A symposium examining the changing theory and practice of persuasion in 18th- and 19th-century European literature and culture.
This conference will be hosted at the University of Notre Dame – McKenna Conference Center, March 15-16, 2019.
Keynote speaker:
Frances Ferguson (English, University of Chicago)
Philology Turned to Persuasion: The Rise of Constitutions
Speakers:
Maeve Adams (English, Manhattan College)
Contestatory Publics: Persuasion as Resistance
Ian Balfour (English, York University)
Extreme Austen, or Hyperbole
Mark Canuel (English, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Hazlitt, Progress, and the Arts
Sean Franzel (German and Russian, University of Missouri)
Persuasion after the Revolution
Brian McGrath (English, Clemson University)
The Tone Police
Jan Mieszkowski (German and Comparative Literature, Reed College)
Plants and Politics
Emma Planinc (Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame)
To ‘Persuade without Convincing’: Rousseau as the Legislator of Nature
Adam Potkay (English, William & Mary)
Rhetoric and Philosophy: Tropes, Dialogue, Self-Division
Yasmin Solomonescu (English, University of Notre Dame)
Reasoning is not Believing
Daniel Stout (English, University of Mississippi)
Assemblage, Persuasion, Conviction
Stefan Uhlig (Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
Smith’s and Blair’s Indiscipline
Ross Wilson (English, University of Cambridge)
Every Thing is Faultless: Hazlitt on Judgement and Understanding
Sarah Zimmerman (English, Fordham University)
The Lecturer’s Argument
Please direct queries to Yasmin Solomonescu at solomonescu.1@nd.edu or 574-631-4144.