John Baker (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) - "A vapour'd Muse": figures and voices of melancholy in some eighteenth-century poems

Redfern Barrett (Swansea University) - "On Lasting Tablets Write Thy Name": Anna Seward and the Depths of Mourning

Diane Buie (University of Sunderland) - tbc

Vera Camden (Kent State University) - Depression and Dissent in an Early Modern Diary

Steve Chambers (University of Northumbria) - Wollstonecraft and Depression

David Cross Iindependent Art Historian) - "The Admiral of the Blues" : Romney, Depression and Creativity

Hélène Dachez (University Toulouse 2--Le Mirail) - Love-Suicide Revisited in Pamela, Clarissa and The Wanderer

Jane Darcy (King's College London ) - The Politics of Melancholy and Madness: Boswell's Johnson and Hayley's Cowper

MADELEINE DESCARGUES-GRANT (Université de Valenciennes) - Burton & Sons: The Masks of Melancholy (plenary speaker)

Michelle Faubert (University of Manitoba) - Nathaniel Cotton and James Beattie: Graveyard Verse as Psychological Therapy for the Melancholy

Dr. Mascha Gemmeke (University of Greifswald) - "A lassitude of existence creeps sensibly upon me": Gloominess, Melancholy, and Low Spirits at the Court of George III

Charlotte Holden (University of Northumbria) - tbc

ELAINE HOBBY (Loughborough University) - tbc (plenary speaker)

Joanne Holland (McGill University) - Diagnosing Regicide: Margaret Nicholson and Bipolar Disorder in the Eighteenth Century

Simon Hull (Independent) - tbc

Nadine Jammet (Perpignan) - Magical Thoughts and Depression in Eighteenth-Century England

Junko Kitanaka (Keio University, Tokyo) - Japanese Depression

Valérie Maffre (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III) - Melancholy and Seduction in a Few Eighteenth-Century Novels

Heather Meek (Univ. Sainte-Anne, Nova Scotia ) - "Creative Hysteria and the Intellectual Woman of Feeling": Works on hysteria by Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Thrale Piozzi, and Charlotte Smith

Pauline Morris (University of Northumbria) - "Few people can bear the unhappy": Sarah Scott and the social context of depression

Melinda K.Rabb (Brown University) - Is 'Before Depression' also 'Before Paranoia'?

William Roberts (Independent Scholar) - Dr Brown's Patent Remedy - Religious Depression and Music

PETER SABOR (McGill University) - Frances Burney and Alexander d'Arblay: Creative and Uncreative Gloom (plenary speaker)

Ginny Sampson (University of Durham) - Public versus Private: Meditation on Depression and its Impact upon the Mind in Selected Poems and Letters of James Beattie

Jeremy Schmidt (University of Victoria, Canada) --Before Depression, the very idea: does an archeological approach help?

Gillian Skinner (University of Leeds) - 'Depression of spirits and extreme alteration of person': the Court Diaries of Frances Burney

Sarah Skoronski (McGill University) - Wollstonecraft's Maria and Postpartum Depression in the Eighteenth Century

Alexey Taube (University of Latvia in Riga) - Experiences of Melancholia in Rose Tremain's Novel, Music and Silence (1999), and in Peter Ackroyd's Novel, Hawksmoor (1985)

Sophie Vasset (University of Paris 7) - Medicina Musica: Music as a Remedy for Melancholy

Fritz Wefelmeyer (University of Sunderland) - Importing and exporting Melancholy and Suicide. Goethe, Britain and the Werther-Effect.

Sabine Wendel (Münster University) - A "Stranger to the Spleen": Jonathan Swift and Depression

Heather Wilson (University of Calgary ) - Metaphoric Use of Medical Language

Nigel Wood (University of Loughborough) - The Spleen: Official and Unofficial Definitions