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 The twenty-fifthannual conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French StudiesThe KnowledgeEconomy in the Long Seventeenth CenturyL'Économie du savoir1580-1715University ofGlasgow, 16-18 September 2004  ProgrammeThursday 16 September1.30-2.45 pm Arrival and Conference Registration2.45 Welcome3.00-4.00 Economic ConditionsMax Vernet (Queens, Canada): 'Savoir et causes finales: les conditions d'une économie du savoir sont-elles réunies dans 'le long XVIIe siècle'?'Danielle Trudeau (San José State): 'Poètes et écrivains: prospecteurs et gestionnaires du langage'4.00-4.30 Tea4.30-6.00 PlenaryPierre Force (Columbia): 'Can we own an Idea? Economy and Equity in Montaigne and Pascal'7.00-8.30 Dinner8.30-9.30 Medical TaxonomiesKathryn Hoffmann (Hawaii): 'Circulating Bodies and Collectable Marvel: the construction, exhibition and warehousing of knowledge'Francis Assaf (Georgia): 'Une taxonomie évolutive du savoir médical, 1665-1715'Friday 17 September9.00-10.30 Molière and MoneyRichard Sörman (Uppsala, Sweden): 'Économie de l'incertitude chez Molière'Pierre Zoberman (Paris XIII): 'Domestic Economy in Molière'Larry W. Riggs (Butler): 'The Formation and Exploitation of Cultural Capital in Molière'10.30-11.00 Coffee11.00-12.30 Epistemological PerspectivesErec Koch (Tulane): 'Body, Passion, Ethics: Descartes's Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth and the Passions de l'âme'Richard Scholar (New College, Oxford): 'Style analysis and manipulation: Montaigne and Pascal'Emma Gilby (Emmanuel College, Cambridge): 'Economies of Perspective in seventeenth-century France'12.30-2.00 Lunch2.00-3.00 AGM3.00-4.00 Economy of KnowledgeNicholas Hammond (Gonville &#38; Caius College, Cambridge): 'Knowing your Pumpkin from your Elbow: La Fontaine's "Le Gland et la citrouille"'Richard Maber (Durham): 'Knowledge as Commodity in the Republic of Letters, 1675-1700'4.00-4.30 Tea4.30-5.30 Vested InterestsAnne Birberick (Northern Illinois): 'Culture, Capital, and Class: D'Aulnoy's "Le Prince Marcassin"'Twyla Meding (West Virginia): 'The Economy of Gender and the Foreign in the Pastoral: hair, habits and the African Satyr in the "Histoire de Diane" of L'Astrée'6.30 Reception7.00-8.30 DinnerSaturday 18 September9.00-10.30 Money and the ConsumerSusannah Carson (Versailles): 'L'Économique de la mode: costume, conformity and consumerism in the Mercure Galant'John Lyons (Virginia): Mlle de Chartres at the Jeweler's Shop: knowledge and commerce in La Princesse de Clèves'Thomas Parker (Columbia): 'La Bruyère gives his two cents: financial language and ethical ideals'10.30-11.00 Coffee11.00-12.30 PlenaryDonna Kuizenga (Vermont): 'Women as Knowledge Workers: the French Connection'12.30 Lunch  URL :  http://www.c17.org.uk/