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an interdisciplinary symposium Renaissance Perspectives Friday
August 15th and in the Humanities
Conference Room, |
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an interdisciplinary symposium Renaissance Perspectives Friday
August 15th and in the Humanities
Conference Room, |
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Programme
| 10am - 11.00 | Opening - Gino Moliterno, Head of School, Humanities Keynote Address, Graham Cullum (English) - Preconceptions and Afterbirths |
| 11 - 11.30 | Morning tea |
| 11.30 - 1.00 | Jeremy
Shearmur (Philosophy) - Francis Bacon: Renaissance Epistemologist? [abstract] Jorge Saiden (Philosophy) - Spiritus Mundi: Matter and Ensoulment in the Renaissance Geoffrey Borny (Theatre Studies) - Perspectives on Time in Marlowe's 'Dr. Faustus'. |
| 1.00 - 2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00 - 3.30 | Ralph
Elliott
(English) - A Great Feast of Languages [abstract] Julian Lamb (English) - "Much excellentlie ordered in a small roome": The Use of Language in Spenser's Amoretti and Shakespeare's Sonnets. [abstract] |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Afternoon tea |
| 4.00 - 5.30 | Simon
Haines
(English) - Machiavelli's Realism Paul Campbell (English) - 'Tennis balls, my liege': Sport and the Sovereign |
| 10 am -11.00 |
Natalie
Craig (English) - Wyatt and Surrey's
Translations of Petrarch: A
Marriage between
the Political and the Erotic at the Court of Henry VIII Second speaker for this session tba |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Morning tea |
| 11.30 - 1.00 | Derek
Allan
(Philosophy) - Malraux, Art and Time: A New Perspective on
the
Renaissance [abstract]
Neville Potter (Italian) - Venus Revealed? Interaction between Text and Image in Illustrations of the Reclining Female Nude in the Renaissance [abstract] |
| 1.00 - 2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00 - 3.30 | Duncan
Driver (English) - Plucking out the Heart of Hamlet's Mystery [abstract] Denise Ryan (Visiting Fellow) - What's in a Dame? Perspectives on Women in 16th century English Civic Life and Drama [abstract] Judi Crane (English) - 'The childbed privilege': denied, obeyed, distorted? Childbirth Practice and Malpractice in 'The Winter's Tale'. [abstract] |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Afternoon tea |
| 4.00 - 5.30 | Thomas
Mautner (Philosophy) - Was Montaigne a Sceptic?
[abstract] Frances Daly (Philosophy) - Montaigne and Death Roger Beckmann - The Plague's the Thing: The Renaissance in Epidemic Proportions |
| 6.00 | Symposium
Dinner - Street Theatre Restaurant ('As You Like It') |
All are welcome to attend. Free admission.
The Symposium is generously supported by
the National Institute of the Humanities and the
Faculty of Arts.
More information:
Jan Lloyd Jones
English, School of Humanities
Australian National University
(02) 6125 3376 (W)
Email: jan.lloyd-jones@anu.edu.au