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(FINAL PROGRAM)
PLEASE NOTE:
- Chairs have been assigned to panels; either e-mail a brief biography to your panel's assigned chair or come to your session with a brief biographical statement
- Chairs can be contacted at the following e-mail addresses:
- Patricia Badir (University of British Columbia): patribad[AT]interchange.ubc.ca
- Sara Beam (University of Victoria): sbeam[AT]uvic.ca
- Michael Best (University of Victoria): mbest1[AT]uvic.ca
- Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University): budra[AT]sfu.ca
- Erin Ellerbeck (University of Victoria): ele[AT]uvic.ca
- Julian Gunn (University of Victoria): jlgunn[AT]uvic.ca
- Sean Henry (University of Victoria): sghenry[AT]uvic.ca
- Erin Kelly (University of Victoria): ekelly[AT]uvic.ca
- Gary Kuchar (University of Victoria): kucharg[AT]uvic.ca
- Gretchen Minton (Montana State University): minton[AT]english.montana.edu
- Aida Patient (Mount Royal University): apatient[AT}mtroyal.ca
- Ed Pechter (Concordia University): edpechter[AT]shaw.ca
- Terry Sherwood (University of Victoria): tsherwoo[AT]uvic.ca
- Clifford Werier Mount Royal University): CWerier[AT]mtroyal.ca
- Individuals presenting papers on panels with three speakers should aim for a reading time of 20 minutes; individuals presenting on panels with four speakers should aim for a reading time of 15 minutes
Thursday, 21
October
Registration table, 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. A registration table where participants can pick up
conference materials will open at 4:00 p.m.
Opening reception, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Wine, cheese, and other refreshments will be available for all registered conference
participants
Friday, 22 October
Registration table, 7:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Continental breakfast, 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Plenary session, 8:45 to 9:45 a.m.
Keynote talk: “The Librarynth” (Randall McLeod, University of Toronto)
Restricted workshop/Workshop 1: (For secondary school teacher registrants only) Teaching
Shakespeare’s Language (Jeremy Ehrlich, ISE)
Coffee break, 9:45 to 10:15 a.m.
Session one, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.
Panel 1.1: THE CUTTING EDGE OF VESALIUS’ ANATOMY: SLAYING
GALEN?
Chair:
Sara Beam (History, University of Victoria)
- Roberto Lopresti, University of
Palermo/University of Leiden (History of Medicine): Embodying the Authority
- Helene Cazes, University of Victoria
(French): The Scalpel of Modernity: Legends on Vesalius and Tales of
Progress
Panel 1.2: WITCHES IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Chair:
Paul Budra (English, Simon Fraser University)
Workshop 2: Teaching Shakespeare’s Stagecraft (Jeremy
Ehrlich, ISE)
Coffee break, 11:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Session two, 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Panel 2.1: WRITING AND RESPONDING
Chair:
Terry Sherwood (English, University of Victoria)
- Jamie Paris, University of British Columbia
(English): Was there ever a story of so much woe?: On the pleasures of woe
and despair in Shakespeare’s Romeo and
Juliet and King Lear
- Laura Schechter, University of Alberta
(English): “In the darkest shadow of adversitie”: The Editing Hand of Sir
Robert Cecil in Sir Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie
of Guiana
- Laura Estill, Université de Moncton, Campus d'Edmundston
(English): Reading and (Re-)Writing Shakespeare: Archbishop Sancroft’s
Selections from Early Modern Drama
- Heather Easterling, Gonzaga University
(English): What is an Author?” Authorship, Performance, Print, Authority,
and the 1604 Royal Entry
Panel 2.2: THEORIZING REACTIONS TO RENAISSANCE DRAMA
Chair:
Edward Pechter (English, Concordia University)
- Richard VanOort, University of Victoria
(English): Shakespeare and the Problem of Resentment
- Anita C. Law, University of British Columbia
(English): Theorizing the Pleasure of The
Revenger’s Tragedy
- Torsten Kehler, McGill University (English):
Spinoza’s Battle: The Contest of Passion and Self-interest in Titus Andronicus
Workshop 3: Teaching Tools Demonstration and Discussion of The Internet Shakespeare Editions
(Michael Best, University of Victoria)
Lunch break, 1:00 to 2:15 p.m.
Lunch and PNRS business meeting (NOTE: This meeting run by PNRS officers and
members who wish to attend.)
OR
Lunch and informal discussion session (for secondary school
teacher registrants and others who wish to talk about teaching)
OR
Lunch on your own in the area of the hotel (Please see the Victoria food page on this site for recommended venues.)
Session three, 2:30 to 3:45 p.m.
Panel 3.1.: REWRITING RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Chair:
Gretchen Minton (English, Montana State University)
- Susan Muecke, Wayne State University
(English): Containing the Queer: Sexual Transgression and Subversion in Early
Modern Popular Culture
- Sandra Friesen, University of Victoria (English): Shaping the ‘Signior’:
Rochester’s (?) “Signior Dildo” and the Dildo Satire Tradition
- Allison Hobgood, Williamette University
(English): Early Modern Disability and the Undergraduate Classroom
Panel 3.2: EMOTIONAL POLITICS AND RELIGION
Chair:
Gary Kuchar (English, University of Victoria)
- Kenneth Jackson, Wayne State University (English): Milford Haven via Mt. Moriah: Giving death in Cymbeline
-
Kirsten C. Uszkalo, Simon Fraser University (History):
Fearful Fits: Embodied Cognition and Emotional Affiliation
in Possession Contagion
- Samuel G. Wong, University of Victoria
(English): Fear and Trembling in Thomas Hobbes
Workshop 4: Teaching Tools Demonstration and Discussion of Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men (with
Dr. Helen Ostovich, McMaster University, and Jennifer Roberts Smith, Waterloo
University)
Tea break, 3:45 to 4:00 p.m.
Session four, 4:00 to 5:15 p.m.
Panel 4.1: TEACHING EARLY MODERN LITERATURE AT A REGIONAL
STATE UNIVERSITY
Chair: Clifford Werier (English, Mount
Royal University)
- Mary Janell Metzger, Western Washington
University (English): Teaching
- Marc Geisler, Western Washington University
(English): Teaching at a Regional State University
Panel 4.2: BOOKS, PLAYS, AND OBJECTS IN THEIR PLACE AND TIME
Chair:
Patricia Badir (English, University of British Columbia)
- Gretchen E. Minton, Montana State University
(English): John Bale’s Apocalypse and the Exilic Imagination
- Heather Richards, University of Victoria
(English): The Performance of Region in the Queen’s Men and the Lord
Strange’s Men Repertories at the Stanley Household”
- Andrea C. Lawson, University of California,
Davis (English): Farewell Gifts in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Panel 4.3: READING MERCHANT
OF VENICE
Chair:
Erin Ellerbeck (English, University of Victoria)
- Sean Lawrence, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan (English): The Credit Crunch in Shakespeare’s Venice
- David Christopher, University of Victoria
(Theatre History): Performing Usury and Homosocial Credit in
Elizabethan/Jacobean England
- Erika J. Boker, University of Victoria
(English): (Con)tested Loyalties: Performing Male Friendship in The Merchant of Venice and the Hog Hath Lost His Pearl
Workshop 5: Teaching Tools Demonstration and Discussion of The Map of Early Modern London (with Dr.
Janelle Jenstad, University of Victoria) and Little Gidding Gospel Harmonies (with Paul Dyck, Canadian Mennonite
University)
Saturday, 23
October
Registration table, 7:45 to 10:15 a.m.
Continental breakfast, 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Plenary session, 8:45 to 9:45 a.m.
Keynote talk: The Affect of the Artefact: The First Illustrations in William Camden’s
Britannia (Sian Echard, University of British Columbia)
Coffee break, 9:45 to 10:15 a.m.
Session five, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.
Panel 5.1: COMIC AND CULTURAL CRITIQUES IN CAROLINE DRAMA
Chair:
Patricia Badir (English, University of British Columbia)
- Mathew Martin, Brock University (English):
The Raw and the Cooked in Ford’s ‘Tis
Pity She’s a Whore
- Erin Julian, McMaster University (English):
“[D]issembling lady mistress[es]”: Gender and Knowledge in the New Inn
- Helen Ostovich, McMaster University
(English): Gendering the Dance in Shirely’s The Ball
Panel 5.2: READING SHAKESPEARE’S GHOSTLY SIGNS
Chair:
Edward Pechter (English, Concordia University)
- Ian McAdam, University of Lethbridge
(English): Historical Record, Eucharistic Signs, and Ghostly Performances
in Richard III
- Erika Varga, University of Victoria
(English): Elizabethan Anti-Catholicism and the Rhetorical Seductions of
Hamlet’s Ghost contra Revenge
- James Dougal Fleming, Simon Fraser University
(English): To be or not to be: that is not a question
Panel 5.3: LOOKING AT AND WRITING ABOUT VISUAL TEXTS
Chair:
Julian Gunn (English, University of Victoria)
-
Marcella J. Stockstill, Claremont Graduate University (Art History/History):
John Babington’s Pyrotechnia and the "glittering Canopie"
Heather Muckart, University of British
Columbia (Art History): Fragile Visions: The Witches’ Sabbath
- Edward Vanderploeg, University of California,
Davis (Art History): Faith and Fantasy in the Works of Jacopo Tintoretto
Coffee break, 11:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Session six, 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Panel 6.1: WRITING EARLY MODERN MEDICALIZED BODIES
Chair:
Aida Patient (English, Mount Royal University)
- Winfried Schleiner, University of California,
Davis (English): Werewolves in Renaissance Literature
- William H. York, Portland State University
(Interdisciplinary Studies): Empirical Knowledge and Scientific Authority:
Shaping Authorial Identity in a Textbook on Practical Medicine
- Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker, Trinity
Western University (English): Dis/ability, Medicine, and Metaphysics in the
Works of Lady Anne Conway
Panel 6.2: RESPONDING TO SHAKESPEARE IN/THROUGH PERFORMANCE
Chair:
Patricia Badir (English, University of British Columbia)
- Mathias Lehn, GERHICO-CERHILIM, Université de Poitiers (Music): Shakespeare and
Opera in the Early 21st Century
- John Green, University of British Columbia
(English): Shakespeare’s Motion Pictures/Aesthetics/Texts in Love’s Labour’s Lost
- J. Gavin Paul, University of British Columbia
(English): “Burn all the records of the realm”: Jack Cade, Performance, and
the Archive
-
Conrad Alexandrowicz, University of Victoria (Theatre):
Player Queens: Gloriana and the Royal Wench
Panel 6.3: READING PLAYS
Chair:
Michael Best (English, University of Victoria)
- Paul Budra, Simon Fraser University
(English): Reading Plays in Early Modern England
- Maura Giles-Watson, Univeristy of
Nebraska-Lincoln (English): Authority, Identity, and Performativity in Gentylnes and Nobylyte
- Jennifer Roberts-Smith, University of Waterloo
(Theatre): The Ontology of Stage Directions
Lunch break, 1:00 to 2:15 p.m.
Lunch on your own in the area of the hotel (Please see the Victoria food page on this site for recommended venues.)
Session seven, 2:30 to 3:45 p.m.
Panel 7.1: TEXTUAL ECONOMICS
Chair: Sean Henry
(English, University of Victoria)
- Julia Major, University of Washington
(International Studies): The Shakespearean Period and the Sovereignty of
English
- Aida Patient, Mount Royal University
(English): The Midwifery Treatise: Textual (Re)productions
- Janelle Jenstad, University of Victoria
(English): “Skies that Frowne”: Edward Barkham and the Drapers’ Company
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Panel 7.2: READING GEORGE HERBERT’S POETRY
Chair:
Edward Pechter (English, Concordia University)
- Paul Dyck, Canadian Mennonite University
(English): George Herbert and Revenge
- Gary Kuchar, University of Victoria
(English): Sounding The Temple: George Herbert and the Art of Hearkening
Panel 7.3: READING EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS
Chair: Michael Best
(English, University of Victoria)
- Clifford Werier, Mount Royal University
(English): Literacy and the Disposable Quarto: Reading Much Ado About Nothing in 1600
- Jennifer Forsyth, Kutztown University
(English): “With the Best of Note”: Reconsidering the Humble Footnote in
Shakespeare Editions
- Erin E. Kelly, University of Victoria (English):
What is an induction? (or, What should we call the opening scenes of Taming of the Shrew?)
Tea break: 3:45 to 4:00 p.m.
Session eight, 4:00 to 5:15 p.m.
Panel 8.1: READING AND WRITING AND ABOUT READING AND WRITING
Chair: Erin E. Kelly
(English, University of Victoria)
- Erika Boeckeler, Northeastern University
(English): Representations of Representations: Early Modern Printed Infernos
- Katie Davison, University of British Columbia
(English): “Let him breathe between the heavens and the earth, / a private
man”: Antony’s opposition to cartographic “high order” in Antony and Cleopatra
- Rebecca Olson, Oregon State University
(English): ‘She hath been reading late”: Shakespeare’s Onstage Ovid
Panel 8.2: WRITING REPRODUCTION
Chair:
Gary Kuchar (English, University of Victoria)
- Andrew Griffin, University of California,
Santa Barbara (English): Webster, Tourneur, and the Tragedy of the Infinite
Human
- Erin Ellerbeck, University of Victoria
(English): Adoption and Heirship in Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
- Claire Duncan, University of British Columbia
(English): The “Pretty Art” of Early Modern Orthography: Apricots or
Apricocks in the Duchess of Malfi
Panel 8.3: AUTHORIZING POETRY
Chair:
Terry Sherwood (English, University of Victoria)
- Sean Henry, University of Victoria (English):
Taming Una’s Lions
- Jelena Marelj, Queen’s University (English):
Writing the Performative Self: The Politics of Pedagogy in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella
- Nicolette Costantino, Florida Gulf Coast
University (English): Dreams as Early Modern Performances of the Body in Paradise Lost
- Matthew Evans-Cockle, University of British
Columbia (English): Milton’s Logos Philosophy: Authorial Power in Paradise Lost