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BIRKBECK EARLY MODERN SOCIETY CONFERENCE: CENTRES AND MARGINS

Saturday 7 July 2007, 10.00-16.30 Room 532, Birkbeck College, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX

Birkbeck Early Modern Society is delighted to announce our first student conference. We aim to provide a safe and constructive space for students to present their research, network and exchange ideas with peers from a range of disciplines. The day promises to be an ideal forum to showcase student research and to provide an opportunity to practise our presentation skills.

10.00

Stephen Brogan: welcome, introductions, opening comments

10.10

10.35

11.10

Session 1: Marginal Gender Roles? Chair: Laura Jacobs

Karen Chester, ‘On the Trail of Moll Cutpurse’.

Stephen Brogan, ‘A “Monster of Metamorphosis”: Reassessing the Chevalier/Chevalière d’Eon’s Change of Gender’.

Questions and comments

11.25

Break

11.40

12.10

 

12.35

Session 2: Ideas and Controversies.  Chair: Nigel Carter

Nadiya Midgley, ‘The “Sacred Theory of the Earth” and the “Anatomy of the Earth”: Using Data and Controversy to Form Early Modern Geological Ideas’.

Alexander Douglas, ‘Human Nature in Early Modern Political Philosophy’.

Questions and comments

12.50

Lunch (room 509)

14.00

14.40

 

15.20

Session 3: Visual Culture.  Chair: Karen Baston

Jan Ravenscroft, ‘Imagining Monsters: a Reinterpretation of Bartolomé González’s Portrait of Queen Margarita of Austria with her Dwarf, c.1603 ( Vienna , Kunsthistorisches)’.

Richard Tilbury, ‘The Renaissance of the Bearded Woman: An Examination of Ribera’s Problematic Portrait of Magdalena Ventura’.

Questions and comments

15.35

Break

15.50

16.15

16.40


17.05

Session 4: Contested Interpretations.  Chair: Robin Rowles

Laura Jacobs, ‘John Foxe (1516/17–1587) and English Anti-Semitism’.

Oliver Harris, ‘Shakespeare’s Early Triumphs.  The Iconography of Conquest in Titus Andronicus and Henry VI’.

Paul Lay, ‘The Influence of Venice on 's Troubles: Restoring the Balance’.

Questions and comments

17.20

Stephen Brogan: facilitate closing remarks

17.30

Wine reception

For more information contact the Secretary of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society, Laura Jacobs (l.jacobs@english.bbk.ac.uk)