Science and Sensibility in the American Enlightment

9:45 am Continental Breakfast

10:15 am Welcome/introductory remarks by James Delbourgo, McGill University

10:30 am "Who's Afraid of the American Enlightment?: Science and Culture in Early American History"
James Delbourgo, McGill University

11:15 am "Black Lights: Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker, as Critics of Enlightment"
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University

noon Lunch break

2:00 pm "Carribbean Science and Sensibility"
Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan

2:45 pm "Ancient Carthage and the Limits of Classicism"
Caroline Winterer, Stanford University

3:30 Break

3:45 pm General Comments and Discussion led by Jessica Riskin, Stanford University