Another incredible #asecs14 - old friends and new, lots of amazing work and overall a deeply exhausting & wonderful time.
#asecs14 someone has entered this panel, sat, and then later exited -- five times. I'm at once concerned and irritated.
#asecs14 #sasecs another great question is one of the images of the Ottoman Turk in Jones actually in Balkan dress?
#asecs14 #sasecs EnlightenmentOcculsions: fantastic audience point: 18thC image of slave serving hot beverage links the trinity to sugar
#asecs14 #sasecs Enlightenment Occulusions: correct link to speaker abstracts and bios http://www.emilymnkugler.com/enlightenment-occulsions
#asecs14 #Sasecs Jones: Nicolas de Larmessin, Habit du Cafetier, Costumes Grotesque http://t.co/w4AqXy787k
#asecs14 #Sasecs Jones: Dufour presents chocolate as most available, coffee as most refined: Ottoman & American figures flank Chinese tea
#asecs14 #Sasecs Jones: Dufour's linking of tea, coffee, chocolate represents a shift in hot beverage writing http://t.co/eLZK7EFK8t
#asecs14 #Sasecs Jones: Philippe Dufour 1671 produces Beverage Trinity linking 3 "herbal drugs" from 3 continents as similar "energy tonics"
#asecs14 #Sasecs Jones: writing on hot beverages shaped discourse of originary cultures: Aztecs, Ottomans, Ming
#asecs14 #Sasecs Jones: written tradition of beverages helped introduce tea, coffee, tea to France (& rest of Europe)
#asecs14 #Sasecs Borgonjon's images are amazing: repeating motifs with "vanishing origins" mirroring own production and discourse
#asecs14 #Sasecs Borgonjon: many critics describe actual motifs as "indescribable," or with terms like "apparently round"
#asecs14 #Sasecs Enlightenment Occlusions: Borgonjon: Bizarre silks: Huguenot production in Sptialfields, panEuropean weaving, Orientalist
#Asecs14 #Sasecs Bartoszyńska: modern supernatural creates the vampire in Potocki's novel; translating story to data satirized
#Asecs14 #Sasecs Bartoszyńska: romance intrudes on reality, Enlightenment thought reinvigorate superstition, European modernized by East
#Asecs14 #Sasecs Bartoszyńska: Manuscript Found in Saragossa complicates East/West binary through romance/realism tropes
#Asecs14 #Sasecs Bartoszyńska: Potocki argued Arab world hated despotism; countered cruel Turk image w/ care of stray animals @ Istanbul 2/2
#Asecs14 #Sasecs Bartoszyńska: Potocki's travel writing critiqued earlier European misrepresentations 1/2
#Asecs14 Enlightenment Occlusions: Bartoszyńska: Jan Potocki, Polish novelist, wrote in French, traveled widely #sasecs
The day begins: women's caucus breakfast meeting #asecs14 @ Williamsburg Lodge http://instagram.com/p/l16ucux7Lo/
#ASECS14 8am EnlightenmentOcclusions: HiddenHybridity in European Literature & Culture #SASECS http://bit.ly/1kKuVt http://t.co/FLf5r0MjtF
#ASECS14 #smellpanel Schmidt makes quiet, but impassioned plea for 18th century low-tech experiential space through writing.
#ASECS14 #smellpanel quill pens are so squeaky! It sounds like a ... Dry erase marker?
You write with three quills, rotating as they dry/soften. #ASECS14 #smellpanel