8:30-9:00 Registration 
Coffee and pastries 


9:00-10:30 Welcome 
Laurel L. Hendrix, President, RCSC 
Session I: John Milton Friends' Hall 
Chair--Susanne Collier, California State Univ. Northridge 
"That be far from thee': Divine Evil and Milton's Attempt to 'Justify the ways of God to men'"
Michael Bryson, Northwestern University 
"Epic God's-Eye Views"
Tobias Gregory, California State University, Northridge 
"Milton and Circe: Gendering the Voice of the Seducer"
Stella P. Revard, Professor Emerita, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 


10:45-12:15 Session II: Marguerite de Navarre 
Chair--Laurel L. Hendrix, California State Univ. Fresno 
"Diplomatic Contradictions: Marguerite's Relations with England"
Velvet Pearson, Bakersfield College 
"Quod licit principi: Law and the Limits of Royal Absolutism"
Heather James, University of Southern California 
"Coming Back: The Logic of Laughter in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron" 
Dora Polachek, Binghamton University 


12:30-1:30 Lunch Huntington Garden Restaurant (self service) 


1:30-2:00 RCSC Business Meeting
All RCSC members welcome 


2:00-3:00 Session III: Representing Female Identity
Chair--Ria O'Foghludha, Whittier College 
"Piero di Cosimo's Portrait of a Florentine Lady as the Magdelene: 
The Refashioning of an Iconographical Tradition"
Vanessa Walker-Oates, University of California, Los Angeles 
"A 'perfect hole': Narrative Singularity and Iconographic Constructions of Womanhood 
in The Faerie Queene 4.9-10"
Laurel L. Hendrix, California State University, Fresno 
"Properzia de' Rossi: Female Artist Fashioning Female Imagery"
Gina Strumwasser, California State University, Fresno 


3:45-4:30 Early Modern Music
"Harpsichord Music of the English Renaissance School of Composers" 
Sally Mosher, Harpsichordist 


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Saturday, 19 May 2001


8:30-9:00 Registration 
Coffee and pastries 


9:00-10:15 Session IV: Public Spectacle and Propaganda 
Chair--Steve Wardinski, University of California, Los Angeles 
"Ritual in the Duchy of Milan: The Case of Vivegano"
Constance J. Moffatt, Pierce College 
"Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and the Scholar in his Study: Patronage and Propaganda 
in the Ognissanti Church"
Julia I. Miller, California State University, Long Beach 
"The Use of Elizabethan Tournament in the Advancement of a Private Agenda"
Daphne Pearson, University of Sheffield 



10:30-11:45 Session V: Early Seventeenth Century English Drama 
Chair--Melissa Aaron, California Polytechnic University, Pomona 
"Female Heroism in Heywood's Tragic Farce of Adultery: 
A Woman Killed with Kindness"
Theresia de Vroom, Loyola Marymount University 
"Engaging Jewish Texts to Construct an Authentic Female Identity in 
The Tragedy of Mariam"
Ronit Berger, Rice University 
"Female Ambiguity and Anatomical Ambiguity in Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore" 
Andrea Vandeyck, University of British Columbia 


12:00-1:15 Conference Luncheon
(Advance reservations required) 


1:30-2:45 Session VI: Bodily Surfaces in Music and Art 
Chair--Eric Frank, Occidental College 
"Sacred Structure, Scriptural Sense: Josquin's Huc me sydereo"
Kate Bartel, University of California, Los Angeles 
"Becoming Flesh: Monteverdi, Zephyr and the Dancing Body" 
Gordon Haramaki, University of California, Los Angeles 
"Likeness in Renaissance Portraiture: How Paint Becomes Flesh"
Jack M. Greenstein, University of California, San Diego 


3:00-4:00 RCSC Annual Lecture
"Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave: 
Vasari's Lives of the Artists and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship" 
Harry Berger, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History, 
University of California, Santa Cruz 


4:00-4:30 Dessert and Coffee 

The Renaissance Conference of Southern California gratefully acknowledges the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens for its continuing sponsorship of our annual meetings. Our thanks in particular to Evie Cutting, Anne Slaney, and Peggy Kelly for their assistance in coordinating this event.