BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250626T220325EDT-3374pkwhd4@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250627T020325Z DESCRIPTION:Media@51łÔąĎÍřis organizing a public panel on The Long Eighteent h Century's Public Spheres\, on Tuesday\, November 17\, 2015\, 6 p.m. in L eacock 232\, 51łÔąĎÍř\, 855 Sherbrooke West.\n \n The event is free and open to the public.\n \n Five 51łÔąĎÍřprofessors (Arash Abizadeh\, Matth ew Hunter\, Andrew Piper\, Angela Vanhaelan\, and Paul Yachnin) will discu ss historical formulations of the public sphere from the perspectives of t heir respective disciplines.\n _________________  \n \n Public Visibility ver sus Public Representativeness: The Life and Times of a Distinction - Arash Abizadeh (Political Theory)\n \n The mid-seventeenth century saw the emerge nce in Europe of a distinction between two senses of publicity: visibility versus representativeness. This distinction played a key role in the rise of practices of religious toleration. It has also recently come under att ack in Quebec public discourse.\n \n Arash Abizadeh (MPhil Oxford\, PhD Harv ard) is associate professor of political theory at 51łÔąĎÍř. His research focusses on democratic theory and questions of identity\, nationa lism\, and cosmopolitanism\; immigration and border control\; the relation between the passions\, rhetoric\, discourse\, and politics\; and seventee nth- and eighteenth-century philosophy\, particularly Hobbes and Rousseau. He is currently completing a book on Hobbes's ethics\, titled Hobbes and the Two Dimensions of Normativity.\n _________________\n  \n Experimental Pub lics - Matthew Hunter (Art History)\n \n In Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985 )\, historians of science Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer articulate an a ccount of the public formed by experimental philosophers in seventeenth-ce ntury England that has been widely influential in histories of scientific knowledge\, art\, and early modern culture. Interweaving a configuration o f politics with its epistemic commitments\, this model of the public was a lso menaced from within by the experimental movement’s leading figures. In this talk\, I consider how attention to the architecture of those shadowy counter-models compels us to think again about the place of visual images and experimental artifacts in public science. \n \n Matthew C. Hunter is As sistant Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Art H istory and Communication Studies at 51łÔąĎÍř. His research focuse s on art and architecture of the long eighteenth century\, with special at tention to intersections among art\, science\, and technology. His publica tions include Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experimen t in Restoration London (University of Chicago Press\, 2013)\,The Clever O bject (Wiley\, 2013\; coedited with Francesco Lucchini)\, and Beyond Mimes is and Convention: Representation in Science and Art (Springer\, 2010\; co edited with Roman Frigg). An editor of Grey Room\, Hunter is currently wri ting a book on Joshua Reynolds’s experimental chemistry and the longer his tory of temporally evolving chemical objects in the British Enlightenment. \n _________________\n \n Interacting with Print - Andrew Piper (Language\, L iterature and Culture)\n \n This project aims to reorient our thinking about publics as stable spherical contexts and see them instead in more ecologi cal and interactive terms. Our goal is to understand the ways in which ind ividuals interacted with print media in the long eighteenth century\, prin t interacted with other media during this period\, and how these practices generated new social groupings. Our central question becomes something li ke: how does a particular configuration of different media become associat ed with historically specific practices to produce new kinds of social com munities?\n \n Andrew Piper is Associate Professor and William Dawson Schola r of German and European Literature and an associate member of the Departm ent of Art History and Communication Studies at 51łÔąĎÍř. He is a former Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellow and is currently the direct or of .txtLAB\, a digital humanities laboratory at McGill. His work focuse s on the intersection of literature and technologies of reading from the e ighteenth century to the present and follows three main lines of inquiry: \n \n • the history of networks and literary topologies\;\n • practices of te xtual circulation and transtextuality\;\n • literary quantity (the nexus of image\, letter\, and number).\n \n His most recent book\, Book Was There: R eading in Electronic Times (Chicago\, 2012)\, addresses current debates ab out the future of reading through a study of the long history of our embod ied interactions with books.\n _________________\n \n Vermeer’s Public Sphere - Angela Vanhaelan (Art History)\n \n The visual culture of the seventeenth -century Dutch Republic conveys the impression that the Dutch were obsesse d with every minute aspect of home life. Paintings of women in domestic in teriors proliferated\, as artists like Johannes Vermeer turned middle-clas s domesticity into a new subject for art. Such imagery was unprecedented a nd there were no analogous visual traditions in the rest of Europe. While Vermeer’s peaceful paintings of the home seem far removed—even protected—f rom the realm of politics and public life\, in this presentation\, I reass ess the obsessive picturing of private life by examining its potential to craft new notions of the public sphere.\n \n Angela Vanhaelen is Associate P rofessor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McG ill. She is the author of The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in t he Dutch Republic (Penn State University Press\, 2012)\, and Comic Print a nd Theatre in Early Modern Amsterdam: Gender\, Childhood and the City (200 3). She has co-edited (with Joseph Ward) the volume Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe. Performance\, Geography\, Privacy (2012)\; and recen tly co-edited (with Bronwen Wilson) a special issue of the journal Art His tory. Vanhaelen has published articles in journals such as Art Bulletin\,  Oxford Art Journal\, Art History\, and RES: Journal of Anthropology and Ae sthetics.\n She was a co-investigator in the international\, multi-discipli nary research collaboration\, “Making Publics in Early Modern Europe” from 2005 to 2010.\n _________________\n \n The Public Life of Scamels - Paul Yac hnin (English)\n \n In Shakespeare’s early 17th-century play\, The Tempest\, Caliban says to Stephano\, “I'll bring thee to clustering filberts\, and sometimes I'll get thee young scamels from the rock.” No one knows what sc amels are. In the 18thcentury\, scamels became a matter of public concern\ , their nature a subject for robust\, learned\, and good-humoured debate. The making public of Caliban’s scamels is exemplary of both the emergence of a distinctively literary public in the 18th century and also the growth of an enhanced public life for ordinary people that finds many of its ori gins in Shakespeare’s playhouse.\n \n Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and former Director of the Institute for the Public L ife of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) at 51łÔąĎÍř. He directed the Making Publics (MaPs) project (2005-10) and now directs the Early Modern Convers ions project. Among his publications are the books\, Stage-Wrights and The Culture of Playgoing in Early Modern England (with Anthony Dawson) editio ns of Richard II (with Dawson) andThe Tempest\; and six edited books\, inc luding Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (with Bronwen Wilson) andForm s of Association (with Marlene Eberhart) His book-in-progress\, Making Pub lics in Shakespeare’s Playhouse\, is under contract with University of Edi nburgh Press. His ideas and the ideas of his MaPs colleagues about the soc ial life of art were featured on the CBC Radio IDEAS series\, “The Origins of the Modern Public.” Bronwen Wilson and he are editing one of the Early Modern Conversions volumes\, provisionally titled\, “Conversion Machines in Early Modern Europe: Apparatus\, Artifice\, Body.” A recent area of int erest is higher education practice and policy\, with publications in Polic y Options and University Affairs and projects involving more than 25 Canad ian universities.\n DTSTART:20151117T230000Z DTEND:20151117T230000Z LOCATION:232\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sh erbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Panel: The Long Eighteenth Century’s Public Spheres URL:/ahcs/channels/event/panel-long-eighteenth-century s-public-spheres-255260 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR