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*** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT***
Studying the Middle Ages and the Renaissance:
What Difference Does Gender Make?
A conference sponsored by the Joint Program in Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and North Carolina State University; and the North Carolina Research Group
on Medieval and Early Modern Women. The conference has been generously
supported by the Curriculum in Women's Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Women's Studies Program at Duke University, and
the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation.
OCTOBER 27-29, 1995
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Plenary Speakers:
Constance Jordan, English, Claremont Graduate Center: "Difference
and Deviance: Natural Law and Gender"
Pamela Sheingorn, Art History, Baruch College, CUNY, "Gender and
Visual Culture: Signs of Women in Medieval Art History"
Opening Roundtable: "Working Across the Disciplines: What Difference Does
Gender Make in the Way We Use Sources?"
Kathleen Ashley, English, University of Southern Maine
Dyan Elliot, History, Indiana University
Ruth Mazo Karras, History, Temple University
Roberta L. Krueger, French, Hamilton College
Session I: "Refiguring Courtly Culture"
Madeleine Caviness, Art History, Tufts University: "Hedging in
Desire: The Illuminated Books as Agents of Gender"
Theodore Evergates, History, Western Maryland College: "Beyond the
Court: Aristocratic Women at the Court of Champagne"
Kathryn Gravdal, Women's Studies, Columbia University: "Grounding
Incest in Medieval France"
Ingrid Kasten, German, Freie Universitat Berlin: "Illusion or
Delusion: The Woman as Acting Subject in the Courtly Romance"
Session II: "To Speak in the Vernacular: Gender and the Translations of
Medical Writing"
Ron Barkai, History, Tel Aviv University: "Woman's Image in Medieval
Hebrew Gynecological Texts"
Montserrat Cabre, History, Universitat Autonoma, Barcelona: "The
Mother Tongue in Women's Health: The Catalan *Trotula* and Its Textual
Tradition"
Luke Demaitre, Independent Scholar: "Domesticity in Middle Dutch
Gynecology"
Session III: "What Difference Does History Make?"
Sarah Beckwith, English, Duke University: "Reformation and Gender:
The Mary Plays in the York *Corpus Christi* Cycle"
Susan Crane, English, Rutgers University: "What Joan of Arc's
Crossdressing Meant to Her Contemporaries"
Clare Lees, English, and Gillian Overing, English, Wake Forest
University: "The Making of Difference in Anglo-Saxon England: Bodies,
Metaphor, and the Church"
Session IV: "Gender and the Early Modern State: Governmental Ideology and
Gender Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe"
Judith C. Brown, History, Stanford University: "Gender and the
Transformation of the State in Ducal Tuscany"
Sarah Hanley, History, University of Iowa: "Monarchic Rule in
France: Female Political Exclusion and the Fraudulent Salic Law in
Christine de Pizan and Jean de Montreuil"
Mary Elizabeth Perry, History, Occidental College: "Engendering the
Enemy: Moriscos, Sexuality, and the Making of the Spanish State, 1501-1609"
Session V: "Single Women: A Different Gender?"
Monica Chojnacka, History, University of Georgia: "Single Women in
Early Modern Venice: Community and Opportunity"
Sharon Farmer, History, U-C Santa Barbara: "Matter Out of Place?
Theological and Literary Discussions of Single Women"
Amy Froide, History, Duke University: "Single White Female: Marital
Status as a Category of Difference"
Session VI: "Legal Interrogations of Gender"
Barbara Hanawalt, History, University of Minnesota: "Narrators of
Rape in Fourteenth-Century England"
Karen Sullivan, Comparative Literature, Bard College: "Interrogation
and the Language of Sexual Violation: Joan of Arc's Relapse into Heresy"
Alison Weber, Spanish, University of Virginia: "Gender Politics and
the Spanish Inquisition: The Case of Maria de la Visitacion"
Closing Roundtable: "Where Do We Go From Here?"
Martha Howell, History, Columbia University
JoAnn McNamara, History, Hunter College, CUNY
Elizabeth Robertson, English, University of Colorado
The opening roundtable will begin at 2:30 p.m. on Friday and the conference
will conclude at noon on Sunday.
REGISTRATION AND LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS:
The registration fee for the conference will be $25 for regular
participants; students attend for free. Hotel rooms have been reserved at
the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill @ $115 single or $125 double for those
desiring overnight accommodations; the Inn's phone numbers are
1-800-962-8519 or 1-919-933-2001. There is an American Airlines discount
for participants traveling by air with the following Starfile #: S78O5AB.
For further information, please contact:
Elaine Cooper
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Duke University
BOX 90584
2138 Campus Drive
Durham NC 27708-0584
1 - 919 - 681 - 8883
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27-29 October, 1995 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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