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Dear all,
We are proud to announce the programme for this year's University of Birmingham EMREM Symposium, 'Whores and Virgins, Heroes and Villains' (16th- 17th March). We warmly invite you to attend what promises to be another fascinating conference If you wish to register, please find the registration form at http://emremforum.wordpress.com/2012/02/ and send it back to us at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. As ever, the Symposium is free to attend.
Best wishes,
Judith Allan (on behalf of the EMREM Committee)
The Early Medieval~Medieval~Renaissance~Reformation~Early Modern Postgraduate Forum
Programme for the EMREM Postgraduate Forum Annual Symposium 2012
University of Birmingham
'Whores and Virgins, Heroes and Villains' , 16-17 March 2012
Friday 16th March 2012
Westmere House, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT
10:00 Registration and refreshments
11:00 Welcome address
11:15-12:45 First panel: ‘Challenging Women’
Matthew D Jackson (University of Warwick)
“Come all ye tribes of hostises’: representations and realities of the female publican in Early Modern England’
Leah Edge (Bangor University)
“Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women’: Joseph Swetnam and the controversy about women in the Early Modern Period’
Alexandra Murray (University of Kent)
‘Mary Frith or Moll Cutpurse: the threatening and fascinating body of the masculinely trousered whore’
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Second panel: ‘(Miss)representation’
Emma Jane Thomas (University of Glasgow)
‘Both ‘faithful daughter’ and the ‘friend to the wicked’: Queen Brunhild and the destruction of memory’
Catherine Hunt (University of Bristol)
‘Mary Magdalene's gloves: the attribute of sinner or saint?’
Judith Allan (University of Birmingham)
‘Neither ‘virgin’ nor ‘whore’: Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci in Angelo Poliziano’s Stanze per la giostra’
15:00-15:30 Refreshments
15:30-17:00 Third panel: ‘Moulding Masculinity’
Rhian McLaughlin (University of York)
‘Villainous violence or heroic homicide: the complexity of violence in late-medieval England’
Emily Hansen (University of York)
‘‘Religion, learning, and good manners’: Virtuous behaviour in the Early Modern Grammar School Curriculum’
Matt Williamson (Kings College London)
‘Masterless men and apprentices: heroes and villains for the early modern theatre, 1590-1610’
17:00-19:00 Wine Reception
20:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday 17th March
Arts Building, Edgbaston Campus, Birmingham, B15 2TT
11:00 Registration and refreshments (1st Floor Senior Common Room)
11:30 Welcome address (Lecture Room 4)
11:45-13:15 Fourth panel: ‘Constructing Character’
Helen Coy (University of Birmingham)
‘How heroes shape identities: the significance of Charlemagne and the Franks in the construction of a crusader group identity’
Khalid Mahmood (University of Birmingham)
‘Celebrating 'the heroic' and demonising 'the villainous' in the corpora of Chaucer, Spencer and Shakespeare: a multi-paradigmatic study’
Paul Lutton (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘The traitor in Early Modern discourse’
13:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Fifth panel: ‘Whorish Discourse’
Monica Merlin (University of Oxford)
‘Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604): a famous Chinese whore’
Jamie Page (University of St Andrews)
‘Gendered invective: women’s legal responses to the insult ‘whore’ in fourteenth-century Zurich’
In-Hwan Doh (University of Birmingham)
‘The honest whore: patriarchal capitalism as a gendered discourse on Bellafront’s prostitution’
15:30-16:00 Refreshments
16:00-17:30 Sixth panel: ‘(Im)piety’
Diane Heath (University of Kent)
‘Mermaids and unicorn-catchers: the whores and virgins of the medieval Latin bestiary’
Daria Rose Foner (University of Cambridge)
‘Fashioning renaissance womanhood: Saint Catherine of Alexandria’
Naomi Wood (University of Warwick)
‘Unruly women and ‘brazen whore[s]’: controlling female piety within the Quaker and non-Quaker communities, c. 1650‒c.1750’
17:30 Conference close
19:30 Performance of Playhouse Creatures
George Cadbury Hall, 998 Bristol Road, Birmingham, B29 6LG
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