The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 26.342 Monday, 27 July 2015
From: Hardy Cook <
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!