8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:30 Poetry and Theology 
Chair: Jennifer Andersen, CSU San Bernardino

Sadia Abbas, Brown University, "Polemic and Paradox in Southwell’s Lyric Poetry"

Tobias Gregory, C.S.U. Northridge, "Tasso, Homer and Divine Counterbalance"

Adrienne L. Eastwood, U.C.S.D., "Erotic, Politic Poetics: Elizabethan Epithalamia"

10:45-12:15 Non-Shakespearean Drama
Chair: Erika Olbricht, Pepperdine Univesity

Melissa Aaron, Cal Poly, Pomona, "Dea ex Machina or Queens and Machines: Theater Technology, Actresses and Royal Femal Producers"

Andrew Fleck, Claremont Graduate University, "’Vulgar Fingers’: Caroline Drama and News in the Public Sphere"

Cynthia Bowers, De Paul University "’I will Write Satires Still’: Ben Johnson and Free Speech"

12:30-2:00 Lunch (The Huntington Garden Restaurant)

2:00-3:30 Spenser
Chair: Laurel Hendrix, CSU Fresno

Thomas Atwell, U.C. San Diego"Mammon’s Cave: An Architectural Digest"

Michael Ullyot, University of Toronto"’Yet the End is Not’: The Limits of History in The Faerie Queene"

Elizabeth Truax, Chapman University"Spenser and Raleigh: Politics, Patronage and the Imperial Dream"

SATURDAY, 20 MAY 2000 Friend's Hall

9:00-10:15 Reading Documentary History
Chair: Susanne Collier, CSU Northridge

Alison Taufer, C.S.U. Los Angeles, "’Extraordinary Enormities and Monstrous Doings’: Holinshed’s 1577 Chronicles and Mary, Queen of Scots"

Brent Whitted, Marlborough School, "The Bench Press: Parlimentary Records of the Inns of Court"

Alan H. Nelson, U.C. Berkeley, "Shakespeare’s London Neighborhood: 1602-1606"

10:30-11:45 Reading the Material Arts
Chair: Tobias Gregory, CSU Northridge

Sally Mosher, Huntington Library, "Renaissance Jewelry"

Charles Henebry, Harvad University, "Figures of Speech/Speaking Images: The Emblem Book as Rhetorical Handbook"

Ria O’Foghludha, Whittier College, "The Renaissance of Castiglione"

12:00-1:15 LUNCH ON THE TERRACE (pre-paid)

1:30-2:30 Eco-Poetics
Chair: Lois Feuer, CSU Dominguez Hills

Wendy Furman-Adams, Whittier College, "Saying it with Flowers: Jane Giraud and Her Visual Interpretation of Paradise Lost"

Diane McColley, Rutgers University, "Vegetable Gold: The Poetry and Politics of Trees"

2:45-3:45 PLENARY ADDRESS

H. Ansgar Kelly, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: "Policing Sex in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"

4:00-4:30 Dessert and Coffee on the Terrace