Conjuring the Past 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
12:30-1:00–Registration, Grucci Room (Burrowes 102)
1:00-1:15–Travel to Special Collections or Palmer Museum of Art
1:15-2:45–Special Collections or Palmer Museum of Art Visit
2:45-3:00–Travel to Burrowes Building
3:00-4:00–Paper Feedback Session, Grucci Room (Burrowes 102)
4:00-4:15–Break
4:15-5:45–Session I
Panel 1. Playing with the Gods (Grucci Room, Burrowes 102)
Panel 2. Transformation, Tensions, and the Trepidity of Breaking Tradition (Burrowes 132)
5:45-6:00–Break
6:00-6:15–Travel to Dinner
6:15-8:00–Dinner
Dinner Groups
Shrew: Leaders, Audrey Gradzewicz and Jonathan F. Correa-Reyes
Vole: Leaders, Audrey Saxton and Mattison Schuknecht
Mouse: Leader, Taylor Hare
Rat: Leader, Lauren M. Cenci
Saturday, February 22, 2020
8:00-8:45–Registration and Continental Breakfast, Grucci Room (Burrowes 102)
8:45-9:00–Opening Remarks, Grucci Room (Burrowes 102)
9:00-9:15–Break
9:15-10:45–Session II
Panel 3. Representation and Influence in Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical Art (Burrowes 226)
Panel 4. Blazing Worlds: Forging Femininity in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Burrowes 132)
Panel 5. The Classics in Time (Burrowes 157)
Panel 6. The Stage, the Lab, and the Wardrobe: Imaginative Spaces of Medieval and Renaissance Reception in the Modern Era (Burrowes 463)
10:45-11:00–Break
11:00-12:30–Session III
Panel 7. De-Stabilizing Myth: Close Reading & Fully Recognizing Classical, Allegorical, and Historical Figures (Burrowes 226)
Panel 8. Times, Signs, Wine, and the Divine: Saints and Popular Piety in the Classical and Medieval Periods (Burrowes 157)
Panel 9. Rough Translations: Phantoms of the Past (Burrowes 132)
Panel 10. Receptions and Redirections in Drama and Film (Burrowes 463)
12:30-1:45–Lunch
Lunch Groups
Weevils: Burrowes 132
Earwigs: Burrowes 157
Botflies: Burrowes 159
Sowbugs: Burrowes 226
Silverfish: Burrowes 227
Firebrats: Burrowes 463
1:45-2:00–Break
2:00-3:30–Keynote Address: Dr. Scott Smith
Property and Blood in Eleventh Century England: Memorializing the Violence of the Past
Grucci Room (Burrowes 102)
3:30-3:43–Break
3:45-5:15–Session IV
Panel 11. Shakespeare in His World and Ours (Burrowes 132)
Panel 12. Maps, Manuscripts, and Menus: Reading Material Culture from the Global Middle Ages to the Global Enlightenment (Burrowes 463)
Panel 13. Kings, Sultanas, and Talismans: Politics, Gender, and Religion Beyond Christian Europe (Burrowes 157)
Panel 14. Mythifying History in Medieval Literature (Burrowes 226)
5:20-5:35–Closing Statements, Grucci Room (Burrowes 102)