Copia: Word/Image/Body
A Graduate Renaissance Studies Conference
at Princeton University

Saturday, April 17, 2004
McCormick Hall (Princeton University Art Gallery)

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Conference Program

8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

Keynote Speaker: Professor Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature


9:45 – 11:00 Session One


Panel A: Material Letters
Moderator: Anna Swartwood, Art and Archeology

McCormick 103

Erika Boekeler (Harvard)
The ABC's of Visual Punning: Use of the Alphabet among German Renaissance Artists

Robert Kilpatrick (Indiana)
A Feast of Language: Rabelais’ Silenus Box and the Material Text

Brynhildur Omarsdottir (Columbia)
Writing Woodstock: Reading Queen Elizabeth’s “Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock" and "Written with a Diamond"



Panel B: Generic Translation and the Early Modern Stage
Moderator: Joe Ortiz, English

McCormick 106

Cyrus Mulready (Penn)
"Asia of the One Side, Affricke of the Other": Romance and the Stage

Jennifer Waldron (Princeton)
"To hear with eyes:" the Sonnets and the Stage

Andrea Walkden (Yale)
Foster children and foster plays: The Italian romance of All’s Well That Ends Well and Cymbeline



Panel C: Bodies in Parts
Moderator: Andrew Hui, Comparative Literature

McCormick 104

Meredith Evans (Johns Hopkins)
Shakespeare and the "body" of Rumour

Andras Kisery (Columbia)
Playing by ear: the fragmented body in Cary’s Mariam

Cynthia Nazarian (Princeton)
Actaeon ego sum


11:15 – 12:30 Session Two


Panel D: Fashion Sense: Clothing and Material Culture
Moderator: Elizabeth McCahill, History

McCormick 103

Paul Gleed (SUNY Buffalo)
"On With Your Trinkets": Clothing and the Material Cultural Revolution in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday

Jennifer Hallam (Penn)
Fashioning Female Virtue: A Lesson from the Needle's Excellency (1631)

Andrew Sage (Columbia)
The Fashionable Self-Fashioning of London Gulls



Panel E: Images of Rome
Moderator: Professor Patricia Fortini Brown, Art and Archeology

McCormick 106

Nicole Bensoussan (Yale)
Replication as Competition: Re-placing Rome in an all’antica Statue Garden

Brett Foster (Yale)
Richard Atkins and the Roman Bedlam

Patricia Zalamea (Rutgers)
Visualizing Rome’s Marvels in Giovanni Marcanova’s Collectio Antiquitatum.The Mirabilia and Sylloge as Complementary Traditions



Panel F: Order and Disorder
Moderator: Professor Ronald Surtz, Spanish and Portugese

McCormick 104

Aaron Ilika (Penn)
Vida de tantos desastres': Don Juan as an Agent of Divine Disorder in The Trickster of Seville

J.K. Barret (Princeton)
Poetic Contracts: Legal Language and the Gravity of Verse in Sidney’s Old Arcadia

David Landreth (NYU)
Pictura Epidemica: Visual Politics in Browne's 'Vulgar Errors'



12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:15 Musica Alta (East Pyne Courtyard)


2:30 – 3:45 Session Three


Panel G: Incarnation
Moderator: Professor D. Vance Smith, English

McCormick 103

Vera Keller (Princeton)
The Art of Describing Christ in Vermeer

Amy Powell (Harvard)
Christ as Thing

Olga Solovieva (Yale)
Christ in the Book: Communion and Communication in the time of the Council of Constance



Panel H: Tradition and Transformation in Spenser and Shakespeare
Moderator: Professor Kenneth Gross, Council of the Humanities

McCormick 106

Dan Moss (Princeton)
Spenser's "Muiopotmos:" the Metamorphosis of Virgil

Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)
Where Elegy meets Epic: Spenser's Amazonian Women and the Progress of Artegall

Ben LaBreche (Yale)
The Crafting of the Shakespearean History Play: Prince Hal and the Prodigal Son Tradition



Panel I: Word and Image in the New World
Moderator: Professor Marina Brownlee, Spanish and Portuguese

McCormick 104

Elizabeth Bearden (NYU)
Painting Cervantine Testimonials: Ekphrasis, Indigenous Mexican Lienzos, and the Trial Motif in Colonial Spanish Literary and Philosophical Imaginings.

Samuel Steinberg (Penn)
Garcilaso's Elemental Cosmopolis

Ellen Welch (Penn)
Nouvelle France in Word and Image: The Multimedia Colonization of North America


4:00 – 5:15 Session Four


Panel J: Early Modern Space
Moderator: Lia Lynch, English

McCormick 103

Michelle Goodin (NYU)
Hooke's Minute Discoveries and the Poetics of the In-Visible

Sarah Van der Laan (Yale)
Treading the Maze: The Labyrinth as an Image for Court and Courtiership in Elizabethan England

Mimi Yiu (Cornell)
Nothing out of square': John Thorpe's architectural imaginary and early modern space



Panel K: Innovation and Classical Imitation
Moderator: Professor Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature

McCormick 104

John Bird (Columbia)
Inordinate Play': Aesthetics of Poetic and Visual Ornament in the 'Grotesque Renaissance'

Suzanne Karr (Yale)
The Mystery of the Disappearing Owl: Avian Automata, Antiquity, and the Renaissance

Kimberley Skelton (Yale)
The Reader-Author and the Printed Book: Word and Image in Dietterlin’s Architectura


5:30 – 7:00 Reception (Humanities Programs Building, on Nassau Street next to Firestone Library)