1-3 May, 2003
Malaspina University-College,
Nanaimo, BC, Canada
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| Thursday, May 1 | ||
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5:00-7:00 pm |
Welcome Reception (Coast Bastion Hotel, Hospitality Suite) | |
| Friday, May 2 | ||
| 8:30-9:00 am | Coffee and light continental breakfast | |
| 9:00-10:00 am | Opening Plenary Address | Paul Stevens (Queen's U): England in Moghul India: Historicizing Cultural Difference and Its Discontents |
| 10:30-Noon |
Session 1: Heroism, Fear, and Secrecy Chair: TBA |
Paul Budra (Simon Fraser U): Shakespeare's Communities of Fear |
| Yael Margalit (McGill U): The Imaginary Institution of Shakespeare: Coriolanus and Cornelius Castoriadis | ||
| James Fleming (Simon Fraser U): Not Hidden, But Worth Hiding: The Renaissance Community of Secrecy | ||
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Session 2: The Internet Shakespeare Chair: Michael Best (U Victoria) |
Patrick Finn (St. Mary's C, Calgary): @ the Table of the Great: Hospitable Editing and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project. | |
| Jennifer Forsyth (Linn-Benton Community College): Playing with Wench-like Words: Copia and Surplus in ISE Cymbeline. | ||
| Alan Galey (University of Western Ontario): Dizzying the Arithmetic of Memory: Shakespearean Source Documents as Data Objects. | ||
| Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, Reno): 'Tis most credible: Textual fidelity in print and online. | ||
| Noon-1:00 pm | ||
| Lunch | ||
| 1:00-2:30 pm | Session 3:
Dissent and Otherness Chair: TBA |
Jim Daems (Simon Fraser U): The “Martyred Saint” in the Marketplace: Humanism and Milton’s Areopagitica |
| R Dhawan (U Delhi): Woman as the 'Other': Positioning of Woman in Shakespeare's Othello and Girish Karnad's Tale Danda | ||
| Alan Rudrum (Simon Fraser U): A City Divided Against Itself: The Community of Milton Scholars and the agon over Samson Agonistes | ||
| Session
4: Communities and Communication Chair: TBA |
Piers Brown (U Toronto): 'A Multiplying of Inceptions': Congregations and Scientific Communities in the Early Seventeenth Century | |
| Paul Nelles (Carleton U): Communication and Community in the Early Society of Jesus | ||
| Janine Rogers (Mount Allison U): Compilatio and Merchant Communities in Early Tudor England | ||
| 3:00-4:30 pm | Session
5: Grace, Marvel, and Redemption Chair: TBA |
Nick Robinette (Western Washington U): Producing the Marvelous in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale |
| Stephen Mills (Georgia State U): The Winter’s Tale and Rosicrucian Redemption | ||
| Seán Lawrence (Dalhousie U): Community, Exchange and the Avoidance of Grace in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice | ||
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Session 6: Spaces, Bodies, and the Communal Good Chair: TBA |
Alexander Fernandez (Ayers Saint Gross, Architects and Planners, Baltimore): Individual and Communal in a Carthusian Monastery: The Role of Architecture in Defining Rituals. | |
| Alvin Snider (U Iowa): Thomas Hobbes, Community, and Bodies of Knowledge | ||
| Kristin Lucas (McGill U): English Protestant Pamphlets and the Idea of "outward goods" | ||
| 5:00 pm - | 5:00
pm: Conference Reception 6:00 pm: Banquet |
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| Saturday, May 3 | ||
| 8:30-9:00 am | Coffee and light continental breakfast | |
| 9:00-10:30 am |
Session 7: Touchstone, Fiction and Faction Chair: TBA |
Theresa DiPasquale (Whitman C): "Shee onely": The Priesthood of Woman and the Womanhood of the Church in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum |
| Genevičve Generaux (U Nevada, Las Vegas): The Development of Queen Guinevere: Idealized Foil Turned Political Faction | ||
| Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C), Barbara Bond (U Victoria), Karin Armstrong (Malaspina U-C), Terra Dickson (U British Columbia), and Ingrid Weber (U Victoria): ‘My hart is set not to remove’: Margaret Douglas’ Life and the Text of the Devonshire MS | ||
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Session 8: Utopias and Forms of Authority Chair: TBA |
Romuald Lakowski (Grant Macewan U-C): Thomas More's Utopia, Alexander the Great and the Gymnosophists | |
| Julie Sutherland (U Durham): Alternative Communities: Utopia and Dystopia in Early Modern Travel Writing | ||
| Mark Dowdy (U Iowa): The Cambridge Touchstone: Returning to The Return from Parnassus | ||
| 11:00-Noon | Closing Plenary Address | Mark Vessey (U British Columbia): Renaissance Literary Histories and the Communion of Saints |
| Noon-1:00 pm | Lunch (& PNRS Business Meeting) | |
| 1:00 - 4:00 pm | Excursion (TBA) | |