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.
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) |
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 |