#asecs23 — Public Fediverse posts

[This language really shows the continuities between 18c slave management and contemporary discourses of racialized crime.]

One fascinating thing that emerged was that prizes or medals seem to have been awarded to enslaved people who informed on other slaves' rebellions, who later turned up in later rebellions themselves. There seems to be some kind of dynamic here that is obviously out of view of the settlers but affecting the organization and success of rebellions. #ASECS23

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The other standout for me was Clifton Sorrell (a grad student at UT Austin!) who offered a microhistory of Blackwall's Revolt in St Mary's Parish, 1765.

Sorrell's piece, which featured the problem of identifying actors when documents use similar or fragmentary names, nicely encapsulated the challenge of "ringleader" discourse, which of course assists settlers pursuing a distributed leadership, by suggesting they've identified an isolated troublemaker.

Becker believes that EL's English legal training helped model his documentary approach to historical writing (maybe via Blackstone?) but I wondered whether Kames's Scottish approach to legal history was at play here, or other Scottish historians like Robertson. #ASECS23

So the Edward Long in 21st century panel had Michael Becker (JCB fellow, Brown) talking about EL's legal training, which is a genuinely understudied part of his intellectual background, and an important dimension of his Natural History, which despite the racism is also the most coherent published account of 18c Jamaica by a contemporary. #ASECS23

Before #ASECS23 goes out of my head, I just wanted to record a few thoughts I gathered at panels, to retain them myself and credit the panelists. This is part of what @carrideen has usefully called the "metacognitive" dimension of conferencing.

PastMe was wise to go to bed on the 1st full day of #asecs23 & not live-tweet 5 hours of content, but that means Current Me is … well, note-taking on 5 hours of content, then another 4-5 tonight.

No full play by play but my notes on last Thursday’s #CriticalRoleSpoilers in 🧵

@jsadow solidarity! It was one of the things I appreciated about #ASECS23

It was definitely tenuous for me to come on my slashed funding and I am in a better situation than many people @ASECS #ASECS2023 #ASECS23

From: @zionak
https://c18.masto.host/@zionak/110010807226390715

One question I found myself asking over and over at #ASECS23 is what happens when we look at national identity—in representations of women’s anger; in conceptions of pregnancy and women’s communal knowledge; in disability as a site of exclusion; and in The Woman of Colour’s ending

Here’s what the American Society for 18th Centuryists means to me, in this, the 16th year I have attended. #asecs23

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#asecs23 has now ended — a long but too-short time for all we try to do when we hold space together.

If you are an 18th centuryist who wanted to talk & we didn’t get a chance, feel free to email me (ecfriedman at auburn) for my Calendly link to grab a virtual coffee.

#asecsmasks — the latest of the sartorial hashtags for #asecs23

Let me tell you nothing compared 2 #ASECS23 karaoke

At the airport for my flight back home. I’m sad not to be staying the last day this year, but I thoroughly enjoyed the work I got to witness and be party to. Thank you @ASECS for a great conference. #ASECS2023 #asecs23

Off to a panel on women’s anger and rage in c18 Literature this morning #ASECS23

My first time to #ASECS23 and my main take away is that you all are brilliant. My second take away is that, like Cranford, ASECS is in possession of Amazons, which is badass.

Thrilled to see African Impressions on the UVaP table at #ASECS2023 (#ASECS23) and in the company those making Virginia such an exciting press for eighteenth-century studies (including our intrepid admin @carrideen ).

So how was everyone's first day of #ASECS2023? I found out a lot that I will need to know next fall about recruiting English majors, learned some things about Haywood as a translator, and ate at this restaurant that supposedly was where Al Capone was arrested with @shandyist & friends.

@ASECS #ASECS23 (since no one can decide on the hashtag).

Heading to the last panel of #ASECS23 day 1 and it’s on shifting feelings and forms in the eighteenth-century novel

Should not have left my umbrella when I left for lunch #ASECS23

Lindsay Lehman’s “Crip Epistolarity: Constructing the Sentimental Reader of the Pauper Letters” reads the surviving letters of appeal written to parish overseers by claimants as ways of knowing. 2 cases here examined for their rhetorical use of sentiment.

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@[email protected] “Epistolary Chasms: Knowing Illness through Form” reads the novels The Woman of Color & Clarissa to explore formally precarious nature of an epistolary character’s being. To cease to write is to cease to be. Also: how the form can/does? represent sick time.

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Next here at #asecs23: “Eighteenth-century Cripistemologies I” with @[email protected] Lindsay Lehman & @[email protected]. Emily Stanback is not here to chair but is cited & appreciated.

@[email protected] cites Fox’s Giving Birth in the 18th Century (new book)

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@[email protected] unpacks framing/narrowing of family, leading to discussion of who is being granted personhood in these discourses (intersecting with history of coverture, chattel slavery, etc)

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A wide series of horror stories in the room I will not tweet. Discussion noting who is (and how many) folks are in this small room, as well as how these are not pregnant people’s struggle alone, but ripple out to impact all of us who are embodied folks in the academy.

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Noting that job candidates might feel unable to ask about reproductive care & family leave policies when discussing benefits packages — to their detriment.

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Finally Lisa Vandenbossche takes us forward to our moment, via stories from faculty now in “When Tenure is not Enough: Reproductive Healthcare and Academic Precarity”

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First YouTuber mentioned in this ASECS. (Gonna keep a count)

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