9:00-10:00 Registration (French Department lounge, room 4201) 10:30-10:45  Welcome Address (Martin Segal Theatre) 10:45-11:45 Panel I: Sixteenth-Century Passions (Martin Segal Theatre) Moderator: Desmond Hosford (City University of New York) Tristan Vigliano (Montréal) “Pantagruel, ou l’art inutile de ne pas s’emporter” Nora Peterson (Brown University) “‘Elle commença à changer de couleur’”: Women’s involuntary confessions and their consequences in the Heptaméron” 12:00-1:00 Roundtable Discussion (French Department, TBA) Professor Michael Taormina (Hunter College, CUNY) “L’ennui in Pascal’s Pensées” 1:00-2:30 Lunch (French Department lounge, room 4201) 2:45-3:45 Panel II: Philosophy and the Passions (Martin Segal Theatre) Moderator: Charles Wrightington (City University of New York) Sara Danièle Bélanger (Université de Montréal) “Passion, désespoir et mal de foi: La pensée pascalienne du sacré et ses résonances” Kathleen K. Schenk (University of South Florida) “Scepticism to Live by: Mersenne’s Development of Epistemological Skepticism” 4:00-5:30 Panel III: Passioned Performance and Structures (French Department, TBA) Moderator: Charles Wrightington (City University of New York) Michael Eisenberg (City University of New York) “La Jalousie et la Vengeance” Gender Construction and Demonization in Charpentier’s Médée” Sophie Marinez (City University of New York) “A Passion for Building: Women, Power, and Castles in Early Modern France” John Antosca (City University of New York) “Précédents et performance dans les procès de sorcellerie contre Marie Benoist” 5 :30-5 :45 Break 5:45-6:45 Keynote Address (Martin Segal Theatre) Professor Roxane Roy (Université du Québec) 7:15-8:00 (Martin Segal Theatre) Concert: La Musique de la Reine performs vocal and instrumental works of 17th- and 18th-c. France with period instruments. 8:30 Conference Dinner