Friday, June 10
Session 1: Representations of Ideals: From the Material to the Immaterial
Chair: Sif Rikhardsdottir, Washington University in St. Louis
Clothing as a Social Metaphor in Grimmelshausen’s Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus
Molly Markin, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Art of the Gift in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Michelle Yacht, Department of English, University of Chicago
Coming off the High Horse: Equines and Identity in Chrétien de Troyes’s Contes del Graal
Emmanuelle Bonnafoux, Department of French, University of Chicago
The Function of the Visual in the Troubadour Love Canso: Dreaming and Envisioning the Donna
Valerie M. Whilhite, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Session 2: Empire and Empiricism
Chair: Stephanie Leitch, University of Chicago
Eva Stamoulou, Department of Art History, McGill University, “Mehmed II’s Protrait by Gentile Bellini: Patronage and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Context”
“naer ‘t leven” and the Emergence of Science: A Study of Prints Used by Andreas Vesalius and Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Elizabeth A. Sutton, Department of Art History, University of Iowa
Vedute di Roma: Fantasy, Reality, and Symbolism
Ilenia Colon Mendoza, Department of Art History, Pennsylvania State University
An Innovative Approach towards Understanding the Temple of Diana in Jorge de Montemayor’s Los siete libros de la Diana
Benjamin Nelson, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Session 3: Performance of Identity: From Public to Private
Chair: Michelle Miller, University of Michigan
Performing Female Artistic Identity: Lavinia Fontana and the Allegorical Self-Portrait in Sixteenth-Century Bologna
Patricia Rocco, Department of Art History, McGill University
Receiving Relics, “Handling Sin”: Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s “Tale of the Sacrilegious Carolers” from Handlyng Synne
Dana Gavre, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Transformation and Materiality in the Kunst- und Wunderkammer
Sarah Mitchell, Department of Art History, McGill University
The Contemplation of Shameful Things: Early Modern Confession and the Poetics of Dissatisfaction
Joanne Diaz, Department of English, Northwestern University
Saturday, June 11
Session 4: The Politics of Female Subjectivity
Chair: Gabriella Baika, University of Pittsburgh
Building the Black in England: Women and Sexuality in John Pory’s Translation of Geographical History of Africa by John Leo Africanus
Teri I. Imus, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Gender Anxiety and the Politics of Marriage in Cambises and Pacient and Meeke Grissell
Elizabeth Zeman, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Social Performance and the Women of Ben Jonson’s Comical Satires
Tara J. Hayes, Department of English, Wayne State University
Session 5: Textuality and Tradition
Chair: Jane Wickersham, Center for Renaissance Studies
Essaying Doubt: Skepticism and Truth in Montaigne and Bacon
Christopher Palkovacs, Department of French, Miami University of Ohio
Dreaming a Kingship: Biographical Dislocation and Generic Negotiation in The Kingis Quair
Jennifer Jahner, Department of English, University of Colorado Boulder
The Limits of Text in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Jason Herman, Department of English, University of Arizona
Velázquez and the Continuous Narrative: Las Hilanderas
Lisa Leverett, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
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