Exploring the Renaissance:
An International Conference
Hot Springs, AR 5-7 March 2009
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2009
REGISTRATION: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
SESSION I: 1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
1. (1:30 - 3:30) Representations of Elizabeth in Images and Words
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Brandie Siegfried (Brigham Young University)
Debra Barrett-Graves (California State University, East Bay): “The Hampden Portrait of Elizabeth and Palmer's Two Hundred Poosees”
Tara Wood (University of Nebraska--Lincoln): “Imagining the Queen and England”
Catherine Loomis (University of New Orleans): “Our late and loving Nurce-mother: Images of Maternity in Commemorations of Queen Elizabeth I”
Paige Reynolds (University of Central Arkansas): “Judging Elizabeth I: Virtue and Vulnerability in Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay”
2. (2:30 - 4:00) Milton and His Antecedents
Chair: Catherine Campbell (Cottey College)
William Padgett (Texas State University): “Psychic Pilgrimages: The Transformative Power of Trauma and Milton”
Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Texas State University, San Marcos): “ 'Listen and Save': Polishing the Mirror in Paradise Lost”
LaRue Love Sloan (University of Louisiana, Monroe): “Anticipating Milton: Adam, Eve, and Incest in Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore”
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
THE WILLIAM B. HUNTER LECTURE
4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks:
Christopher Baker
Armstrong Atlantic State University
Introduction of Speaker:
Jill Carrington
Stephen F. Austin State University
Speaker:
Laurinda S. Dixon
Professor of Art History
Syracuse University
“The Eye, Heart and Brain of the Beholder:
Experiencing English Renaissance Portraits”
RECEPTION: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
DINNER (on one’s own): 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AND DINNER: 7:00
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2009
REGISTRATION: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SESSION II: 8:15 – 10:15 a.m.
3. Elizabeth I, Rhetoric, and Other Queens
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Brandie Siegfried (Brigham Young University): “Elizabeth's Philosophical Head: Literary Adoption and Eccentric Identity in the Speeches, Poems, and Letters”
Daniel Ellis (Temple University): “Rhetorical Execution: Elizabeth, Rhetorical Theory, and the Death of Mary, Queen of Scots”
Emma Lehman (University of Nebraska): “The Iron Corset of Catherine de Medici”
Sarah Duncan (Spring Hill College): “The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen: The Funeral of Mary I and the Accession of Elizabeth I”
4. Sixteenth-Century Portraiture
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Norman Land (University of Missouri, Columbia)
Jasmin Cyril (Benedict College, Columbia SC): “Imaging Alessandro de'Medici in Mannerist Portraits”
Matthew Averett (Creighton University): “The Perfect Courtier: Titian's Portrait of Giorgio Cornaro with a Falcon”
Brian Steele (Texas Tech University): “Titian, Clarice Strozzi, and Pictorial Intelligence”
5. Allusive and Combative Marvell
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Sean McDowell (Seattle University)
Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottawa): “Adversarial Marvell”
Nick Moschovakis (Independent scholar): “ 'The iron gates' echoing song': 'To His Coy Mistress' and Marvell's allusive identities”
Elizabeth Melly (Princeton University): “ 'Bespeak thy grave': Poetic Monuments and the Dual Paragoni in Marvell's The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn”
6. Shakespeare Under the Influence
Chair: Louis Charles Stagg, Emeritus (University of Memphis)
Karla Coulson (Northeastern State University): “The Gunpowder Plot's Influences on Shakespeares's Macbeth”
Randi Marie Smith (University of Florida): “Like Will To Like: Interior Likeness and Relationships in Fulwell and Shakespeare.”
Kara Northway (Kansas State University): “Shakespeare and Letter-Carrying Players”
7. Gender, Witchcraft, and Politics in Early Modern England
Chair: Holly Schullo (Louisiana State University at Eunice)
Leslie Loyd (Southeast Missouri State University): “Kate of Elizabethan Christendom: Shakespeare's Bonny Dissembler”
Sara Luttfring (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): “Mistris Parliament and the Politics of Birthing Room Gossip”
Helaine Razovsky (Northwestern State University): “Drama, Divorce, and Rebellion in Early Seventeenth-Century England”
James Whitmer (Northeastern State University): “Tragedy in Macbeth: The King James Doomsday Scenario”
8. Emotional and Corporeal Formation in Marlowe, Greene, and Shakespeare
Chair: Catherine Cox (Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi)
William Rampone, Jr. (South Carolina State University): “Sexuality and Eroticism in Robert Greene's Gwydonius. The Carde of Fancie”
Josh Thompson (Mississippi State University): “'The air is cold, [but] sleep is sweetest now: Ordering Desire at Dawn in Christopher Marlowe's Ovid's Elegies”
Melissa Hudler (Lamar University and Anglia Ruskin University): “Corporeal Rhetoric in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale”
Brad Campbell (Mississippi State University): “Riddlers and Riddlees: Hermeneutic Heroes in Pericles and The Winter's Tale”
BREAK: 10:15 –10:30 a.m.
SESSION III: 10:30 – 12 Noon
9. Elizabeth, Foreigners, and Travel
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Debra Barrett-Graves (California State University at East Bay)
Nathan Probasco (The University of Nebraska at Lincoln): “Elizabeth I, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and the Struggle with Spain”
Elizabeth Martin (University of Maryland at College Park): “Stabilizing the Mediterranean: Elizabeth I and Bess Bridges”
Retha Warnicke (Arizona State University): “Was Lettice, countess of Leicester, Elizabeth's 'She-Wolf?'”
10. Marvell and Religion
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Jacob Blevins (McNeese State University)
Nigel Smith (Princeton University): “Marvell's Beliefs and Marvell's Religious Poetry”
Gabriella Gruder-Poni (Independent Scholar): “The Biblical Plot of Upon Appleton House”
George Klawitter (St. Edward's University): “The Devotional Marvell”
11. Anything but Ordinary: “Real People” in England and America
Chair: Helaine Razovsky (Northwestern State University)
Meg Lota Brown (University of Arizona): “Genre, Gender, and Engraving in Early Modern Europe”
Kinda Skea (Kansas University, Lawrence): “Susanna Bell: The Travels and Travails of a Puritan Woman In England and America 1604-1673”
Victoria Gaydosik (Southwestern Oklahoma State University): “A Renaissance-Era Document Found in Oklahoma”
12. Gender and Misogyny in Jonson and Cary
Chair: Raychel Reiff (University of Wisconsin, Superior)
Kelcey Ponder (Emporia State University/Independent Scholar): “The Female Dominatrix: Mrs. Otter and Her Dominion”
Steven Golden (Emporia State University): “[W]e four will be all one: Jonson's Epicene and the Subversion of Masculinity”
Delilah Clark (University of Louisiana, Monroe): “Construction and Destruction: The Othering of Mariam”
13. Court Life in England: Word and Image
Chair: Susan Kendrick (Emporia State University)
Ty Buckman (Wittenberg University): “Harington's Spaniel: Privilege, Play, and the English Renaissance Epic”
Jennifer Heller (Lenoir-Rhyne University): “Wielding Words: Lady Elizabeth Russell's Search for Status”
14. Shakespeare and Self-Knowledge
Chair: Donald Dickson (Texas A&M University, College Station)
Greg Bentley (Mississippi State University): “Demystifying the Rosalind Myth”
Sabrina Goss (Emporia State University): “Hal's Base Contagious Clouds: Another Look at the Education of a Prince”
John Mercer (Northeastern State University): “The Problem of Hamlet and The Power of Now”
LUNCH: 12 noon – 1:30 p.m. (on one’s own)
SESSION IV: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
15. Venice and Its Contacts
Interdisciplinary Panel Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Matthew Averett (Creighton University)
Liana di Girolami Cheney (University of Massachusetts, Lowell): “Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation: 'The Eyes Are the Windows of the Soul (Mind)' ”
Dawn St. Clare (University of Oklahoma): “Goats - Not Broomsticks: The Conflation of Heresy and Sin in the Iconography of The Witch by Albrecht Dürer”
Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University): “The Terrestrial Globe of the Tommaso Rangone Monument, San Giuliano, Venice, and the Golden Age of Cartography in Venice”
Timothy McKinney (Baylor University): “What Sweeter Music: Style and Context in Adrian Willaert's Qual dolcezza giamai”
16. Elizabeth’s Court
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Brandie Siegfried (Brigham Young University)
Mark Reuter (University of Nebraska--Lincoln ): “Queen Elizabeth I: Mistress of Rivals”
Renee Bricker (Wayne State University): “Queen Elizabeth I and Religious Ritual as the Iconography of Political Love”
Kristen Post Walton (Salisbury University): “'The Plot of the Devouring Lyons': The 'Divelish conspiracy' of Arthur Pole and Elizabethan Politics”
17. Sidney and Spenser
Chair: Benjamin Myers (Oklahoma Baptist University)
Arlen Nydam (University of Texas, Austin): “Philip Sidney's Extended Family and the Catholic Petition of 1585”
Benjamin Myers (Oklahoma Baptist University): “After Astrofell: Colin Clouts Come Home Againe as a Paradise Lost”
Michael Berntsen (University of Louisiana, Lafayette): “Spenser's Busyrane: Bully to Sidney's Defense, Apprentice to Petrarch, and Graduate from The School of Abuse”
Emma Tomingas-Hatch (University of Louisiana, Lafayette ): “Virtuous Passion: A Comparison of Cross-Dressing Episodes in Sidney's New Arcadia and Spenser's The Faerie Queene”
18. Shakespearean England and the Other
Chair: John Mercer (Northeastern State University)
Joan Wedes (University of Houston, Clear Lake): “Jewish / Muslim Partnership Plays and Shakespeare's Othello”
Katie Sisneros (University of Nebraska, Lincoln): “Fearing the "Turban'd Turk": Representations of Turks in English Renaissance Broadside Ballads”
Susan Kendrick (Emporia State University): “. . . the holy priests / Bless her when she is riggish': Female Desire, Masculine Honor, and Royal Authority in Antony and Cleopatra”
Margaret Peters (Northeastern State University): “Renaissance Beliefs about Women and the Feminine Nature in Macbeth: Superstition, Ignorance and Misogyny”
19. Devotions, Death, and Donne
Chair: David Strong (University of Texas at Tyler)
Amanda Ogden (University of North Texas): “The Sacrament of Confession in John Donne's Holy Sonnets”
Patricia Garcia (Our Lady of the Lake University): “Marian Devotion in Donne's Religious Poetry”
Holly Schullo (Louisiana State University, Eunice): “"Death's Duel‚" and Images of the Tomb: Or,”
Kate Gartner Frost (University of Texas, Austin): “The Occasion of John Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions”
SECOND PLENARY SESSION: 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
THE LOUIS MARTZ LECTURE
Sponsored by The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Introduction of speaker:
Donald Stump
St. Louis University
Speaker:
Carole Levin
Willa Cather Professor of History
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“Dreaming About the Living and the Dead”
DINNER: 5:30 – 9:00 p.m. (on one’s own)
Special Session: 9:00 – 10:30 p.m.
The Queen's Revels and Queen's Attic Auction
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Performance of Carole Levin’s play, The King Dreams of Marriage: Henry VIII and His Wives, followed by our traditional auction—as mirthful as it is astounding.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2009
REGISTRATION: 7:30 – 12:00 p.m.
Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
South Central Renaissance Conference
BUSINESS MEETINGS: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Queen Elizabeth I Society
Society for Renaissance Art History
The Andrew Marvell Society
SESSION V: 9:00 – 10: 30 a.m.
20. Rape, Revenge, Emasculation
Chair: Jennifer Heller (Lenoir-Rhyne University)
Stephanie Shultz (Northwestern State University, Natchitoches): “Emasculation, Apprenticeship, and Disease: The Perils of Social Mobility in Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle”
Ashley Combest (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): “The (W)hole Event: Reading Rape and Revising Bianca in Women Beware Women”
Natalie DeJonghe (Independent Scholar): “Womanly Weapons: How Female Characters Act as Effective Avengers in Early Modern Revenge Tragedies”
21. Keynote Session on Elizabeth I
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Megan Hickerson (Henderson State University): “Foxe's Queen: Elizabeth I and Other Royal Women in the Book of Martyrs”
Jo Eldridge Carney (The College of New Jersey): “Elizabeth's Courtships and The Great Chain of Being”
22. Science, Metaphysics, and the Sublime
Chair: Kate Gartner Frost (University of Texas, Austin)
David Strong (University of Texas, Tyler): “The Oppositional Forces of Donne's and Crashaw's Poetics”
Irving Kelter (University of St. Thomas): “Ecclesiastes 1:4: The History of a Biblical Passage and the Struggle over Copernicanism”
Jacob Blevins (McNeese State University): “Thomas Traherne and the Geographies of the Sublime”
23. Re-Reading Shakespeare
Chair: Ty Buckman (Wittenberg University)
Christopher Baker (Armstrong Atlantic State University): “A New Testament Analogy for the Porter Scene in MACBETH”
Raychel Reiff (University of Wisconsin, Superior): “Hamlet's Birthright: The Vicious Mole-Ghost”
Sean Benson (Malone University): “ 'Perverse fantasies'?: Rehabilitating Malvolio's Reading”
BREAK: 10:30 –10:45 a.m.
SESSION VI: 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
24. Workshop: Marvell in Dialogue
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
Sean McDowell (Seattle University): “No Simple Resolve in Marvell's A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure”
Joan Faust (Southeastern Louisiana University): “Marvell's Soul and Body: The Dialogue Continues”
Timothy Raylor (Carleton College): “Marvell's Musical Dialogues”
25. Final Keynote Session on Elizabeth I
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Donald Stump (Saint Louis University)
Jacqueline Vanhoutte (University of North Texas): “Age in Love”
Panel Discussion: Kristen Post Walton, Megan Hickerson, Jo Eldridge Carney, Jacqueline Vanhoutte
Concluding Remarks: Donald Stump, Master of the Revels
26. Structures in Art and Literature
Interdisciplinary Panel Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Norman Land (University of Missouri, Columbia): “Artistic Errors in a Tale about the Piovano Arlotto”
Lori Witzel (St. Edward's University): “Expanding the Frame of Reference: The Frame Tale, Giotto, and Boccaccio”
Hillary Reyes (Texas State University ): “Fairy-Tales and Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Exploring the realm of Faerie land in Spenser's Epic”
27. Literary Archetypes
Chair: Patricia Garcia (Our Lady of the Lake University)
Dmytro Drozdovskyi (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy): “An Interpretation Of the Image Of a King (Monarch) In Historical Chronicles Of W. Shakespeare”
Bridget Whelan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette): “To Sleep, Perchance to Procreate--Comparison between Spenser's Chrysogene and the tales of Sleeping Beauty”
Louis Charles Stagg (Professor Emeritus, University of Memphis): “Best Monster, Worst Monster: Gardner's Grendel vs Shakespeare's Caliban”
CLOSING LUNCHEON
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Presiding:
Christopher Baker
Armstrong Atlantic State University
THE KEYNOTE LECTURE
Introduction of speaker:
Raymond-Jean Frontain
University of Central Arkansas
Speaker:
Nabil Matar
University of Minnesota
“Eschatology, Tobacco, and Moriscos:
Islamic Cross-Currents in Jacobean England”