The programme for the forthcoming conference on 'Elites, Print Media and Social
Control' to be held at the University of Manchester on 24 and 25 April is given
below. If you are interested in attending the conference, or would like more
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SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCE ON
‘ELITES, PRINT MEDIA AND SOCIAL CONTROL’ APRIL 2003
Thursday 24 April
12.45 pm: Lunch at Ashburne Hall
1.45 pm: Welcome to conference (David Adams, Adrian Armstrong)
2.00 pm: Dr Adrian Armstrong (University of Manchester):
'Cosmetic surgery on Gaul: The printed reception of Burgundian writing in France
before 1550'
2.30: Professor Rachel Goldberg (New York University):
‘William Thynne's Nationalist Project The Workes of Gefray Chaucer’
3.00 pm: Dr David Hartley (University of Aberdeen):
‘Joachim Du Bellay, poet and propagandist’
3.30-4 pm: Tea
4.00 pm: Dr Kenneth Austin (University of St. Andrews)
‘Immanuel Tremellius’ Latin Bible (1575-9) as a Pillar of the Calvinist Faith’
4.30 pm: Mr Andrew Hegarty (Magdalen College History, Magdalen College, Oxford)
‘The Tenured Professoriate of Salamanca and Opposition to Spanish Government
Policy in the Early Seventeenth Century: the Cases of Doctor Juan de Balboa
Mogrovejo and Maestro Fray Francisco de Araújo’
5.00 pm: Dr. Sarah Knight (Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University
of Warwick):
‘“It was not mine intent to prostitute my Muse in English”: print culture at the
universities in early modern England’
Friday 25 April
9.30 am: Dr David Adams (University of Manchester):
‘The politics of publishing in 18th-century France: the Fermiers généraux and
their critics’
10.00 am: Mrs Penny Brown (University of Manchester):
‘Improvising virtue: performative morality in Moissy's Théâtre d'éducation'
10.30 am: Dr Simon Burrows (University of Leeds):
'Police and Political Pamphleteering in Late Ancien Regime France: Reflections
from the Papers of J.-P. Lenoir’
11.00 am: Coffee
11.30 am: Professor Anne Dean (University of Southern Maine):
‘Court Culture and Political News in the Public Advertiser and London
Chronicle’
12.00 pm: Professor Elizabeth Sturgeon (Northwestern University):
‘The Ghostly Rhetorical Poetics of Censorship and Free-Speech in A Mirror for
Magistrates’
12.30 pm: Ms Maartje Scheltens (Newnham College, Cambridge):
‘Angliae Notitia and The New State of England: Tory and Whig reference works
1690-1755’
1-2 pm: Lunch
2.00 pm: Dr Elspeth Findlay (University of Strathclyde):
‘Books as Consumer Goods: Self, wealth and silent reading, 1660 – 1720’
2. 30 pm: Professor Lee Morrissey (Clemson University):
‘The seventeenth and eighteenth-century debate over reading'
3.00 pm: Tea
3.30 pm: Dr Peter Hinds (University of Birmingham):
‘A Vast Ill Nature’: Roger L’Estrange and Press Censorship in London,
1678-1685’
4.00 pm: Professor Alison Saunders (University of Aberdeen):
'Spreading the word; printed books as disseminators of otherwise ephemeral or
restricted political propaganda in seventeenth-century France'
4.30-5.30 pm: Round Table
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