Attending to Women 2018 Provisional Program
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
1:30 – 4:30 pm | Pre-Conference Workshop Newberry Library, Chicago |
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Conference location: UWM School of Continuing Education (map)
9:00 am | Registration Opens |
10:00 am | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
10:30 am – 12:15 pm |
Plenary I: ChoiceJyotsna Singh, English, Michigan State University Andrea Pearson, Art History, American University Caroline Castiglione, Italian, Brown University |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
3:30 – 5:15 pm |
Plenary II: ConfrontationGrethe Jacobsen, History, Royal Library, Copenhagen Caroline Boswell, History, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Mihoko Suzuki, English, University of Miami |
6:00 pm | Informal Happy Hour at the Hotel |
Friday, June 15, 2018
9:00 – 10:30 am |
Workshop Session II: Confrontation I9. Crafting Habits of Resistance — Susan Dinan (H); Karen Nelson (E); Michele Osherow (E, J) 10. Epistemology and Action— Daniel Collette (P); Dwight Lewis (P); Sergio Gallegos (P) 11. Bodies of Authority: Contesting the Coercive Space in Early Modern England — Christi Spain Savage (E); Cristine Varholy (E) 12. Politics, Domesticity, and the Female Body — Madeline Bassnett (E); Joanne Wright (PS); Edith Snook (E); Megan Matchinske (E, CL) 13. Rhetoric and Resistance: Early Modern Women’s Agency—Jane Donawerth (E); Erin Kelly (E); Ana Kothe (CL) 14. Sexual Violence, Agency, and New World Colonialism—Meghan Hall (E); Alicia Meyer (E) 15. Gendering Political Confrontation: Influence and Agency in Print During the English and French Civil Wars – Catherine Hinchliff (H); Carrie Klaus (F); Mihoko Suzuki (E); Abby Zanger (F, H) 16. Early Modern Rape Culture(s): Women’s Confrontations with Religion and Law—Greta Grace Kroeker (H); Devon Sherwood (H) |
11am-12:45 pm |
Plenary III: CollectivitiesJulie Campbell, English and Women’s Studies, Eastern Illinois University Sarah Owens, Spanish, College of Charleston Joyce De Vries, Art History, Auburn University |
1:00 pm | Lunch |
2:00 – 3:30 pm |
Workshop Session II: Collectivities I17. Networks and Agency in Early Modern Maternity—Emily Kuffner (S); Amanda Zoch (E); Kathryn Bastin (F); Jordan Katz (H) 18. Activity, Collectivity, and Identity in Early Modern Female Catholic Communities: Reevaluating the Use of Primary Sources — Amy Leonard (H); Liise Lehtsalu (H); Elizabeth Lehfeldt (H); Sarah Joan Moran (AH) 19. “To Discourse by Letters”: Women’s Epistolary Modes and the New Science — Ani Govjian (E); Katharine Landers (E); Morgan Souza (E) 20. Mothers, Wives, and Healers: Women’s Agency in Medicine and Health—Victoria Meyer (H); Marissa Rhodes (H); Joanna Spanos (CS) 21. Accounting for Women: Collaborations, Networks, and Alliances in the Arts—Theresa Kemp (E, WGS); Catherine Powell (AH); Beth Link (AE) 22. Communal Worship: Nuns, Laywomen, Agency, Action, and Change— Micheline White (E); Jaime Goodrich (E); Alex Marchbank (H) 23. Should the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Add Gender to its Name?—Discussion led by Susan Amussen (H) |
4:00-5:15 pm | Readers’ Theatre play, A Warning for Fair Women (1599) |
6:00 pm | Reception at the Hotel |
7:30-9:00 pm |
Keynote AddressAngela McShane, Wellcome Collection, London Naming, Shaming, and Proclaiming: Early Modern Women’s Tobacco Boxes as Agents of Power |
Saturday, June 16, 2018
9:00 – 10:45 am |
Plenary IV: Pedagogy and the Public HumanitiesJennifer Selwyn, History, CSU Sacramento and Portland State Sarah Carter, History, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Christopher Fletcher, History, Newberry Library, Chicago The Role of the Renaissance Research Center and the Humanities Today |
11:15 am -12:45 pm |
Workshop Session IV: Pedagogies / Confrontation II24. Teaching the Social Media of the English Revolution: Rethinking Gender From the Female Petitioners to the #MeToo Movement — Erin Murphy (E, WGS); Emily Griffiths Jones (E, DH) 25. Teaching Early Modern Women’s Work with the Counterarchive— Mary Learner (E, CL); Susan O’Rourke (E, CL) 26. Activist Archives — Penelope Anderson (E); Ellen MacKay (E) 27. Algorithms in the Archive: Explorations of the Early Modern Digital Classroom — Julia Flanders (DH, E); Sarah Connell (DH, E) 28. Portrayals of Early Modern Women across the Atlantic — Dinorah Cortés-Vélez (S); Anne Pasero (S); Nhora Serrano (CL) 29. Gender and Intellectual Boundaries in 16th Century English and Continental Literature — Astrid Adele Giugni (E); Hannah VanderHart (E) 30. Ethics and Action — Matthew LaVine (P); Jill Hernandez (P); Joshua Thomas Vonderhaar (P) 31. Early Modern Women Patrons and Collectors — Sheryl Reiss (AH); Diana Robin (C) |
1:00 pm | Lunch |
2:00 – 3:30 pm |
Workshop Session V: Choice II/Collectivities II32. Hidden Labor, Cloistered Knowledge: Staging Women’s Agency in Early Modern England — Margo Kolenda (E); Cecilia Morales (E); Katherine Walker (E, CL) 33. Locating the Hidden Figures among Early Modern Women —Ann Cerminaro-Costanzi (S,I); Christa Irwin (AH); Erin Sadlack (E) 34. Female Sexuality Between the Sacred and the Profane — Katrina Olds (H); Tanya Tiffany (AH) 35. Reproducible Bodies: Literary Queenship, Agency, and Cultural Memory — Yasmine Hachimi (E); Breanne Weber (E) 36. The Agency of Portrayal — Saskia Beranek (AH); Sheila ffolliott (AH); Sandra Friesen (E); Kyungran Park (E) 37. Finding Early Modern Women’s Agency Through Network Analysis — Catherine Medici (WGS); Tara Wood (H); Genelle Gertz (E) 38. Accounting and Agency in the Americas — Rosalind Beiler (H); Tamara Harvey (E); Lisa Logan (E) 39. The Making of Knowledge: Experimental Texts and Textual Experiments in Early Modern Women’s Scientific Writing — Alice Brooke (S); Elizabeth Crachiolo (E); Julia Reed (HS); Whitney Sperrazza (E, DH) |
Throughout the conference: | Writing Wikipedia entries |
Disciplines: | Art Education (AE), Art History (AH), Classics (C), Comparative Literature (CL), Comparative Studies (CS), Dance (D), Digital Humanities (DH), English (E), Environmental Studies (ES), French (F), History (H), History of Science (HS), Humanities (HU), Italian (I), Music / Musicology (M), Philosophy (P), Political Science (PS), Religious Studies (RS), Spanish (S), Women’s/Gender/Sexuality Studies (WGS) |