Fourth Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Conference
The Many Imaginations of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
New England, USA
30 June - 2 July 2001
Preliminary Program
The Fourth Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Conference will be held 30 June - 2 July, 2001. Sessions will be held at Wheaton College (30 miles from Boston), where inexpensive housing will also be available, and at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Special events will include tours of the nearby reconstructed seventeenth-century Plimouth Plantation and the Brown University Women Writers Project, with opportunities for visits to Boston, New York, and Cape Cod.
Wheaton was founded in 1834 as one of the first "female seminaries" in the United States. In 1911 it became a four-year women's college, and in 1989 it became coed. It belongs to several collaborative programs, including "The Northeast Nine," which includes Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Boston College, and Wellesley. It also has an exchange program with Brown University, which is co-sponsoring the Cavendish 2001 Conference.
| Friday, 29 June | |
| 4:00 pm | Check in at Wheaton College. |
| Saturday, 30 June | |
| 8:00-10:15 | Coffee and registration |
| 9:00-10:15 | Cavendish Society Board Meeting |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session 1: Situating Cavendish in Critical History. Erna Kelley, Jan Kaminski, Linda Burnett |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch. Plenary Speaker, John Rogers, Yale University |
| 1:45-3:15 | Session 2: The Scientific Imagination Whitley Cooke, Carrie Hintz, Stanton J. Linden Session 3: Epic and Romance Emma Rees, Miriam Wallraven, Tanya Wood |
| 3:30-5:00 | Session 4: Cavendish, Milton, and Epic Marianne Micros, Lee Cullen Khanna, Michael Rex Session 5: Female Community and Identity Rosanne Denhard, Susannah Quinsee, Judith Stuart Chair: Julie Yen |
| 5:30-7:15 | Reception and dinner |
| 7:30-9:00 | Special Presentation: Margaret Cavendish's 1662 Playes in Performance Gweno Williams |
| Sunday, 1 July | |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30-10:00 | Session 6: The Imagined Body Susannah Mintz, Karen Raber, Rebecca Totaro Session 7: The Political Imagination Diana Barnes, Stephanie Fitz, Margaret Reeves |
| 10:15-11:45 | Session 8: Imagining Female Language and Philosophy Audrey Becker, Margaret Oakes, Leigh Hursh Session 9: The Cavendish Family Danielle Clarke, James Fitzmaurice, Lisa Sarasohn |
| 12:00-1:15 | Lunch. Plenary Speaker, Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University |
| 1:30 | Buses to Brown University in Providence, R.I. |
| 2:30-4:00 | Session 10 (at Brown): Authorial Self-presentation Marina Leslie, Amy Scott-Douglass, Sharon Seelig |
| 4:15-5:30 | Cavendish Online (at Brown): Demonstration by the Women Writers Project. Julia Flanders, Director |
| 5:45-7:00 | Reception at the Graduate Center Piano Lounge, Brown University, and tour of Women Writers Project Offices |
| 7:15 | Buses back to Wheaton College |
| 8:00-9:00 | Snacks available |
| Monday, 2 July | |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30-10:00 | Session 12: Theatre and Female Community G. R. Taneja(?), Brandie Siegfried, Christina Wells Session 13: Nature and Art Sylvia Bowerbank, Hilda Smith, Alvin Snider |
| 10:15-11:45 | Session 14: Reconfiguring Genre Pamela Hammons, Carole Breakstone Chair: Michelle Fleming Session 15: Rereading Royalism Deborah Burks, Oddvar Holmesland, Su Fang Ng |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch. Box lunch on bus for those going to Plimoth Plantation. |
For more information, contact:
Susanne Woods
Provost
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02766 USA
[email protected]
Or the planning Committee: Emma Rees, Line Cottegnies, and Anne Shaver.