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Renaissance Conference of Southern California Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting 11 March 2006
8:30 a.m. Registration, outside Friends Hall
9:00 a.m. Welcome Ria O'Foghludha, Whittier College RCSC President
Session I 9:15-10:30
A. The Cook, the Pirate, the Barber, and his Whores Chair: Erika Mae Olbricht, Pepperdine University Friends Hall Mark Albert Johnston, University of Southern California Barbers are Trim Knaves: The Early Modern Barber-shop as Brothel John Kunat, Sonoma State University Outlaws and Rebels: Representing Pirates in Early Modern Ballads
B. Sight, Spirit, and Belief Chair: Tobias Gregory, Claremont McKenna College Overseers Room Lisa Dickson, University of Northern British Columbia The Prince of Rays: Spectacular Invisibility in Spenser's The Faerie Queen Garth Reese, Claremont Graduate University Trinitarian Errors and the Lesser Circulation: A Case of Theology and "Science" in Concert in the Writings of Michael Servetus Laurel Hendrix, California State University, Fresno Fractals in the Mind of God: Contemporary Chaos and Renaissance Cosmology
Session II 10:45-Noon
C. Studies in Italian Cinquecento Painting Chair: Eunice Howe, University of Southern California Friends Hall Mary Vaccaro, University of Texas at Arlington Correggio and his "Workshop": The Case of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma Heather Sexton, University of California, Los Angeles Female Flesh and Christ's Humanity: Titian's Penitent Magdalen in Context Kristin A. Arioli, University of Southern California Jacopo Ripanda, Trajan's Column, and Artistic Fame in Renaissance Rome
D. The Economics of Gender Chair: Wendy Furman-Adams, Whittier College Overseers Room Simone Chess, University of California, Santa Barbara "His son in the stead of his daughter": Crossdressing in a Gendered Economy Stephen Deng, University of California, Santa Barbara The Necessary Root of All Evil: Money and the Moral State in More's Utopia
E. The Ottoman Empire and the English Imagination Chair: Cyndia Clegg, Pepperdine University Seaver 1 Carol Mejia-LaPerle, Arizona State University "The Glorious empire of the Turkes, the present terror of the world": Turkish Cruelty in Robert Greene's Selimus, Emperor of the Turks Gordon Lester, University of Guelph "Making a profit of my policy": The English Arms Trade and the Turkey Company in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta Linda Salamon, George Washington University "Muhammad Speaks" to the English: Turks in Boorde's Introduction to Knowledg (1546?)
F. Montaigne, Identity, and Space Chair: Maryanne Horowitz, Occidental College Seaver 2 Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller, University of Southern California Politics of Montaigne: Prudentia in Book I of the Essais Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy Teleology and Space in Michel de Montaigne's Of Cannibals
Lunch 12-1:30 p.m. Lunch is available at the Garden Room Cafe (self-service) RCSC Business Meeting, Overseers Room 1:00-1:20
Session III 1:30-2:45
G. Reform and the Textual Body Chair: Renee Pigeon, California State University, San Bernardino Friends Hall Antonia Szabari, University of Southern California Dismembering the Greeks in the French Reformation George Gorse, Pomona College Title TBA
H. Love, Sin, and Uncertainty Chair: Martine van Elk, California State University, Long Beach Overseers Room Rochelle Bradley, Texas A & M University Sin and Uncertainty in Donne's Anniversaries Kris McAbee, University of California, Santa Barbara "Redoubled horror": The Nervous Text of Anne Vaughan Locke's A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner Ann Ross, California State University, Dominguez Hills The Making of Masques: Political Allegory and Courtly Audience in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory and the Countess of Montgomerie's Urania
I. Shakespeare Chair: Jenny Andersen, California State University, San Bernardino Seaver 1 Frank Ardolino, University of Hawaii "Lord, how art thou chang'd!": The Incarnation of Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice (2.2) Rebeca Helfer, University of California, Irvine Remembering Shakespeare's Ruins Sally Robertson Romotsky, California State University, Fullerton Counterfeit and Clothing in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV
J. Proximities to Death Chair: Muriel McClendon, University of California at Los Angeles Seaver 2 Lorna Fitzsimmons, California State University, Dominguez Hills The Faustian Musical Compact and the Maternal Voice Andrew D. McCarthy, Washington State University A Most Intimate Enemy: The Question of Intimacy in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Closing Remarks George Gorse, Incoming RCSC President Reception honoring Professor Copenhaver and the Past Presidents of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California in the Garden Terrace
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