Happiness in the Early Modern Period

press release: The Center for Early Modern Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to announce our 2016 conference, "Happiness in the Early Modern Period".

March 10

2:30-3:30: Opening Remarks: Susan Zaeske, Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities; Stefania Buccini, CEMS Interim Director

PRESESSION

Ullrich Langer (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Why Literature Is Happiness (in the Early Modern Period)”

3:30-3:45 | Refreshment Break

3:45-6:00 | SESSION I, Presiding: Kristin Phillips-Court

Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University): “Happiness and the ‘History of the History of Philosophy’ in Fifteenth-Century Italy”  

                                    Respondent: Ullrich Langer

Virginia Krause (Brown University):  “Montaignian Happiness: Lessons in Landscape”  

                                            Respondent: Jan Miernowski

March 11

9:30-11:45 | SESSION II, Presiding: Ricardo Court

Christia Mercer (Columbia University): “Anne Conway and the Pain of Happiness”  

                                           Respondent: Hadley Cooney

Donald Rutherford (University of California-San Diego): “Perfection and Happiness in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy”

                                         Respondent: Steven Nadler

12:00-1:15 | Lunch Break (on your own)

1:30-3:30 | SESSION III, Presiding: Nicolas Russell

Katherine Eggert (University of Colorado-Boulder): “Othello's Happiness”  

                                  Respondent: Karen Britland

Andrea Frisch (University of Maryland): “‘Heureux celuy qui devient sage/en voyant d’autry le dommage’: Tragic Spectacle                                 as a Source of Happiness in Early Modern France”

                                       Respondent: Richard Goodkin

3:30-3:45 | Refreshment Break

3:45-5:00 | SESSION IV, Graduate Student Forum: “Expressions of Happiness”, Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden

       Aria Cabot: “‘No Happiness in These Kinds of Pleasures’: (In)felicità and the Eighteenth-Century Italian Autobiography”

       Jennifer Morgan: “A Joyful Noise: Music in the Early Modern Period”

       Anna Rockwell: “L’’Archiatro dell’Anima’: Theater’s Cures for ‘Malumore’”

       Jillian Slaight: “Chasing after Happiness? Runaway Girls in Eighteenth-Century Paris”

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW