Classical Antiquity and Modern Institutions in France (1600-1800)
Friday, October 4, 2019
Logan Center for the Arts 801
10am
Welcome and Introduction
Larry Norman, RLL, University of Chicago
10:30am – noon
Ancient Models, Modern Culture
Chair, Robert Morrissey, RLL, University of Chicago
John D. Lyons, French, University of Virginia
“Is There a Tragic Hero in French Early Modernity?”
Delphine Reguig, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne/IHRIM
“Peut-on écrire l’histoire de la monarchie absolue ? Littérature et historiographie sous Louis XIV”
Noon-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:15pm
Royal Academies and Antiquity
Chair, Peadar Kavanagh, RLL, University of Chicago
Christelle Bahier-Porte, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne/IHRIM
“Pour une Antiquité moderne à l’Académie française (1707-1715)”
Anton Matytsin, University of Florida
“‘The Rise of Modern Paganism’ at the Académie des inscriptions”
3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:30 – 5pm
(Neo-)Classicisms in the Visual Arts
Chair, Esther Van Dyke, RLL, University of Chicago
Richard Neer, Art History and CMS, University of Chicago
“Theorizing Poussin in the 1660s”
Andrei Pop, Social Thought and Art History, University of Chicago
“My Own Private Rome: French Napoleonic Draftsmen as Ethnographers”