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Program--Friday,
17 May 2002 |
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Registration,Coffee
and pastries |
Friends'
Hall |
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| 9:00-10:30 |
WelcomeLaurel L.
Hendrix, President, RCSC |
Friends' Hall |
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Session I: Race, Nation, Authorship |
Friends' Hall |
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Chair--Wendy Fuhrman-Adams, Whittier College |
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"Humanist Concerns of Procreation and Writing: Celebrating Authorship in the Prologue of Rabelais' Third Book" |
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Renier Leushuis, Florida State University |
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"The Religious Nation: France in Agrippa d'Aubigne's Les Tragiques" |
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Marcus Keller, University of California, Irvine |
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"George Buchanan's Jephthe and Taxonomic Strategies for Understanding Difference in
Sixteenth-Century Biblical Tragedy" |
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Kristi M. Wilson, Stanford University |
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| 10:45-12:15 |
Session II: Perspectives on Monarchy |
Friends' Hall |
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Chair--Cyndia Clegg, Pepperdine University |
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"The Doubleness of Domesticity: Family and State in Mary Sidney Herbert's
Tragedy of Antonie" Sandra Logan, University of California, San Diego |
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"Humphrey Dyson's Elizabethan Procalmations, 1618"
Alan Nelson, University of California, Berkeley |
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"Just another John: John Milton's The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Repositioned"
Amos Tubb, University of California, Riverside
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| 12:30-1:30 |
Lunch |
Huntington Garden Restaurant (self service) |
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| 1:30-2:00 |
RCSC Business Meeting |
Friends' Hall |
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All RCSC members welcome |
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| 2:00-3:00 |
Session III: Learning by Example |
Overseer's Room |
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Chair--Lawrence
Green, University of Southern California |
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"Charity or Chastity?: Virtue Rewarded in Fenton's Certain Tragical Discourses"
Alison Taufer, California State University, Los Angeles |
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"'We Are Taught by Other Men's Examples How to Fall': Learning and Corruption at the
Elizabethan Public Theater"
Nova Myhill, New College of Florida |
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"'Italian bookes read by me': How William Drummond Learnt Italian"
Jason Lawrence, University of Hull (U.K.) |
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| 3:45-4:30 |
Early Modern Music |
Friends' Hall |
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Performance by Voyces and Vyolls
directed by Shanon P. Zusman, University of Southern California |
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| Saturday, 18 May 2002 |
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Registration |
Friends' Hall |
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Coffee and pastries |
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| 9:00-10:15 |
Session IV: Theatre and Public Order |
Friends' Hall |
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Chair--Lloyd Kermode, California State University, Long Beach |
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"Edgar and Edmund: Saxon History, National Identity, and Social Dislocation in
Elizabethan Drama"
Anthony Martin, Waseda University (Japan) |
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"The Theatre and the Courtroom: Performative Authorities in Ben Jonson's
Bartholomew Fair"
Scott Wood, University of California, Riverside |
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"Displacement and the Social Order in Shakespeare's Pericles"
David Morrow, University of California, San Diego |
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| 10:30-11:45 |
Session V: Anxiety and Politics |
Friends' Hall |
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Chair--Renee Pigeon, California State University, San Bernardino |
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"'These Pictures are, which are indeed but Place': Fulke Greville's Theory of Paranoid Psychology"
Joel Davis, Oklahoma State University |
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"Serena Devoured and the Fate of The Faerie Queene, or Spenser Among Savages"
Julia Major, University of Oregon |
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"'New Sects of Love': Davenant, Neoplatonism, and the Physiology of Desire"
Lesel Dawson, University of Bristol (U.K.) |
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Conference Luncheon |
Friends' Hall Garden Terrace
(Advance reservations required) |
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| 1:30-2:45 |
Session VI: Gender and the Arts |
Friends' Hall |
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Chair--Maryanne Horowitz, Occidental College |
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"Marie de Medici, Actresses, Machinery, and a Cultural Paradigm Shift"
Melissa Aaron, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
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"Generic and Gender (Re)fusal in Katherine Philips' Poetry"
Sheree Meyer, California State University, Sacramento |
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"The Virgin Mary as Scholar: A Subversive Theme in Renaissance Painting"
Isaiah Smithson, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville |
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| 3:00-4:15 |
RCSC Annual Lecture |
Friends' Hall |
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"Father Time as Multiculturalist: Calendar and Reform in Renaissance England"
Anne Lake Prescott, Professor of English, Barnard College,
and Editor, Spenser Studies |
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| 4:15 |
Closing Remarks |
Friends' Hall |
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Erika Mae Olbricht, incoming RCSC President |
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| 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 andAnne Slaney for their assistance in coordinating this event. |
