The 2006 Graduate Student Conference

Friday and Saturday, June 9 - 10, 2006

This conference is made possible through the funding of the members of the Consortium Universities of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance.

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 9

Session I
9:00-10:45 | Contextual Experience in Early Modern Europe
Moderator: Jane K. Wickersham, Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library

• " ‘Alas sweet lady, what imports this song?': Dramatic Performance of Women's Musical Madness on the Jacobean Stage"
  Megan Guenther, Department of Music, Northwestern University
  
• "Beyond the Home, the Convent, and the Brothel: Working Women in Milan, 1576-1630"
  Jeanette Marie Fregulia, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno
  
• "Protofeminist or Female Professional?: A New Interpretation of Aemilia Lanyer's ‘Description of Cooke-ham' "
  Elizabeth Hutcheon, Department of English, University of Chicago

10:45 am | Coffee Break

Session II
11:00-12:45 | Authority and Authorship In Medieval Europe
Moderator: Nathanial B. Smith, Indiana University

• " ‘But he semed for to be/ A man of gret auctorite': The Interpretative Anxieties of the Raptus Case and the Lives of Chaucer"
  David J. Croft, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
  
• "Invitation and the Horizon of Being in the Old English ‘Maxims' "
  Wilkie Collins IV, Department of English, Wayne State University
  
• "So They Entertained Themselves to Their Satisfaction: Humor as an Argument for Literary Consciousness in the Icelandic Family Sagas"
  Kevin Drzakowski, Department of English, Western Michigan University

12:45 pm | Lunch break

Session III
2:00-3:45 | Alternative Representations of Renaissance Music
Moderator: Mike Yetter, Northern Illinois University

• "Brotherhood of the [Kettle] Drum: Reconstructing the Guilds and Life of Late Renaissance English Timpanists"
  Andrew R. Martin, Department of Musicology, University of Minnesota
  
• "Modern Performance Practice of Three Examples of Native-Language Renaissance Music from New Spain"
  Dianna Lehmann, Department of Music, Northwestern University

4:00 | Reception

Saturday, June 10

Session IV
9:00-10:45 | Renaissance Texts: Form and Space
Moderator: Nathan Martin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• "The Christian context and Arabic art at the SS. Annunziata: The stained glass oculus of Piero de' Medici's oratory considered"
  Bradley J. Cavallo, Department of Art History, Syracuse University
  
• "Configuring Women's Eulogy: The Work of Compilation in Apologetic Collections of the First Half of the Sixteenth Century (1493-1555)"
  Renée-Claude Breitenstein, Department of French Literature, McGill University
  
• "The Form of History in Martinus Polonus' 'Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum' "
  Jamie McCandless, Department of History, Western Michigan University

10:45 am | Coffee Break

Session V
11:00-12:45 | Body and Spirit: The Matter of Christian Identity in Early Modern Art and Literature
Moderator: Jennifer Shea, McGill University

• "Bulgarini, Saint Francis, and the Beginnings of a Tradition"
  Laura Dobrynin, Department of Art History, Ohio University
  
• "The Anxious Rhetoric of Early Modern Surgeons"
  Matthew Rea, Department of English, University of Guelph
  
• " ‘For Our Comfort': Converting ‘Otherness' in The Merchant of Venice"
  Ruth E. Friedman, Department of English, University of Chicago