2003

9:00-9:30	Registration	Friends Hall
9:30-11:00	Session I: Ordering of Space Chair: George Gorse, Pomona College "Honestamente Bella: Reconsidering Vitruvius in Alvise Cornaro's 'Trattato d'Architettura', " Arthur Di Furia, University of Delaware "End of an Era: Chantries at St. Paul's in the first half of the sixteenth century," Marie-Helene Rousseau, University Laval, Quebec "Seeing and Being Seen: Female Gaze and Representation in Italian Renaissance Theater," Sergio Costola, Southwestern University	Friends Hall
11:15-12:00	Session II: Harmony, Order, and the Dynamics of the Cosmos Chair: Arlene Stiebel, California State University, Northridge "An Advertisement of Music's Power? Temporal Symmetry in the Prologue of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo," Ilias Chrissochoidis, Stanford University "The Feminine Birth of the Mind: Regendering the Subject in Bacon and his Followers," Catherine Gimelli Martin, University of Memphis	Friends Hall
12-1:30	Lunch	Huntington Garden Cafeteria
1:30-2:00	RCSC Business meeting (all members welcome)	Overseers Room
2:00-3:15	Session III: English and Others Chair: Edward Rocklin, California Polytechnic University, Pomona "Early Modern Alienation: Elizabethan Drama and the Confusion of Englishness," Lloyd Edward Kermode, California State University, Long Beach "A Spaniolized Englishman? John Smith and Heroic Models of Conquest,"Alice Espinosa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Overseers Room
3:30-4:30	"Motley Crew: Keyboards of the Renaissance" Richard Grayson, Harpsichord	Friends Hall
Saturday, February 21
8:30-9:00	Registration	Friends Hall
9:00-10:15	Session IV: National Identities in Northern Europe Chair: Maryanne Horowitz, Occidental College "The Old Testament's Virtuous Abraham as Polygamist? Theological, Literary and Artistic Developments in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Culture," Christine Petra Sellin, University of California, Los Angeles "Humanist Oration at the Funeral of Gustavus Vasa," Joseph Gonzalez, California State University, Fullerton "Alciato's Emblematum Liber and Rubens' Venus Frigida, Anat Gilboa, Frankfurt, Germany	Friends Hall
10:30-11:15	Session V: Aspects of Jewish Humanism Chair: Tobias Gregory, Claremont McKenna College "The Hope of Israel and God's England: Menasseh ben Israel's Case for Readmission of the Jews," Kara Miller, Tufts University "What Giovanni Pico Taught his Teacher, Yohenan Alemanno," Arthur M.Lesley, Baltimore Hebrew University	Friends Hall
11:30-12:30	Roundtable Discussion on Pedagogy John Geerken, Scripps College George Gorse, Pomona College Jean Howard, Columbia University Alan H. Nelson, University of California, Berkeley	Friends Hall
12:30-2:00	Lunch	Huntington Garden Cafeteria
2:00-3:00	Session VI: Dialogues of Love Chair: Doreen O'Connor-Gomez, Whittier College. "Cabalistic Androgyny: Reading the Myth of Androgine in Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'Amore," Rossella Pescatori, University of California, Los Angeles "The Intellectual Procuress: Celestina's Legacy and the Magic of Rhetoric," Costanza Dopfel and Alvaro Ramirez, Saint Mary's College	Friends Hall
3:15-4:30	RCSC Annual Lecture Michael J.B. Allen Professor of English Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies University of California, Los Angeles "Renaissance Platonism and its Damnèd Heresies"	Friends Hall
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