2015 Conference, 25-26 September, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS
Abstracts
PROGRAM (revised September 21)
Location: Hall of Clans, Angus L. MacDonald Library
Friday, September 25
Registration fee: $30, includes lunch and nutrition/coffee breaks. Registration at the welcome reception and on the morning of September 26th (8:30 -9:00am).
6:30 – 7:30 pm Welcome Reception
7:30 – 9:00 pm The Devil: A Panel of Devilists
- Keynote: Richard Raiswell (UPEI) – “Black Cats with Roasted and Boiled Babies: The Errores Gazariorum and the Synagogue of Satan”
- Kathryn Morris (UKC)
- Karim Baccouche (UNBF)
- Stephanie Pettigrew (UNBF)
- Gary Waite (UNBF)
Saturday, September 26
All speakers are asked to keep their presentations to 15 minutes.
8:45 – Opening Remarks
8:50 – 10:00 am Session 1: New World and Old Worlds Collide
Chair: Simon Kow
- Lauren Beck (Mt A), “Indigenous Travels to Spain in the Early Modern Period: The Journey of Calisto Tupac”
- Stephanie Pettigrew (UNB) – “Early European Expansion: Re-Imagining the Imperial Narrative”
- Gregory Kennedy and Vincent Auffrey (U de M) – “Alexandre Bourg, la vie frontalière et l’émergence d’une élite communautaire en Acadie, 1671 à 1760”
10:00 – 10:10 Nutrition Break
10:10 – 11:20 Session 2: Early Modern Marriage and its Transgression
Chair: Edith Snook
- Julie Sutherland (Athabasca University/CBU) – “A little refreshing adultery?: Chapman’s Bussy d’Ambois and the Sexual Woman”
- Krista Kesselring (Dal) – “Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in the English Reformation”
- Tim Stretton (SMU) – “Marriage and Contract in Early Modern England”
11:20 – 12:30 Session 3: Changing Worldviews in the Enlightenment
Chair: Richard Raiswell
- Simon Kow (UKC) – “The Tolerant Emperor: Bayle on Religious Toleration and China”
- Neil G. Robertson (UKC) – “Constitutional Liberty in the Eighteenth Century”
- Gary Waite (UNBF) – “The Religious Roots of Disbelief in the Enlightenment”
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:40 Session 4: The Body: in Sickness, Health, and Death
Chair: Krista Kesselring
- Adriana Benzaquén (MSVU) – “The Quicksilver in the Weatherglass: John Locke and Mary Clarke on Health, Illness and Medicine”
- Edith Snook (UNBF) – “Health, Hygiene, and Hair in Early Modern England”
- Kathryn Morris (UKC) – “Demons & Bodies: The Devil in 18th-Century Vampire Debates”
2:40 – 3:50 Session 5: New Light on Old Sources
Chair: Adriana Benzaquén
- Ronald Huebert (Dal) – “‘Sacred Lust’: The Private Devotions of John Saltmarsh”
- Janine Rogers (Mt A) – “Compiling and Collaboration: On an Interdisciplinary Research Project”
- Ranke de Vries (St FX) – “Scribal Attitudes and Editing in Medieval Irish Manuscripts”
3:50 – 4:20 Guided Tour of Celtic Collection
4:20 – 5:30 Session 6: Religion, Authority, Witchcraft
Chair: Gary Waite
- William Lundell (Mt A) – “New Evidence of the Durability of Carthusian Support for the Council of Basel in the Wake of the Basel Schism (1437)”
- Karim Baccouche (UNBF) – “Preaching Against the Witches’ Sabbbath: Demonological Debates in the Fifteenth Century and the Case of Guillaume Adeline”
- Todd Pettigrew (CBU) – “‘The Devil is a Juggler’: Pythagoras as Witch in the English Renaissance”
5:30 – 5:50 Tour of Rare Books Room
5:50-6:20 AMEMG Business Meeting: The Future Continued
- Election of Executive Members
- Other Matters
- Next Year’s Conference (MtA)
- Palaeography Training
- Other Collaborations
6:20 – Closing Reception
Conference accommodation is available at Homeward Inns of Canada, 41 James Street.
1-902-863-4212 (Local)
1-902-863-1700 (Fax)
1-800-251-0008 (Toll Free)
Mention the Department of English conference to receive the group rate discount (79.95$/night). Rooms are reserved for Friday and Saturday night. The motel is walking distance to St. FX.
Photo credit: Photo by “mrbanjo1138” on Flickr. Licensed by Creative Commons License. No changes were made to the photo.
CFP for the 3rd Annual Meeting of AMEMG
September 25-26, 2015 (Friday afternoon-Saturday evening)
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
If you are interested in presenting a paper (15 minutes in length) or participating in a themed roundtable (or in organizing a roundtable), please submit a brief abstract or description of 250 words maximum to: Edith Snook (esnook@unb.ca) and copied to Gary Waite (waite@unb.ca) by June 15, 2015.
Papers can be on any subject relating to the pre-modern era, in any discipline, and can be presented in either English or French. We are planning a multi-disciplinary roundtable on the subject of the Devil and diabolical and encourage any who are interested in participating in this roundtable to indicate so in your abstract submission (you may also submit a paper proposal). If you wish to organize a roundtable on another theme, we would encourage you to do so. The actual mix of papers and roundtables will of course be determined by submissions. A decision will be made within two weeks of submission. Formal confirmation of attendance will be required in mid-August so that the conference organizer, Joseph Khoury (jkhoury@stfx.ca) can have a firm fix on numbers. Information about accommodations will be provided soon.
Antigonish, by Michael Swan from Flickr. Reproduced under Creative Commons License.
2014 Conference, 25-26 August, University of King’s College, Halifax
The registration fee is 25$ and includes lunch and coffee breaks. Registration will take place at the Welcome Reception and 8-8:30am on Tuesday, September 26.
If you are not giving a paper and plan to register, please let Kathryn Morris know by Thursday, August 21st, when she will need to confirm the final numbers to catering. Please inform her of any dietary restrictions, as well.
Monday, August 25
7:30-9pm Welcome Reception at the pub at the Dalhousie University Club.
Tuesday, August 26
All presentation sessions will be held in the KTS Lecture Hall, New Academic Building, floor 2.
8:30-9:40am – Session 1: Europeans and the World: Imagination and Reality
Chair: Gary Waite
- Simon Kow, China and Enlightenment Political Thought
- Stephanie Pettigrew, French Witchcraft Belief in Colonial America
- Kathryn Morris, Margaret Cavendish: Philosophy and the Imagination
9:40-10:30am – Session 2: Reimagining Early Modern Politics
Chair: Simon Kow
- Joseph Khoury, Machiavelli and Petrarch: A Comparison
- Neil G. Robertson, Charles Inglis and Constitutional Liberty
10:30-10:45am – Break
All breaks and lunch are in the Wilson Common Room, across from the lecture hall.
10:45-11:30am – Roundtable 1: New Worlds and Old Worlds
· Kow, Khoury, Morris, Pettigrew, Robertson
11:30am – 12:20pm – Session 3: Reimagining Early Modern Sources and Spectators
Chair: Edith Snook
- Adriana Benzaquén, Locke’s Children: Letters as Sources for the Historical Study of Early Modern Childhood
- Ronald Huebert, Early Modern Spectatorship: Essays in the Interpretation of English Culture 1500-1780
12:20 -1:30pm – LUNCH
1:30-2:25pm – Session 4: Reimagining Medicine in the Early Modern World
Chair: Kathryn Morris
- Wendy Churchill, The Protection of a Professional Reputation in the Eighteenth-Century Medical Marketplace: Dr George Cheyne, “Mrs Barry”, Sir Hans Sloane, and the 1720 Postscript
- Edith Snook, Margaret Cavendish, Recipes, and the Theory and Practice of Medicine in Early Modern England
2:25-3:15pm – Session 5: Reimagining Religion and Science in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Adriana Benzaquén
- Gary K. Waite, Radical Religion and the Formation of New Ideas on the Eve the Early Enlightenment in the Netherlands, 1570-1640
- Lyn Bennett, Sir Thomas Browne and the Rhetoric of Healing
3:15-3:30pm – Break
3:30-4:45pm – Roundtable 2: Reimagining Early Modern Literature, Science, Medicine
· Benzaquén, Bennett, Churchill, Huebert, Snook, Waite & allcomers
5-6pm: AMEMG Business Meeting: The Future
CFP: 2nd Annual Conference of the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, Halifax, August 25-26, 2014
We are pleased to announce the second annual conference of the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group (AMEMG) hosted by the University of King’s College, Halifax, August 25 and 26 (Monday and Tuesday), 2014.
We are requesting submissions of abstracts for two types of sessions: 1) Proposals for the presentation of scholarly papers on any subject relating to the pre-modern world (i.e., before 1800). These we request will be kept on the short side, i.e., about 15 minutes 2) Proposals to participate in a roundtable. The latter can include discussions of: a. work in progress or new approaches to research in the field, or b. teaching or pedagogy in the field. The goal here will be to stimulate comparisons and new approaches among the panelists and audience. These would begin with about 5-10 minute presentations by each panelist, followed by extended discussion.
In order to submit proposals to the Program Committee, please send a brief (100-200 word) abstract to Edith Snook, at esnook@unb.ca. The deadline for submission for either type of session will be July 15, 2014.
Details about the conference, accommodations, reception and registration will be made available shortly.
If you are not a member of AMEMG, but wish to join, please contact the President, Gary Waite, at waite@unb.ca.
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Early Modern Women’s Writing
THE RECEPTION AND CIRCULATION OF EARLY MODERN WOMEN’S WRITING, 1550-1700
RECIRC, Moore Institute College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
The National University of Ireland, Galway is seeking to fill 5 full-time, fixed-term Postdoctoral Researcher positions for the project ‘The reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (RECIRC), led by Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan, Principal Investigator (School of Humanities). The positions are funded by the European Research Council, under Consolidator Grant Scheme, 2013. The successful candidates will be expected to start on 1 October 2014.
Full post information: http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/NUIG-37-14-to-40-14—ERC-Postdoctoral-Positions-x.pdf
To apply, go to: http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs
The closing date for applications is 14 May 2014.
CONFERENCE: EARLY MODERNISTS AND THE ARCHIVES, 1400 – 1800
10 June 2014, Institute for Historical Research, Senate House, London
Papers include: Stephen Alford @Reading Manuscripts in the Digital Century’; Elizabeth Biggs ‘Absence in the Archives: the case of the Dissolution of St Stephen’s Chapel’; Emmanuelle Chaze ‘A journey through the Archives: Gathering a Corpus of Huguenot Correspondence throughout England, Ireland and France’; Emily Hansen ‘The Early Modernist & the County Record Office’; Kelsey Flynn ‘Using Early Modern Archival Practices to Reconsider the Early English Atlantic Empire’; Husan-Ying Tu ‘The Dispersal of Francis Walsingham’s Papers’; Frances Maguire ‘From Print to Archive: the Church Courts of York in the Seventeenth Century’; Dan Spencer ‘Master Godfrey Goykyn: A Fifteenth Century “Gunnemaistre”‘; Paul Nuckley ‘The Impact of Partisan Politics upon the Governance of Kent in the 1680s’; Elias Kupfermann ‘Unearthing the Treasure Chest: The English Civil War Garrison Accounts of Windsor Castle’.
Full programme information: http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/Early%20Modernists%20and%20the%20Archives%20Program%202.pdf
There is no coast to attend but spaces are limited. Registration is open and can be accessed via http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-modernists-the-archives-1400-1800-tickets-10488979821
Call for Papers: The Conference of the Early Modern, Halifax, NS
Call for submissions for The Conference of the Early Modern
Deadline: January 15th, 6pm
email submissions to: emss.kings@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/KingsEarlyModernStudiesSociety
The Early Modern Studies Society at the University of King’s College is looking for paper submissions for the Conference of the EarlyModern.
Any student may submit a paper on any topic of interest in the Early Modern Period. On February 1st, the EMSS will host a Colloquia for the submitted papers, with the papers being discussed with peers and pannels of professors from King’s and Dalhousie.
CFP: Digitizing the Medieval Archive 2014, April 25-26, Toronto, ON
Keynote Speakers:
David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)
Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library)
The discussion about the digitization of the Middle Ages, by its very nature, tends to be one that takes place in an online setting. As the question of how medievalists may work within this digital environment becomes an increasingly popular topic of Internet conversation, we invite scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences to come together in real time to consider and discuss the possibilities of a digitized medieval archive.
Click here for the full call for papers and check the conference website for more information. Please submit a short C.V. and abstracts of 250 words by October 1, 2013 for consideration. To contact the conference organizers write to digitizingmedievalarchive@gmail.com.
AMEMG Conference Program, Charlottetown, 4-5 October 2013
UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Friday, October 4
8pm Welcome Reception (location TBA)
Saturday, October 5
Session 1: 9:00-10:15am Europeans and non-Europeans
Chair: Gary Waite, UNBF
Richard Raiswell, UPEI – Calvin, Rhetoric and the Representation of India in Early 17th C
Robin Vose, STU – The Inquisitor’s Matrix: a Global Survey of Inquisition Manuals: Mexico
Pamela Bastante, UPEI – Fray Martín de León and Novo-Hispanic Tradition of the Ars Moriendi
Session 2: 10:30-12:30pm: Politics, Religion, and the People
Chair: Edie Snook, UNBF
Greg Kennedy, UdM – The Projection of French Naval Power into Atlantic North America
Catherine Innes-Parker, UPEI – Antoinette Auger and the French Counter-Reformation
Neil Robertson, UKC – Justice as Charity: The Political Vision of Dante’s Paradiso
Christina Luckyj, Dal – Early Modern Women Writers and the Politics of the Female Voice
Jeremy Hayhoe, UdM – 18th c French Villagers and Migration
Bill Barker, Dal – Gabriel Harvey’s Political Reading
12:30 -1:30pm LUNCH
Session 3: 1:30-3:15 pm: Medicine, Science, and the Occult
Chair: Richard Raiswell, UPEI
Janine Rogers, MTA – Medieval Codicology and the History of Science Collection
Kathryn Morris, UKC – Superstition and 18th c Vampire Debates
Karim Baccouche, UNBF – Origins of the Witches’ Sabbat 15thC
Edith Snook, UNBF – Women’s Writing and Medicine in Early Modern England
Wendy Churchill, UNBF – Medical Conduct and Morality in Early Modern Britain and its Empire
Session 4: 3:30-4:45 – Teaching and Performing Early Modern, Then and Now
Chair: Janine Rogers, MTA
Shannon Murray, UPEI – Satan Teaches Paradise Lost
Sandra Bell, UNBSJ – Learning Shakespeare through Performance
Adriana Benzaquen, UPEI – Educational Designs: Younger Sons in the Late Seventeenth Century
Michel Cardin UdM – The Theorbo, as a Solo and a Continuo Instrument, 1600 and 1750
5-6pm: AMEMG Business Meeting: The Future
Election of Executive
7pm AMEMG Banquet or Dinner out
