The Early Modern Conversions project is very pleased to announce our fourth team meeting, which will take place in Montreal from August 23 to 26, 2017.
Triumph of Mischief, Kent Monkman (click on image to enlarge)
Please click here for a downloadable version of the EMC 2017 Team Meeting program.
WED. AUG 23
| Noon-4pm | Birks Building Lounge, 3520 University
Lunch + Management Committee meeting for incoming and outgoing members of the Management Committee (Torrance Kirby, Peter Marshall, José Jouve-Martin, Steven Mullaney, Iain Fenlon, Patricia Badir, Stéfan Sinclair, Evelyn Tribble, John Sutton, Paul Yachnin, Marie-Claude Felton). |
| 6pm-7pm | Clara Lichtenstein Hall, Strathcona Music Building C 209, 555 Sherbrooke W
Scenes from the Summer Research Seminar “Theatre, Masque, and Opera in England and Italy, 1580 to 1650: Performance Practices and Cognitive Ecologies” (Leaders : Julie E. Cumming and Evelyn B. Tribble & Seminarians : Michael Eisenberg, Florence Hazrat, Katherina Lindekens, Andrew Loeb, Elizabeth Lutteman, Elizabeth Tavares, Nastasia Tietze, Daniel Zuluaga) |
THURS. AUG. 24
| Thomson House ballroom, 3650 McTavish
CONVERSION AS PERIODIZATION WORKSHOP: Turns and Returns of the Past in the Worlds of Pre-Revolutionary Europe Lead respondents: Mark Phillips and James Wetzel
Suggested readings, speakers’ abstracts and think-pieces, and a full description of the workshop will be available at http://earlymodernconversions.com/periodization/ |
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| 8:15am-8:45am | Continental breakfast | |
| 8:45am-9:00am | Introductions | |
| 9:00am-10:30am | Before and After Augustine | |
| Periodizing Conversion with and after A.D. Nock | Matteo Soranzo | |
| Career – Conversion – Period: Revolving Augustine’s Confessions over the longue durée | Mark Vessey | |
| 10:30am-11:00am | Break | |
| 11:00am-12:30pm | Versions of Early Modernity | |
| The Ambiguity of “Modernity” in Late Medieval and Renaissance Intellectual Culture” | Torrance Kirby | |
| “Religious Conversion” in Reformation England” | Peter Marshall | |
| 12:30pm-1:00pm | Inter-Session | |
| Ever-after Endings and the Paradox of Pastness | James Wetzel | |
| 1:00pm-2:30pm | Lunch | |
| 2:30pm-3:15pm | Theatre Time and Conversion Time | |
| Shakespeare and the Conversions of Time | Paul Yachnin | |
| 3:15pm-3:45pm | Inter-Session | |
| Conversation and Historical Representation: Questions of Distance and Re-distancing | Mark Phillips | |
| 3:45pm-4:15pm | Break | |
| 4:15pm-5:45pm | Reframing Conversion In Time | |
| Conversion’s Horizons | Bronwen Wilson | |
| Conversion, Time, Narrative | Simon Goldhill | |
| 5:45pm-6:30pm | Reflections | |
FRI. AUG. 25
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| 8:30am-9:00am | Continental breakfast | |
| 9:00am-10:30am | Presentations from the summer seminarians
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Michael Eisenberg, Florence Hazrat, Katherina Lindekens, Andrew Loeb, Elizabeth Lutteman, Elizabeth Tavares, Nastasia Tietze, Daniel Zuluaga |
| 10:30am-11:00am | Break | |
| 11:00am-12:30pm | Project and Public Exchange updates; Edinburgh UP Conversions book series; Collaboration with Geist Magazine | Paul Yachnin, Marie-Claude Felton, Bronwen Wilson |
| 12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch + collective stroll to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | |
| 2:00pm-3:30pm | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Focus on Kent Monkman |
Geneviève Goyer-Ouimette |
| 3:30pm-5:00pm | Free time in the museum (complementary tickets will be available for the Musée’s new exhibition, “REVOLUTION”) | |
| 5:00pm-7:30pm | Hydro-Québec Room, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Reception (cash bar & canapés) |
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SAT. AUG. 26
| Thomson House ballroom, 3650 McTavish | ||
| 8:30am-9:00am | Continental breakfast | |
| 9:00am-10:30am | Session on Visual Culture: “Transitional Time, Liminal Space” | |
| Bringing History to Life: Amsterdam’s Automata | Angela Vanhaelen | |
| Time Flies: Directions of Conversion at Varallo’s Way to Calvary | Carla Benzan | |
| Conversion, Rebirth, Death : The Temporality of the Instant in Caravaggio’s painting | Itay Sapir | |
| 10:30am-11:30am | Keywords session | Marjorie Rubright, Joseph Gamble |
| 11:30am-12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 12:30pm-2:00pm | Works-in-Progress A | Moderator: Marie-Claude Felton |
| Shakespeare Border Crossing: Transnational Tours and Contested Conversions in Nineteenth-Century Spectator Narratives. | Lauren Eriks Cline | |
| Affective Usury and Conversion in Early Modern Theatre | Sheila Coursey | |
| The ‘Cosmographic Mystery’: Johannes Kepler’s conversion of astronomy | Torrance Kirby | |
| Works-in-Progress B | Moderator: Paul Yachnin | |
| Donne and Cartographic Conversions | Diana Little | |
| Gabrielle Suchon’s “Middle Way”: Towards a Feminist Catholicism? | Charlotte Sabourin | |
| Interpreting the Event: Baptism, Conversion and Community in Commonwealth England | Alison Searle | |
| 2:00pm-2:30pm | Break | |
| 2:30pm-4:00pm | Works-in-Progress C | Moderator: Mark Vessey |
| Forced Conversion in Thomas Middleton’s Tragedies | Gretchen E. Minton | |
| Conversion and the Rejection of Life: Ignatius, Port-Royal, Flaubert | Burcht Pranger | |
| An Ontology of Conversion: From Terra Cruda to Terra Cotta | Ivana Vranic | |
| Works-in-Progress D | Moderator: Stephen Wittek | |
| Converting Moriscos in sixteenth-century Castile | Stephanie Cavanaugh | |
| Self-publishing in Early Modern Europe and Conversion : a first look | Marie-Claude Felton | |
| Trauma, Narrative, Conversion: A Pedagogical Reflection | Jane Degenhardt | |
| 4:00pm-5:00pm | Summary reflections | Gail Kern Paster |