Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Graduate Early Modern Student Society.
April 28 from 8:00am-6:30pm
- 8:00am: Registration and breakfast (Founder’s Room-Floor 2 of Memorial Union)
- 9:00-10:15am: Panel 1 (Consciousness and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean) at UW-Madison Special Collections Classroom
- Moderator: Lizzie Neary, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- 1. Jorge Hernández-Lasa, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- “Silent Ambassadors and Compass of Intentions: Epistolary Consciousness in the Early Modern Spanish Poetic Realm”
- 2. Mateusz J. Ferens, Department of Art History
- “Byzantine Continuity: A Veil of Denial and Resistance?”
- 3. Nayoung Kim, Department of Art History
- “De-coloration as Conversion: Filippino Lippi’s Strozzi Chapel Frescoes”
- 10:30am-12:00pm: Keynote Address at UW-Madison Special Collections Classroom
- Dr. Niall Atkinson
- “Transgression as knowledge production in early modern Italian travel accounts”
- 12:00-1:00pm: Lunch
- 1:00-2:15pm: Panel 2 (Gender and Dramaturgy in John Lyly’s Galathea at UW-Madison Special Collections Classroom
- Moderator: Andie Barrow, Department of English
- 1. Brendan McNeely, Department of English
- “The Offstage Overworld: Materiality, Games, and Play in Galathea”
- 2. Alex Paulson, Department of English
- “Trans Resonances: Towards a Trans(gender) Temporality”
- 2:30-3:40pm: Panel 3 (Early Modern Spectacles and Provocations) at UW-Madison Special Collections Classroom
- Moderator: Elise Kerns, Department of English
- 1. Miranda Alksnis, Department of English
- “Should early modernists do something about Andrew Tate? An analysis of the 2023 Ficino listserv incel controversy”
- 2. Alice Coulter Main, Department of History
- ““Un Spectacle d’horreur”: Theater, Gender, and Terror in the Revolutionary Midi (1793-1795)”
- 3. Isaac Lee, Department of History
- “Runaway Americans and The Spectacle of Seeking Freedom”
- 4:00-5:30pm: Panel 4 (Bardic Transgressions: Shaking up Shakespeare) at UW-Madison Special Collections Classroom
- Moderator: Scott Campbell, PhD Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies
- 1. Bridget Anderson, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies
- “Between Henry V’s Sheets: Reading Transgressive Dramaturgy in the Marginalia of the St. Omer First Folio”
- 2. Clara Blanco, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies
- “Performing Korea in Yohangza’s Hamlet: Ancient traditions, realizing modernity and globalization”
- 3. Sarah Olson, Department of English
- ““Spirits to Enforce, Art to Enchant”: Ariel as Living Prosthesis in The Tempest”
- 5:30-6:30pm: Dinner and Farewell