Opening Remarks: Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara

Featured Speaker: Frances Dolan, Professor of English, University of California, Davis
“Locating the Early Modern English Home”

Panel 1: Domestic & Global Economies

Moderator: Lee Bliss, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Stephen Deng, University of California, Santa Barbara
  "'So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous': Counterfeiting and the Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England"
• Siraj Ahmed, Mount Holyoke College
  “Private Affect & Global History”
• Melissa Sodeman, University of California, Los Angeles
  “The Family Tour in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker”

Featured Speaker: Donna Bohanan, Professor of History, Auburn University
“Interior Decoration in the Noble Homes of Late Seventeenth-Century Dauphiné”

Panel 2: Home and World in Early Modern Visual Culture

Moderator: Ronald W. Tobin, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Michelle V. Packer, University of California, Santa Barbara
  “Gerrit Dou, Franciscus de la Boe Sylvius, and the City of Leiden: Creating a Public Identity in the Home”
• Dale Tomich (presenting) and Charles Burroughs, Binghamton University
  “The Great House in the Landscape: The Cuban Ingenio”
• Ellen K. Johnson, Arizona State University
  “The Taste for Bringing the Outside In: Imperialism, Domesticity, and Landscape Wallpaper (1775-1825)”

Featured Speaker: Toni Bowers, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
“Home and World in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: John Galt's Annals of the Parish”

Panel 3: National & Imperial Identities

Moderator: Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Julia Major, University of California, Davis
  “Worldbreaking in Ireland: Listening for Echoes in the Symbolic Ground of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book VI”
• Kimberly Knight, California State Univerity, Northridge
  “Leaving Gender Behind: Cross-dressing in the Culture of Imperialism ”
• Jacob Berman, University of California, Santa Barbara
  “Captive Identities: Early American Nationalism and the Image of the Arab”
  

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