The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.342  Monday, 27 July 2015

 

From:        Hardy Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

Date:         July 24, 2015 at 6:08:06 PM EDT

Subject:    The International Christopher Marlowe

 

http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/conference/conference-programme/

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

 

We are very excited to announce our provisional conference programme. All speakers, panels, and paper titles are still subject to change. Registration for the event is now open; click here for more details.

 

THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

University of Exeter, 7th – 8th September 2015

 

PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE

 MONDAY, 7TH SEPTEMBER

 

9.15-10.00        Registration, coffee

 

10.00-10.15       Edward Paleit (Exeter), Welcome

 

10.15-12.00     Session 1: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and the East

 

Simon May (Oxford), ‘Marlowe’s Tamburlaine: Ambiguity and the Near East’

 

Chloe Houston (Reading), ‘Valiant Tamburlaine, the man of fame’: gender, Persia and romance in Tamburlaine

Professor Matthew Dimmock (Sussex), ‘Tamburlaine’s Material Worlds’

 

12.00-12.45     Lunch

 

12.45-14.00     Provocation and Subversion in Marlowe

 

Professor Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Marlowe’s Provocative Play Names’

 

Vincenzo Pasquarella, ‘Italian Masks/Italianate Devils: The Metamorphic Deceptions in Marlowe’s Edward II

 

14.00-14.15     Coffee Break

 

14.15-15.45     Session 3: Marlowe’s International Perspectives

 

Chloe Preedy (Exeter), ‘Europe by Air: International Flight in Marlowe’s Drama’

 

Barbara Wooding, ‘‘With twice twelve Phrygian ships I ploughed the deep’: Marlowe and journeys of the imagination.’

 

15.45-16.00     Coffee break

 

16.00-17.30     Session 4: Marlowe and European politics

 

Edward Paleit (Exeter), ‘Whose resistance theory is it anyway? The virtual excommunication of Marlowe’s Edward II’

 

Georgina Lucas (Birmingham/Shakespeare Institute), ‘ “An action bloody and tyrannical”: Tyranny and Resistance in Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris

 

17.45-19.00     Keynote: Professor Alan Stewart (Columbia)

                        (Followed by Q&A)

 

20.00    Conference Dinner: Côte Brasserie, Cathedral Green, Exeter

 

 

TUESDAY, 8th SEPTEMBER

 

9.00-10.45       Session 4: Religious Conflict in Marlowe

 

Professor Catherine Gemelli Martin (Memphis), ‘Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris and the Wars of Religion’

 

Killian Schindler (Fribourg), ‘Predestination and Religious Toleration: New International Contexts for Doctor Faustus

 

Meadhbh O’Halloran (Cork), ‘Marlowe’s Mediterranean’

 

10.45-11.00     Coffee

 

11.00-12.45     Session 5: Giordano Bruno, Philosophy and Religion

Professor Rosanna Camerlingo (Perugia), ‘Brunian Marlowe’

 

Luca Bocchetti (Verona), ‘Benvolio, Christ and Actaeon: the Italian Neoplatonic Legacy of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Giordano Bruno’s Spaccio de la bestia trionfante.

 

Cristiano Ragni (Perugia) ‘ “What irreligious pagans’ parts be these?” Machiavelli, Bruno, Gentili and the idea of religion in Marlowe’s Massacre.’

 

12.45-13.30     Lunch

 

13.45-15.15     Session 5: Marlowe from Marlowe to modernity

Professor Richard Hillman (Tours), ‘Dr. Faustus and contemporary French translations of the Faustbuch

 

George Oppitz-Trotman (UEA), ‘Doctor Faustus and the English Comedians’

 

15.15-15.30     Coffee

 

15.30-16.45     Session 5, continued

 

Conny Loder (LMU Munich), ‘Christopher Marlowe’s influence on literary, dramatic and intellectual trends in Germany in the seventeenth century’

 

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen (Leiden), ‘Marlowe, Shakespeare & Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Two Dutch Case Studies’

 

17.00-18.00     Drinks reception

 

 

REGISTRATION

 

We are very pleased to announce that registration for The International Christopher Marlowe Conference is now open! Follow the link below to register through University of Exeter’s online store.

 

http://store.exeter.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=16

 

There are a number of registration options available, some of which include on-campus accommodation. Should you wish to book additional nights in Pennsylvania Court, please use the link below, and choose “Pennsylvania Court” from the dropdown Location menu:

 

http://vmkineticsweb01.ex.ac.uk/kxbnb/

 

If you are a postgraduate student, please note that we have a number of bursaries available. These are in addition to the bursaries previously advertised.

 

 

The deadline to register is 25 August. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. See you in Exeter!

 

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