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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear all, Please find below the programme for this year's EMREM Symposium, entitled 'Birth, Sex and Death: Rites of Passage in the Medieval and Early Modern World'. The Symposium is taking place at the University of Birmingham on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May. Attendance is free, but we ask all those who intend to take part to request a registration form from [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Many thanks, Judith Allan (on behalf of the EMREM Committee) EMREM Postgraduate Forum Annual Symposium 2013 BIRTH, SEX AND DEATH Rites of Passage in the Medieval and Early Modern World Lecture Room 3, Arts Building, University of Birmingham Day One - Thursday 23rd May 2013 10.00 Registration & Refreshments 11.00 Welcome Address 11.15-12.45 Panel 1 An Adaptable Institution? Marital Traditions & Innovations Rosa Goodman (Oxford) - Sex and the City: Understanding Quattrocento Cassoni through a Civic Lens Chloë Hancox (Birmingham) - The marriages of Baroque castrati: normal or abnormal? Anne Thompson (Warwick) - ‘A woman fitte & meete for that callinge’: an investigation of letters testimonial written on behalf of prospective clergy wives in the reign of Elizabeth Lunch 13.30-15.00 Panel 2 Perilous Beginnings: Negotiating Nativities Elizabeth Sharrett (Birmingham) - Without idolatry or superstition’: Re-forming childbed rituals in post-Reformation drama Sarah Fox (Manchester) - Continuity and Tradition: the ‘peculiar rites and customs’ of childbirth in the Long Eighteenth Century Elaine Hoysted (Cork) - Death in Childbirth: A Privileged Status for the Renaissance Florentine Woman? A Case Study of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni Tea and Coffee 15.30-17.00 Panel 3 Living With Death: Anticipation & Narration Beth Spacey (Birmingham) - Interfacing with the dead in Latin narrative histories of the First Crusade Geoffrey Humble (Birmingham) - Dying in the ‘Outer Darkness’? Reading Elements of Cultural Identities in Death Narratives from the Yuanshi (元史, History of the Yuan Dynasty) Sarah Dickinson (Gloucestershire) - Preparation and Performance: Puritan Experiences of Dying in Early Modern England Wine Reception Day Two - Friday 24th May 2013 10.30 Registration & Refreshments 11.00-12.30 Panel 4 Pleasures of the Flesh: Sexual (Ir)regularities Martin Laidlaw (Dundee) - 'If gold ruste': The medieval theological quandary of lascivious priests and avaricious clergy. Claire Harrill (York) - ‘he wald have fukkit’: The realities of sex in courtly love in the poetry of William Dunbar Raymond Carlson (Cambridge) - Tullia d’Aragona and the regulation of Florentine homosocial networks Lunch 13.30-15.00 Panel 5 Liminality & Immorality Maria Cannon (Northumbria) - Rite of Passage or gradual renegotiation? Parenting adult children in early modern English society Helen Drew (Nottingham Trent) - Community, Morality and Reality in Nottinghamshire: Preliminary evidence from the Presentment Bills submitted before the church courts of the Deanery of Bingham, 1580-1640 Rhian McLaughlin (York) - Moral murders and callous courtship: attitudes towards homicide and raptus in late-medieval England Tea and Coffee 15.30-17.00 Panel 6 Immortalised or Utilised? Memory & Manipulation Rebecca Holdorph (Southampton) - Managing Memory: The Many Memorials to Blanche of Lancaster Gail Mobley (Birmingham) - Preservation and Regeneration in Seventeenth-century Commemoration: Literary Inheritance Laura Torrado (Vigo/Belfast) - Songs to Remember the Dearly Departed: The Old English elegies as a memorial practice ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies