Early Modern Exchanges Conference Programme 2011
Day 1, Thursday 15th September
9.00 – 9.30am Registration
9.30 – 10.45am Opening Remarks followed by:
Keynote 1:
Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles) Pirating Spain
Coffee: 10.45 – 11am
Session 1: 11 – 12.30am
A.
Africa and Africans in the
Atlantic World (16th18th Centuries)
(Panel convenor: Toby
Green, King’s College
London)
José Lingna Nafafé
(University of
Birmingham), Europe in
B.
England and France in
the 17th Century
(Panel convenor and
chair: Katherine Ibbett,
UCL)
Kristine Johanson (St
Andrews) “La calamité de
ce temps”: Politicizing,
Marketing, and
C.
Foreign Correspondence of
Queen Elizabeth I
(Panel convenor: Alessandra
Petrina, Università degli Studi
di Padova)
D.
Musical Exchange
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
Helen Green (Open University) Musical
Interaction at the Court of Maximilian I
(1486-1519)
Carlo M. Bajetta (Università
Pavel Drábek (Masaryk University,
della Valle d’Aosta), Elizabeth I Brno, Czech Republic), Theatergrams as
and the Italian Mariner
Mediators of Transnational Theatre
Guillaume Coatalen (University Exchange
Africa and Africa in Europe:
Beyond Wilberforce’s
Experiment in Abolitionism,
Unfree Labour and the
Market
Ibrahima Seck (Cheik Anta
Diop University, Dakhar),
Greater Senegambia and the
making of US Southern
Culture
Toby Green (King’s College
London), Angola, Upper
Guinea and the Making of
the Atlantic World: African
"Agency" in the Long 17th
Century
Dramatizing Nostalgia in
England and France
Karen Newman (Brown),
Cultural Translation and
the grand Cyrus: Madeleine
de Scudéry in England
Line Cottegnies (Paris III,
Sorbonne Nouvelle),
Women in translation:
Aphra Behn's Agnes de
Castro
of Cergy-Pontoise, France), The
lion, the fox, the frog and the
ape: the bilingual tale of Queen
Elizabeth I's courtships as told
in letters in manuscript
Rayne Allinson, (The Ohio
State University), Letters Full
of Marvels: Queen Elizabeth I’s
Correspondence with Sultan
Murād III and Tsar Ivan IV
Lunch: 12.30am – 2pm
Session 2: 2 – 3.30pm
A.
Mercantile Exchange and
Slavery
(Panel convenor:
Organizers)
B.
Katherine Philips
(Panel convenor and
chair: Katherine Ibbett,
UCL)
C.
Portraits
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
D.
German Exchanges
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
Tracey A. Sowerby (St Hilda’s
College, Oxford), ‘A memorial
Jan Alessandrini (UCL), Imitation or
European Cultural Exchange? The role of
Heather Dalton (University
of Melbourne), The
merchant’s daughter, the
merchant’s wife: knowledge,
translation and dynastic
ambition in England’s early
sixteenth century Atlantic
trading networks
Jyotsna G. Singh (Michigan
State University), Heraldry
and Representations of the
Early English Slave Trade
Larissa Brewer-García
(University of
Pennsylvania ), Plotting
Translation and Converting
Blackness in SeventeenthCentury Cartagena de Indias
Penelope Anderson
(Indiana), War within and
war without: Civil and
international wars in the
writings of Katherine
Philips
Deana Rankin (Royal
Holloway), tbc.
Elizabeth Scott-Bauman
(Wadham College,
Oxford), Katherine Philips,
Abraham Cowley and
Andrew Marvell: royalist
and republican retre
and a pledge of faith’:
Representation, Portraits and
Diplomatic Exchanges
Rebecca Norris (Newnham
College, University of
Cambridge), To whom it may
concern: Penned letters in
Venetian portraits
Yasmin Arshad (UCL), The
Enigma of a Portrait: Lady
Anne Clifford and Daniel’s
Cleopatra
laughter, wit and ridicule in Early
Modern German comic literature
Hilary Brown (University of
Birmingham), Women Translators in
Early Modern Germany
Myrtha Ehlert (Marie Curie
Foundation), Dionysius Areopagita,
father ("Erzvater") of a vernacular
mystic tradition?
Tea: 3.30 – 4pm
Session 3: 4 – 5.30pm
A.
The Atlantic World?
(Panel convenor:
Organizers)
B.
Language, epistemology
and politics in the
Enlightenment
C.
Foreign Correspondence of
Queen Elizabeth 2
(Panel convenor: Alessandra
D.
Italian
Aesthetics
(Panel convenor:
E.
Early Modern
Jewry
(Panel convenor:
Lauren Beck (Mount Allison
University), Reading the
Conquest of the Americas:
the Implications of
Multiplicity
Caroline Dodds Pennock
(University of Sheffield),
Aztecs in the Atlantic World,
c.1492-1600
Yolanda Martínez-San
Miguel (Rutgers, State
University of New Jersey),
Neither vassal nor patriot:
filibusterismo and extended
colonialism in the Caribbean
and the Philippines
(Panel convenors: Avi
Lifschitz and Kevin
Instone)
Avi Lifschitz (UCL),
Arbitrariness and nature at
the origins of language:
From Pufendorf to
Rousseau
Kevin Inston (UCL),
Politics and Language in
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s
Philosophy
Petrina, Università degli Studi
di Padova)
Giuliana Iannaccaro
(Università degli Studi di
Milano), Rhetoric in Elizabeth
I’s Foreign Correspondence
Monica Santini (University of
Padua), Letters to Ireland: a
Case-Study of Elizabeth’s
Official Correspondence
Alessandra Petrina (University
of Padua), The Queen’s unseen
hand: the Role of Sir Francis
Walsingham in Elizabeth I’s
foreign correspondence
Organizers)
Organizers)
Anatole Tchikine
(Trinity College /
The Institute at
Palazzo Rucellai,
Florence),
Priceless
offerings: gardens
and gifts in
sixteenth-century
Medici Florence
Emily Gray
(Courtauld
Institute of Art
and British
Museum), Reframing the
Virgin: The
Appropriation of
an Early
Florentine print in
Fifteenth-Century
Germany
Steven Alexander
(Independent
Scholar), The
trade in aesthetic
terminology
François Guesnet
(UCL), Legal Status
and Political
Culture. Early
Modern Polish
Jewry in a European
Context
Stephen Lubell
(Institute of
Advanced Study),
Early modern
exchanges: the
example of Hebrew
printing in the
sixteenth century
between Italy and
Spain in the
period between
1550 and 1650
6 – 7pm
Keynote 2:
Andrew Laird (University of Warwick), Grammar between Babel and Utopia:
Renaissance humanism, Latin, and native languages in sixteenth-century
Mexico
Early Modern Exchanges Conference Programme 2011
Day 2, Friday 16th September
9.00 – 9.30am Registration
9.30 – 10.30am
Keynote 3:
Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), Changing Places in Early Modern England: Class, Gender and Literature
Coffee: 10.30 – 11am
Session 1
A.
Against the Grain: Resisting
power in prison and exile
(Panel convenor: Gerard Kilroy,
University College London)
Gerard Kilroy (UCL), Cutting
across Europe: Verstegan’s
benighted country
Michael Questier (Queen Mary,
University of London), Catholics,
Puritans and Preaching in
Elizabethan York
Alison Shell (UCL), ‘Writing
against the Grain’: John Ingram’s
Prison Epigrams
B.
Cultures of Knowledge: An
Intellectual Geography of
the Seventeenth-Century
Republic of Letters
(Panel convenor: James
Brown, Oxford)
C.
Travel and
Navigation
(Panel convenor:
Organizers)
Tamsin Badcoe
(University of
Howard Hotson (Oxford,
Geneva), ‘The sea is
Project Director) or James
purposfuly left in
Brown (Project Coordinator) blanc’: The place of
Overview and Key Findings
the preface in early
Project Research Fellow
modern navigational
(Oxford), Case Study
literature
Technical or Editorial Project Claire Jowitt
Member (Oxford, Project
(Nottingham Trent
Coordinator), Catalogue
University), Editing
Presentation
Early Modern Travel:
the case of Hakluyt's
The Principal
Navigations (15981600)
Margaret Small
(University of
Birmingham), On the
trail of the Traveller:
Ramusio’s
D.
MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations 1
(Panel convenor: Neil Rhodes, University of
St Andrews)
Panel chair: Neil Rhodes
Gordon Kendal (Honorary Research Fellow,
University of St Andrews), ‘Ignotum per
ignotius?’ – Editorial Issues in Redoing
Douglas's Translation of the Aeneid (1513)
Fred Schurink (Northumbria University),
The Continental Source Editions of Early
Modern English Translations of Plutarch’s
Moralia
Sarah Annes Brown (Anglia Ruskin
University), The Early Modern Myrrha
Navigazioni e viaggi
Lunch: 12.30am – 1.30pm
Session 2: 1.30 – 3pm
A.
Translating Women in
Renaissance England:
International Negotiations
(Panel convenor: Chris
Laoutaris, UCL)
Chris Laoutaris (University
College London), Making a
Woman of Letters: Margaret
More Roper Among the
Humanists
Jaime Goodrich (Wayne State
University), The Tudor
Princesses’ Translations and
Protestant Propaganda under
Edward VI
Micheline White (Carleton
University), Translation,
Exchange, and Accommodation:
Disseminating Calvin’s Sermons
B.
Translation and the
circulation of ideas in the
Eighteenth Century: the
role of the periodical press
1
(Panel convenor: Ann
Thomson, Université Paris 8)
C.
Early Modern
Festival as Cultural
Exchange
(Panel
convenor: Ronnie
Mulryne, University
of Warwick)
Sébastien Drouin
(Forschungszentrum Gotha),
Jean Le Clerc and Anglican
Scholars
Ann Thomson (Université
Paris 8), The Practice of
"extraits" in the Early
Eighteenth Century
Will Slauter (Université Paris
8), Translating Political News
Girolamo Imbruglia
(Università di Napoli
Ronnie Mulryne
(University of
Warwick), The
Prevalence of Festival
in Sixteenth Century
Europe
Margaret Shewring
(University of
Warwick), The Early
Modern Festival as
Performance
Mårten Snickare
D.
Exchanges of
British Neo-Latin
poetry with the
vernacular and
the
contemporary
context
(Panel convenor:
Gesine Manuwald,
University College
London)
Andrew Taylor
(Churchill College
Cambridge),
Communities of
the epigram in the
Henrician
Renaissance
Gesine Manuwald
E.
The Picaresque in
England and France
(Panel convenor: John
Ardila)
J A G Ardila
(Edinburgh), 'The
English Rogue and the
Rise of the Novel:
Bunyan’s Mr Badman'
Jenny Mander
(Cambridge), Fair
Trade? Picaresque
Exchanges within a
Global Market
D'Maris Coffman
(Cambridge), Echoes of
the Picaresque in
Jacques Savary's Le
in Post-Marian London
Patricia Phillippy (Kingston
University), The Cooke Sisters
Across Borders: Elizabeth Cooke
Hoby Russell’s “French Creature”
'L'Orientale'), Political
vocabulary and the Periodical
Press
Emmanuelle de Champs
(Université Paris 8),
Utilitarianism in Frenchlanguage Periodicals, 17951805
(University of
Stockholm), Otherness
and the Exotic: New
Approaches to Festival
Margaret M McGowan
(University of
Sussex), Classical
Forms Reborn in
European Renaissance
Festivals
Tea: 3.30 – 4pm
(University
Parfait Negociant
College London),
Thomas Campion:
a poet between the
two worlds of
Classical and
English literature
L. B. T. Houghton
(University of
Glasgow), Lucan
in the Highlands:
James Philip’s
Grameid and the
traditions of
ancient epic
Victoria Moul
(King’s College
London), England
and the New
World: Abraham
Cowley’s didactic
epic in books four
and five of the
Plantarum Libri
Sex
Session 3: 4 – 5.30pm
A.
Theatrical Exchange
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
Catherine Parsons (University
of Sussex), ‘A Scandal in
Bohemia’?: The displacement
and mediation of Protestant
ideology in Dekker and
Massinger’s The Virgin Martir
Pauline Ruberry-Blanc (Centre
d'Études Supérieures de la
Renaissance,
University
of
Tours), Devilish Bad Manners:
Slaughtering Innocents on the
Medieval and Early Modern
English Stage
Richard Hillman (Centre
d'Études Supérieures de la
Renaissance, University of
Tours), Pyramus and Thisbe: The
French Connection Reconsidered
B.
C.
Britain in Translation and
Spanish
Travel in the 18th Century
Imperialism
(Panel convenor: Organizers) (Panel convenor:
Organizers)
Heather Williams (University
of Wales, Aberystwyth),
Noelia Cirnigliaro
Translation Triangle: Volney’s (Dartmouth College),
Ruins in Welsh
Transatlantic Markets
Chloe Chard (Independent
and the Domestic
Scholar), Rising and Sinking
Realm in Early
in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Modern Spanish
Emily Witt (University of
Narrative
Cambridge), Modes of seeing Santa Arias
in Mungo Park: reading
(University of
uncertainty in the late
Kansas), Mapping the
eighteenth-century explorer
River, Constructing
narrative
the Empire
Raquel Albarrán
(University of
Pennsylvania), Golden
Empires: The Fetish,
Theodor De Bry and
the Formation of a
Spanish Imperial
Subjectivity
D.
MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations 2
(Panel convenor: Neil Rhodes, University of
St Andrews)
Panel chair: Guyda Armstrong
Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews),
Modernisation and the MHRA Tudor and
Stuart Translations
José María Pérez Fernández (University of
Granada, Spain), Responding to the taste of
the vulgo: translation and trade in the Early
Modern European canon
Louise Wilson (MHRA Research Fellow in
English Renaissance Translation, University
of St Andrews), Rewriting French
Controversies in Anthony Munday’s Iberian
Romance Translations
6 – 7pm
Keynote 4:
Brenda Hosington (University of Warwick), Translation as a Currency of
Cultural Exchange
7pm
Modern Humanities Research Association Reception
Private View of Strang Print Room Exhibition and UCL Special Collections Book Display
Early Modern Exchanges Conference Programme
Day 3, Saturday 17th September
9 – 9.30am Registration
9.30 – 10.30am
Keynote 5:
David Norbrook (University of Oxford), Translating Lucretius: the Politics of Materialism in the Seventeenth Century
Coffee: 10.30 – 11am
Session 1: 11 – 12.30am
A.
Defining Europeans, c. 1600 –
1800
(Panel convenor: Paul Stock,
London School of Economics
and Political Science)
Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen
Mary University of London /
Helsinki), Franks and
Englishmen in the Lands of the
Ottomans c. 1600
Alex Drace-Francis (University
of Liverpool), On the Increasing
Europeanness of Things: How
Travellers Testify to an
Unmistakeable Trend
Paul Stock (LSE), The Idea of
European Race in the Late
Eighteenth Century
B.
Anglo-French political
exchanges in the seventeenth
century: texts, information
and understanding
(Panel organiser: Jason Peacey,
UCL)
Noah Millstone (Stanford
University), The Cardinal’s
Gazette: English ‘Public’ Politics
and the French Example, 16201640
Jason Peacey (UCL), Print
Diplomacy during the ‘British
Civil Wars’: Sir Richard Browne
and the Circulation of Texts,
1640-1660
Charles-Edouard Levillain
(Institut d’Études Politiques de
Lille, Université de Lille 2),
Anglo-French cross-linguistic
currents and the Huguenot
problem c.1670-c.1690
C.
“Spanish Circulations”:
Circulating Political Ideas of
Spain in 17th century Europe
(Panel convenor: Nicole
Reinhardt, University of
Durham)
Panel chair: Harald E. Braun,
Liverpool University
Fabien Montcher (Universidad
Complutense, Madrid), Sharing
memories: historiography and
the image of Saint Louis (15591635)
Nicole Reinhardt (University of
Durham), Apocryphal
circulations: from Spanish
Tacitism to French Libertinism
Harald Braun (University of
Liverpool), Early Readings of
Bodin in Spain
D,
Scottish Exchanges
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
Michael Pearce (Historic
Scotland), Working for the
Stewarts
Lucinda Dean (University of
Stirling), State Occasions,
Cultural Contact, and Foreign
Influences: Scottish Royal Image
in the fifteenth and sixteenth
century
Femke Molekamp (University of
Warwick), Elizabeth Melville’s
Devotional Lyrics: the Meeting of
English and Scottish, Sacred and
Secular, Poetics
Lunch: 12.30 – 1.30pm
Session 2: 1.30 – 3pm
A.
Travel narratives in Early
Modern Europe and beyond:
the everyday journey
(Panel convenor: Isabelle
Moreau, University College
London)
Katherine Ibbett (University
College London), Martin Lister
and the Parisian Everyday
Faith E. Beasley (Dartmouth
College) The Salon, the Zenana,
and “histoires particulières"
B.
Jacobean Exchanges
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
C.
Historiography
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
Paul Quinn (University of
Sussex), The ‘cockatrice egge’
from the United Provinces:
Arminianism and a strange case
of Jacobean cultural exchange
Oliver Harris (Research
Associate, Bentham Project,
University College London),
William Camden, Philemon
Holland and the 1610 Britannia
Trudi Darby (King’s College
London), Spanish networks:
mapping Spanish influences in
Jacobean London
Per Landren (Wolfson College,
Oxford), The Dissemination of
the Aristotelian Concept of
Historia: Zabarella, Keckermann
and the Reformed Logical
Tradition
Cesc Esteve (King’s College
London), The Idea of Perfect
History in Tommaso Porcacchi’s
Collana Historica
Sara Barker (University of
Exeter), True discourses? The
French Wars of Religion in
English Translation
Tea: 3 – 3.30pm
Session 3: 3.30 – 5pm
D.
Locating Cultural Identities in
Medieval and Renaissance
Iberia
(Panel convenors: Piers BakerBates, Open University)
Kim Woods (Open University),
Spanish Identity and
Netherlandish Art
Rosa Vidal Doval (Queen Mary,
University of London),
International Networks and late
Medeival Spanish anti-semitism
Piers Baker-Bates (Open
University), Spanish Identity and
Italian Art
A.
Discovering the Near and
Middle East in Northern
Europe (c. 1620-1800)
(Panel convenor: Simon Mills,
British Institute Scholar, Council
for British Research in the
Levant and Visiting Research
Fellow, Queen Mary, University
of London)
Jan Loop (Frances A. Yates
Fellow, The Warburg Institute),
The acquisition of Arabic
manuscripts in seventeenthcentury Switzerland: The case of
Johann Heinrich Hottinger
(1620-1667)
Simon Mills (British Institute
Scholar, Council for British
Research in the Levant and
Visiting Research Fellow, Queen
Mary, University of London) The
chaplains to the English Levant
Company at Aleppo and the early
history of Near-Eastern
antiquarianism
Maurits van den Boogert
B.
Diplomacy and Danes
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
Joanna Craigwood (Sidney
Sussex College, University of
Cambridge), Diplomatic poetry
and the negotiation of an
international audience
Angela Andreani (University of
Milan), Early Modern
Interlinguistic Exchanges: the
Evidence of the Elizabethan
State Paper Archives
Anthony Martin (Waseda
University, Japan),
Representations of Canute and
Perceptions of the Danes in
England, 1590-1611
C.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
(Panel convenor : Eavan
O’Brien, Trinity College Dublin)
Amy Fuller (Nottingham Trent
University), The Same God with
a Different Name: ‘Old World’
Theology as ‘New World’ Idolatry
in the autos sacramentales of Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Eavan O’Brien (Trinity College
Dublin), Theatrical Exchange
between Europe and New Spain:
Sor Juana’s “Petticoat and
Perseverance” Play
Alice Brooke (Merton College,
Oxford), “En ver a dos visos”: Sor
Juana’s El cetro de José and late
seventeenth-century Nahua
theatre
D.
Image in Spanish Art
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
Rodrigo Cañete (Courtauld),
Velazquez’s Los Borrachos:
Confronting the Other by
Looking at Oneself
Céline Ventura Teixeira
(University Paris-Sorbonne) ,
The azulejo's art during the
reign of the Philips : circulations
and transfers of models of
ornaments between Castile and
Portugal
Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez
(University of Edinburgh), The
Architecture of the TreasureArchive in the Early Modern
World: the Imperial Archive in
Simancas Fortress
(University of Leiden), Patrick
Russell’s oriental manuscripts:
Arabic popular stories in
eighteenth-century England
Session 4: 5 – 6.30pm
A.
Islam
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
B.
The Odd Couple
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
C.
Medical Exchanges
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
D.
Risky Business: Translation
(Panel convenor: Organizers)
Kenneth Parker (Institute of
English Studies, University of
London), Making the Nation:
English Travel Writings to Persia
and Turkey in the contexts of
Trade, Commerce and Religious
Differences with those Spaces as
well as with European Others
Antonia Gatward Cevizli
(University of Warwick),
Ottoman and Gonzaga Envoys:
Agents of Exchange
Mahe Nau Munir Awan
(University of Surrey), Paradise
Lost: A Cultural Shift or a
Religious Shock
Daniel Starza Smith (UCL), ‘Was
hit soo? or ys hit but a dreame?’
Finding Romance in the letters of
Sir John Conway and Elizabeth
Bourne
Linda Grant (Birkbeck),
Politicising the female body in
Ovid’s Amores 1.5, Nashe’s Choice
of Valentines and Donne’s To His
Mistress Going to Bed – an
instance of classical reception in
the 1590s
Roy Rosenstein (The American
University of Paris), From
Celestina (1499) to Pantagruel
(1532)
Lindsey Fitzharris (Wellcome
Trust Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, Queen Mary, University
of London), Laying Claim to
Medical Expertise: the Surgeon in
Restoration London
Tom Blaen (University of
Exeter), Ancient, Authoritative,
Exotic and Worthless: The
Bezoar Stone and the End of
Precious Stones in Medicine
Lucia Diaz Marroquin (Ramon y
Cajal Researcher, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid),
Translating the human voice in
the early-modern operatic
discourses
Kormi Anipa (St Andrews), The
linguistic debate in Renaissance
Spain was not real. Or was It?
Laura Leon Llerena (Birkbeck
College), Risks of translation in
colonial Peru
Victoria Rios-Castaño
(University of Ulster), EnglishSpanish conversations in
Diálogos ingleses y españoles by
D. Feliz Antonio de Alvarado
(1718)