Friday, February 16 -- Westbrook 0012

1 PM – 2:30 PM
Humanity and History
Moderator: Cord Whitaker, Duke University

“Paulo Giovio’s Brand of Universal History: Bucking the Trend”
Matthew Lubin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“The Miserable Human Condition?: Nature and Grace in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale”
Ryan McDermott, University of Virginia

3 PM – 5 PM
Revenge and Duty in Renaissance Drama
Moderator: Latarsha Pough, Duke University

“Duty Perplexed: Fulke Greville’s Mustapha”
Mark Jackson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“The Poniard, the Rope and the Cup of Nuptial Joy: Aesthetic Justice in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy”
Melissa Rack, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Votaries of Vengeance: The Revengers' Fate in Antonio's Revenge”
Genevieve Romeo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

5:30 PM – 7 PM
Keynote Address -- Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
“Neomedievalism and the Historical Logic of Torture”
Bruce W. Holsinger, Professor of English and Music at the University of Virginia
Introduced by Rachael Deagman

Saturday, February 17 -- Westbrook 0012

9 AM – 10:30 AM
Resistance and the Cross
Moderator: Mary Raschko, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“I’ll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours” Secrecy, Conversion, and Subjectivity in Cynewulf’s ‘Elene’”
Christine Zola-Moreno, The Ohio State University

“A Standard of Resistance”
Theresa Cecot, University of Colorado, Boulder

10:30 AM – 12 PM
Centers and Margins: Space and Movement
Moderator: Rachael Deagman, Duke University

“Amphion in England: Architectural Mythography and the Boundaries of Sovereignty in Caroline London”
Joseph Wallace, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“The ‘Sensuous Presence of Things’: Excavating Constancy in Wroth’s Urania”
Shannon Ciapciak, Duke University

“The Logistical Impetus Behind Byzantine/European Relations During the First Crusade”
Gregory D. Bell, Duke University

12 PM – 1 PM
LUNCH

1 PM – 3 PM
Reformation Orthodoxies
Moderator: Russell Leo, Duke University

“’A New Babylon As It Were’: The Great Whore and Internal Critics of the Medieval Church”
David Morris, University of Notre Dame

“Robert Crowley and the Contours of Edwardian Dissent”
Anthony W. Razzi, Merton College, University of Oxford

“Evangelical Authority and the Rhetoric of Reform: Hugh Latimer’s ‘Sermon of the Plowers’”
Matthew Irvin, Duke University

“Strategy of Recusancy: John Donne and Richard Crashaw”
Timothy Duffy, University of Virginia

3 PM – 4:30 PM
Gendered Orthodoxies
Moderator: Elizabeth Harper, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“’A Wyf There Was’: Self-Legitimizing Fictions and Embodied Dissent in Margery Kempe and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath”
Kevin Teo, University of Calgary

“’The forme of her levyngs’: The Mixed Life of Margery Kempe”
Megan Cook, University of Pennsylvania

“Unwilling to Serve: Notes Toward a Dissenting View of Service in Late Medieval England”
Jim Knowles, Duke University

4:30 PM – 5 PM
BREAK

5:30 PM – 7 PM
Popular Dissent and Royal Law
Moderator: Heather Mitchell, Duke University

“Montaigne’s Monstrous Body Politic”
Sarah Elizabeth Parker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“’I Doe Not Talke of the Queene’: Humor, Ambiguity and Popular Politics on the Renaissance Stage”
Nora Corrigan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“’No wood no kingdome:’ Dissent and the Institution of the Early Modern English Forest”
Elizabeth M. Weixel, University of Minnesota

“Statutory Hermeneutics and Literary Lawmaking in The Owl and the Nightengale”
Jana Mathews, Duke University