Programme

Thursday

9am Registration
9.30am Welcome and Opening Remarks

Keynote 1
Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles)
Pirating Spain
10.45am Coffee
11am Session 1
A.

Africa and Africans in the Atlantic World (16th-18th Centuries) (Panel convenor: Toby Green, King’s College London)

  • José Lingna Nafafé (University of Birmingham), Europe in Africa and Africa in Europe: Beyond Wilberforce’s Experiment in Abolitionism, Unfree Labour and the Market
  • Ibrahima Seck (Cheik Anta Diop University, Dakhar), Greater Senegambia and the making of US Southern Culture
  • Toby Green (King’s College London), Angola, Upper Guinea and the Making of the Atlantic World: African "Agency" in the Long 17th Century
B.

England and France in the 17th Century (Panel convenor and chair: Katherine Ibbett, UCL)

  • Kristine Johanson (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), “La calamité de ce temps”: Politicizing, Marketing, and Dramatizing Nostalgia in England and France
  • Karen Newman (Brown), The French Disease: Cultural Translation and Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus
  • Line Cottegnies (Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle), Women in translation: Aphra Behn's Agnes de Castro
C.

Foreign Correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I (1) (Panel convenor: Alessandra Petrina, Università degli Studi di Padova)

  • Guillaume Coatalen (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France), The lion, the fox, the frog and the ape: the bilingual tale of Queen Elizabeth I's courtships as told in letters in manuscript
  • Rayne Allinson, (The Ohio State University), Letters Full of Marvels: Queen Elizabeth I’s Correspondence with Sultan Murād III and Tsar Ivan IV
D.

Language, epistemology and politics in the Enlightenment (Panel convenors: Avi Lifschitz and Kevin Instone. Chair: Jason Peacey)

  • Kevin Instone (UCL), Politics and Language in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Philosophy
  • Andrea Schatz (King's College London, Jewish Studies), Origins and Fragments: Moses Mendelssohn on Orientalism and the Hebrew Language
12.30pm
Lunch
2pm Session 2
A.

Mercantile Exchange and Slavery (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Heather Dalton (University of Melbourne), The merchant’s daughter, the merchant’s wife: knowledge, translation and dynastic ambition in England’s early sixteenth century Atlantic trading networks
  • Jyotsna G. Singh (Michigan State University), Heraldry and Representations of the Early English Slave Trade
  • Larissa Brewer-García (University of Pennsylvania), Plotting Translation and Converting Blackness in Seventeenth-Century Cartagena de Indias
B.

Katherine Philips (Panel convenor and chair: Katherine Ibbet, UCL)

  • Penelope Anderson (Indiana), War within and war without: Civil and international wars in the writings of Katherine Philips
  • Deana Rankin (Royal Holloway), 'And Pompey now shall bleed no more': Katherine Philips, a delicate assassin
  • Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Wadham College, Oxford), Katherine Philips, Abraham Cowley and Andrew Marvell: royalist and republican retreat
C.

Portraits (Panel convenor: Organizers. Chair: Rodrigo Canete)

  • Tracey A. Sowerby (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), ‘A memorial and a pledge of faith’: Representation, Portraits and Diplomatic Exchanges
  • Rebecca Norris (Newnham College, University of Cambridge), To whom it may concern: Penned letters in Venetian portraits
  • Yasmin Arshad (UCL), The Enigma of a Portrait: Lady Anne Clifford and Daniel’s Cleopatra
D.

German Exchanges (Panel convenor: Organizers. Chair: Fred Schurink)

  • Jan Alessandrini (UCL), Imitation or European Cultural Exchange? The role of laughter, wit and ridicule in Early Modern German comic literature
  • Hilary Brown (Swansea University), Women Translators in Early Modern Germany
  • Myrtha Ehlert (Marie Curie Foundation), Dionysius Areopagita, father ("Erzvater") of a vernacular mystic tradition?
3.30pm Tea
4pm Session 3
A.

The Atlantic World? (Panel convenor: Organizers. Chair: Laura Leon Llorena)

  • Lauren Beck (Mount Allison University), Reading the Conquest of the Americas: the Implications of Multiplicity
  • Caroline Dodds Pennock (University of Sheffield), Aztecs in the Atlantic World, c.1492-1600
  • Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Rutgers, State University of New Jersey), Neither vassal nor patriot: filibusterismo and extended colonialism in the Caribbean and the Philippines
B.

Foreign Correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I (2) (Panel convenor: Alessandra Petrina, Università degli Studi di Padova)

  • Giuliana Iannaccaro (Università degli Studi di Milano), Rhetoric in Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence
  • Monica Santini (University of Padua), Letters to Ireland: a Case-Study of Elizabeth’s Official Correspondence
  • Alessandra Petrina (University of Padua), The Queen’s unseen hand: the Role of Sir Francis Walsingham in Elizabeth I’s foreign correspondence
C.

Habsburg and Medici: Gift, Music and Exchange (Chair: Piers Baker-Bates)

  • Helen Green (Open University), Musical Interaction at the Court of Maximilian I (1486-1519)
  • Steven Alexander (Independent scholar), The trade in aesthetic terminology between Italy and Spain in the period between 1550 and 1650.
D.

Early Modern Jewry (Chair: Hilary Pomeroy)

  • Francois Guesnet (UCL), Legal status and political culture. Early modern Polish Jewry in a European context
  • Stephen Lubell (Institute of Advanced Study), Early modern exchanges: the example of Hebrew printing in the sixteenth century
  • Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Swansea), Crypto-Jews working the Catholic mission-fields: the papers of Jean-Baptiste Maldonado, S.J. (1643-1699)
6pm Keynote 2
Andrew Laird (University of Warwick)
Grammar between Babel and Utopia: Renaissance humanism, Latin, and native languages in sixteenth-century Mexico

Friday

9am Registration
9.30am Keynote 3
Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex)
Changing Places in Early Modern England: Class, Gender and Literature
10.30am Coffee
11am Session 1
A.

Against the Grain: Resisting power in prison and exile (Panel convenor: Gerard Kilroy, University College London)

  • Gerard Kilroy (UCL), Cutting across Europe: Verstegan’s benighted country
  • Michael Questier (Queen Mary, University of London), Catholics, Puritans and Preaching in Elizabethan York
  • Alison Shell (UCL), ‘Writing against the Grain’: John Ingram’s Prison Epigrams
B.

Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters (Panel convenor: James Brown, Oxford)

  • Howard Hotson (Oxford, Project Director) or James Brown (Project Coordinator) Overview and Key Findings
  • Project Research Fellow (Oxford), Case Study
  • Technical or Editorial Project Member (Oxford, Project Coordinator), Catalogue Presentation
C.

Travel and Navigation (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Tamsin Badcoe (University of Geneva), ‘The sea is purposfuly left in blanc’: The place of the preface in early modern navigational literature
  • Claire Jowitt (Nottingham Trent University), Editing Early Modern Travel: the case of Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations 1598-1600)
  • Margaret Small (University of Birmingham), On the trail of the Traveller: Ramusio’s Navigazioni e viaggi
D.

MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations 1 (Panel convenor and chair: Neil Rhodes, University of St Andrews)

  • Gordon Kendal (Honorary Research Fellow, University of St Andrews), ‘Ignotum per ignotius?’ – Editorial Issues in Redoing Douglas's Translation of the Aeneid (1513)
  • Fred Schurink (Northumbria University), The Continental Source Editions of Early Modern English Translations of Plutarch’s Moralia
  • Sarah Annes Brown (Anglia Ruskin University), The Early Modern Myrrha
12.30am
 Lunch
1.30pm
 Session 2
A.

Translating Women in Renaissance England: International Negotiations (Panel convenor: Chris Laoutaris, UCL)

  • Chris Laoutaris (University College London), Making a Woman of Letters: Margaret More Roper Among the Humanists
  • Jaime Goodrich (Wayne State University), The Tudor Princesses’ Translations and Protestant Propaganda under Edward VI
  • Micheline White (Carleton University), Translation, Exchange, and Accommodation: Disseminating Calvin’s Sermons in Post-Marian London
  • Patricia Phillippy (Kingston University), The Cooke Sisters Across Borders: Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell’s “French Creature”
B.

Translation and the circulation of ideas in the Eighteenth Century: the role of the periodical press 1 (Panel convenor: Ann Thomson, Université Paris 8)

  • Sébastien Drouin (Forschungszentrum Gotha), Jean Le Clerc and Anglican Scholars
  • Ann Thomson (Université Paris 8), The Practice of "extraits" in the Early Eighteenth Century
  • Will Slauter (Université Paris 8), Translating Political News
  • Girolamo Imbruglia (Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale'), Political vocabulary and the Periodical Press
  • Emmanuelle de Champs (Université Paris 8), Utilitarianism in French-language Periodicals, 1795-1805
C.

Early Modern Festival as Cultural Exchange (Panel convenor: Ronnie Mulryne, University of Warwick)

  • Ronnie Mulryne (University of Warwick), The Prevalence of Festival in Sixteenth Century Europe
  • Margaret Shewring (University of Warwick), The Early Modern Festival as Performance Mårten Snickare (University of Stockholm), Otherness and the Exotic: New Approaches to Festival
  • Margaret M McGowan (University of Sussex), Classical Forms Reborn in European Renaissance Festivals
D.

Exchanges of British Neo-Latin poetry with the vernacular and the contemporary context (Panel convenor: Gesine Manuwald, University College London)

  • Andrew Taylor (Churchill College Cambridge), Communities of the epigram in the Henrician Renaissance
  • Gesine Manuwald (University College London), Thomas Campion: a poet between the two worlds of Classical and English literature
  • L. B. T. Houghton (University of Glasgow), Lucan in the Highlands: James Philip’s Grameid and the traditions of ancient epic
  • Victoria Moul (King’s College London), England and the New World: Abraham Cowley’s didactic epic in books four and five of the Plantarum Libri Sex
 E.

The Picaresque in England and France (Panel convenor: John Ardila)

  • J A G Ardila (Edinburgh), The English Rogue and the Rise of the Novel: Bunyan’s Mr Badman
  • Jenny Mander (Cambridge), Fair Trade? Picaresque Exchanges within a Global Market
  • D'Maris Coffman (Cambridge), Echoes of the Picaresque in Jacques Savary's Le Parfait Negociant
3.30pm Tea
4pm Session 3
A.

Theatrical Exchange (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Catherine Parsons (University of Sussex), ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’?: The displacement and mediation of Protestant ideology in Dekker and Massinger’s The Virgin Martir
  • Pauline Ruberry-Blanc (Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours), Devilish Bad Manners: Slaughtering Innocents on the Medieval and Early Modern English Stage
  • Richard Hillman (Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours), Pyramus and Thisbe: The French Connection Re-considered
B.

Britain in Translation and Travel in the 18th Century (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Heather Williams (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Translation Triangle: Volney’s Ruins in Welsh
  • Chloe Chard (Independent Scholar), Rising and Sinking in Eighteenth-Century Italy
  • Emily Witt (University of Cambridge), Modes of seeing in Mungo Park: reading uncertainty in the late eighteenth-century explorer narrative
C.

Spanish Imperialism (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Noelia Cirnigliaro (Dartmouth College), Transatlantic Markets and the Domestic Realm in Early Modern Spanish Narrative
  • Santa Arias (University of Kansas), Mapping the River, Constructing the Empire
  • Raquel Albarrán (University of Pennsylvania), Golden Empires: The Fetish, Theodor De Bry and the Formation of a Spanish Imperial Subjectivity
D.

MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations 2 (Panel convenor: Neil Rhodes, University of St Andrews. Panel chair: Guyda Armstrong)

  • Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews), Modernisation and the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations
  • José María Pérez Fernández (University of Granada, Spain), Responding to the taste of the vulgo: translation and trade in the Early Modern European canon
  • Louise Wilson (MHRA Research Fellow in English Renaissance Translation, University of St Andrews), Rewriting French Controversies in Anthony Munday’s Iberian Romance Translations
6pm Keynote 4
Brenda Hosington (University of Warwick)
Translation as a Currency of Cultural Exchange
7pm

Modern Humanities Research Association Reception

Private view of exhibition 'Word and Image: Early Modern Treasures at UCL' in Strang Print Room

Saturday

9am Registration
9.30am Keynote 5
David Norbrook (University of Oxford)
Translating Lucretius: the Politics of Materialism in the Seventeenth Century
10.30am Coffee
11am Session 1
A.

Defining Europeans, c.1600–1800 (Panel convenor: Paul Stock, London School of Economics and Political Science)

  • Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary University of London / Helsinki), Franks and Englishmen in the Lands of the Ottomans c.1600
  • Alex Drace-Francis (University of Liverpool), On the Increasing Europeanness of Things: How Travellers Testify to an Unmistakeable Trend
  • Paul Stock (LSE), The Idea of European Race in the Late Eighteenth Century
B.

Anglo-French political exchanges in the seventeenth century: texts, information and understanding (Panel organiser: Jason Peacey, UCL)

  • Noah Millstone (Stanford University), The Cardinal’s Gazette: English ‘Public’ Politics and the French Example, 1620-1640
  • Jason Peacey (UCL), Print Diplomacy during the ‘British Civil Wars’: Sir Richard Browne and the Circulation of Texts, 1640-1660
  • Charles-Edouard Levillain (Institut d’Études Politiques de Lille, Université de Lille 2), Anglo-French cross-linguistic currents and the Huguenot problem c.1670-c.1690
C.

“Spanish Circulations”: Circulating Political Ideas of Spain in 17th century Europe (Panel convenor: Nicole Reinhardt, University of Durham. Panel chair: Harald E. Braun, Liverpool University)

  • Fabien Montcher (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), Sharing memories: historiography and the image of Saint Louis (1559-1635)
  • Nicole Reinhardt (University of Durham), Apocryphal circulations: from Spanish Tacitism to French Libertinism
  • Harald Braun (University of Liverpool), Early Readings of Bodin in Spain
D.

Scottish Exchanges (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Michael Pearce (Historic Scotland), Working for the Stewarts
  • Lucinda Dean (University of Stirling), State Occasions, Cultural Contact, and Foreign Influences: Scottish Royal Image in the fifteenth and sixteenth century
  • Femke Molekamp (University of Warwick), Elizabeth Melville’s Devotional Lyrics: the Meeting of English and Scottish, Sacred and Secular, Poetics
12.30am Lunch
1.30pm Session 2
A.

Travel narratives in Early Modern Europe and beyond: the everyday journey (Panel convenor: Isabelle Moreau, University College London)

  • Katherine Ibbett (University College London), Martin Lister and the Parisian Everyday
  • Faith E. Beasley (Dartmouth College) The Salon, the Zenana, and “histoires particulières"
B.

Jacobean Exchanges (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Paul Quinn (University of Sussex), The ‘cockatrice egge’ from the United Provinces: Arminianism and a strange case of Jacobean cultural exchange
  • Oliver Harris (Research Associate, Bentham Project, University College London), William Camden, Philemon Holland and the 1610 Britannia
  • Trudi Darby (King’s College London), Spanish networks: mapping Spanish influences in Jacobean London
C.

Historiography (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Per Landgren (Wolfson College, Oxford), The Dissemination of the Aristotelian Concept of Historia: Zabarella, Keckermann and the Reformed Logical Tradition
  • Cesc Esteve (King’s College London), The Idea of Perfect History in Tommaso Porcacchi’s Collana Historica
  • Sara Barker (University of Exeter), True discourses? The French Wars of Religion in English Translation
D.

Locating Cultural Identities in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia (Panel convenors: Piers Baker-Bates, Open University)

  • Kim Woods (Open University), Spanish Identity and Netherlandish Art
  • Rosa Vidal Doval (Queen Mary, University of London), International Networks and late Medeival Spanish anti-semitism
  • Piers Baker-Bates (Open University), Spanish Identity and Italian Art
3pm
 Tea
3.30pm
 Session 3
A.

Discovering the Near and Middle East in Northern Europe (c.1620-1800) (Panel convenor: Simon Mills, British Institute Scholar, Council for British Research in the Levant and Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London)

  • Jan Loop (Frances A. Yates Fellow, The Warburg Institute), The acquisition of Arabic manuscripts in seventeenth-century Switzerland: The case of Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667)
  • Simon Mills (British Institute Scholar, Council for British Research in the Levant and Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London) The chaplains to the English Levant Company at Aleppo and the early history of Near-Eastern antiquarianism
  • Maurits van den Boogert (University of Leiden), Patrick Russell’s oriental manuscripts: Arabic popular stories in eighteenth-century England
B.

Diplomacy and Danes (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Joanna Craigwood (Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge), Diplomatic poetry and the negotiation of an international audience
  • Angela Andreani (University of Milan), Early Modern Interlinguistic Exchanges: the Evidence of the Elizabethan State Paper Archives
  • Anthony Martin (Waseda University, Japan), Representations of Canute and Perceptions of the Danes in England, 1590-1611
C.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Panel convenor: Eavan O’Brien, Trinity College Dublin)

  • Amy Fuller (Nottingham Trent University), The Same God with a Different Name: ‘Old World’ Theology as ‘New World’ Idolatry in the autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
  • Eavan O’Brien (Trinity College Dublin), Theatrical Exchange between Europe and New Spain: Sor Juana’s “Petticoat and Perseverance” Play
  • Alice Brooke (Merton College, Oxford), “En ver a dos visos”: Sor Juana’s El cetro de José and late seventeenth-century Nahua theatre
D.

Image in Spanish Art (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Rodrigo Cañete (Courtauld), Velazquez’s Los Borrachos: Confronting the Other by Looking at Oneself
  • Céline Ventura Teixeira (University Paris-Sorbonne) , The azulejo's art during the reign of the Philips : circulations and transfers of models of ornaments between Castile and Portugal
  • Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez (University of Edinburgh), The Architecture of the Treasure-Archive in the Early Modern World: the Imperial Archive in Simancas Fortress
5pm Session 4
A.

Islam (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Kenneth Parker (Institute of English Studies, University of London), Making the Nation: English Travel Writings to Persia and Turkey in the contexts of Trade, Commerce and Religious Differences with those Spaces as well as with European Others
  • Antonia Gatward Cevizli (University of Warwick), Ottoman and Gonzaga Envoys: Agents of Exchange
  • Mahe Nau Munir Awan (University of Surrey), Paradise Lost: A Cultural Shift or a Religious Shock
B.

The Odd Couple (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Daniel Starza Smith (UCL), ‘Was hit soo? or ys hit but a dreame?’ Finding Romance in the letters of Sir John Conway and Elizabeth Bourne
  • Linda Grant (Birkbeck), Politicising the female body in Ovid’s Amores 1.5, Nashe’s Choice of Valentines and Donne’s To His Mistress Going to Bed­ – an instance of classical reception in the 1590s
  • Roy Rosenstein (The American University of Paris), From Celestina (1499) to Pantagruel (1532)
C.

Medical Exchanges (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Lindsey Fitzharris (Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London), Laying Claim to Medical Expertise: the Surgeon in Restoration London
  • Tom Blaen (University of Exeter), Ancient, Authoritative, Exotic and Worthless: The Bezoar Stone and the End of Precious Stones in Medicine
  • Lucia Diaz Marroquin (Ramon y Cajal Researcher, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Translating the human voice in the early-modern operatic discourses
D.

Risky Business: Translation (Panel convenor: Organizers)

  • Kormi Anipa (St Andrews), The linguistic debate in Renaissance Spain was not real. Or was It?
  • Laura Leon Llerena (Birkbeck College), Risks of translation in colonial Peru
  • Victoria Rios-Castaño (University of Ulster), English-Spanish conversations in Diálogos ingleses y españoles by D. Feliz Antonio de Alvarado (1718)