Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/FAX (416) [log in to unmask] http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html => REED-L's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:51:19 -0000 From: J&M Kehoe <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Thomas More Conference I would like to inform you of the forthcoming International Thomas More Conference at Maynooth College, Ireland. If you would be so kind as to pass on the relevant information to anyone whom you think might be interested, I would be grateful. Please note that papers are still being considered for acceptance. One page abstracts should be faxed to the conference organiser below. Yours sincerely, John Flood, MA Trinity College Department of English Dublin 2 Maynooth College Ireland Co Kildare *********************** INTERNATIONAL THOMAS MORE CONFERENCE, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE, MAYNOOTH, CO KILDARE, IRELAND. 9-16 August, 1998 "THOMAS MORE IN HIS TIME: RENAISSANCE HUMANISM & RENAISSANCE LAW" For information/booking contact the Conference Organiser - Rev. Prof. Thomas Finan, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Tel. +353 1 6285222. Fax +353 1 6289063. E-mail: [log in to unmask] PARTIAL PROGRAMME: --The Values of Renaissance Humanism Brigid M. Boardman, Bath, England; 'Christopher Urswick and the More Humanist Circle' Stephen M. Foley, Brown University; 'Thomas More and the Agency of the Letter' Wm. Gentrup, Arizona Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; 'Pacifism & Counselorship: Erasmus on the Political Uses of Classical Friendship Ideas' Gerhard Helmstaeder, Goethe University; 'Classical Medicine & the New Learning' Lee Cullen Khanna, Montclair State University; 'Early Tudor Women Translators' Peter Milward, S.J., Renaissance Institute of Japan; 'Plato's Academy in Tudor England' --Completing the Picture: Ireland in the Renaissance Vincent P. Carey, State University of New York; 'Richard Stanihurst, Humanist Education and the Fitzgeralds of Kildare' Colm Lennon, National University of Ireland at Maynooth; 'Humanist Historians of Ireland in the Tudor Age' Nollaig O'Muraile, Queens University Belfast; 'Earls of Kiladre: Learning & Literature' Katherine Walsh, Universitat Innsbruck; 'Modern Scholarship on the Renaissance in Ireland' --Humanism & Theology Bryan Byron, Gladesville, Australia; 'Thomas More and the Principle of Solidarity: Spirit & Form in the Ideal Community' Wm Rockett, Uni. of Oregon; 'Humanism and Sola Scriptura in 'Responsia ad Lutherum' and 'A Dialogue Concerning Heresies' --Humanism & Law Scott D. Evans, Arizona State Uni.; 'Samuel Johnson, 'Utopia' and the Humanist Understanding of Law Albert J. Geritz, Fort Hays State Uni.; 'John Rastell as Lawyer and Printer/Publisher' Archibald M. Young, University of Western Ontario; 'Thomas More's Critical Year: Law and Religion in 1533 --'Utopia' and 'The History of King Richard III' Robert Coogan, University of Maryland; 'The 1965 "Utopia" in 1998: The Relevance of Edward Surtz' Miguel Angel Delgado, Mexico City; '"Utopia" in Mexico: Vasco de Quiroga's Pueblo-Hospitals' Arthur Kincaid, Collegium Humaniorum Estoniense; 'Ordering Society in "Utopia", "King Lear" & "The Tempest" Francesca Loverci, Universita degli Studi 'La Sapienza'; 'Resistance to Tyranny: "Richard III" and the Right to Silence. Richard Maurius, Harvard Uni.; '"Utopia" and Shakespeare's "Henriad" Howard Norland, University of Nebraska; 'More's Re-creation of History in his "Richard III"' --'The Year of the French' Charles Bene, Uni. of Grenoble; 'Elizabethan Recusant Exiles and French Editors' Brenda M. Hosington, Uni. de Montreal; 'Gabriel Chappuys' "Republique d'Utopie": Translation as an instrument of ideology' Clare M. Murphy, Editor, 'Moreana'; 'Thomas More & France: History, Texts, Significance' --Thomas More & Ireland Tadhg O'Dushlaine, National University of Ireland at Maynooth; 'Gaelic Recusants and the English "Ars Moriendi": More's "The Last Things" as a possible source for Geoffrey Keating's "Three Shafts of Death" Elizabeth McCutcheon, University of Hawai; 'Mary Barber & More: Resituating Humanism in Early 18th Century Ireland' Thomas M. Finan, St Patrick's College, Maynooth; '"Memento Mori": Which Tree and which Berries?' --Nachleben: The Legacy of Renaissance Humanism Paul Akio Sawada, Tokyo Junshin Women's College; 'More & the Writings of Thomas Nipperdey (1927-1992)' Lynn Summer, Georgia State Uni.; 'More in the Tower and Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz'