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g 8.30 – 9.00 h

REGISTRATION – Lobby, Friends’ Hall

g 9.00 – 9.10 h

WELCOME: Lloyd Kermode, RCSC President – Friends’ Hall

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g 9.10 – 10.20 : SESSION ONE h

FRIENDS’ HALL – Civilizing the Past

Chair: George Gorse, Pomona College

Joanne Snow-Smith, University of Washington – Sandro Botticelli’s Athena and the Centaur Revisited: The “Gnosis of the Mind: A Vision of Things Divine”

Julia L. Logan Bourbois, Autry National Center – Creating a Spotless Reputation: The Chivalric Hero as Artistic and Military Ideal

Max Elijah Grossman, San Jose State University – Fabricating Antiquity: The Piazza del Campo of Siena in the Age of the Republic

OVERSEERS’ ROOM – Exposing Interiority

Chair: Eileen Klink, California State University, Long Beach

Kathleen Kalpin, University of South Carolina, Aiken – Power Circumscribed: Early Modern Representations of Witch Speech

Sharmila Mukherjee, University of Washington – Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and the Limits of Exemplarity

Sabiha Ahmad, University of Michigan – Spiritual Dexterity: The Metallic Arts in Renaissance English Religious Discourse

SEAVER 1&2 – Shakespeare Misanthropology I: Timon of Athens

Chair: Ian Munro, UC Irvine

Aaron Kunin, Pomona College – Timon’s Epitaph

Julia Reinhard Lupton, UC Irvine – Forms of Life in Timon of Athens

Catherine Winiarski, UC Irvine – Scythian Tamburlaine: Neither Greek nor Barbarian

SEAVER 3 – Representing Queens

Chair: Carol Blessing, Point Loma Nazarene University

Elizabeth Martin, University of Maryland, College Park – Sidney’s Sovereign Ladies of May

Adrienne Eastwood, San Jose State University – Representations of Elizabeth I in Popular Culture

Chaeyoon Park, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign – The Happy Ex-Future Queen: Sovereignty and Succession in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

g 10.35 – 11.45 : SESSION TWO h

FRIENDS’ HALL – Raphael of Urbino: Character, Influence, and Legacy

Chair: Sheryl E. Reiss, UC Riverside

Piers D. Britton, University of Redlands – “Le Complessioni di noi pittori”: The Raphael/Michelangelo paragone Revisited

Julian Brooks, The J. Paul Getty Museum – Sugar and Spice: Raphael in Relation to the Zuccaro Brothers

Robert Williams, UC Santa Barbara – Raphael and the Order of the Genres

OVERSEERS’ ROOM – Aesthetics in the Marketplace

Chair: Ria O’Foghludha, Whittier College

John Higgins, UC San Diego – A Name of Great Value: Shakespeare and Eighteenth-Century Affairs of State

Dorothea Herreiner, Loyola Marymount University – The Emergence of Art Dealing in Renaissance Italy

Rory G. Lukins, University of Southern California – Mad Madge and the History of Poesie

SEAVER 1&2 – Shakespeare Misanthropology II: Coriolanus

Chair: Julia Reinhard Lupton, UC Irvine

Bryan Reynolds, UC Irvine – “Give way there, and go on”: Pressurized Belongings and Projective Transversality in Coriolanus

Ian Munro, UC Irvine – “Thus I turn my back”: Theatricality and the War Machine in Coriolanus

Nichole Miller, UC Irvine – Exile, Exchange, Election, Exception: Coriolanus’ Economy

SEAVER 3 – The Body and Spirit of Gender and Sexuality

Chair: Margaret Garber, California State University, Fullerton

Rosalynde Welch, Independent Scholar – Fluid, Fabric, Soma, Self: Body and Identity in The Honest Whore I

William Fisher, Lehman College, CUNY – From the Kiss of the Dove to the Kiss of Love: Kissing and the History of Sexuality

Carol Blessing, Point Loma Nazarene University – Context and Commentary in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judeorum

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11:45-1:15 Lunch

12.45-1.00: RCSC Business Meeting, Overseers Room

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g 1.15 – 2.25 : SESSION THREE h

FRIENDS’ HALL – Speaking Lost Voices

Chair: Kate Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles

Rosi Gilday, Sacramento State University – Prayer Inscriptions on Domestic Devotional Art of the Renaissance

Imtiaz Habib, Old Dominion University – Speaking the Black Self: Black Voices in the Early Modern English Archives, and the Problems of their Reading

Kevin Laam, Oakland University – The Jesuit Politics of Richard Crashaw’s Sospetto D’Herode

OVERSEERS’ ROOM – Genealogy of Lyric

Chair: Jean-Claude Carron, University of California, Los Angeles

Brooke Donaldson, University of Mary Washington – “Pour te voir je pers la vie”: Poetry and Emblems in Maurice Scève’s Délie

James Fujitani, Azusa Pacific University – The Seeds of History: DuBellay’s Antiquitez de Rome

Robert J. Hudson, UCLA – The Petrarchan Lyrical Imperative: An Anthropology of the Renaissance Sonnet

SEAVER 1&2 – Contesting Gendered Spaces

Chair: Constance Jordan, Claremont Graduate University

Sara Luttfring, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign – Monstrous Births and “Fearful Sayings”: Maternity and Women’s Public Speech in Early Modern Britain

Anna Pruitt, UC Davis – “Unripe Issue”: The Struggle for Authority and the New Configurations of the Body Politic in the Oxford Men’s Print Accounts of Anne Greene

Liberty Stanavage, UC Santa Barbara – Englishing Medea: Gender, Marriage, and Elizabethan Anxieties in John Studley’s Medea

SEAVER 3 – Moral Economies

Chair: Andrew Fleck, San Jose State University

David Hawkes, Arizona State University – Milton and Usury

James J. Condon, UC Riverside – Trading with Hell’s Merchandise: The Witch’s Pact and the Economics of Transgression in The Witch of Edmonton

Andrew Battista, University of Kentucky – Resting “Upon the Soiled Gras”: Ritual Purity as a Paradigm of Holiness in Book One of The Faerie Queene

g 2.40 – 3.25 : SESSION FOUR h

Pedagogy workshops: media, technology, interdisciplinarity

FRIENDS’ HALL

Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College – The Rare Book Room as Classroom

Sally Romotsky, CSU Fullerton – English Classroom Theatricals: Shakespeare’s Page Becomes a Classroom Stage

OVERSEERS’ ROOM

J. David Jerez-Gomez, CSU San Bernardino – Dangerous Liaisons: Managing Early Modern Spanish Literature with Technology; or, Don Quixote and the Cyber-Classroom Windmills

Wendy Furman-Adams, Whittier College – Visualizing Paradise Lost: Artists Teaching Milton

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g 3.40 – 4.30 : KEYNOTE LECTURE – FRIENDS’ HALL h

Introduction: Lloyd Kermode

Frances Dolan (University of California, Davis)

“How a Maiden Keeps Her Head: Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the Perils of Marriage”

Closing Remarks: Joseph Gonzalez – incoming RCSC President

g 4.30 – 5.30 : RECEPTION – Friends’ Hall / Terrace h