Friday October 13th A.D. White House

10AM-12PM

Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Andrea Frisch, University of Maryland

Keynote: Julien Goeury, Sorbonne University
Inscription/effacement: enquête sur la réputation d’Aubigné dans le champ poétique (1574-1630)

Session 1: 1:30-3:30PM

CHAIR: Amy Graves, State University of New York, Buffalo

Stephen Murphy, Wake Forest University
Hideux, effronté: Agrippa d’Aubigné and the Style of Truth

Mathilde Bernard, University of Paris, Nanterre        Violence of the world and violence of words in Agrippa Aubigné’s Histoire
universelle and Les Tragiques

Jeonghyun Kim, Sorbonne University                    Montalcino agonistes : Structure and Emotion of Agonia in Les Tragiques

4-6PM

Introduction: Marcus Keller

Keynote: Phillip John Usher, New York University

The Moving Earth: Natural Contracts in the Tragiques
CHAIR: Amy Graves, State University of New York, Buffalo

Saturday, October 14th Klarman Hall 

Virtual Session – Romance Studies Lounge, Klarman 164

Session 2: 10am-12noon CHAIR: Katherine Maynard, University of Richmond

Valerie Worth, Trinity College, Oxford. The Polyphony of Voices in Les Tragiques: 
Performative Power and Women Speaking.

Fariba Kanga, University of Pennsylvania. The Good Death and Divine Election in “Les Feux” and “Les Fers” (Les Tragiques).

Michael Randall, Brandeis University. On Political Personhood Then and Now.

Andrew Dickson White House – Society for the Humanities

Session 3: 1:30-3:00pm CHAIR: Phillip John Usher, New York University

Anna Rosensweig, University of Rochester. What Kind of King was Henri IV? Resistance Theory through Biblical Typology in Les Tragiques.

Therese Banks, Middlebury College. The Politics of Remembering Community: Rewriting the Crusades After the Wars of Religion in Les Tragiques (1616).

Rebecca Harmon, University of Pennsylvania. Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Œuvre as Testimonial System.

Session 4: 3:15-4:45pm CHAIR: Stephen Murphy, Wake Forest University

Amy Graves, State University of New York, Buffalo. The White Crow: The Historical Afterthoughts of Agrippa D’Aubigné.

Richard Gibbs, Cornell University. Alchemy & Exegesis in Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques.

Marc Bizer, University of Texas at Austin. The Many-Faceted Tragedy of Les Tragiques.

Session 5: 5:00-6:30pm CHAIR: Kathleen Long, Cornell University

Andreea Marculescu, University of Oklahoma. Catherine of Medici between Horrorism and Witchcraft in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques.

Rogier Gerrits, University of Hamburg. Monstrueux miracles: Monsters, Miracles, and the Imagination in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques (1616).

Marcus Keller, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Aubigné’s Histoire universelle or How to Become Modern with the Turks.