Hortense Spillers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in English (Vanderbilt U). "Shades of Intimacy: What the Eighteenth Century Teaches Us," served as the keynote lecture for "The Flesh of the Matter: A Hortense Spillers Symposium," at Cornell University, March 18, 2016. Followed by a day of symposium panels, March 19, 2016.