6th Annual GEMSS Symposium

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Memorial Library, Special Collections Library
@ 8:00 am - 6:30 pm

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