The 2005 Graduate Student Conference

Friday and Saturday, June 10 - 11, 2005

This conference is made possible through the funding of the members of the Consortium Universities of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies and is organized by Sif Rikhardsdottir, Washington University, St. Louis; Michelle Miller, University of Michigan; Stephanie Leitch, University of Chicago; and Gabriella Baika, University of Pittsburgh.

Organized and run by graduate students, the conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers are invited in any area of medieval or Renaissance studies. It provides participants the opportunity to present their work in a collegial scholarly forum, to meet students from other institutions and disciplines who will be their future colleagues, and to become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources.

Program

Friday, June 10

Session I
9:00-10:45 | Representations of Ideals: From the Material to the Immaterial
Moderator: Sif Rikhardsdottir, Washington University, 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
  
  

10:45 am | Coffee Break

Session II
11:00-12:45 | Empire and Empiricism
Moderator: Stephanie Leitch, University of Chicago

• "Mehmed II's Protrait by Gentile Bellini: Patronage and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Context"
  Eva Stamoulou, Department of Art History, McGill University
  
  
• " '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

12:45 pm | Lunch break

Session III
2:00-3:45 | Performance of Identity: From Public to Private
Moderator: 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

4:00 | Reception

Saturday, June 11

Session IV
9:00-10:45 | The Politics of Female Subjectivity
Moderator: 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

10:45 am | Coffee Break

Session V
11:00-12:45 | Textuality and Tradition
Moderator: 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, Milwaukee

Funds are available for Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium graduate students to defray the costs of travel and lodging while participating in the conference. If you have questions, please call the Center at 312.255.3514, or send an e-mail to renaissance@newberry.org.