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Authorities

Friday, February 22

1:00–2:30 p.m. Session One, Toy Lounge
Models for Moral Practice
Moderator:  Michelle Oswell

The Reformation of the Saints: Luther and Calvin as Readers of Genesis 16
Deborah K. Marcuse (Religion, Duke University)

Imitatio Christi: Models for Christian Living in Early Modern England
Nandra Perry (English, UNC–Chapel Hill)

Communion of the Saints: Martin Bucer, the Dead, and the Patristic Consensus
Edwin Tait (Religion, Duke University)

3:00–4:30 p.m.  Session Two, Toy Lounge
Personal Encounters with Authority: The Autobiographical and Biographical Record
Moderator: Deborah K. Marcuse

Deception and Intrigue at the Fatimid Court: Al-Tustari, al-Yazuri, and al-Mu’ayyad
Elizabeth Alexandrin (Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University)

Father John Gerard’s “Jesuit Agenda” for England, 1588–1606
Linda French Griffin (History, UNC–Greensboro)

Religious Authority and Evangelicalism: Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
Melissa Franklin Harkrider (History, UNC–Chapel Hill)

5:00 p.m.  Keynote Lecture, Toy Lounge

God’s Little Gypsy Girl: Ordinary Women and Political Prophecy in Early Modern Spain
Dr. Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas, National Humanities Center Fellow

Saturday, February 23

9:00–10:30 a.m.  Session Three, Toy Lounge
Authorship and Authority
Moderator:  Rebekah Long

Toward a New Authority: Rethinking the Textual Approach to Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Melanie Haupt (English, University of Colorado)

The Touch of Tuned String: Music and Poetics in the Sidney-Pembroke Psalter
Eliza Fisher Laskowski (English, UNC–Chapel Hill)

Public Sphere Limited: Authority and Authorship in Milton’s Areopagitica
Maria Magro (English, Carnegie Mellon University)

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.  Session Four, Toy Lounge
Philosophical and Epistemological Authority
Moderator:  Edwin Tait

The Laity’s Claim: The Attack on Philosophical Authority in Bonaventure
Ian Burton-Oakes (Philosophy, Emory University)

Between Angels and Beasts: Authority and Virtue in the Writings of Descartes and Pascal
John P. Bladel (History, UNC–Greensboro)

Religion and Science in the Argumentation of John Wilkins’ The Discovery of a World on the Moone
Jody Rowan (English, UNC–Chapel Hill)

2:00–3:30 p.m.  Session Five, Toy Lounge
Making History
Moderator:  Britt Mize

Episcopal Authorities in Liturgical Portraiture from Ottonian Manuscript Illumination
Evan Gatti (Art, Furman University and UNC–Chapel Hill)

Appropriate Craft, Appropriate Style: A Source of Authority in the Medieval Spanish Historical Prologue
Helen Dianne Brain (Romance Languages, St. Louis University and UNC-Chapel Hill)

The Case of the Hock Tuesday Play: Solving the Mystery of a Lost Medieval Pageant
Margaret Swezey (English, UNC–Chapel Hill)

4:00–5:30 p.m.  Session Six, Toy Lounge
Competing Authorities
Moderator:  Eliza Fisher Laskowski

Maître Mimin étudiant and Des femmes qui apprennent à parler latin: Women, Latin, and Authority
Amy K. Shaw (Comparative Literature, UNC–Chapel Hill)

A World within a World: Friendship and the Subversion of Authority in Renaissance Literature
Elizabeth Anne Rothenberg (History, Duke University)  

Richard Eden’s “Compromise” Model of English New World Exploration in The Decades of the Worlde or West India
Alice Espinosa (English, UNC–Chapel Hill)