American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
53rd Annual Meeting
9–11 March 2023
St. Louis, Missouri

Panel: “L’homme mêle et confond les climats”: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Anthropocene
[German Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (DGEJ)]
Room: Regency F

Chair: Jürgen OVERHOFF, Universität Münster

1. Tim ZUMHOF, Universität Trier, Germany, and Nicole BALZER, University of Münster, Germany, “Rousseau’s Critique of the Anthropocene and the Legacy of Enlightenment: A New Materialist Perspective”

2. Célia ABELE, Princeton University, “‘J’aperçois une manufacture de bas’: Industry, Colonies, and Nature in Rousseau’s ‘Seventh Promenade’”

3. Giulia PACINI, William & Mary, “Deforestation and the French Climate Literature of François-Antoine Rauch and Jean-Baptiste Rougier de la Bergerie”

4. James SWENSON, Rutgers University, “A Rediscovered Text by Rousseau on the Notion of Climate”

5. Jason KELLY, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, “Making ‘Nature’ in the Anthropocene”

6. Charlee BEZILLA, George Washington University, “L’art de ‘se circonscrire’: Rousseau on Living in the Anthropocene”