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510-384-0769

Renaissance Conference of Northern California

Saturday, 7 May 2005

University of California, Berkeley, Wheeler Hall

PROGRAM

Coffee and Registration 8:15-9:00, 330 Wheeler. Registrar: Jennifer K. Nelson

First Morning Session 9:00-10:20

Group 1 202 Wheeler Shakespeare I. Chair: Benjamin Griffin, UC Berkeley

  1. Stephen Ratcliffe, Mills College, "Offstage Shakespeare."
  2. Joseph Ring, University of California, Berkeley, "An Early Modern Theater of Attractions: Aesthetics of Astonishment in The Winter's Tale."
  3. Joel E. Slotkin, Stanford University, "Prodigies and Chimeras: The Aesthetics of the Monstrous in Shakespeare's England."
Group 2 203 Wheeler Women Talking. Chair: Jim Pearce, Meredith College
  1. Rachelle Gold, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "How Women Talk Back in the English Fabliau: Johan Johan's Tib and Feminine Rhetoric."
  2. Fiona Smythe, University of California, Berkeley, "Elizabeth I in Portraiture."
  3. Linda Mitchell, San Jose State University, "Women and Voyeurism in the English Epistolary Tradition."
Group 3 204 Wheeler Language and Literature. Chair: Rebekah Ahrendt, UC Berkeley
  1. Tanya Brolaski, University of California, Berkeley, "Mirroring in Error: The Imperfect Symmetry of Linguistic Sames in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors."
  2. Bonnie Cox, San Jose State University, "Do You See What I Mean?: Punctuation Play in Early Modern England."
  3. Helen B. Brooks, Stanford University, "Discursive Identities and the Dialogic Mode of John Donne's Poetry."

Coffee and Registration 10:20-10:30, 330 Wheeler. Registrar: Jennifer K. Nelson

Second Morning Session 10:30-11:50

Group 1 202 Wheeler Shakespeare II. Chair: Rachelle Gold, UNC Chapel Hill

  1. Andrew Majeske, University of California, Davis, "The Seduction of Context: Shakespeare's Measure for Measure."
  2. Jim Pearce, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, "Rhetoric, Receptivity, and Performance of Femininity in Julius Caesar."
  3. Vanessa Rapatz, University of California, Davis, "Intransitive Atonement: Purgation and Regulation in Coriolanus and As You Like It."
Group 2 203 Wheeler: Art History. Chair: Mary Kay Duggan, UC Berkeley.
  1. Susan M. Bailey, Independent Scholar, "A Reinterpretation of the Primavera: A Female Perspective."
  2. Preston Bautista, Getty Foundation; and Graduate Center, City University of New York, "The Hermaphrodite Effect: Sexual Ambiguity, Spirituality, and the Feminized Male Body."
  3. Andrew Fleck, San Jose State University, "Between Ekphrasis and Prosopopoeia: Dryden and the Painter Poems."

Lunch 12:00-1:00 Recommended: The Musical Offering, 2430 Bancroft Way

Plenary Lecture: 1:10-1:50. Chair: Alan H. Nelson, UC Berkeley

Gene A. Brucker, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley: "Confessions of an Archival Junkie."

Afternoon Session: 2:00-3:20

Group 1 202 Wheeler: Spain. Chair: Charles B. Faulhaber, UC Berkeley

  1. Mary Curtis, University of California, Davis, "Swordplay and Wordplay: An Introduction to the Culture of the Sword in Renaissance Spain."
  2. Esther Fernandez, University of California, Davis, "Embodying Power, Performing Desire: Mariana Vaca and Lope de vega's The Valencian Widow."
  3. Amy F. Pettigrew, University of California, Davis, "The Trickster Figure of Traditional Folklore in Cervantes' masterpiece, Don Quixote."
Group 2 203 Wheeler Early Modern Group. Convenor: Catherine Burriss, UC Berkeley
  1. Fiona Murphy, University of California, Berkeley, "Fictions of the Found Manuscript: Early Modern Women's Strategic Use of Posthumous Publication."
  2. John Hill, University of California, Berkeley, "The Ethics of Secrecy in The Heptameron."
  3. Catherine Burriss, University of California, Berkeley, "Identity, Truth, and Comic Form in Aretino's Talanta."
Group 3 204 Wheeler Literature and History. Chair: Gene A. Brucker, UC Berkeley
  1. W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State University, "Jack of Newbury: Power Relations and the Middling Sort."
  2. William Jones, University of California, Santa Cruz, Cowell College, "'A Satyr Without Horns': The Bishops' Ban of 1599 and Modes of Satire at the End of Elizabeth's Reign."
  3. Lisa Kaborycha, University of California, Berkeley, "Transvestites, Anchorites, Wives and Martyrs: Legends of Female Saints and How They Were Read by 15th-Century Florentine Women."

Closing Reception 3:30-4:10, Campanile Esplanade. Sponsored by Early Modern Group

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