The 2007 Graduate Student Conference

Friday, June 8, 2007

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

The Center for Renaissance Studies is planning its annual Graduate Student Conference for 8 June, 2007. The conference is interdisciplinary in scope, and papers are invited in any area of medieval or Renaissance studies. The conference is organized and run by graduate students. 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 8

Session I: 
9:00-10:30, Unstable Self
Chair:  Vickie Larsen, University of Iowa

• Widow of Fortune:  Vittoria della Tolfa, 16th Century Patron of Architecture
  Christina Weber, McGill University
•  “Be waar, Hoccleue, I rede thee”:  Intertextual Subjectivity in Thomas Hoccleve’s Petitioning Poetry
  Elon Lang, Washington University in St. Louis
• Liminality and the Boy in Early Modern Inductions
  Ann Pleiss Morris, University of Iowa

10:30-10:45, Coffee Break

Session II: 
10:45-12:15, Spectacles in Translation
Cochairs:  Joshua Reid, University of Kentucky and
Carrie Ruiz, University of Colorado at Boulder

• Giovanni Battista Cavalieri’s Ecclesiae militantis triumphi:  Appropriating the Image of the Martyr
  Karine Tsoumis, University of Toronto
• “That Fiction of the Ganza’s”:  The Engraver’s Burin and Authority in Early Modern Scientific Illustrations
  Meghan Doherty, University of Wisconsin
• Sacro Monte of Varese:  Realism and Performance in Holy Pilgrimage
  Krystel Chéhab, McGill University

 12:15-1:15, Lunch

Session III: 
1:15-2:45, Broken Bodies, Broken Minds
Chair:  Jason Cohen, University of Wisconsin

• Laughing Fits:  Documents in Madness
  Nathaniel Small, Northwestern University

• “And especially that they did not have the head for the body”:  Bodily Transformation and Corporate Identity in the Old English Passion of Saint Christopher and Passion of Saint Edmund
  Andrew B. Grubb, University of Louisville

•  “Then be your eyes the witness of their evil”:  The Rogue Disability of Richard III
  Lindsey Row, University of Iowa

• Juan Bautista de Pomar and the Appropriation of Christian Discourse in Relación de Tezcoco
  José Espericueta,  University of Indiana
• French Names and English Games in the Auchinleck Manuscript’s Battle Abbey Roll
  John Pendell, University of Iowa
• Romantic Visions and Practical Ambitions:  An Examination of the Political Motivations of Ciriaco d’Ancona
  Richard Hungate, University of Illinois-Chicago

Funds may be 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.

2006 Graduate Student Conference Program

2005 Graduate Student Conference Program

2004 Graduate Student Conference Program