Friday, June 7
Session 1: Rethinking Classical and Renaissance Gender Roles
Chair: Lea Guenther, Northwestern University
Transgressing Boundaries: the Witch and the Indian Woman in Early Modern England
Amy L. Murre, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
A Renaissance Rediscovery: Boccaccio’s Tacitus, Tacitus’s Poppaea
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Northwestern University
Toward a Personal Aria for an Early Cortigiana Onesta
Shawn Marie Keener, University of Chicago
Session 2: Strategies o fRepresentation in the Renaissance
Chair: Nicole Howard, Indiana University
Aesthetic Theory of the French Renaissance: The Emblem as a Symbol of Poema pictura loquens, pictura poem a silens
Catherine J. L. Theobold, University of Colorado at Boulder
“C’est la Deducation du Somptueux ordre”: A Commentary on the Royal Entry of Henry II into Rouen and Its Festival Book
Jill McAllister, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Apotheosis of Francis I
Sarah Lippert, Pennsylvania State University
Session 3: The Protestant Role in Policy and Praxis
Chair: J. Derek Halvorsen, Loyola University Chicago
Demoralizign the Economy in Jacobean England: the Social and Economic Policies of the Parliament of 1621
Dave Pennington, Washington University in St. Louis
Secularization or Protestant Adaptation: an Investigation into the “Rules” of Renaissance Drama and Neoclassicim
Megan E. Geigner, Illinois State University
Confirmation and Catechizing in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
James F. Turrell, Vanderbilt University
Session 4: Rethinking Boundaries of Renaissance Art
Chair: Ernest Jenkins, University of Kansas
Images of Women Patrons and Translators in Renaissance England
Gianetta M. Hayes, Vanderbilt University
Castle as Stage: Use of Space in the 1575 Entertainments at Kenilworth
Lia Markey, University of Chicago
Toward a Canon of Roman Music in the Early Seventeenth Century
Mary Paquette Abt, Wayne State University
Session 5: Mixed Messages: Hieroglyphs and Hermaphrodites in Literature
Renaissance Tragicomedy: The Hermaphrodite Genre
Jenny C. Mann, Northwestern University
How Maya Hieroglyphs Got Their Name: Alphabets and Egypt in Early Modern Europe
Myron Hamann, University of Chicago
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