Session Details
Friday, 29 December
459. Do Objects Die?
1:45–3:00 p.m., Commonwealth Hall A1, Loews
Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Presiding: Lydia H. Liu, Columbia Univ.
1. “Empire’s Object Lessons: Of France, Egypt, and the Afterlife of a Pre-text,” Shaden M. Tageldin, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2. “‘This Once Was Me’: Verse Epistles and Poetic Animation,” Helen Deutsch, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
3. “The Afterlife of Natural History Specimens: From the Endeavour to the Online Catalog,” Noah Heringman, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
4. “Vernacular Panditry and Other Questions of Cultural Vitality,” Christi Merrill, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
For copies of abstracts, write to lydiaheliu@gmail.com.