“Gender and Belief in the Early Modern World”
One-day Workshop, to be held on
Friday 9 November 2007
at the University of Warwick
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
as part of the Mellon-Newberry Programme
The Spaces of the Past: Renaissance and Early Modern Cultures in Transatlantic Context
University of Warwick, Scarman House, Lecture room 4
10-10.30
Registration and coffee
10.30
Welcome and Introduction (Dr Ingrid De Smet, Director, Centre for the Study of the
Renaissance)
Session 1: Open or closed? Gender, belief and community in a transatlantic perspective
10.35-11.10
Dr Silvia Evangelisti (University of East Anglia): “Female Religious Communities in
Early Modern Europe”
11.10-11.45
Prof. Lyndal Roper (Balliol College, Oxford): “Luther and the Household: Myth and
Reality”
11.45-12.30
Prof. Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “Gender and
Religion in Early Modern Colonialism: an Overview”
12.30-12.45
Round table discussion
12.45-1.45pm
Lunch
Session 2: Configurations of Gender and Belief
1.45-2.20
Prof. Em. Brenda Hosington (Associate Research Fellow, CSR, Warwick): “Faith and
Gender in English Renaissance Women Translators' Paratexts”
2.20-2.45
2.45-3.10
3.10-3.30
Kimberley Martin (CSR, Warwick): “Gendering a City: Representations of London
in Civic Pageantry of the Early 17th Century”
John West (Warwick): “Inspiration and Aspiration: Invocations of the Holy Spirit in
Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder and John Milton's Paradise Lost”
Tea
Session 3: Gender and Belief: problems, questions and avenues for research
3.30Laura Sangha: ‘'The significance of belief about angels in the English Reformation'
Justine Williams: 'James Shirley, Ireland's Catholic playwright?'
Jonathan Willis: ‘Music, Gender and Belief in Post-Reformation England’
Discussants will also include Prof. Robert Swanson (University of Birmingham) and Prof. George Hoffmann
(University of Michigan).
How to register?
Participation in the event is free, but you must register in advance, by 1 November 2007.
To register please write or e-mail Mrs Lisa Cook, Secretary, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance,
University of Warwick CV4 7AL, L.D.Cook@warwick.ac.uk (write “Gender and Belief workshop registration”
as the subject of your e-mail). Please give your title or status (e.g. PhD student), institutional affiliation,
contact address including e-mail, and a very succinct description of your research interests.