in The Classic of Whoring.- 6. Tina Lu,  Yale University: Competing versions of 17th-century Interiority.- Part 3: From noble to popular sentiments.- 7.  Marie-Paule De Weerdt-Pilorge, Universitéde Tours, Emotions in the face of silencein the Memoir of 1805, by Lady Hyegyŏng. The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea.- 8.  Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil, UCLA, "Hemlock and Hair Shirts: Valentin Jamerey-Duval's Affective Habitus.- 9.  Jean-Jacques Tatier-Gourin, Université de Tours : Staging Revolutionary Choices and Expressing Personal Sentiments in the Memoirs by Louvet (1795).