Newberry Folio SC 2775
How did premodern people learn? How did they teach? In a rapidly expanding world, how were education and information disseminated to both traditional, school-based students and a more general public? This year’s Graduate Student Conference invites papers that broadly interpret education in premodern societies through the focal point of history, literature, art, philosophy, music, gender, disability, cultural studies, or other fields. In particular we seek studies that expand how we think about learning and teaching in medieval and early modern contexts. Some possible topics include gender and education, cloistered learning, the master/disciple relationship, missionary work and colonial learning, confessionalization, the effects of the printing press, propaganda, literacy, the education of the prince, and illustrated treatises and educational primers (possibly based on the Newberry’s extensive collection).
Selected papers will be published in the peer-edited online conference proceedings, Education: Forming and Deforming the Premodern Mind.
Session I: Spectacle : Visions of Education
9:00-10:30
Chair: Lee Spitzer, Washington University
Kerry Paul Boeye, University of Chicago, “’Spare the Rode, Spoil the Child’: Visualizing Pedagogy and Reading the Book of Proverbs”
Julia Finch, University of Pittsburgh, “Visual Narratives, Hybrid Literacies: Parents, Children, and Education in Late Medieval France”
Laura Kolb, University of Chicago, “’Fury into Compassion’: The Lessons of Spectacle in Sir Ralph Freeman’s Imperiale”
Jennifer Haraguchi, University of Chicago, “Imitatio Sanctorum through Dramatic Performance for Rich and Poor Girls in Seventeenth-Century Florence”
Coffee Break: 10:30-10:45
Session II: Economies of Reading
10:45-12:15
Chair: Sarah Waurechen, University of Alberta
Eleanor Pettus, University of Notre Dame, “A Hole in the Renaissance: The Rise, Wane, and Transformation of Latin Education in England: 1483-1700”
Rachel Mcgregor, University of Aberdeen, “’Idle Toys and Toilsome Labors’: Negotiating Pedagogical Value in Sixteenth-Century Educational Literature”
Christopher J. Lane, University of Notre Dame, “Vocation in Education: Choosing a State in Life in Seventeenth-Century France”
Rickie-Ann Legleitner, DePaul University, “Drama as Instruction: A Critique of Marriage in Arden of Faversham”
Lunch: 12:15-1:30
Participants will be free to find lunch in the Newberry neighborhood.
Session III: Gender & Social Roles in Education
1:30-3:00
Chair: Kathleen Smith, University of Illinois-Urbana
Dauna M. Kiser, University of Iowa, “Teaching the Vision: Female Mystics’ Participation in Thirteenth-Century Education"
Andrea Polegato, Indiana University, “Sexuality and Education in Pietro Aretino’s Comedy The Stable Master (Il Marescalco)”
Jessica Bilhartz, University of Aberdeen, "The Mis-Education of Henrietta Maria"
Amanda Henrichs, Indiana University, “’Equal Delight it is to Learn and Teach’: Paradise, Mutuality, and Education in Lucy Hutchinson”
Coffee Break: 3:00-3:15
Session IV: Renovating Education
3:15-4:45
Chair: Andrew Donnelly, Loyola University
Dana B. Barron, Indiana University, “Laude, Savonarola, and the Rhetoric of Religious Reform”
Ilya Winham, University of Minnesota, “Glory, Machiavelli and the Purpose of the Discourses”
Sonya Lawson Parrish, Miami University, “Biblical Translation as Political Polemic: Disseminating Politics through the Geneva and King James Bible”
Richard Oosterhoff, University of Notre Dame, “’He who can count will know all things’: Educational Ideals and Teaching the Quadrivium in Renaissance Paris”
5:15 pm: Drinks & Dinner
Conference participants are invited to continue their conversations together at Edwardo’s (1212 N Dearborn St. 312-337-4490), a favorite spot for Chicago deep-dish pizza. Everybody is responsible for their own food & beverages.
While there is no fee to attend this program, participants must register in advance. To register please call the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or send an e-mail to renaissance@newberry.org. The conference will include a continental breakfast.
Participants should book their own travel arrangements, and, if seeking consortium reimbursement funding, should contact their Consortium faculty representative in advance of the conference to authorize the travel expenses. More information about accommodations and parking near the Newberry.