With apologies for cross-posting ...
"The Premodern Teenager"
An international conference to be held at the Centre for Reformation and
Renaissance Studies (Toronto) on Friday-Saturday, 8-9 October 1999.
Pre-registration (before 30 September) is $25.
Walk-up registration (after 30 September) is $40.
Make your cheque payable to "Victoria University-CRRS" and mail it to:
CRRS-Teenagers Conference
Victoria College, PR 327
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7
Canada
For further information please email Konrad Eisenbichler at:
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or telephone (416) 585-4468 or 585-4486
Programme
Friday, 8 October; Old Victoria College Bldg (inside from 89 or 91 Charles
St. West)
9-10:30 a.m. Session 1: "Conceptions of Youth" Alumni Hall, Old Vic
Cochelin, Isabelle (University of Toronto) "Cloistering
adolescence: medieval creations and definitions inside the monastery"
Taddei, Ilaria (Universit de Grenoble, France) "Puerizia,
adolescenza and giovinezza: images and conceptions of youth in Florentine
society during the Renaissance"
Poirier, Guy (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.) "Les
`Jeunesses' des Valois et de leurs potes"
11-12:30 Session 2(a) "Education and Rituals" Alumni Hall, Old Vic
Cole, Virginia A. (Binghamton University, NY) "Ritual, religion,
and the royal teenager: the case of King Edward II of England"
Zajkowski, Robert (Binghamton University, NY) "Henry VI: The
ritual of an adolescent prince"
McNamara, Greg West Virginia University, WV) "`In this Court of
Fame': Henry, Prince of Wales and English civic pageantry"
11-12:30 Session 2(b) "Knights and Soldiers" Room 101, Old Vic
Karras, Ruth Mazo (Temple University, Philadelphia) "The education
of a knight: growing up under the female gaze?"
Rothstein, Marian (Carthage University, Wisconsin) "Teen Knights"
DeVries, Kelly Robert (Loyola College, Baltimore, MD) "Adolescents
at war during the Middle Ages"
2-3:30 Session 2: "Visualizing teenagers" Room 001, Emmanuel College
Sebregondi, Ludovica (Universit di Firenze, Italy) "Clothes made
the teenager: the changing dress style of Renaissance teenagers"
Fulton, Christopher (Art, Southern Methodist University, TX) "In
the Image of the Father: Boys' Portraits from Renaissance Florence"
Lawhorn, Mark (University of Hawaii) "Forming and performing youth
in Rowley's When you see me, you know me"
4-5:30 Session 4(a) "Adolescence as Formative Years" Alumni Hall, Old Vic
Elbl, Ivana (Trent University) "Inclita Gerao: The Adolescence of
Henry the Navigator and His Brothers"
Simonetta, Marcello (Yale University) "Portrait of the prince as a
young man: Galeazzo Maria Sforza"
Burke, Victoria (Nottingham Trent University, UK) "Teenaged girls
as compilers of manuscripts in early modern Britain"
Lois Kim (University of Texas, Austin, TX) "Growing pains of the
Reformation: Tudor interludes and the appeal to youth"
4-5:30 Session 4(b) "Making a Living" Room 101, Old Vic
Forbes, Jennifer (University of Toronto) "Apprentices and boys in
the northern medieval building trades"
Crabb, Ann (James Madison University, Virginia) "Teenaged
merchants in fifteenth-century Florentine merchant banks"
Terpstra, Nicholas (University of Toronto) "Making a living,
making a life: work in the orphanages of Renaissance Florence and Bologna"
Leland, John L. (Salem-Teikyo University, WV) "The Statute of the
Labourers and the homesick servant"
Saturday, 9 October
9-10:30 Session 5 "Sex and Eroticism" Room 001, Emmanuel College
Stoertz, Fiona Harris (Trent University) "Sex and the medieval
adolescent"
Crum, Roger J. (University of Dayton, OH) "Between boy hero and
boy love: contested political and sexual identities for Donatello's bronze
David in Renaissance Florence and modern scholarship"
Hoeniger, Cathleen (Queen's University, Kingston) "Eros and
colore: the reception of Correggio's Ganymede"
Sa 11-12:30 Session 6 "Teenage Anxieties and Marginalization" Room 001,
Emmanuel College
Philip D. Collington (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance
Studies, Victoria University) "`Like one that fears robbing': Cuckoldry
anxiety and Shakespeare's teenagers"
Potter, Ursula (University of Sydney, Australia) "Greensickness in
Romeo and Juliet: Considerations on a Sixteenth-Century Disease of
Virgins"
Gavitt, Philip (Saint Louis University, MO) "From putte to
puttane: female foundlings and charitable institutions in Florence,
1530-1630"
2-3:30 Session 7 "Teens in trouble" Room 001, Emmanuel College
Niccoli, Ottavia (Universit di Trento, Italy) "Rituels de
jeunesse: amour, jeu, violence en Italie aux XVIe et XVIIe sicles"
Lansing, Carol (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA)
"Teens in trouble in late medieval Bologna"
Carlsmith, Chris (Noble & Greenough School, Mass.) "Trouble in the
classroom: education and discipline in sixteenth-century Bergamo"
4-5:30 Session 8 "Power and Weakness" Room 001, Emmanuel College
de Boer, Dick E. H. (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"The teenage count."
Parsons, John Carmi (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance
Studies, Victoria University) "Shifting the blame: Isabelle of Hainaut at
Senlis, 1184"
D'Andrea, David Michael (University of Rhode Island) "Abandoned
and embraced: the orphans of Renaissance Treviso"
Milway, Michael (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies,
Victoria University, Toronto) "Boy bishops in early modern Europe: myth,
ritual and reality."
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