Friday, May 15

Welcome

Michael Giordano, Wayne State University

Session 1

Chair: Thomas Moisan, Saint Louis University

The Current Study of Emblematicsw: National and International Connections
Michael Giordano, Wayne State University

Printer’s Marks in France in the Late Renaissance
Philippe Desan, University of Chicago

The Book of the Dead: Hieroglyphics and the Egyptian Theme in Rabelais’s Quart Livre
Alice Berry, Illinois State University (now emerita)
Response and discussion
Randolph Runyon, Miami University

Spenser and the Emblem Books
Judith Dundas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Response and discussion
Arthur Marotti, Wayne State University (now emeritus)

Session 2

Chair: Diane Wright, Grand Valley State University

Trivial Pursuit: Hercules and Sixteenth-Century Moral Choices
Barbara Bowen, Vanderbilt University (now emerita)

The enigma of Structure: Are Délie’s Emblems an Ordered Collection?
Randolph Runyon, Miami University
Response and discussion
Alice Berry, Illinois State University (now emerita)

Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664) and the Emblematic Tradition
Patricia Hardin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (now at Virginia Military Institute)