RENAISSANCE NOW!
9 - 10 December 2010
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork City
and Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC
Programme
Thursday, 9 December
Crawford Art Gallery
OPENING
09.45-10.30 Registration
10.30-11.00 Opening remarks, Brendan Dooley (UCC)
11.00-11.45 Johann Arnason (LaTrobe)
“Multiple Renaissances”
1145-1230 Arpad Szakolczai (UCC)
“From High Renaissance to Low Commedia dell’Arte, and Beyond:
On Minor Sparks that Might Set in Motion a Long-Term Large-Scale Societal Change”
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 James Hankins (Harvard)
"The I Tatti Renaissance Library and Latin Literature in the
Italian Renaissance"
14.45-15.30 Stephen Milner (Manchester)
“The Pedestrian Renaissance”
15.30-16.15 Jeremy Lawrance (Nottingham)
“The Pastoral Disguise in Spanish Golden Age Literature”
16.15-16.45 Coffee
16.45-17.30 Tom Conley (Harvard)
“An Errant Eye: Topography and Poetry in Renaissance France”
17.30 Roundtable
“Renaissance Futures”
Dr Stephan Schmuck (Marie Curie Fellow, School of English, UCC), Ms Avril Buchanan (PhD candidate, School of English, UCC), Ms Siobhan Higgins (PhD candidate, School of English, UCC), and Julian Davis (PhD candidate, School of Sociology and Philosophy, UCC)
DINNER (for delegates)
Friday, 10 December
Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC
09.00-09.30 Coffee and Registration
09.30-10.15 Jason Harris (UCC)
“The Earliest Traces of the Renaissance in Ireland”
10.15-11.00 Hiram Morgan (UCC)
“Ireland in the Late Renaissance”
11.00-11.45 Heinrich Lang (Bamberg)
“Renaissance Economies”
11.45-12.30 Melanie Marshall (UCC)
“Performing Renaissance Music Today”
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 John Henderson (Birbeck)
“Medicine and the Renaissance”
14.15-14.45 Mark Achtman (UCC)
“Plague Biology”
14.45-15.30 Alessio Assonitis (Medici Archive Project)
“Anti-Renaissance and Material Culture at the Time of the Medici Grand Dukes”
15.30-16.15 Maximilian Schuh (Münster)
“Making Renaissance Humanism Popular in the 15th-Century Empire”
16.15-16.45 José Montero (Vigo)
“Cervantes and the Renaissance”
16.45-17.30 Nicola Gardini (Oxford)
“Osiris and the End of the Renaissance”
17.30-18.00 Coffee and CLOSING
Renaissance Now is the theme of this two-day conference at University College Cork, Ireland on 9-10 December 2010. The title is intentionally ambiguous. We wish to focus on the concept of Renaissance as it applies to a particular time and place still regarded as crucially important for world-wide ways of life and thought. However, even this outlook is open to our questioning. What indeed, does it mean to be doing Renaissance Studies Now – not only in terms of the field itself, but in terms of what our field has to say to contemporary society? In the past, the field of Renaissance Studies has drawn themes and orientations from particular concerns of the moment, without losing the rigorous focus, and has given back crucial insights. What Now? To facilitate a many-sided discussion, the conference is articulated in ten parts relating to chief areas of this transdisciplinary and multifaceted field within the humanities and social sciences: History, Languages and Literatures, History of Science, Cultural Studies, Classical Studies, Gender Studies, Art History, Philosophy, Sociology, Politics.
The debate on Renaissance versus Early Modern as periodical concepts has only served to sharpen perceptions of what is at stake in the notion of a Renaissance – not that there is yet substantial agreement on this or on any other aspect of the period’s ontology. Perhaps in a time of “Renewal” and “Reform” of social, political and economic systems, with all the attendant dangers and benefits, the notion of “Renaissance” and all this has entailed, holds a certain appeal. The conference will attend to the deepest resonances and draw some conclusions.
Conference Organisers UCC: Brendan Dooley, Daragh O’Connell, Flavio Boggi, James Knowles, Melanie L. Marshall, David Edwards, Grace Neville, Stephen Boyd, Arpad Szakolczai, Jason Harris.
This Conference is supported by the Graduate School, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (CACSSS); School of History; School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University College Cork; The Crawford Gallery; The Society for Italian Studies; The Society for Renaissance Studies; I Tatti & The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Please visit: http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsssgrads/RenaissanceStudiesWebpage/
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