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The Early Modern Celebration is a biennial event hosted by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies to spotlight the innovative research being done by scholars and students across Toronto and to foster dialogue across our interdisciplinary community of early modernists. Join us on Friday, November 7, for a day-long symposium of 10-minutes talks from participants in Architecture, Art History, Book History, English, History, History of Science and Technology, Political Science, Religious Studies, South Asian Cultures, and Spanish. Lunch will be provided.
9:00 – 9:20 am: Coffee, Tea, and Pastries
9:20 – 9:30 am: Introduction
Chair: Misha Teramura
Melanie J. Newton: “‘She That Dwells Ten Leagues Beyond Man’s Life’: Gender, Violence and the Cartography of Slavery, c.1550–1660”
Jason Nguyen: “Bodies of Expertise: Architecture and Building Practice in Early Modern Paris”
Jennifer Liu: “Artists, Workers, and Slaves: The Vatican Labour Force Producing Seventeenth-Century Sculptural Monuments”
Katie Larson: “The Post-Pandemic University: Storying Possibilities”
11:00 – 11:20 am: Coffee Break
Chair: Laura Ingallinella
Matt Kavaler: “Pieter Lastman: Rembrandt’s Teacher”
Julie Vig: “Participating in a World Beyond Punjab: The Use of Brajbhasha in Early Modern Sikh Texts”
Heather Smith: “Digital Soundscapes as a Tool for Researching the Early Modern: Animating a Bridal Entry”
Stephanie J. Lahey: “Resurrecting Historical Texts via Portable Multispectral Imaging”
12:50 – 1:50 pm: Lunch
Chair: Lynne Magnusson
Nhung Tuyet Tran: “Releasing the Souls: Vietnamese Catholic Identity in the Early Modern Era”
Jacqueline Wylde: “‘Straunge and Wylde Noyse’: Psalm Singing and the Hoby v Eure Star Chamber Case (1600–1)”
Myriam Iuorio: “Negotiating Early Modern Identities: European and African Bodies on the Borders of ‘Monstrosity’”
Enriqueta Zafra: “La Celestina (1499) for the 21st Century: A Graphic Novel Journey”
3:20 – 3:40 pm: Coffee Break
Chair: Lee Emrich
Theo Northcraft: “Britomart, Malecasta, and the Bedtrick: Sexual Governance in Book 3, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queene”
Rebecca E. Kingston: “Scudery’s ‘Les Femmes illustres ou les harangues historiques’ (1642) and the Tradition of ‘les femmes fortes’”
Alexandre Pelegrino: “Indigenous and African Slavery in the Making of the Portuguese Empire (Brazil, c. 1680–1770)”
John Rogers: “Milton and the Theologies of Slavery and Indigeneity”
5:10 – 6:30 pm: Reception
