London Renaissance Seminar: Writing Place in Early Modern England: State, Nation, Boundary
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
Friday 23 June (Room 106)
11am-12.30pm: Playing House? Houses, places and commonplaces
- Louise Fang, Univ. Paris 3, ‘Writing ludic commonplaces for the early modern stage: the dramatic adaptation of the card-playing motif in Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed With Kindness’
- Neil Kenny, Oxford, ‘Houses: places to inherit, inhabit, and imagine. Examples from early modern France’
- Sarah O’Malley, Nottingham ‘“One can scarce distinguish New-England from Old”: Exploring representations of domestic space in England and its New World colonies’
12.30pm-1.30pm: LUNCH
1.30pm-3.00pm: Changing places / Writing places
- Laetitia Sansonetti, Paris Nanterre, ‘Spatial and Textual Thresholds in Books II and III of The Faerie Queene’
- Joad Raymond, Queen Mary,‘What does Milton mean by aliena (/alienigena/exoticus/extraneus)?’
- Lynn S. Meskill, Univ. Paris Diderot, ‘“Did Julius Caesar build that place?”: Place and Writing in Act III, Scene I of Richard III’
3.00pm-3.30pm: TEA
3.30pm-4.00pm: PEMS/LRS Idea Groups
4.00pm-5.30pm: Placing the self: home and away
- Matthew Dimmock, University of Sussex, ‘Writing China on the Strand’
- Ladan Niayesh, Paris Diderot, ‘From Travel Guide to Self-Discovery in Andrew Borde’s First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge (1547)‘
- Anne Geoffroy, Univ. Versailles Saint-Quentin, ‘Writing Venice : James Howell’s Epistolae Ho-elianae’
5.30pm: WINE
Saturday 24 June (Keynes)
9.30am-11.00am Loci of thought / Thinking with place
- Christine Sukic, Reims,‘“What place is this? what ayre? what region?”: Locating Heroism on the Early Modern Stage’
- Jemima Matthews, King’s College, ‘Writing in Place’
- Ann Hughes, Emeritus Keele, 'Celebrating Naseby in London's streets, churches and gardens 19-21 June 1645'
11.00am-11.30am: COFFEE
11.30pm-1.00pm: Placing place and placing texts
- Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq, Univ. Paris Nanterre, ‘Harrington’s Republic: a Nowhere Land?’
- Jennifer Allport Reid, Birkbeck, ‘He went and digd his deathbed in the Churchwall’: The Place of Death in Early Modern Folklore’
- Paul Davis, University College, ‘Marvell and the Places of Manuscript’.
1.00pm: Line Cottegnies closing remarks
Contact name:
Sue Wiseman