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8:30 a.m. - Registration, outside Friends Hall

9:00 - Welcome: George Gorse (Pomona College) RCSC President

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Session 1     9:15-10:30

A. Civic Identity

Chair: George Gorse (Pomona College) - Friends Hall

Max Grossman (San Jose State University), “Sienese Civic Architecture at the Dawn of the Renaissance”

Elizabeth Carroll (Stanford University), “Venice’s Faithful Firstborn: An Examination of Civic and Artistic Identity in Early Renaissance Vicenza”

Miranda Routh (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), Vittore Carpaccio’s Vision of Saint Augustine”

B. Life Cycle and Female Community

Chair: Maryanne Horowitz (Occidental College) - Overseers Roo 

Costanza Gislon Dopfel (Saint Mary’s College), “Holy Mothers: The Nativity of the Virgin and the Experience of Birth-Giving in the Italian Renaissance”

Amyrose Gill (UC Berkeley), “Vera amicizia: Marriage and Friendship in the Quattrocento”

Marion Wells (Middlebury College), “Broken Flowers: The Death of the Virgin in Epic from Virgil to Tasso”

C. Gender Transformation

Chair: Lloyd Kermode (CSU Long Beach) - Seaver 1 and 2

Laurel Hendrix (CSU Fresno), “Complexity and Closure: Spenser’s Halting Problem”

Adrienne Eastwood (San Jose State University), “The English Epithalamium in Sixteenth-Century Popular Culture”

D. Hidden Texts

Chair: Michael Allen (UCLA) - Seaver 3

Gayle K. Brunelle (California State University, Fullerton), “The Spanish Inquisition Abroad: the Surveillance of Conversos in Early Modern France”

Rosella Pescatori (UCLA), “Kabbalistic Elements in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Leone Ebreo”

Frank R. Ardolino (University of Manoa, Hawaii), “‘Che le Ieron’ and the Mystery of The Spanish Tragedy”

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Session 2     10:45-Noon

E. Gender and the Other

Chair: Eunice Howe (USC) - Friends Hall

Lisa Boutin (UCLA), “Constructing Gender on the Venetian Lagoon: New Light on Carpaccio’s Two Ladies Overlooking a Hunt”

Joanna Woods-Marsden (UCLA), “The ‘Other’ in Renaissance Court Portraiture”

Christine Sellin (California Lutheran University), “Scripture as Didactic Domestic Drama: the Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael in Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Art and Literature”

F. Domestic Records

Chair: Joseph Gonzalez (CSU Fullerton) - Overseers Room 

Alan Nelson (UC Berkeley), “St. Giles, Cripplegate, 1560-1640: Portrait of a London Parish”

Rosi Gilday (Sacramento State University), “The Artist as Entrepreneur: Neri di Bicci’s Ricordanze”

Kate Heckmann (USC), “Text and Image in the Kitchen: Culinary Practices Conveyed Through Print”

Valerie Taylor (Santa Monica College), “Stories from the Vault: Traveling Silver at the Gonzaga Court of Mantua (1400-1500)”

G. Gender and Text

Chair: Andrew Fleck (San Jose State University) - Seaver 1 and 2

Joyce Boro (University of Montreal), “The Fe/Male Readership of Early Modern English Romance”

Elizabeth Mazzola (City College of New York), “Miroir or Glasse: The Translations of Princess Elizabeth and the Seymour Sisters”

Amos Tubb (Centre College), “Mrs. Love’s Lost Labor”

Rosalynde Welch (Independent Scholar), “Mary Sidney’s Psalmes and Private Conscience”

H. Intersecting Codes: Genres-Crossing in 16^th-Century France

Chair: Muriel McClendon (UCLA) - Seaver 3

Cécile Alduy (Stanford University), “Love and War: the Epic Subtext of French Lyric Poetry (1549-1562)”

Richard L. Regosin (UC Irvine), “Montaigne and the Theater of the Self”

Jean-Claude Carron (UCLA), “Philosophical discourse and literary interferences”

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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

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Session 3     1:30-2:45

I. Outer and Inner Devotion

Chair: Sheryl Reiss (UC Riverside) - Friends Hall

Bertram Kaschek (Getty Center), “Landscape and Ritual: Pieter Bruegel and the Heritage of Books of Hours”

Letha Chien (UC Berkeley), “The Human and the Divine: Tintoretto on Corporeal Disintegration”

Christian Kleinbub (Ohio State University), “Raphael’s Reform of the Devotional Image: The Case of the ‘Transfiguration’”

J. High/Low

Chair: Joanna Woods-Marsden (UCLA) - Overseers Room

Christian Neilson (Frick Collection), “Burlesque poetry and satirical drawing in Quattrocento Florence”

Jane Kristof (Portland State University), “Two Hoofs in the Sistine”

Joanne Snow-Smith (University of Washington), “Michelangelo’s Radical Break with the Past in his Last Judgment”

K. Clothes and the Body

Chair: Jennifer Andersen (CSU San Bernardino) - Seaver 1 and 2

Lee A. Ritscher (UC, Santa Cruz), “The Rape of Philomela: Silence and Speech”

Sally Romotsky (CSU, Fullerton), “Dressing the Leg: Stockings, Shakespeare, and the Elizabethan Economy”

Andrea Lawson (UC Irvine), “Farewells and Gifts in Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday

L. Performance

Chair: Nancy Van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University) - Seaver 3

Anthony Welch (University of Tennessee), “‘Qual musico gentil’: Ariosto, Tasso, and Musical Humanism”

J. David Jerez-Gómez (CSU, San Bernardino), “Voicing the written text: Oralization of literature in Early Modern Spanish society”

Lisa Dickson (University of North British Columbia), “Dying Twice: Mock Death and Metatheatre in Webster’s The White Devil”

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Plenary Address, 3-3:55 p.m.

Friends Hall

Paula Findlen

Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University

“The Death of a Naturalist: Knowledge and Community in Renaissance Italy”

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Closing Remarks - Lloyd Kermode, Incoming RCSC President

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Wine & Cheese Reception in Honor of Professor Findlen

on the Veranda

with Renaissance guitar music