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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:22:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gina H Bloom <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: early modern conference
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The Rhetorics and Rituals of (Un)veiling in Early Modern Europe
University of Michigan
October 3-5, 1997
In European culture from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries a
dichotomy between a supposed "natural" body and its cultural veiling was
not clear cut. Both the body and its various cultural coverings could be
porous, as were the concomitant concepts of "public" and "private". This
interdisciplinary conference at the University of Michigan (October 3-5,
1997) considers various manifestations and significances of a gendered
body and its veiling in social practices and discursive constructions.
Ten visiting scholars will deliver papers alongside a nearly equal number
of local faculty and graduate students.
The keynote address will be given by Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind
Jones. Visitors are Giulia Calvi, Tom Conley, William Eamon, Valentin
Groebner, Katherine Park, Patricia Parker, Richard Rambuss and Patricia
Seed. Papers will address such topics as costume, anatomy, scientific
"secrets", cartography, rhetorical and legal notions of the "veil", erotic
practices of revelation and concealment in painting and Neoplatonism, and
colonizing practices in the "New World". An exhibition, concert by the
Harp Consort, and workshops are also planned.
Conference program below. For more information, contact Pat Simons in
History of Art (313) 764-5400 or see our website: www.umich.edu/~veil/
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
Workshops
9-12 a.m.
"Catholicism Reads Veiled Bodies"
Commons, MLB 4th floor
Catherine Brown (Romance Languages [Spanish]/Comp.Lit., UM)
Jose Rabasa (Romance Languages [Spanish and Latin American Literature])
Katherine Roth (graduate student, Romance Languages [French])
On the exhibition Veiled and Unveiled: The Body and its Borders in Early
Modern European Visual Culture
Corridor Gallery, Museum of Art
Stephen Campbell (History of Art, UM)
Sandra Seekins (graduate student, History of Art, UM)
"Medical Bodies"
Institute for the Humanities, Rackham, Room 1524
Michael Schoenfeldt (English, UM)
Michael Macdonald (History, UM)
Theresa Braunschneider (graduate student, English/Women's Studies, UM)
"Framing the Invisible: Signs, the New World, and Seeing the Self"
1024 Tisch Hall
Michael Wintroub (History, UM)
Doug Hildebrecht (graduate student, History of Art, UM)
Annemarie Sammartino (graduate student, History, UM)
Welcome
2.00 p.m.
Session I: "Rhetorical" Strategies
2-5 p.m.
Angell Hall
Auditorium B
Chair: Steven Mullaney, English, UM
Patricia Parker (English and Comp Lit, Stanford Univ), "Moors and More"
Julia Perlman (graduate student, History of Art, UM), "Venus and the
Elders: The Voyeuristic Fantasies of Iconographic Method"
Stephen Whitworth (graduate student, English, UM), "Androgyne Schemes:
Pastoral and troubling figures of language in Dickenson's Arisbas (1595)"
Helmut Puff (German/History, UM), "The Rhetorics of the (Un)speakable:
Policing Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland"
Reception at the exhibition: "Veiled and Unveiled: The Body and its
Borders in Early Modern European Visual Culture"
5.30-7.15 p.m.
Corridor Gallery
Museum of Art
Keynote lecture:
"Dressing/Undressing: Constituting the Subject in Early Modern Europe"
7.30 p.m.
Hutchins Hall
Room 100
Honigman Auditorium
Introduction: Linda Gregerson, English, UM
Lecture: Peter Stallybrass (English Literature and Cultural Studies, Univ
of Pennsylvania) and Ann Rosalind Jones (Comp Lit., Smith)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
Session II: Costumes and Customs
9-12 a.m.
Angell Hall
Auditorium B
Chair: Alison Cornish, Romance Languages [Italian], UM
Pat Simons (History of Art/Women's Studies, UM) "'Clothe all of it with
its flesh': Artifice and Layers of (Un)dress in Italian Renaissance Visual
Culture"
Giulia Calvi (History, University of Siena), "Dress, Gender and
Citizenship in Early Modern Tuscany"
Diane Owen Hughes (History, UM), "Costume Maps of the Hapsburg Empire:
Spain and the Designs of Veiditz and Vico"
Rose Pruiksma (graduate student, Musicology, UM), "The Fabric of Noblesse
in Louis XIV's Court Ballets"
Session III: "Secret" Spaces
2-5 p.m.
Angell Hall
Auditorium B
Chair: Elizabeth Horodowich, graduate student, History, UM
Valentin Groebner (History, University of Basle), "Signs, Spies, Bribes:
The Politics of the Invisible in Renaissance Basle"
William Eamon (History, New Mexico State University), "(Un)masking Nature
in Early Modern Popular Culture"
Richard Rambuss (English, Emory), "The Prayer Closet"
Kathryn Babayan (Near Eastern Studies, UM), "From Intuition to Reason:
Veiling and the Hardening of Gender Lines in Early Modern Iran"
Pre-Concert Lecture
7.15 p.m.
University Reformed Church
1001 East Huron
(behind Rackham)
Louise Stein (Music, UM), "Hearing Venus: the Rhetoric of (Un)Veiling and
Seduction in Seventeenth-Century Hispanic Songs"
Concert
8.00 p.m.
University Reformed Church
1001 East Huron
(behind Rackham)
Venus (Un)Veiled: Songs from Seventeenth-Century Spain, Dances from Africa
and Mexico, Opera from Peru
The Harp Consort: Ellen Hargis - soprano;
Judith Malafronte - mezzo soprano;
Paul O'Dette - baroque guitar, theorbo;
Pat O'Brien - baroque guitar;
Andrew Lawrence-King - baroque harp, director
Tickets $20 ($10 students) (available at the door, and in advance at
locations to be announced)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5
Session IV: Cartographies of the Body
9.30 a.m. -1.00 p.m.
Angell Hall
Auditorium B
Chair: Celeste Brusati, History of Art, UM
Katherine Park (History, Harvard), "Seeing Beneath the Skin: Gender,
Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection"
Patricia Seed (History, Rice), "Colonial Pentimento: Revealing the
Identity of 'Indians'"
Tom Conley (French, Harvard), "The Cartographic Veil in Baroque France"
Valerie Traub (English/Women's Studies, UM), "Mapping the Global Body"
Concluding Remarks
Domna Stanton (Romance Languages [French]/Women's Studies, UM)
An international, interdisciplinary conference supported by the Institute
for Research on Women and Gender, the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate
Studies, the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Office for
the Vice President for Research, the Centre for European Studies, the
Programme for British Studies, the International Institute, the Program in
Society and Medicine (Medical School), the School of Music, the Women's
Studies Program, the Medieval and Renaissance Collegium, and the
Departments of English, German, History, History of Art, and Romance
Languages. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the
public.
