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9:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions G (click titles to expand):
Andrew Hadfield (Sussex), ChairAndrew McRae (Exeter)
Mobility and Nationhood in Restoration England: The Contestatory Voices of The Compleat Angler Alex Mackintosh (London Consortium)
A No-Man's-Land in No-Place: Mapping the Slaughterhouses of Utopia and London
David Coleman (Nottingham Trent)
Localising the Archipelago: The Case of Early Modern Ulster
Mark Jenner (York), ChairEric Langley (UCL)
'The most infectious pestilence upon thee': Shakespeare's contagious carriers
Margaret Healy (Sussex)
Representing Paracelsus
Jennifer Richards (Newcastle)
Physic and rhetoric in Early Modern England
Louise Wilson (Geneva)
Salutary tales: Reading as medicine in Early Modern England
Adriana Turpin (IESA Paris) and Susan Bracken (Independent), Chairs
William Stenhouse (Yeshiva)
Private and Public Collections in Excavation Records of the Late Renaissance
Roy Halstead (Museo Bellini, Florence)
From a Private Collection to a Public Museum: the Display of Renaissance Art in the Museo Bellini
Adriana Turpin (IESA, Paris)
The Historical Creation of the Renaissance Interior: the collecting and display of furniture from the 19th Century to the present day
Alexander Samson (UCL), ChairHeather Dalton (Melbourne)
'Somewhat Learned in Cosmographie': Three English Merchants in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic
Celine Dauverd (Colorado, Boulder)
The Genoese Colony of Constantinople-Pera
Antonio Urquizar Herrera (UNED)
America in Early Sixteenth Century Spanish Collections: Objects and Narratives
Bill Sheils (York), ChairCatherine Richardson (Kent)
'My picture of Asia': Bequests of objects between Cathedral personnel after the ReformationSheila Sweetinburgh (Canterbury Archaeological Trust)
Remembering the dead at dinnertime: Things and practices of ChristchurchDiane Heath (Kent)
'...of ruby, velvet embroidered with golden doves': A Sixteenth-Century Monk's Possessions
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions H (click titles to expand):
John Roe (York), ChairAlex Davis (St. Andrews)
Abraham Fraunce and Philip Sidney as the Elizabethan Aeneas
Gillian Hubbard (Victoria University of Wellington)
Offering the illicit: Mammon's 'stille seate' and the seated woman of Proverbs 9
Kathleen O'Leary (Liverpool John Moores)
'Rich and Strange': Shakespeare, Alchemy and a Golden Time
Elaine Leong (Warwick), ChairAyesha Mukherjee (Exeter)
'In Vulcano Veritas': The Manuscripts of Sir Hugh Platt
Mariko Nagase (Shakespeare Institute)
Humanistic Labour towards Scientific Textual EditingMalabika Sarkar (Jadavpur)
Milton's Raphael and Early Modern 'Curiosity'
Chloe Houston (Reading), ChairNandini Das (Liverpool)
What John Smith Remembered
Nate Probasco (Nebraska)
The Works of Gods or Men?: Native American Trade Objectives and the Anglo-Roanokan Encounter
Claire Jowitt (Nottingham Trent)
Armchair Travellers in Renaissance Drama, 1600-1640
Matthew Dimmock (Sussex)
From Chinano to William: Locating The Baptising of a Turke (1587)
Jerome De Groot (Manchester), ChairJerome De Groot (Manchester)
Regicide and Royalist Stoicism
Helmer Helmers (Leiden)
International Royalist Iconography: Dutch Images of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell
Rachel Willie (York)
Who Killed Cock Lorell? Regicide, Restoration and Song
Jane Stevens-Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes), ChairKevin Childs (Courtauld)
Roman Collectors and the Taste for Michelangelo
Laura-Maria Popoviciu (Warburg)
Tastes and Attitudes: Collecting Art of the Past in Italy, 1550-1750
Christina Anderson (Oxford)
The Cabinet of Daniel Nijs (1572-1647)
James Russell (Durham), ChairHenrike Laehnemann (Newcastle)
Re-cycling Judith: The Book of Judith in the Vier Historien (Bamberg, 1462)
Katherine Heavey (Durham)
'Pull Not of Your Fathers Haire': Classical Women and the Subversion of Patriarchal Authority in Elizabethan Miscellanies Ingo Gildenhard (Durham)
Subjectivity and Metamorphosis: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (and beyond) Janice Valls-Russell (Montpellier)
Charting Mythological Journeyings Across the Divide
12:30-1:45 LunchAfternoon: York Mystery Plays at various places in City 1:45-3:15 Parallel Sessions i (click titles to expand):
John Roe (York), ChairPiers Brown (York)
Metaphysical Poetry and the Description of Nature in the 17th Century
Erin Sullivan (UCL)
Heart-Work and Heaven-Work in the Poetry of George Herbert
Jean-Christophe Van Thienen (Lille)
Herbert's Attack on Charles I and the Court via his Cabinet of Curiosity Metaphors in The Temple
Elaine Leong (Warwick), ChairAndrea Bubenik (Queensland)
Piracy or Appropriation?: Debating the Image in Early Modern Herbals
Isabelle Charmantier (Exeter)
Renaissance Natural History Between Emblematics and ScienceEwa Bartochowska (Warsaw)
Alchemy in Everyday Life: The 16th-Century Italian Book of Secrets, I secreti de la Signora Isabella Cortese
Claire Jowitt (Nottingham Trent), Chair
Chloe Houston (Reading)
Cultural Encounter and translation in late Seventeenth-Century Persia
Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary London/Helsinki)
Making Friends with Strangers in the 17th-Century Ottoman Empire
Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State)
English Translations of Mughal India
Surekha Davies (Birkbeck)
China in European Cosmographic Thought
Jerome De Groot (Manchester)Crawford Gribben (Trinity College Dublin)
Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff)
Rachel Willie (York)
Amanda Lillie (York), ChairDavid Hemsoll (Birmingham)
Looking Again at Michelangelo's Porta Pia
Anthony Geraghty (York)
The built frontispiece in Caroline OxfordJames Jago (York)
The Architecture of the Printed Frontispiece: Literary and monumental commemoration in Early Modern England
3:30-5:00 St. William's College 3:30-4:00 Tea/Coffee 4:00-5:00 Plenary Lecture: Penelope Gouk (Manchester), "Sound Studies Between Art and Science"
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