UBC, McGill and SFU Early Modern Symposium.
Session I
Time: 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Title: Interiority & Exteriority: Social Identity and the Body Politic
Speakers:
Christopher Gaudet – English, University of British Columbia – “Conversion and Interiority in
Robert Southwell”
Anuradha Gobin – Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University – “Picturing the Body’s Interior: Materiality, Criminality and Public Anatomies in the Early Modern Dutch Republic”
Tomasz Grusiecki – Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University – “The Transcultural Body Politic: Portraits of the Impostor Imperial Couple Dmitri I and Maryna Miniszech”
Session II
Time: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Title: Agency of the Object: Constructing Cultural and Global Networks
Speakers:
Ivana Horacek – Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia – “The Metamorphosis of Representation: Conflicting Materials and Gifts Through Time”
William Owen – English, Simon Fraser University – “Shopping with Protestants: Commodities, Consumption and the Occultation of work in ‘Knight of the Burning Pestle’”
Heather Muckart – Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia – “The Herōologia anglica and the Dutch-English Protestant Print Network”
Annette Stenning – English, Simon Fraser University – “Globalization, Grapes and the Problem of corpus naturale in Doctor Faustus”
Session III
Time: 2:30 – 4:00
Title: Shifting Epistemologies: The Immaterial and the Foreign
Speakers:
Michael Coughlin – Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia – “The History of Science at a Crossroads: Daniele Barbaro between Totality and Infinity”
David Mitchell – Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University – “The Sculptor
Condemned: Antoine Benoist and Nadji Mustapha Aga”
Danijela Zutic – Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia – “Skin
Metamorphosis and Inigo Jones’ Masquer: A Daughter of Niger”
Reception 6 to 7pm.
