8:30 AM                                    
Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM                                   
Welcome Remarks
JOHN KUCICH Rutgers English

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM                       
NANCY ARMSTRONG Brown University
Evolution’s Other Narrative: The Literary Darwin

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM           
Break

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM           
DROR WAHRMAN Indiana University
Providence and Chance in the Age of Reason: Introducing
Complexity into Narratives of Secularization and Enlightenment

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM                       
Lunch (on your own)

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM                       
CATHERINE HALL University College London
The King of Master Narratives: Macaulay and the History of England

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM                        
Break

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM                       
SUVIR KAUL University of Pennsylvania
Toward a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-Century
British Literature

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM                       
Break

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM                       
Roundtable Discussion
INDRANI CHATTERJEE Rutgers History
LYNN FESTA Rutgers English
WILLIAM GALPERIN Rutgers English
SETH KOVEN Rutgers History

5:30 PM -  7:00 PM                       
Reception