External Participants and Topics
Judith P. Aikin, German, University of Iowa
“The Militant Countesses of Rudolstadt (When an unruly army stops by on its way through, it's time to call on a woman for help)”
Anne J. Cruz, Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami (Florida)
“The (Non)Exemplary Female Body in María de Zayas's Novelas Ejemplares and Desengaños Amorosos”
Katharine M. Gillespie, English, Miami University, Ohio
“Eve as Thanatrix: Hermeticism, Sabbatarianism, and the Rebirth of the Alchemical Republic in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder”
Gregory S. Johnston, Music, University of Toronto
“Sound Phenomena and Musical Practice in Funerary Contexts in Seventeenth-Century Germany”
Ellen McClure, French, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Fausse constance”: Sabine, Neo-Stoicism and the Spectator in Pierre Corneille’s Horace
Helmut Puff, German and History, University of Michigan
"The Death of Orpheus (according to Albrecht Dürer)"
Brian Sandberg, History, Northern Illinois University
“Gender, Violence and the Atlantic World”
Hania Siebenpfeiffer, German, University of Muenster/ UIUC
“Marquis de Brinvilliers and the Gender of Poison—A Case Study in 18th-Century Narrated Crimes”
Gerhild Scholz Williams, German and Comparative Literature, Washington University
“Politics and Romance: Violent Encounters in Happel's Engellaendischer Eduard (1690)”
Nora Stoppino, Italian, Villa I Tatti, Florence/ UIUC
“Constructing the Amazon: Early Modern Exploration and Italian Popular Epic”
UIUC participants: Younger Scholars’ Panel
Elizabeth Black, French
“Inscribing the Body: Representations of Women in Early French Emblem Books”
Tara Lyons, English
“The Dance of Death in The Booke of Christian Prayer: Women’s Hol(e)y Bodies on the Early Modern Stage”
Carmen Ripollés, Art History,
“Frans Francken’s The Painter’s Studio: Death, Femaleness, and the Art of Painting”
Elizabeth Zeman, English
“Drabs of State Vexed”: Violent Female Masquers in Women Beware Women”
UIUC Participants
Catharine Gray, English
“‘The Tears of the Muses’: Royalist Elegy and the Lost Political Body in Seventeenth-Century Britain”
Caroline Hibbard, History
“The Queen of Love becomes ‘Generalissima’: From Peace to War with Queen Henrietta Maria”
Marcus Keller, French
“Framing Men: Violent Women in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron”
Herbert Kellman, Music
“Funeral Music for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France (1514), and Its Fate: A Paradigm”
Lori Humphrey Newcomb, English
“The Law Against Lovers: The Drama of Civil Union in the English Revolution”
Carl Niekerk, Germanic Languages and Literatures,
“Violence, Gender, and the Construction of the Other in the Story of Inkle and Yarico”
Elizabeth Oyler, East Asian Languages and Cultures
“The Woman Warrior Tomoe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Nô Drama”
Susan Parisi, Music
"Transforming the Cybele and Atys Legend: The Operas of Francesco Rasi (Mantua, 1616) and Quinault-Lully (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1676)"
Curtis Perry, English
“Gismund of Salern and Politics of Senecan Drama”
Lisa Rosenthal, Art History
“Virtue, Violence and Veniality in the Kunstkamer”
Julie Singer, Italian
“For Palle and Patrie: Re-Gendering Violence from Benedetto Varchi to Marguerite de Navarre”
These events are open to all faculty and students of the University of Illinois.
2 April, Monday: 3-5 PM Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Habsburg Festival Books at the University of Illinois, 346 Library.
4 April, Wednesday: 5-7 PM IPRH Reading Group, Topic: After the Conference - Women and Violence, Discussion of her chapter: “Literature and the Court 1450-1720”, 428 Library.
5 April, Thursday: 5:15 – 7 PM, “Amazons in German - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment”, Public Lecture in the GL&L sixtieth anniversary “Fruchtbingende Gesellschaft” series, Lucy Ellis Lounge FLB, reception following.
6 April, Friday: 10-11:30 Workshop on Academic Publishing, 2090 FLB.
Also announcing two lectures by Dr. Ekkehard Henschke, Oxford, former Director of the University Library, Leipzig.
Monday, April 2: 10:00-11:00 a.m., 428 Library, “Leipzig University Library and its Renaissance since the ‘Wende’ in 1989/90”. The lecture will deal with the general aspects of the peaceful change in East Germany in 1989/90 as well as with the organizational and building reconstruction phase of Leipzig University Library since this change. Sponsored by GSLIS and Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Thursday, April 5: 4:00 p.m., 4080A FLB, “From Mount Sinai to the Internet: The Codex Sinaiticus Project”. The Codex Sinaiticus Project was the last big joint venture Dr. Henschke was able to promote before his retirement in 2005. This joint venture concerning the oldest Greek manuscript of the bible will include the digitization and scholarly examination of all parts which were dispersed since the fourth century. These are the partners: British Library London, National Library of Russia St. Petersburg, St. Catherine's Monastery near Mount Sinai in Egypt and Leipzig University Library. Sponsored by Religious Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures.
