ASECS 2024 Women's Caucus Sessions
The 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place in Toronto, Ontario at the Sheraton Toronto Centre, April 4-6, 2024
The Women’s Caucus sponsors two panels at each annual meeting: one focused on the profession and another on scholarship.
Panel One: Rematriating Indigenous Women of the Eighteenth Century
Moderated by Willow White, (Métis Nation of Alberta), University of Alberta
Eighteenth-century Indigenous women faced the brunt of colonial violence, and they were on the forefront of resistance to this violence. This panel will be devoted to recovering, or re-matriating, Indigenous women from colonial archives, records, and literatures of the eighteenth-century with a focus on their strength, agency, and sovereignty.
Panel Two: Teaching in States of Surveillance
Moderated by Ashley Bender, Texas Women's University and Miriam Wallace, University of Illinois, Springfield
Considerations of strategies and experiences teaching under the current spate of laws that are making the classroom into a space of surveillance, danger, and threat. Emotional states, states as government entities, states of being—all impact our work as pedagogues—of the eighteenth century or anything else. In particular, where proposed (and soon to pass) laws seek to silence teaching about race and gender specifically, the term “classical liberal arts” treats the eighteenth century as a ’safe space’ of Enlightenment tradition--running up against current efforts to responsibly ‘decolonize’ or remake the “eighteenth century” as some of us received it.
The Women’s Caucus sponsors two panels at each annual meeting: one focused on the profession and another on scholarship.
Panel One: Rematriating Indigenous Women of the Eighteenth Century
Moderated by Willow White, (Métis Nation of Alberta), University of Alberta
Eighteenth-century Indigenous women faced the brunt of colonial violence, and they were on the forefront of resistance to this violence. This panel will be devoted to recovering, or re-matriating, Indigenous women from colonial archives, records, and literatures of the eighteenth-century with a focus on their strength, agency, and sovereignty.
Panel Two: Teaching in States of Surveillance
Moderated by Ashley Bender, Texas Women's University and Miriam Wallace, University of Illinois, Springfield
Considerations of strategies and experiences teaching under the current spate of laws that are making the classroom into a space of surveillance, danger, and threat. Emotional states, states as government entities, states of being—all impact our work as pedagogues—of the eighteenth century or anything else. In particular, where proposed (and soon to pass) laws seek to silence teaching about race and gender specifically, the term “classical liberal arts” treats the eighteenth century as a ’safe space’ of Enlightenment tradition--running up against current efforts to responsibly ‘decolonize’ or remake the “eighteenth century” as some of us received it.