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Frederick Douglass across and against Times, Places, and DisciplinesOctober 11-13 2018, ParisWe are delighted to share the program for the Frederick Douglass bicentennial conference that will be held in Paris in October 2018 (see below / programme is also available online: https://fdbi.hypotheses.org/87).This conference will be an opportunity to reexamine the figure of Frederick Douglass across times, places, and disciplines.We invite all those interested to join us in Paris, from October 11 to October 13, 2018.Registration is now open to attendees and will be available until September 15, 2018.On-site registration WILL NOT be available.N.B. Due to security measures, only registered participants (plenary speakers, paper presenters and registered accompanying persons, chairs, attendees) can attend the sessions.Please fill in the registration form (downloadable from the conference website: https://fdbi.hypotheses.org/91) and email it both to douglassparis2018@gmail.com and feesdouglass2018@gmail.com together with proof of payment before September 15, 2018. Please note that attendance is free of charge for French and foreign students, but registration is compulsory.A list of hotels located close to the conference venues is available online: https://fdbi.hypotheses.org/91We look forward to welcoming you in Paris in the fall. Feel free to contact us (douglassparis2018@gmail.com) if you have any questions.Sincerely,Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, on behalf of the organizing committee.CONFERENCE PROGRAMThursday, October 11Université Paris DiderotHalle aux farines10 rue Françoise Dolto, 75013 Paris08:30-9:15 Registration9:15-10:45 Session 11A Douglass’s Black Worlds: African American Political and Religious Circles and CircuitsDouglass’s Madison Washington, Afro-Protestantism, and the Embodied Divine Denise Burgher, University of DelawareGood Religion and Bad Faith in the Age of Abolition: Frederick Douglass’s Afro-Evangelicalism Maurice Wallace, University of VirginiaFrederick Douglass and the Long History of Colored Convention Activism P. Gabrielle Foreman, University of DelawareChair: Robert Fanuzzi, St. John’s University1B Autobiography, Revision, and RecirculationSelf-Invention and Revision in the Serial Autobiographies of Douglass and Rev. Peter T. Stanford Barbara McCaskill, University of GeorgiaSidonia Serafini, University of GeorgiaBorn Free and Everywhere in Chains: Moral Freedom and the Social Contract in Frederick Douglass’s Autobiographical ProjectScott Reznick, Boston College“I Hear the Mournful Wails of Millions!”: The American Dream as Nightmare in Native American and African American AutobiographiesFabrice Le Corguillé, Université de Bretagne Occidentale Chair: Agnès Derail, École normale supérieure10:45-11:15 Refreshment Break11:15-1:15 Session 22A A Mighty Power: Douglass and PhotographyFrederick Douglass Alongside HimselfLaura Wexler, Yale UniversityDouglass’s Construction of the Photographic: “Fugitive Images,” Panoramas and FictionBruno Monfort, Université Paris NanterreMultiple Exposures: Douglass’s Photographic Autobiography and the Aesthetics of ReformJanene Johnson, Bridgewater State UniversityThe Impossible Science of the Unique Being: Modernity and Photography in Poe, Baudelaire and DouglassPierangelo Castagneto, American University in BulgariaChair: François Brunet, Université Paris Diderot2B Reformers and Radicals in the World of Frederick Douglass (1)What to the Negro Was William Jay? A Fugitive Historical Sequel David Gellman, DePauw UniversityFrederick Douglass vs Henry Bibb: A ReappraisalSandrine Ferré-Rode, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesJB &#38; FD &#38; CW: Geographical Meditations on John Brown and Frederick Douglass Nele Sawallisch, Johannes Gutenberg Universität–MainzBlack Abolitionist John Andrew Jackson and the Long Shadow of Frederick Douglass’s Heroic Slave Susanna Ashton, Clemson UniversityChair: Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut2C War, Violence, and TraumaVirtual Douglass: Estranging the Temporality of Violence Christina Zwarg, Haverford College“The Remorseless Jaws of Slavery”: Douglass and the Rhetoric of Consumption Erin Pearson, Elon UniversityChildren’s Bodies, Adult Unease: Douglass, Melville, and Early Trauma James Noel, Los Medanos College“They Would Spare Neither Age Nor Sex”: Frederick Douglass’s Visions of Race War and Extermination in AmericaKay Wright Lewis, Howard University Chair: Marc Amfreville, Sorbonne Université1:15-2:30 Lunch Break2:30-4:30 Session 33A Intertextual DouglassWhose Literary Influence? Douglass, Shakespeare, and American Romanticism David Greven, University of South CarolinaCavalier and Abolitionist: The Recovery of Walter Scott in the Context of Abolition Pauline Pilote, Université Bretagne Sud“A Chield’s amang You, Taking Notes”: Douglass as a Reader of Burns and Scott Alasdair Pettinger“People not Pistols”: The Rhetoric of Slavery and Black Rebellion in Frederick Douglass and Emily DickinsonWendy Tronrud, CUNY Graduate CenterChair: Cécile Roudeau, Université Paris Diderot3B I Longed to Have a Future: Douglass in Our TimePublic Celebration of Frederick Douglass’s Birth Frank FaragassoDouglas StoverTranscending Bonds and Borders: Slave Narratives in the 21st CenturyJohanna Rios, South Texas CollegeThe “Saving Principles” of “Our Common Creed”: The Radical Whiggism of Frederick Douglass and Barack ObamaSteven Sarson, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3“Schools of Abolition,” and the Search for the Black UniversityRobert Fanuzzi, St. John’s UniversityChair: Nele Sawallisch, Johannes Gutenberg Universität–Mainz4:30-5:30 BreakTo allow time for traveling between the two venues, the program includes a one-hour break between Session 3 and the plenary talkCité UniversitaireFondation des États-Unis15 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris5:30-6:30 Plenary 1On Heroic Reading: Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World after 1845Lloyd PrattDrue Heinz Professor of American LiteratureSt. John’s College, University of Oxford6:30-8:00 Evening ReceptionFriday, October 12University of Chicago Center in Paris 6 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris08:30-9:15 Registration9:15-10:45 Session 44A Douglass in PrintFrederick Douglass, Julia Griffiths, and Collaborative Autobiography Alex Black, Hobart and William Smith Colleges“To Know the Facts of His Remarkable History”: Bibliography and African American Literature Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin“Nobody But a Printer Anyhow”: Frederick Douglass, Lewis Douglass, and the Book Trades Jonathan Senchyne, University of Wisconsin–MadisonChair: Claire Parfait, Université Paris 134B Tongues in Trees: Douglass, Science, and the EnvironmentAstronomical Memory: Douglass, the Leonid Meteor Shower, and the Fugitive Science of Black AstronomyGordon Fraser, North Dakota State University“The Poets Love of Nature”: Frederick Douglass the Global NaturalistKa’mal McClarin, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site “So Broken Was Their Speech”: Frederick Douglass’s LiteraciesSharon Kunde, University of California, Irvine Chair: Thomas Constantinesco, Université Paris Diderot 4C Displacing DouglassThe Translation and Reception of Frederick Douglass in Spain Pere Gifra-Adroher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra–BarcelonaFrederick Douglass in Japan: Reception and Research from the 1930s to the Present Soonyoung Park, Kinjo Gakuin University–NagoyaTeaching and Mapping Intergenerational Black American Culture in Paris through the Life, Writing, and Travels of Frederick DouglassRhae Lynn Barnes, Princeton UniversityChair: Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 10:45-11:15 Refreshment Break&#160;11:15-1:15 Session 55A Our Bondage and Our Freedom: Frederick Douglass and Family and the “Struggle for Liberty”Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh Alan Rice, University of Central Lancashire Fionnghuala Sweeney, Newcastle University Andrew Taylor, University of EdinburghChair: Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland5B In the Firmament of Nations: Douglass and/in HaitiFrederick Douglass, the Mission to Santo Domingo, and the “Negro Problem” Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Université Paris 8Frederick Douglass’s Haiti: In Writing and Diplomacy Ronald Angelo Johnson, Texas State UniversityDouglass and the Press: Haiti, Manhood, and the American Empire John Michael, University of RochesterFrederick Douglass and the French Abolition of Slavery in 1848: An Inspiration for Black Liberation in the United States?Yohanna Alimi-Levy, Université Paris Dauphine Chair: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Diderot 1:15-2:30 Lunch Break&#160;2:30-4:30 Session 66A Postbellum Douglass“They Are Blind to the Abilities of Colored Men”: The Douglass Family, African Americans, and the United States Civil ServiceAndrew Cohen, Syracuse UniversityDouglass, the “Corpse” of the Freedman’s Bank and the Recomposition of the African American Advocacy Networks, 1871-1884Evelyne Payen-Variéras, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 Frederick Douglass and the Impeachment of Andrew JohnsonRobert S. Levine, University of MarylandStatuary Douglass: Commemoration and the Thwarted Aspiration of Late Nineteenth-Century Black Working-Class ActivismStephen Shapiro, University of WarwickChair: Nicolas Barreyre, École des hautes études en sciences sociales 6B The Limitations of Frederick Douglass’s Freedom Vision“Cracks in the Race”: Frederick Douglass and the African American Struggle for Freedom and EqualityLarry E. Hudson, University of RochesterDeserting Douglass: Frederick Douglass’s Freedom Vision and the Slave Soldiers who Fled Military ServiceJonathan Lande, Brown UniversityThe Danger of Nostalgia: Frederick Douglass and the Abolitionist Memory WarsFrank Cirillo, New-York Historical Society Respondent: Douglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne CollegeChair: L. Diane Barnes5:00-6:00 Plenary 2The Book I Did Not Write: Other Approaches to Women in the World of Frederick DouglassLeigh FoughtAssociate Professor of HistoryLe Moyne College6:00-7:30 Evening ReceptionSaturday, October 13Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 Institut du monde anglophone5 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris9:15-11:15 Session 77A Philosophy, Power, and PicturesDouglass and ImmaterialismCody Marrs, University of GeorgiaLooking at the Emperor: Imperial Visibility in Douglass and Barthes Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg CollegeCivil Religion in the Discourse of Frederick Douglass Souad Berbar, Tlemcen University“Our Natural Powers are the Foundations of Our Natural Rights”: The Centrality of Power to Frederick Douglass’s Political PhilosophyNick Bromell, University of Massachusetts Amherst“Ours Is a Common Lot”: The Heroic Slave or the Contingency of the CommonsCécile Roudeau, Université Paris DiderotChair: Brigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin–Madison7B Time, Place, and the Meaning of Freedom“I Shall Be Frederick Douglass Still”: Abolitionist Debate over Buying Freedom Julia W. Bernier, Georgetown UniversityFreedom Moments in African American Slave Narratives Edward Sugden, King’s College LondonThe Function of Time in Frederick Douglass’s “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln” Bjørn F. Stillion Southard, University of Georgia“I Have Myself Gone . . . with Almost Electric Speed”: Mapping Frederick Douglass’s Abolitionist Networks and British Journeys, 1845-1886Hannah-Rose Murray, University of NottinghamChair: Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh7C Reformers and Radicals in the World of Frederick Douglass (2)Strained Solidarity: Frederick Douglass and Robert PurvisA J Aiséirithe, Frederick Douglass Bicentennial CommunityHarriet and John Jacobs’s RochesterJonathan Schroeder, University of WarwickThe Famous Friendship of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Carol Faulkner, Syracuse UniversityFrederick Douglass’s Remarriage in PerspectiveHélène Quanquin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3Chair: Leigh Fought, Le Moyne College10:45-11:15 Refreshment Break 11:15-12:15 Plenary 3Frederick Douglass and the BookMichaël RoyMaître de conférences en études américaines Université Paris Nanterre12:15-1:30 Lunch Break1:30-3:00 RoundtableBeyond the Bicentennial: A RoundtableReconstruction Childhood Family Synchrony FugitivityDouglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne CollegeBrigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin–MadisonEzra Greenspan, Dedman College, Southern Methodist University Robert S. Levine, University of MarylandManisha Sinha, University of ConnecticutChairs: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Université Paris 8; Hélène Quanquin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 Cécile Roudeau, Université Paris DiderotOrganizing committee: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Université Paris 8; Agnès Derail, École normale supérieure; Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3; Claire Parfait, Université Paris 13; Hélène Quanquin, Université de Lille; Cécile Roudeau, Université Paris Diderot; Michaël Roy, Université Paris Nanterre.