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 CECS TWO-DAY CONFERENCE

The World and Lady Mary: Gender, Medicine, and Culture in the Time of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu c.1690-1770

lady-mary 

1st April - 2nd April 2008

Venue: The Huntingdon Room, the King's Manor

Convenor: Joanna de Groot 

This conference offers participants an opportunity for in-depth discussion of each of the important cross-disciplinary papers being presented. In order to facilitate this, each paper will be followed by a short commentary by a colleague from the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies which will identify key issues, stimulate exchanges among the participants, as well as between the participants and the paper presenter, and establish an atmosphere in which everyone feels able to contribute.

PROGRAMME

Tuesday 1 April

11.00- 11.30 registration & coffee

11.30 -11.45 welcome

11.45 - 1.00 Wendy Frith: “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the speckled monster: gender, sexuality and the body in eighteenth-century England”

1.00 – 2.30 lunch

2.30 - 3.45 Alicia Grant: “Religion and variolation in Turkey"

3.45.- 4.15 tea

4.15 – 5.30 Muhammad Sharafuddin: “Islamic orientalism in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu"

6.00 - 7.30 drinks reception

Wednesday 2 April

9.30-11.00 Joanna de Groot: “Domestic perspectives and multiple exotics: Lady Mary, Italy, and the Ottoman empire”

11.00 – 11.30 coffee

11.30 - 1.00 Marcia Pointon: “The largest you ever saw in your life: assessing jewels in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s world ”

Conference ends 1.00