Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

130. Enlightenment Experiments

8:45–10:00 p.m., Missouri, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Tili Boon Cuillé, Washington Univ.

1. “Charles Bonnet and Eighteenth-Century Experiments in Biology,” Laura Cecilia Balladur, Bates Coll.

2. “Buffon’s Sexual Experiments,” Joanna Stalnaker, Columbia Univ.

3. “Marivaux, Buffon; ou, Réflexions sur la préformation individuelle,” Sarah Benharrech, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

4. “Experimentation in the Revolutionary Age,” Julia V. Douthwaite, Univ. of Notre Dame

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