Annual Postgraduate Symposium

For further information, please contact the organizers Lena Liapi and Sarah Betts at curiositycabinet2010@googlemail.com.

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Programme

10:15  Registration & Coffee (Treehouse)

10:30  Claire Canavan: "To make the pott and x": Making meaning in early modern braid manuscripts

10:55  Kevin Tracey: “Nature delighteth in this number”: Heavenly algebra in Sir Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus

11:20  Emily Hansen: "Religion, learning, and good manners": Virtuous behaviour in the early modern grammar school curriculum.

11:50  Mike Stumpf: A Web-based Approach to Renaissance Studies: The early modern sandbox

 

12:20-1:30  Lunch (Treehouse)

1:30  Robin Macdonald: "More wretched than the stable of Bethlehem": DIY chapels, re-configured spaces, and sacred transformations in French North America

1:55  Lena Liapi: Cheap print, crime and propaganda in the Civil War

2:20  Sarah Betts: "Our Agamemnon’s dead": Rhetoric of revenge in post regicide English culture

 

2:45-3:15: Coffee break

3:15-3:40  Tony Prince: King John and the Curious Case of the Bastard Who Could Almost Be King

3:40-4:05: Sophie Morgan: Choosing Silence: Shakespeare’s abandonment of language in The Winter’s Tale

4:05-4:30: Saffron  Walkling: Putting Words into our Mouths: the politics and practicalities of Shakespeare appropriation in the Arabic context