2003

8:30-9:00	Registration	Friends Hall
9:00-11:00	Session I: Theatre, Spectacle, and Image in Renaissance Italy	Friends Hall
	Chair: Melissa Aaron, Cal Poly Pomona

	"Un poco piu triviale': Michelangelo Buonarroti 'il giovane' (1568-1647) and Court Theatrical spectacles in Seicento Florence" Janie Cole, The Medici Archive Project

	"Ludovico Ariosto's contrapuntal dramaturgy" Sergio Costola, Loyola Marymount University
	"The Senex amans in Machiavelli's Clizia and Giannotti's Il vecchio amoroso: Intergenerational Conflict in a Medicean Context" Anthony Ellis, UC Santa Barbara

	"Nudity as Propaganda in Italian Renaissance Ruler Portraiture" Jennie Wehmeier, UCLA

11:15-12:00	Session II: The House and the Street	Friends Hall
	Chair: Wendy Furman-Adams, Whittier College

	"Streetwalkers, Homemakers, and the Female Poet: Isabella Whitney's Negotiations of Urban, Literary and Domestic Spaces in A Sweet Nosegay" Soren Hammerschmidt, UC Santa Barbara

	"Constructing Privacy: The Montague Family and the Performance of Household Affect" Mary Trull, Macalester College

12:00-1:30	Lunch (Huntington Garden Restaurant--self service)
1:30-2:00	RCSC Business Meeting (all members welcome)	Overseers Room

2:00-3:15	Session III: Vision, Sensation, and Fantasy	Overseers Room
	Chair: Laurel Hendrix, CSU Fresno

	"John Donne, The Poet as Connoisseur: Continental Art Theory Travels to England" Ann Hurley, Wagner College

	"Fantasy and Techne: How-To Economies in A Midsummer Night's Dream" Don Hedrick, Kansas State University

	"Lucy Hutchinson and the Libertine Body" Alvin Snider, University of Iowa

3:30-4:30	Renaissance Music performed by The Concordia Sonore	Friends Hall
	Directed by N. Lincoln Hanks, Pepperdine University


	SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2003

8:30-9:00	Registration

9:00-9:45	Session IV: South American Encounters	Friends Hall
	Chair: Rafael Chabran, Whittier College

	"The Incas' Royal Commentaries at the Intersection of Idolatry and Vain Religion" Damian Bacich, UCLA

	"Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World as a Supplement to his Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596)" Paul R. Sellin, UCLA

10:00-11:15	Women and History	Friends Hall
	Chair: Mihoko Suzuki,University of Miami

	"Toward a History of Intimacy: Women in Early Modern Spain" Lisa Vollendorf, Wayne State University

	"Reading and books in seventeenth century English convents" Caroline Bowden, St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill

	"Mary, Queen of Scots, and Gender Issues" Retha Warnicke, Arizona State University

11:30-12:30	Pedagogy Roundtable	Friends Hall
	Cyndia Clegg, Pepperdine University
	Eunice Howe, USC
	Constance Jordan, Claremont Graduate School
	Paul Knoll, USC
	Kirstie McClure, UCLA

12:30-1:30	Lunch on the Garden Terrace (advance reservations required)

1:45-3:00	Session VI: Reformations	Friends Hall
	Chair: Ed Rocklin, Cal Poly Pomona

	"From Thelema to Geneva: the construction of a territorial church as the origin of the quarrel between Calvin and Rabelais" Isabelle Fernbach, UC Berkeley

	"Saracen Other / Faithless Self: Reformation and Subjectivity in Sixteenth-Century Epic" Ty Buckman, Wittenberg University

	"Henry More and John Milton: Another look at the Son's Chariot in Book VI of Paradise Lost" Stella Revard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

3:15-4:30	Plenary Address	Friends Hall
	"Secular Teaching and Protestant Imagination: the "How-To" Book in England, 1570-1620"
	Lori Anne Ferrell Professor of Reformation and Early Modern Studies Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology

4:30	Closing Remarks	Friends Hall
	Tobias Gregory, incoming President of the RCSC