14:00-14:15    Conference opening by Christoph Houswitschka, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein and Frédéric Ogée

14:15-15:15    Section 1: Keynote Lecture I
Chair: Peter Sabor

• Peter Wagner (Universität Koblenz-Landau): "The European Landscape Gardens in the 18th and 19th centuries"

15:15-15:30    Coffee break

15:30-17:00    Section 2: Exploring the individual
Chair: Anja Müller

• Michael Meyer (Universität Koblenz-Landau): "Mary Wollstonecraft: the body of her letters"
• Anjali Rampersad (Universität Duisburg-Essen): "Eliza Haywood: The (M)Other of the English Literary Market"

17:00-17:15    Coffee break

17:15-19:15    Section 3: Exploring subversion and the guilty mind
Chair: Susan Brähler

• Orla Smyth (Université Le Havre): "Roxana and Amy, or Reaching Break Point in Narratives of the Guilty Mind"
• Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (Universität Bamberg): "Parody in William Beckford: Exploring 18th-century socio-political subversion"

9:00-10:30    Section 8: Explorations within
Chair: Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

• Christian Feser (Universität Duisburg-Essen): "The Mental Optician: Exploring the Mind with Telescopes from Defoe to Hogarth"
• Marcel Hartwig (Universität Siegen): "'The Great Discovery in Modern Medicine': Smallpox and the Inoculation Controversy in Boston of 1721"

10:30-11:00    Coffee break

11:00-12:30    Section 9: Exploring art and literature
Chair: Michael Meyer

• Florian Klaeger (Universität Bayreuth): "Astronomy in Eighteenth-century Poetics"
• Pierre Degott (Université de Lorraine): "From the stage to the home: libretto-reading in eighteenth-century France and England"