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do forward it to along to others who might be interested. We look forward
to a stimulating day and hope you will join us.
Best,
Erika Lin
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WRINKLES IN TIME: RUPTURES AND CONTINUITIES IN THE WRITING OF THE MIDDLE
AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE
Saturday, October 7, 2000
University of Pennsylvania
This conference will explore both the writings produced during the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance and the ways in which those periods have
themselves been written to meet a variety of subsequent historical and
cultural concerns.
Our day will begin in the newly renovated Houston Hall, located at 3417
Spruce Street, where a continental breakfast will be followed by the
morning paper sessions. We will break for lunch at the elegant French
bistro La Terrasse, located at 3432 Sansom Street, then return to Houston
Hall for the afternoon paper sessions. Our day will end in the Rosenwald
Gallery of Van Pelt Library, where our plenary panelists will discuss "The
Future of the Medieval/Renaissance Divide," followed by a reception and an
opportunity to view a special rare books exhibit, curated in conjunction
with the conference.
The registration fee is $15 in advance ($20 at the door) and covers a
continental breakfast, lunch at La Terrasse, and the evening reception.
(If you pay at the door, we cannot guarantee that there will be space
available for lunch, but we will do our best to accomodate you.) To
register, please send your name, email address, and institutional
affiliation along with the registration fee to:
Wrinkles in Time Conference
119 Bennett Hall
Department of English
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6273
Please make checks or money orders payable to the Trustees of the
University of Pennsylvania.
The Wrinkles in Time Conference is sponsored by the Department of English,
the Department of Religious Studies, the Department of Romance Languages,
and the School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office.
More information about the conference can be found at
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wrinkles
Conference Program
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM -- Registration and Breakfast
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM -- Session 1
I. Performing Ruptures and Continuities on the Early Modern Stage
Moderator: Phyllis Rackin (University of Pennsylvania)
Elizabeth Williamson, (University of Pennsylvania), "Embedded in
Time: Performance Strategies in _The Winter's Tale_"
Tim Chesters (Balliol College, Oxford University), "Samuel's
Ghost: Some Late 16th-Century Readings"
Erika T. Lin (University of Pennsylvania), "Dancing and Other
Delights: Presentational 'Entertainments' and Conceptions of
Identity on the Renaissance Public Stage"
II. Textual Reception and Revision: Religious Writings
Moderator: E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania)
Matthew D. Ponesse (University of Toronto), "Authority, Custom,
and Reform in a Ninth-Century Commentary on the Rule of St.
Benedict"
Christopher Manion (Ohio State University), "Augustine Baker and
the Invention of the English Mystical Tradition"
Carl Grindley (University of Victoria), "Radical Puritan Chic:
Robert Crowley's Reading of _Piers Plowman_"
III. Historiographic Tensions and Traditions
Moderator: Larry Scanlon (Rutgers University)
Daisy Delogu (University of Pennsylvania), "The Writing of
History in _Melusine_: An Ambiguous Enterprise"
Kirsten Tranter (Rutgers University), "Royalist Retreat and the
Politics of Nostalgia in Izaak Walton's _The Compleat Angler;
or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation_ (1653)"
Veronica L. Schanoes (University of Pennsylvania), "Hector and the
'noys of the peple': The Role of the Vernacular in Chaucer's
_Troilus and Criseyde_"
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM -- Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM -- Session 2
I. Recasting Identities of the Self and Nation
Moderator: Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
Jamie Taylor (University of Pennsylvania), "Spenser's Spain:
Plotting Documentary History in _A View of the State of Ireland_"
Erin Murphy (Rutgers University), "While You Were Sleeping:
Reproductive Time and the End of _Paradise Lost_"
Jean Feerick (University of Pennsylvania), "The Moveable English
Body: _Cymbeline_, Nova Britannia, and the Quest for a Stable
Briton"
II. Material Texts and Modes of Production
Moderator: William Askins (Philadelphia Community College)
Tyler Smith (University of Pennsylvania), "' all asse , ' Laid out
(and Impressed) in _An Anatomie of the Metamorpho-sed Aiax_"
Jana Mathews (Duke University), "The Trial of 'Troth' in _Mum and
the Sothsegger_"
III. Mysticism and the Functions of Affective Piety
Moderator: Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania)
Elizabeth A. Lisot (University of Texas, Dallas), "Painting the
Mystical: Federico Barocci's Art as Evidence of the Revival of
Medieval Contemplative Practices during the Catholic Reformation"
Jessica Boon (University of Pennsylvania), "Gendered Voices or
Gendered Scholarship? Ruusbroec's Appropriation of Hadewijch's
Mystical Language"
Susan Arvay (Rutgers University), "Soulful Performances: Margery
Kempe and the Contemplative Tradition"
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM -- Lunch
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM -- Session 3
I. Reading Renaissance Queens
Moderator: Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania)
Kristen Brookes (University of California, Santa Cruz),
"Manipulating the Mermaid: Pleasure and Power in Gower's Armada
Portrait"
Lisa Martinez Lajous (University of Pennsylvania), "Poesies for
Prizes: Queen Elizabeth and the Lottery of 1567"
John D. Staines (Yale University), "Mary Queen of Scots and the
Uses of Tragic History"
II. Rewriting the Past, Reconstructing the Present
Moderator: Ed Peters (University of Pennsylvania)
Arthur J. Difuria (University of Delaware), "Vindicta at Pienza:
Pius II's Parallel Constructions of Architecture and
Autobiography"
Marianne Montgomery (University of Virginia), "'Julius Caesar's
Ill-Erected Tower': England, Rome, and the Tower of London in
Shakespeare's History Plays"
Rebekah Long (Duke University), "Picturing Martyred Bodies in the
_Acts and Monuments_: The Case of Anne Askew"
III. Text/Styles: Interpretive Practices over Time
Moderator: Barbara Traister (Lehigh University)
Miriam Emma Jacobson (University of Pennsylvania), "Ring Around
the Poesy: Flowers of Memory in Renaissance Inscription and
Poetry"
Ewa Slojka (Harvard University), "The Performative Reader:
Cervantes' _Don Quixote_ with the _Vulgate Grail_"
Jennifer Higginbotham (University of Pennsylvania), "Stitches in
Time: Renaissance Women's Embroidered Texts"
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM -- Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM -- Session 4
I. Situating the Reformation in History
Moderator: Sean Keilen (University of Pennsylvania)
Rebecca Wood (University of California, Santa Barbara),
"(Re)placing St Thomas a Becket: Reformation Manipulations of the
English Past"
Clare Costley (University of Pennsylvania), "A Text and a Tomb:
Thomas Bentley's _The Monument of Matrones_ (1582)"
Genelle Gertz-Robinson (Princeton University), "Reading the
Reformation: Milton's Logic of Persecution in the _Areopagitica_"
II. Interventions in Artistic and Intellectual Paradigms
Moderator: David Cast (Bryn Mawr College)
Jennifer Nichols (University of Notre Dame), "The Time of the
Baroque: Artemisia Gentileschi's Contradictory Subject"
Keira Travis (McGill University), "The Issue of Epistemic Rupture
and Robert Burton's Response to Francis Bacon"
Meredith Webb (University of Oregon), "The Defaced Artist:
Caravaggio's Beheadings and the Interruption of Renaissance
Artistic Discourse"
III. Critiquing the Critics: The Shaping of Literary Studies
Moderator: Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania)
James Cahill (Brown University), "_Beowulf_ and the Dating Game"
Patricia Pender (Stanford University), "Arresting Silence: The
Critical Reception of Renaissance Women's Modesty Topoi"
Katheryn Giglio (Syracuse University), "Academic Institutions,
the Renaissance, and the Student Reader in _The Norton Anthology
of English Literature_"
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM -- Coffee Break
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM -- Plenary Panel
Moderator: Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania)
The Future of the Medieval/Renaissance Divide
Christine Chism (Rutgers University)
Sean Keilen (University of Pennsylvania)
Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College)
David Sedley (Haverford College)
D. Vance Smith (Princeton University)
Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania)
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM -- Exhibit and Reception
Manual Memory: Collecting and Recording Knowledge, 1300-1700
This rare book exhibit traces material memory in the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance in the form of handwritten and printed
handbooks and early anthologies that were used to store everything
from hourly prayers and memorable poems to cosmetic secrets and
household remedies. Featured books include English, French and
Italian books of secrets, poetry commonplaces, medieval prayer
calendars, early modern mechanical manuals, herbals, and household
receipts.
