Thursday, May 11th (Day 1)

 

8:45 am - 9 am    -    Opening Remarks

 

9 am - 10:50 am   -   Poetics, Latinity, and the Republic of Letters

            

Jan Bloemendal, “The Transnationality of Neo-Latin Drama: Spiegel’s Commentary on Reuchlin’s Henno (1512)”

James Parente, “The Tarnished Golden Age?  Nation and Cosmopolitanism in Conrad Busken Huet’s Het land van Rembrand”

Leah Whittington, “Radically Alive: Necromantic Poetics in Thomas May’s Supplementum Lucani” 

 

Moderator: Hannah Crawforth

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11 am  -  1 pm  -   Milton and Shakespeare

 

Sharon Achinstein, “Is Milton [still] Better than Shakespeare?”

Joseph Ortiz, “Milton’s Casella: Protestant Song and the Limits of Italian Humanism”

Jennifer Waldron, “The Politics of Scale: Conscience in Henry V”

 

Moderator: Rhodri Lewis

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1 pm - 2 pm    -    LUNCH

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2 pm - 4 pm    -    Round Table Discussion: History, Historicism, and Poetics

 

Dan Blank, “Shakespeare’s Student Prince”

Steph Pope, “The Stars Down to Earth; or, How to Write a Horoscope”

Orlando Reade, “The Bastard Art: Notes on Biography”

Emily Vasiliaskaus, “Milton, Voyeurism, and History”

Julianne Werlin, “"Life Expectancy and the Elegy”

 

Moderator: Leah Whittington

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4 pm - 4:30 pm        TEA

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4:30 pm - 6:30 pm        Milton and Marvell

 

Nicholas Von Maltzahn, “Milton, Marvell, and Sarpi”

Martin Dzelzainis, “Andrew Marvell and the English Revolution”

Nicholas McDowell, “The Genius of Areopagitica”

 

Moderator: Jeff Dolven

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Support for the conference comes from the David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Project; the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies [CREMS]; the Center for Collaborative History [CCH]; the Center for Culture, Society and Religion [CCSR]; the Center for Human Values [CHV]; the Department of English; and the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English.