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