About this Event
This two-day interdisciplinary symposium invites scholars across a range of subjects to re-examine the relationship between material space and literary production in Europe between 1500 and 1651. Our title, ‘On Location’, allows for a consideration of both space and place, broadly defined, and the conference will offer a reassessment of both late medieval and early modern writings about and within space. Literary production will be defined broadly to include prose, sermons, poetry, drama, letters, and diaries, written for both private and/or public audiences.
Tea/coffee and a sandwich lunch will be provided for attendees on both days.
Schedule
Thursday 23rd June
9-9:15 Check in and opening remarks
9:15-10:45 Panel 1: Food for Thought
Chair: Chloe Fairbanks (University of Oxford)
Professor Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford),The place of fishes
Dr Charlie Taverner (Trinity College Dublin), Food and power at Dublin Castle: reading the household accounts of a sixteenth-century viceroy
Dr Eleanor Barnett (Cardiff University), Shared Meals on Colonised Land: Food and Power in Early American Travel Literature
10:45-11 Coffee Break
11-12:30 Panel 2: Space for the Sacred
Chair: Fergal Leonard (Durham University)
Dr Austen Saunders (Independent Scholar), John Field’s marked books: making it personal
Catherine Jenkinson (University of Oxford), Religion in the late-Tudor and early-Stuart Tower of London
Dr Róisín Watson (University of Oxford), Constructing Sacred Space: Lutheran consecration sermons in early modern Germany
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3 Panel 3: Domestic Dramas
Chair: Professor Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)
Patrick Durdel (University of Lausanne), Writing Location in Medwall’s ‘Fulgens’ and ‘Lucres'
Emma Venter (University of Leeds), ‘At home or not at home’: Performing Domesticity in ‘Arden of Faversham’
Caroline Taylor (University of Oxford), Birds and their cages: domestic space as quarantine in Stuart drama
3-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 Panel 4: The Land Speaks
Chair: Grace Murray (University of York)
Professor Philip Schwyzer (University of Exeter), Written on the Land: The Early Modern Poetics of Cropmarks
Dr Zachary Yuzwa (University of Saskatchewan), Shifting Grounds: Seismic and Semantic Instability in Jesuit Latin Letters from New France
Dr Jenny Oliver (University of Oxford), The Dark (Poetic) Ecologies of the French Wars of Religion
4:45-5 Coffee Break
5-6 Keynote – Dr Callan Davies & Dr Sophy Charlton (Box Office Bears)
Friday 24th June
9-9:45 Career roundtable
9:45-11:15 Panel 5: On the Road Again
Chair: Professor Philip Schwyzer (University of Exeter)
Grace Murray (University of York), ‘Pocketing up’: Unpocketing and Unpacking Books in Early Modern England'
Edward Stein (University of Oxford), '[N]o more rest then an ayery spirit': Mobility, Spatiality, and Liquidity in John Taylor’s Trauailes of Twelue-Pence (1621)
Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of Warwick), ‘The Odcombian Leg-stretcher’: Thomas Coryate’s perambulation and early modern chorography'
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1 Panel 6: Location, Location, Location
Chair: Caroline Taylor (University of Oxford)
Isabel Dollar (University of St Andrews), John Marston’s Site-Specific Theatre: Cathedral as Character in the Antonio Plays
Dr Valentina Serio (University of Pisa), The space for justice: Alberti’s interpretation of the theatre building
Orlagh Davies (Durham University), 'Studious she is and all alone’: dramatic representations of the spaces of early modern female autodidacts, 1590-1721
1-2 Lunch
2-3:30 Panel 7: The Place of Letters
Chair: Catherine Jenkinson (University of Oxford)
Dr Jackie Watson (Independent Scholar), From palace to Pr*son: two letters of Jacobean courtiership
Leah Veronese-Clucas (University of Oxford), 'These are petitions and not Hymns, They sue/But that I may survay the Edifice’: petition, mediation and access in Donne's Verse-Letters and the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'
Sierra Carter (University of York), Staging Women’s Letter-Writing in Early English Theatres
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-5:15 Panel 8: Material World
Chair: Edward Stein (University of Oxford)
Noemi Di Tommaso (University of Bologna), The atelier-maison as the preferred location for late Renaissance naturalistic studies
Lily Freeman-Jones (Queen Mary University of London), Skins that bind: sheepskin and the law in early modern drama
Sara Charles (University of London), Making manuscripts in the twenty-first century: filling the gaps in medieval and early modern recipes
5:15-5:30 Coffee Break
5:30-6:30 Keynote – Professor Julie Sanders (University of Newcastle)
This symposium is made possible through the generous funding of the Centre for Early Modern
Studies at Oxford.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens, Oxford, United Kingdom
GBP 25.00 to GBP 35.00
