Co-sponsored by Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College
The Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group will hold a conference of their work on October 25 and 26 at the University of King’s College. The Roundtable discussion (Oct. 25, 3:30-5:30 p.m.) and the Keynote lecture, “The Apprenticeship of Richard Robinson: The Making of an Early Modern Boy Actress” (Oct. 25, 6:30-8 p.m.) are free to attend and open to the public.
Conference goers are asked to register before October 18 at the Eventbrite site. The fee for the full schedule of events, including lunch, is $50 for full-time employees and $25 for students and the partially waged. (Postdocs and retirees are asked to choose whichever price point best suits their circumstances.) For anyone who might wish to forgo the lunch, the fees are $25 for full-time employees and $0 for students and the partially waged. If tickets in your chosen category should become listed as sold out on the Eventbrite site, please contact krista.kesselring@dal.ca.
All sessions are at the University of King’s College, New Academic Building (NAB)
Conference Programme
Friday, Oct. 25
2:30 p.m. – Registration
Foyer, 2nd Floor NAB
3:30-5:30 p.m. – Roundtable: Digital Scholarship In Medieval And Early Modern Studies
KTS Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor NAB
Panel Hosted by:
- Chair: Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University
- Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University – part of the Cantus Ultimus research group
- Marie-France Guénette, Université de Montréal – an editor with The Early Modern Digital Review
- Leah Grandy, University of New Brunswick – involved with digital projects such as The Loyalist Collection
- Keith Grant, Crandall University – an editor with Borealia, a group blog on early Canadian history
- Lyn Bennett, Dalhousie University – a co-lead on the Early Modern Maritime Recipes database
5:30-6:30 p.m. – Refreshments – Wilson Common Room, 2nd Floor NAB
6:30-8 p.m. – Keynote: “The Apprenticeship of Richard Robinson: The Making of an Early Modern Boy Actress”
KTS Lecture Hall, 2nd floor NAB
Presented by: Roberta Barker (Dalhousie and King’s; Theatre)
8 p.m. – Reception
Dalhousie University Club pub
Sponsored by the Dalhousie President’s Office. Registered conference goers are invited to meet for a free drink and light snacks. Orders can also be made from the full bar and (limited) evening food menu.
Saturday, Oct. 26
8:30 a.m. – Coffee
Foyer, 2nd Floor NAB
8:45-10:30 a.m. – Session 1: Masculinities
KTS Lecture Hall, 2nd floor NAB
- Chair: Kathy Cawsey, Dalhousie University
- Women’s Bodies and the Reification of Masculinity in El Cid
Presented by:Lauren Beck, Mount Allison University - Challenging the Champion: Toxic Masculinity in Samson Agonistes
Presented by: Kendra Guidolin, University of New Brunswick - “When I seriousely reflect uppon some expressions in your letter”: Letter-Writing and Father-Son Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
Presented by: Adriana Benzaquén, Mount Saint Vincent University - Spurs and Negotiations of Masculinity in Early Modern Europe
Presented by: Hilary Doda, Dalhousie University
10:30-10:45 a.m. – Refreshments
Foyer, 2nd Floor NAB
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. – Session 2 (Concurrent Panels)
2a. Connections: Imagining and Encountering the Foreign
Frazee Room, 2nd floor NAB
- Chair: Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie University
- Monarchs Demystified: English Depictions of Shah Tahmasb and Shah Abbas, the Great ‘Sophies’ of Persia
Presented by: Mahira Qadri, Dalhousie University - French Music and Theatre at the English Court: The Role of Henrietta Maria in Patronage and Translation (1629-1640)
Presented by: Marie-France Guénette, Université de Montréal - Virtue and Corruption in Voltaire’s L’Orphelin de la Chine
Presented by: Simon Kow, University of King’s College
2b. Contextual and Intertextual Readings
Seminar Room, 2nd floor, NAB
- Chair: Christina Luckyj, Dalhousie University
- Blind Textuality and Enlightened Orality in The Book of Margery Kempe: A Red Reading
Presented by: Brenna Duperron, Dalhousie University - ‘Endamaged by that art’: John Donne and Sixteenth-Century Demonology
Presented by: Sharon Vogel, Dalhousie University - Social Limits and Transgressions on the Stage in the First Gothic Play, Robert Jephson’s The Count of Narbonne
Presented by: Benjamin Hayward, University of New Brunswick
12:30-1:30 p.m. – Lunch
Boardroom, 2nd floor Arts & Administration Building
1:30-3 p.m. – Session 3 (Concurrent Panels)
3a Networks, Notebooks and the Transatlantic History of Medicine
Frazee Room, 2nd floor NAB
- Chair: Caroline Michaud, Dalhousie University
- Learned and Domestic Medicine in 18th-Century Halifax: The Manuscript Notebooks of Dr. William James Almon and Sarah Creighton Wilkins
Presented by: Lyn Bennett, Dalhousie University - Imperial Careering: The Transatlantic Networks of British Military Engineer William Booth (1748-1826)
Presented by: Bonnie Huskins, University of New Brunswick - William Booth (1748-1826), a Military Engineer, as Patient and Care-Giver in the British Atlantic World during the 1780s
Presented by: Wendy D. Churchill, University of New Brunswick
3b Before the Panopticon: Surveillance in Early Modern Culture
Seminar Room, 2nd floor NAB
- Chair: David McNeil, Dalhousie University
- Spying and Early Modern English Drama: The Strange Case of Anthony Munday
Presented by: Greg Maillet, Crandall University - Surveillance as Risible: From Constable Dogberry to Justice Overdo
Presented by: Ronald Huebert, Dalhousie University and University of King’s College - Unchained Knowledge: Surveillance, Panopticon Libraries, and Unexamined Benthamism, 1780-2010
Presented by: Marc MacDonald, University of Prince Edward Island
3-3:15 p.m. – Refreshments
Foyer, 2nd Floor NAB
3:15-4:45 p.m. – Session 3 (Concurrent Panels)
4a Politics, From the Local to the Global – Frazee Room, 2nd floor NAB
- Chair: Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University
- Women at the English Manorial Courts, 1558-1700: Evidence from Yorkshire and Lancashire
Presented by: Melissa Glass, Dalhousie University - Communities and Kinship Networks among Catholics in the Elizabethan Midlands
Presented by: Laura Rehn, Independent Scholar - Piracy Accusations as Political Propaganda 4
Presented by: Sarah Toye, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Pier 21
4b Infinite Possibilities Embodied – Seminar Room, 2nd floor NAB
- Chair: Simon Kow, University of King’s College
- Dante’s Paradiso as Gateway to the Renaissance
Presented by: Neil G. Robertson, University of King’s College - The Dove Within: The Dutch Spiritualist David Joris’s Transformation of the Holy Spirit into His Own Mind, c. 1540-1556
Presented by: Gary Waite, University of New Brunswick - Descartes, Demons, and the Mind-Body Problem
Presented by: Kathryn Morris, University of King’s College
4:45-6:15 p.m. – Session 5: Evidence
KTS Lecture Hall, 2nd floor NAB
Chair: Lyn Bennett, Dalhousie University
- Traces of Liturgy: Analysing a Manuscript Fragment from the Binding of the Riesencodex
Presented by: Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University - “With Light and Easy Pulse”: Early-Modern Writing Mistresses Negotiating Mastery
Presented by: Miriam Jones, University of New Brunswick, Saint John - Named in Freedom: Children in the Book of Negroes
Presented by: Leah Grandy, University of New Brunswick
6:15-6:30 p.m. – Business Meeting
KTS Lecture Hall, 2nd floor NAB
[Saturday evening event – Plans are afoot for the local Helios vocal ensemble to perform music from the lavish 1613 wedding festivities and later coronation of the ‘Winter Queen’, Elizabeth Stuart, and Frederick V, Count Palatine of the Rhine. The performance will be held at the beautiful St George’s Round Church, with the support of the RSC Atlantic and the University of King’s College. More details to follow.]
