2009 Conference Call for Papers

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Panel Title	Submitted By
Faces and Façades: structures of display in Renaissance Italy	Diane Bodart, Valeria Cafà  Villa I Tatti
Women and philosophy, women in philosophy, women as philosophy	Kristin Phillips-Court  University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pastoral poetry and specular arts	Kristin Phillips-Court  University of Wisconsin-Madison
Political and Religious Fuoriusciti in Renaissance Europe	Stefano Dall'Aglio  The Medici Archive Project, Inc.
Reporting Global News: Avvisi Culture at the Medici Court (1570-1670)	Lisa Kaborycha  The Medici Archive Project
Perceptions of the Other in the Grand Ducal Medici Archives (1537-1743)	Alessio Assonitis  The Medici Archive Project, Inc.
The Work of Recusant Poetry, 1549-1700	Russ Leo  Duke University
Montaigne’s Essais and the dialogue	Anders Toftgaard  Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Untimely Renaissance: Reframing the “Pre-” and the “Post-”	Katharina N. Piechocki  New York University
Manuscript Publication and the Culture of Print	Thomas Fulton  Rutgers University
Centro/Periferia?: Provincialism in Italian Renaissance Art	Renzo Baldasso  Smithsonian Institution
Representations of Islam and Muslims in Renaissance Literature.	Pia Schwarz Lausten  Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
VIsual Studies and the Early Modern Emblem Book	Tamara A. Goeglein  Franklin & Marshall College
Libraries in the 16th and 17th centuries	Anna Beth Rousakis  The Ambrosiana Foundation
Emblematics and Meditation	Andrea Catellani  Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium)
Dance, Religion, and Politics in the Renaissance	Emily Winerock  University of Toronto
Science and Literature: What Was the Difference?	David Sedley  Haverford College
Mapping Imaginary Worlds in the Renaissance	Deborah Parker  University of Virginia
Renaissance Engravings and Engravers	Emily J. Peters  Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Prints as Communicators and the Diversity of Audience	Bernadine Barnes; Margaret Kuntz  Wake Forest University; Drew University
Ethics and the Passions in Early Modern English Literature	Paul Cefalu  Lafayette College
Scientific Stories	Robert Goulding  University of Notre Dame
Allusion	Nick Moschovakis  Independent scholar
The Allegorical Tradition and Psychological Inquiry in the Middle Ages	Julia Staykova  University of British Columbia
Styling the Self: Rhetorical Performance in Early Modern Investigative Prose	Stephanie Shirilan  Brandeis University
Towards an Iconology of the Textile	Tristan Weddigen  University of Lausanne
Saints and Martyrs of the New World	Eloise Quiñones Keber  Graduate Center, City U of NY
Female Identity and Agency in Renaissance Epic	Helga Giampiccolo; Gael Montgomery  Johns Hopkins University
Asians in the Americas and/or Europe in Early Modern Times	Christina H. Lee  Princeton University
Women, Gender, and Language on the English Renaissance Stage	Marsha S. Robinson  Kean University
Examining Renaissance Stained Glass at the J. Paul Getty Museum	Virginia C. Raguin  College of the Holy Cross
The Jews and the Renaissance	Flora Cassen  University of Vermont
Editors and Publishers	Michael Sherbeg  Washington University
Care of the Body, Care of the Soul: Melancholy in a National Context	Monica Calabritto; Elizabeth W. Mellyn  Hunter College; Harvard University
George Buchanan	Dustin Mengelkoch  University North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Families, Writing, and the Production of Culture	Oded Rabinovitch  Brown Univrersity
Bridging Boundaries between Media in Renaissance Art	Cammy Brothers, University of Virginia; Yvonne Elet, New York University; Ann Huppert, University of Kansas
Digitizing Renaissance Material Culture	Brent  Nelson
Representations of power in courts without kings	Gabriel Guarino  University of Ulster
Beyond Neighbourhood: Rewriting the Italian Renaissance Community	Nicholas Eckstein; David Rosenthal  University of Sydney; Monash University
The Ambrosiana Library and Its Collections	Anna Beth Rousakis  The Ambrosiana Foundation
The Noisy Renaissance	Flora Dennis/Niall Atkinson  University of Sussex/Kunsthistorisches Institut
Classical Topoi in Colonial Texts and Images	Patricia Zalamea  Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Los Andes, Bogotá
The Sacred in Strange Places	Nicholas Terpstra  University of Toronto
Writing About Food in Renaissance Italy	Mary-Michelle De Coste  University of Guelph
Women and Power in Renaissance France	Marian Rothstein  Carthage College
Renaissance Philosophy	Donald Duclow  Gwynedd-Mercy College
Erasmus and the Practice of Reading	Kathy Eden  Erasmus of Rotterdam Society
Revising Petrarch	Angela Matilde Capodivacca; Aileen Astorga Feng  Yale University; UC Berkeley
DId Color Have a Renaissance?	Deborah L. Krohn and Louisa Matthew  Bard Graduate Center and Union College
Lost Lombardy: Renaissance Milan and Its 19th-Century Interpreters	Jill Pederson  Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Nonsense: Emotion and Illegibility	Anna Klosowska  Miami University of Ohio
Reinventing the Old Master: Fact, Fiction, and Fabrication in the Afterlives of the Early Modern Artist	Mia Reinoso Genoni
Theatricality in the Visual Arts of the Netherlands and Germany	Stephanie Dickey  Queen\'s University
Innocence in the Renaissance	Irina Iakounina  Yale University
From Corpus Christi to The Mighty Line: Re-Evaluating the boundaries between Medieval and Renaissance Drama	Nathaniel C. Leonard  University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Mythology in Renaissance Art and Letters	Sarah Blake McHam  Rutgers University
Renaissance Culture and War	Brian Maxson  Northwestern University
Renaissance music	Ruth DeFord  Hunter College, CUNY
Friendship in the Renaissance	Amyrose McCue Gill  University of California, Berkeley
Renaissance Portraiture, 1400-1600	Joanna Woods-Marsden  University of Califormia, Los Angeles
Boredom avant la lettre in early modern England	Christopher D\'Addario  Towson University
Panels related to Ficino	Valery Rees  School of Economic Science, London
Hebrew sources of the Renaissance	ilana Zinguer  Medieval & Renaissance Studies Society of Israel
New Technologies and Renaissance Studies	Ray Siemens  U Victoria
The Study of Renaissance Inventories	Lia Markey and Jessica Keating  University of Chicago and Northwestern University
Taking Place: Locating Mobile Objects within the Urban Fabric of Renaissance Italy	Samuel Bibby  University College London
Vernacular Poetry in 15th-Century Tuscany	Maria Esposito Frank  University of Hartford
Writing About Early Modern Nuns and Writing-Nuns	Horacio Sierra  University of Florida
Caravaggio: Reflections and Refractions	Lorenzo Pericolo-David M. Stone  University of Montreal-University of Delaware
Form and Reform: Writing New Politics in Seventeenth-Century England	Nathaniel Stogdill  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Coins and Medals in the Renaissance	Charles Rosenberg  University of Notre Dame
Renaissance Literatures and the Legal Scene	Harry Keyishian  Fairleigh Dickinson University
Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Arts?	Berthold Hub  ETH Zürich
Epistles and Letters in Renaissance Literature	Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller and Phillip John Usher  Barnard College
Making Connections: The Medici and the Courts of Europe	Heather L. Sale Holian  University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Women, Gender, and the Construction of Space in Early Modern England	Katherine R. Larson  University of Toronto
“This Figure that Thou Here Seest Put”: Critical Thinking in the Shakespearean Authorship Question	Roger Stritmatter  Coppin State University
Early Modern Criminality and Sites of Injustice	Timothy McCall and Allie Terry  Villanova University / Bowling Green State University
Translating the Renaissance	Jane Tylus  NYU
Court Studies	Malcolm Smuts  Society for Court Studies
Lady Mary Wroth	Margaret Hannay  Siena College
The Artistic Beffa in Renassiance Italy	Barnaby Nygren  Loyola College in Maryland
Milton and the Postsecular	Eric B. Song  Queens College, City University of New York
Rhetoric and Seventeenth-Century Northern Art	Suzanne Walker  Tulane University
Symbolism: Its Origins and Its Consequences	Stephanie Ebersohl  University of Illinois Springfield
In and Around Charles de Bovelles - France's Most Enigmatic Renaissance Philosopher	Tamara Albertini  University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Mathematics in Early Modern Culture	Sibylle Gluch  TU Dresden, SFB 537, Projekt E
Spenser in Short	Christopher Warley  University of Toronto
The Italian Humanism in Central-Eastern Europe	Caterina Squillace  The Jagiellonian University, Cracow
Women’s Political Partnerships in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy	Natalie Tomas  Monash University
Rethinking the Early Modern Pastoral	Benjamin J. Nelson  University of South Carolina Beaufort
Between Libraries and Art Collections: Bibliophiles and Collectors as Mediators of Culture	Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes  University of Stavanger
World Building in the Renaissance	Allison Kavey  CUNY John Jay College
Visual and verbal in 16th-century printed literature	Anne E. B. Coldiron  Florida State University
Characterization in English Drama	John Curran  Marquette University
Hollywood Shakespeare	Rachel Wifall  Saint Peter\'s College
Religion and Politics in Jean Bodin's Colloquium heptaplomeres	Peter T. Killam  McMaster University
Reconciling the Sacred with the Secular: The Contribution of Early Modern Conversos to Casuistry	Robert A. Maryks  City University of New York
The Sidneys and Material Culture	Margaret Hannay  Siena College
The Sidneys and the Psalms	Margaret Hannay  Siena College
17th-Century Englishwomen's Writing and Genealogy	Michelle M. Dowd  University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Venetian Painting and Sculpture, 1450-1550	Sandra Sider  Cooper Union