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Elizabeth Isham at Princeton, 7th-8th September 2007

A workshop organised by the British Academy
'Constructing Elizabeth Isham' project

209 Scheide Caldwell House

Revised Provisional Programme

Project Team: Elizabeth Clarke, Jill Millman, Alice Eardley, Michelle Di Meo and Kate Evans, Warwick University; Erica Longfellow, Kingston University; Nigel Smith, Princeton University

Participants: Victoria Burke, University of Ottawa; Anne Cotterill, University of Missouri, Rolla; Michelle Dowd, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Julie Eckerle, University of Minnesota, Morris; Margaret Ezell, Texas A&M; Elizabeth Hageman, University of New Hampshire; Rebecca Laroche, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Kathleen Lynch, Folger Shakespeare Library; Sharon Seelig, Smith College; Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick; Isaac Stephens, University of California Riverside; Georgiana Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library

Friday 7th September

4:00 pm           Welcome and tea

4:30 pm           Introductory session on Isham manuscripts
                        Margaret Ezell and Elizabeth Hageman
                        (Northants RO MS IL 3365 and Princeton University MS RTC01 no. 62)

6:00 pm           Reception; view of the Princeton manuscript
                        (sponsored by the Firestone Library at Princeton University)

7:30 pm           Dinner sponsored by the Warwick University Humanities Research Committee

Saturday 8th September

9:00 am           Introduction
9:15 am           Panel session – Elizabeth Isham and her Context
                        Elizabeth Clarke and Erica Longfellow

10:30 am         Coffee break

10:45 am         Panel session – Current research on the Isham manuscripts
                        Isaac Stephens and Ann Cotterill
                               
12:00 pm         Lunch sponsored by Princeton University Renaissance Studies Committee

12:45 pm         Panel session – Autobiography, genre and material culture
                        Rebecca Laroche and Edith Snook

2:00 pm           Panel session – Autobiographical contexts
                        Sharon Seelig, Michelle Dowd and Julie Eckerle

3:30 pm           Tea and talk: We ask you for your expertise.

5:00 pm           Finish