Exploring the Renaissance 2004:
An International Conference
Program
April 1-3, 2004
Sponsored By:
South-Central Renaissance Conference
The Queen Elizabeth I Society
The University of Texas at Austin
St. Edward's University
Program Chair:
Christine Getz (U of Iowa)
Local Arrangements Chairs:
Kate Frost (U of Texas at Austin)
George A. Klawitter (St. Edward's U)
To read an abstract, click on the name of the presenter in that session.
THURSDAY, APRIL 1
Registration 12:00-5:00
Session I (2:00-3:30)
Identity and Eucharist in Shakespeare (1)
Chair: Charles Stagg (U of Memphis)
Sean Benson (Malone C), "Revisiting the Hamlet/Hamnet Identification"
Maurice Hunt (Baylor U), "Taking the Eucharist Both Ways in Hamlet"
Mitchell M. Harris (U of Texas at Austin), "'Minds Transfigured': Toward an Augustinian Hermeneutic in the Meta Drama of A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Sharon Hampel (U of Colorado at Denver), "Tragical History or Historical Tragedy?" History as Self-Fashioning in King Lear"
Forging a National English Identity (2)
Chair: D. Grant Moss (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)
Sarah Scott (U of Arkansas), "Despoiling Candido's Daughter: Corrupting English Commerce in The Honest Whore: Part I"
Martha L. Reiner (Miami-Dade C), "Madness and the Heath, Territoriality and Personation in King Lear"
Pearla Irene Marquez (U of North Texas), "The Poetics of Masculinity in Sidney's Astrophil and Stella"
Magic, Alchemy, Science, and Speculation (3)
Chair: Margaret Oakes (Furman U)
Olin Bjork (U of Texas at Austin), "A Spirit in Forme and Substance": Simulacra, Humanism, and Marlowe's Doktor Faustus"
Donald R. Dickson (Texas A&M U), "Henry Vaughan's Medical Translations"
Megan Conway (Louisiana SU at Shreveport), "Rabelais and Science Fiction: Frozen Words and Alternate Worlds"
Panel Discussion: Renaissance Collections at the University of Texas at Austin (4)
Chair: Kate Gartner Frost (U of Texas at Austin)
Adan Benavides, Librarian, Rare Books and Archives, The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
Jonathan Bober, Senior Curator, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art
John Thomas, Curator, Pforzheimer Collection
Plenary Session:
William B. Hunter Lecture
4:30-5:30
Sponsored by St. Edward's University
Presiding: Christine Getz (U of Iowa), SCRC Program Chair
Welcoming remarks: Donald Stump (Saint Louis University), SCRC President
Welcome to Austin: Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Assoc. Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Rebecca Wagner Oettinger (U of Wisconsin)
"Public Relations in the Sixteenth Century: Luther's Image in Popular Songs"
RECEPTION 6:30: Patio
Executive Board Dinner/Meeting 7:00
FRIDAY, APRIL 2
Registration: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Session 2 ( 8:30-10:00)
Artful Identity Construction (5)
Organizers and Co-chairs: Zbynek Smetana and Lilian H. Zirpolo
Zbynek Smetana (Murray State U), "Subject or Object? Some of Titian's Self-Portraits Revisited"
Lilian H. Zirpolo (Independent Scholar), "Christina of Sweden: Pier Francesco Mola's Patron"
Allison Lee Palmer (U of Oklahoma), "The Construction of An Artful Identity in Renaissance Landscape Painting"
The Politics of Aesthetics (6)
Chair: Reyes Berrios (U of North Texas)
Timothy McKinney (Baylor U), "The Musical Debate between Nicola Vicentino and Ghiselin Dankerts"
Helaine Razovsky (Northwestern State U), "A Political Case of Conscience"
Giles Pennington (Albuquerque Academy), "Fulfilling Their Needs, Fulfilling Their Desires: The Secret's of Piero's Popularity"
Revenge and Redemption (7)
Chair: Susan Allen Ford (Delta State U)
Shane Rasmussen (U of Louisiana at Lafayette), "Beyond Vengeance: Hamlet's Rite of Passage Through Grief"
Flo Keyes (Castleton C), "The Plurality of Revenge Morality"
Phoebe Spinrad (The Ohio State U), "The Sacralization of Revenge in Antonio's Revenge"
Marriage (8)
Chair: Alan J. Altimont (St. Edward's University)
Shawndra Holderby (Mansfield U), "'Be bold, be bold': Aristocratic Women and Marriage in the Early Modern Period"
W. Reginald Rampone (Louisiana SU at Eunice), "Jack of Newbury: Power Relations and the Middling Sort"
Nancy Bunker (Macon State C), "The Rule of Law and Equity: Marriage as Reclamation"
Session 3 (10:15-11:45)
Renaissance Portraiture (9)
Chair: Ellen Longsworth (Merrimack C)
William J. Scheick (U of Texas at Austin), "Glorious Imperfection in Heemskerck's Lukean Portraits of the Virgin"
Margaret Oakes (Furman U), "'Yet I am a Great Emulator': The Authorial Portrait of Margaret Cavendish"
Norman Land (U of Missouri-Columbia), "Titian and Venetian 'Society'"
The Sensual Stimuli of Renaissance Drama (10)
Chair: Harriette Andreadis (Texas A & M U)
Marguerite Tassi (U of Nebraska at Kearney), "Cleopatra Anadyomene: Shakespeare's Competition with Classical Painting in Antony and Cleopatra"
Sean McDowell (Seattle U), "Interpretive Risks in Macbeth, Act One"
Price McMurray (Texas Wesleyan U), "'As if they were Dantesque devils . . .': Giordano Bruno's Candelario and the Ethics of Comedy"
Morality and Desire (11)
Chair: Arvilla K. Taylor (Midwestern SU)
David Cormier (St. Louis U), "The Obedience of a Christian Man: Literary Impact and Reverberations"
Ryan Paul (Texas SU at San Marcos), "Spenser's Psychological Allegory: The Palmer as Superego"
Chad A. Thomas (U of Michigan), "The Discourse of Pleasure in Salmacis and Hermaphroditus"
The Queen's Triumph: Elizabeth I in the Eyes of England and the World (12)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Organizers: Donald Stump (Saint Louis U) and Carole Levin (U of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Chair: Martha Skeeters (U of Oklahoma)
Opening Remarks: Ilona Bell (Williams C), Mistress of the Revels
Sarah Duncan (Tulane U), "The Coronation of a Queen"
Deanna Delmar Evans (Bemidji State U), "The Funeral of Elizabeth I in John Gwyllym's 'Book'"
Bernadette Andrea (U of Texas at San Antonio), "Gender, Empire, and Exchange in the Letters of Elizabeth I"
Respondent: TBA
Lunch (11:45-1:30)
Queen Elizabeth I Society Luncheon and Business Meeting (12:00-1:30)
Radisson, TGIF Restaurant
Session 4 (1:30-3:30)
Feminine Discourses (13)
Chair: Mitchell Harris (U of Texas at Austin)
Yvonne Kendall (U of Houston), "Dancing through a Man's World: The Role of Women in Renaissance Dance"
Tracey Colvin (Loyola Marymount U), "Female Courtiers: Demarcated by Misplaced Sexuality"
Anna Riehl (U of Illinois at Chicago), "Artesia's Arresting Art and the Rhetorical Mystery in Philip Sidney's New Arcadia"
Frances M. Malpezzi (Arkansas State U), "Building a City of Ladies with Christine di Pizan and Arkansas State U Honors Students"
Rethinking Renaissance Classicism (14)
Chair: Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin SU)
Ellen Longsworth (Merrimack C), "Michelangelo: An Unrecognized Antique Model"
Jacob Blevins (McNeese State U), "Dialoguism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: Catullus, Shakespeare, and Donne"
Stefano Mengozzi (U of Michigan), "When Humanism Didn't Help: The Term Hexachordum in Renaissance Music Theory"
Milton and More (15)
Chair: Patricia Ocanas (Our Lady of the Lake U)
Clinton Brand (U of St. Thomas), "Milton's Poetics of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Paradise Lost"
Scott Howard (U of Denver) and Sara van den Burg (St. Louis U), "G.M. Revealed?: Printer of the first attacks on Milton's The Doctrine of Discipline and Divorce"
Dolora Chapell Wojciehowski (U of Texas at Austin), "Thomas More and Utopia: The Antwerp Connection"
Arlen Nydam (U of Texas at Austin), "Thomas More, Conscience, and Heresy"
Revisiting John Shawcross's Intentionality and the New Traditionalism: Some Liminal Means to Literary Revisionism (1991) (16)
Chair: George Klawitter (St. Edward's U)
James S. Baumlin (Southwest Missouri State U), "Reading Donne's 'Communitie'"
Kate Gartner Frost (U of Texas at Austin), "'To Penshurst': Jonson's Intentional Building"
Raymond-Jean Frontain (U of Central Arkansas), "Donne, Spenser, and the Performative Action of Renaissance Poetry"
Paul A. Parrish (Texas A&M U), "'All the (Scholarly) Air is His Diocese': John Shawcross, His Intentionality, and the New Traditionalism"
The Queen's Mirror: Elizabethan Poetry and Drama (17)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Thomas Herron (Hampden-Sydney C)
Mary Villeponteaux (U of Southern Mississippi), "Elizabeth's Mercy"
Mary Stripling (Rice U), "Elizabethan Constructions of Maternity"
Frank Ardolino (U of Hawaii), "Peele's Praise of Elizabeth in The Old Wives Tale"
Respondent: TBA
(4:00-5:00 p.m.)
Plenary Session: The Louis Martz Lecture
Presiding: Raymond-Jean Frontain (U of Central Arkansas), SCRC Vice-President
Kate Narveson (Luther C), "Godly Gentility as Spiritual Capital: The Appeal of Hall's Meditations in Early Stuart England"
(7:00-9:00 p.m.)
RENAISSANCE 2004 BANQUET
Ragsdale Center, St. Edward's University
Welcoming Remarks: Louis Brusatti, Dean, School of Humanities, St. Edward's U
Texas Early Music Project
Daniel Johnson, conductor
(Buses leave from the Radisson at 6:30.)
(9:30-11:00 p.m.)
Special Event:
The Queen's Attic Auction and Court Revels
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Ilona Bell (Williams C), Mistress of the Revels
Thomas Herron (Hampden-Sydney C), Auctioneer
Radisson Hotel
SATURDAY, APRIL 3
Registration: 8:00 AM - Noon
8:00-8:30 Business Meeting
Session 5 (8:45-10:15)
Rhetoric and Compositional Process (18)
Chair: Martha Oberle (Frederick [MD] CC)
Andrew Weaver (U of Notre Dame), "Toward a Rhetorical Analysis of Large-Scale Structure in Seventeenth-Century Music: A Case Study Using works by Giovanni Felice Sances"
Michael McClintock (McKendree C), "Rhetoric and Revenge in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy"
Daniele V. Filippi (Universite degli Studi di Pavia), "Palestrina's Nativitatis tua Dei Genitrix Virgo. New Perspectives about the Compositional Process in the Renaissance"
Medici Patronage (19)
Chair: Heidi J. Hornik-Parsons (Baylor University)
James E. Myers (U of Texas at Austin), "Antique Imitation and Imperial Propaganda: An Analysis of Bandinelli's Tomb of Giovanni delle Bande Nere"
Virginia Portillo (U of Texas at Austin), "Exemplary Women: Virtue and Propaganda in the Decorative Scheme of Eleonora de Toledo's Apartments"
Erika De Young (U of Texas at Austin), "De' Rossi's Fountain of the Twelve Labors of Hercules: A Project for the Largest Portrait of Cosimo I"
Melissa Warak (U of Texas at Austin), "Not Just a Horse (Of Course, Of Course): Rethinking Gait and Horsemanship in Giambologna's Equestrian Monument to Cosimo I"
Henry V, Christian King (20)
Chair: Marguerite Tassi (U of Nebraska-Kearney)
N. Rochelle Bradley (Texas A&M U), "Use Mercy to Them All: Justice and Mercy in Henry V"
Sean Flory (Baton Rouge, LA), "Putting on a Pious Show: Henry V, Sacral Kingship, and Elizabeth's Religious Rhetoric
Emily Isaacson (U of Missouri at Columbia), "Hal's Paschal Victory in Henry V"
The Queen's Portraits: Sources of Elizabethan Royal Imagery (21)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Anna Riehl (U of Illinois at Chicago)
Grant Moss (Virginia Tech), "The First Virgin Queen: The Impact of Mary Tudor's Iconography on Elizabeth I"
Christel Johnson (U of South Carolina), "Paper-doll Identity: Queen Elizabeth I and Classical Heroines"
Session 6 (10:30-12:00)
Renaissance Patronage (22)
Chair: David Hart (U of Arkansas)
Jennifer Thomas (U of Florida), "The Shadow of the French Court in the Renaissance: A Gathering of Evidence"
Margaret Flansburg (U of Central Oklahoma), "The Fabriano Crucifixion Fresco in the Boston MFA: Authorship, Content and Patronage"
Lester D. Brothers (U of North Texas), "A Court and a Context: The Ferraboscos and the Origins of the Hexachord Fantasia"
Spiritual Inspiration (23)
Chair: Brian Steele (Texas Tech U)
Timothy Dickey (The U of Iowa), "Music and Painting in the Siennese Confraternities: Adoramus te, Christe and the Provenance of Domenico di Bartolo's Madonna of Humility (1433)"
Gilles Sambras (U of Rheims), "Pastoral Dilemma: Christ or the Shepherdess?"
Melissa Bailes (U of North Carolina at Greensboro), "Mysticism and Prophecy: Private Inspiration and Poetic Translation in Henry Vaughan's "Unprofitableness'"
Shakespearian Sparkle and Sport (24)
Chair: Emily Leverett (The Ohio State U)
Clifford Ronan (Texas SU at San Marcos), "Shakespeare's Jewelry and What it Tells Us"
Chuck Etheridge (McMurry U), "Fencing in Hamlet"
John R. Ford (Delta State U), "Changeable Taffetta: Re-dressing the Bears in Twelfth Night"
Keynote Lectures on Queen Elizabeth: The Queen as Mother--and Stepmother (25)
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Jean R. Brink (Arizona State U)
Jacque Vanhoutte (U of North Texas), "'Cynthia Is No Stepmother': Surrogate Parenthood at the Court of Elizabeth I"
Carole Levin (U of Nebraska at Lincoln), "All the Queen's Children: Elizabeth I and the Meanings of Motherhood"
Closing remarks: Ilona Bell (Williams C), Mistress of the Revels
(12:15-2:00 p.m.)
Closing Luncheon
Presiding: Donald Stump (Saint Louis University), President of SCRC and QEIS
Introduction: Kate Frost (U of Texas at Austin)
Plenary Lecture: Thomas P. Roche, Jr. (Princeton U), "Pondering Hamlet"