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Renaissance Conference of Southern California

Annual Meeting
Meeting Jointly with The South Central Renaissance Conference
4-5 March 2005
Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

Friday, 4 March 2005
   
8:30-9:00   REGISTRATION – Coffee and Pastries
   
9:00-9:10   WELCOME by RCSC President, Jennifer Andersen
   
9:10-10:30   SESSION I
   
Panel A   ARIOSTO, TASSO, SPENSER
   
    Chair:  Wendy Furman-Adams (Whittier College)
   
    Not Less But More Heroic:  the Revision of Epic Heroism in Italian Renaissance Criticism
              Christopher Bond (Yale University)
   
    Le Donne Angelice:  Women as Ecphrasis in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
              Grace C. Chan (University of Illinois)
   
    “Truth ill towld”:  Spenser’s Shadowing in the Hilliardesque Context
              Tianhu Hao (Columbia University)
   
Panel B   WHOSE RENAISSANCE?
   
    Chair:  Laurel Hendrix (California State University, Fresno)
   
    Anne Boleyn:  Woman Composer of the English Renaissance?
              Janet Pollack (University of Puget Sound)
   
    Drama and the Royal Body:  the Coronation Procession of Anne Boleyn
              Carrie Meathrell (University of California, Los Angeles)
   
    Did Horses Have a Renaissance?
              Pia F. Cuneo (University of Arizona)
   
Panel C   EAST AND WEST
   
    Chair:  to be announced
   
    Montaigne’s Turks:  Orientalism and Religious Alterity in the Essais
              Marcus Keller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
   
    Translating the French Connection:  Shakespeare and Eurocentrism in Poland and Russia
              Nina Chordas (University of Alaska Southeast)
   
    ‘Anxiety of Influence’:  Francisco López de Gómara and Bernal Díaz del Castillo
              Cristina Jae Won Moon (University of California, Los Angeles)
   
10:45-12:15   SESSION II
   
Panel  D   KNOWING AND SEEING
   
    Chair:  George Gorse (Pomona College)
   
    Out of the Shadows:  Alberti and Architecture in fifteenth-century Roman Painting
              Eunice D. Howe (University of Southern California)
   
    The Visual Universe of Raphael:  Metaphors of Vision in the Stanza d’Elidoro
              Christian Kraemer Kleinbub (Columbia University)
   
    Michelangelo’s David as Conceptual Sculpture
              Michael Grillo (University of Maine)
   
Panel E   SHAKESPEARE
   
    Chair:  Lloyd Kermode (California State University, Long Beach)
   
    The Matter of Culture in Troilus and Cressida
              Ian Munro (University of California, Irvine)
   
    Tailors in Early Modern England and in Shakespeare
              Sally Romotsky (California State University, Fullerton)
   
    Becomings Roman/ Comings-to-be Villain:  Pressurized Belongings and the Coding of Ethnicity, Religion, Nationality in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
              Glenn Odom and Bryan Reynolds (University of California, Irvine)
   
Panel F   GHOSTLY RUINS
   
    Chair:  Rebecca Lemon (University of Southern California)
   
    The Rhetoric of Ruin in Renaissance England
              Rebeca Helfer (University of California, Irvine)
   
    “The Ruines of Time” and the “Antique History” of Canto 3, Book III of The Faerie Queene
              Ann Marie Ross (California State University, Fullerton)
   
    The Ghostly Speech of a Discordant Nation in Edward Hall’s Union of the Illustre Houses of Lancastre and York
              Elizabeth M. Sturgeon (Orange Coast College)
     
   
12:30-1:30   LUNCH available for purchase at Huntington Garden Restaurant
   
1:30-2:00   RCSC BUSINESS MEETING - Election of new officer.  All RCSC members welcome.
   
2:00-3:30   SESSION III
   
Panel G   BOOK ARTS
   
    Chair:  Cyndia Clegg (Pepperdine University)
   
    The Stationers Register and Lost Literature of Elizabethan England
              Alan H. Nelson (University of California at Berkeley)
   
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