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Please join us in exploring and celebrating the original and interdisciplinary work of early modern scholars and students at the University of Toronto.
Urvashi Chakravarty
Laura Ingallinella
Matt Kavaler
Leslie Korrick
Evonne Levy
Jordana Lobo-Pires
David Fernandez
Shaun Midanik
Mary Nyquist
Eric Pecile
Eyal Pundik
Margaret Schotte
Paul Stevens
Misha Teramura
Nathan Vedal
Andrea Walkden
9:00 – 9:20 am: Coffee, Tea, and Scones
9:20 – 9:30 am: Introduction: Ethan Matt Kavaler
Chair: Leslie Korrick
Urvashi Chakravarty: “Making White Womanhood in Early Modern England”
Mary Nyquist: “In the Primitive: The Euro-colonialist Rhetoric of Savage”
David Fernandez: “The Idea of the Book in the Americas (1539-1820)”
Jordana Lobo-Pires: “Spenser’s Critique of Judicial Oratory in the Faerie Queene”
11:00 – 11:20 am: Coffee Break
Chair: Mary Nyquist
Ethan Matt Kavaler: “Jan Borman’s St. George Altarpiece, the Monochrome Aesthetic, and the Rise of the Artist”
Leslie Korrick: “The Virtuosa’s Self-Portrait: On the Painter as Musician in Early Modern Italy”
Evonne Levy: “Recent Work on Early Modern Intermediality and on the Technical Study of Bernini’s Bronzes”
Andrea Walkden: “Sacharissa in Arcadia: Edmund Walker, Anthony van Dyck, and the Sidney Circle”
12:50 – 1:50 pm: Lunch
Chair: Laura Ingallinella
Paul Stevens: “Milton’s Hamlet: Imitation and Originality”
Margaret Schotte: “Shopping for Instruments in Amsterdam: Where Art and Science Intersect”
Eyal Pundik: “Imaging Procession: Spectator and Movement in Netherlandish Carrying of the Cross Iconography”
Misha Teramura: “Reading Lost Plays”
3:20 – 3:40 pm: Coffee Break
Chair: Misha Teramura
Laura Ingallinella: “Italian Merchants and their Books in Early Renaissance Europe”
Shaun Midanik: “Assembly Required: How to Customize an Early Modern Book of Prints”
Nathan Vedal: “Cosmology and Language in Early Modern China”
Eric Pecile: “The Market or the Masses: Defining Renaissance Moral Economies”
5:10 – 6:30 pm: Reception
