Affect, Mood, Feeling: 1748-1819
Conference Program

Saturday, April 25
9:00 - 9:30 Registration / Coffee / Refreshments

9:30 - 11:00
Dejections and Projections of Coleridge
Chair: Brad Bannon

• Neil Finlayson (York University): "'Dejection: An Ode' to the Victory of Feeling and the Failure of Subjectivity"
• Michael Quilligan (University of Maryland): "'My better mind had fled': Coleridge's Revisionary Cruel Optimism in the Versions of 'Dejection: An Ode'"
• Gord Barentsen (UWO): "Wordsworth's 'Virgilian agility': Ambivalence and the Specter of Coleridge in The Prelude"

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:45
"Those fleeting moods of shadowy exultation"
Chair: Adina Arvatu

• Naqaa Abbas (UWO): "Workings of a Wounded Mind: Byron's Melancholic Orientalism"
• Chris Bundock (UWO): "Curb your Enthusiasmos: On Not Feeling Kant"
• David Fine (Lehigh University): "'The Mighty Interval which Separates': The Missionary's Mysticism and its Misrecognition"

12:45 - 2:30 Lunch at The Graduate Club, Middlesex College, UWO

2:30 - 3:30
Keats and Synesthetic Experience
Chair: Phil Glennie

• Shalon Butt (UWO): "Keat's Music: 'A Language of Feeling'"
• Adrian Mioc (UWO): "Considerations on Keats's Sensuous Beauty"

3:30 - 3:45 Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:15
Plenary Lecture
Professor Ross Woodman (UWO Emeritus)
"Los's Furnaces: The Affect of Paradise Lost in Blake's Milton"
Moderator: Naqaa Abbas

7:00 - 9:00 Dinner at Fellini Koolini's

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Sunday, April 26
9:15 - 9:30 Coffee / Refreshments

9:30 - 11:00
Suffering Wrongs and Vindicating Rights
Chair: Stephanie Oliver

• Josh Lambier (UWO): "Wollstonecraft and the Vital Life of Right"
• Jeanne Britton (Syracuse University): "Tortured Figures: Tales Embedded in Spectacles of Suffering"
• Leila Walker (CUNY): "What a World We Make: Imagining Kantian Dystopia in The Cenci"

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:45
(Per)forming Affect
Chair: Ann Gagne

• Dan Bergen (Marquette University): "Judgment Indicted: Constructing Fear in Joanna Baillie's 'The Dream'"
• Nigel Joseph (UWO): "Neo-stoicism and the Performance of Affect in Rousseau and in Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments"
• Matt Austin (UWO): "Apathetic Asceticism and Affective Appetite: Nietzsche and the Case of Ascetic Suicide in Schopenhauer and Melville's Bartleby"

12:45 - 2:00 Lunch at The Graduate Club, Middlesex College, UWO

2:00 - 3:30
William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and the Lessons of Feeling
Chair: Jesse Norford

• Jeff King (UWO): "Sympathy's Guilty Society: The Affective Remnants of Chivalry in Caleb Williams"
• Sherrin Berezowsky (UWO): "Personal Passions and Political Potential: William Godwin's Mandeville and the Psychodynamics of Revolution"
• Cathy Collett (McMaster University): "Romantic Pedagogies: Mary Shelley's Matilda and Difficult Knowledge"

3:30 - 3:45 Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:35
Rage Against the Machine
Chair: Averil Farrar

• Jared McGough (UWO): "'To Renew the Fiery Joy': William Blake's Gay Science"
• Mark A. McCutcheon (UWO): "Future Shock: Frankenstein and the Special Affect of 'Technology'"
• John Vanderheide (UWO): "Rages of the World: Schelling and the Antipathetic"
• Jason Dockstader (UWO): "Action-Aggression-Affirmation: Spinozist Joy in Nietzsche"

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