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(RE)BUILDING

NETWORKS

A Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
Tawes Hall, University of Maryland

8:00-9:00am

1st and 2nd Floor Lobbies

 

BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

 

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9:00-9:15am

Room 2115

 

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS by Andrea Frisch, SLLC, University of Maryland

 

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9:15-10:45am

Tawes Hall, Room 2115

 

WOMEN'S NETWORKS

 

Moderator:  Karen Nelson, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, University of Maryland

 

Katherine L. French, Department of History, University of Michigan

“Women’s Social Networks and Friendships in Late Medieval Westminster: Problems and Possibilities”

 

David Norbrook, Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

“Triangulation and Solidarity in Women’s Intellectual Networks: Anne Clifford

and Lucy Hutchinson”

 

 

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10:45-11:00am

2nd Floor Lobby

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

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11:00am-12:30pm

Room 2115

 

NETWORKED BOOKS

 

Moderator:  Sabrina Baron, Department of History, University of Maryland

 

Paul A. Broyles, Department of English, University of Virginia

“Textual Networks, Compilation, and the Problem of Medieval Genre”

 

Stefano Gulizia, Modern Languages Department, Bronx Community College (CUNY)

“Early Modern Book-Trading and Networks Theory: A Sea-to-Inland Perspective”

 

April G. Shelford, Department of History, American University

“Exchanging Books & Confirming Community in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica”

 

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12:30-1:30pm

2nd Floor Lobby

 

LUNCH

 

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1:30-3:00pm

Ulrich Recital Hall

 

MATERIALIZING NETWORKS

 

Moderator: Theresa Coletti, Department of English, University of Maryland

 

Thomas Hahn, Department of English, University of Rochester

“Artistic Piracy and Economic Expansion in Early 16th Century Europe”

 

Kelly Cook, Landscape Architecture Program, University of Maryland

“The Artist Without a Face: Anonymity and the Networks of Influence in Renaissance France”

 

Alicia Walker, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

Pseudo-Arabic, Christian Spiritual Authority, and Medieval Monastic Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean

 

 

 

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3:00-3:30pm

2nd Floor Lobby

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

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3:30-5:00pm

Ulrich Recital Hall

 

AUTHORS AND READERS

 

Moderator:  Stefano Villani (History, University of Maryland)

 

Colin Wilder, Center for Digital Studies, University of South Carolina

"A Topography of Author-Text Networks among the Early Modern German Intelligentsia”

 

Michiel van Groesen, Department of History, Leiden University

“How to Network a Book: Printed Newspapers and the Birth of Advertising in Early Modern Amsterdam”

 

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5:00-5:15pm

Tawes Hall, Ulrich Recital Hall

 

MARYLAND PALESTRINA CHOIR

 

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5:15-6:30pm

Tawes Hall, 2nd Floor Lobby

 

RECEPTION

 

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6:30-8:00pm

Tawes Hall, 1st Floor Lobby

 

CONFERENCE DINNER

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10
Tawes Hall, University of Maryland

9:00-10:00am

2nd Floor Lobby

 

BREAKFAST

 

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10:00-11:30am

Room 0223

 

SIX DEGREES OF FRANCIS BACON: A PRACTICUM

 

Moderator:  Matt Lincoln, Department of Art History, University of Maryland

 

Jessica Otis, Data Curation for Early Modern Studies, Carnegie Mellon University

Daniel Shore, Department of English, Georgetown University

Christopher Warren, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University

 

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11:30-11:45am

2nd Floor Lobby

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

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11:45am-1:15pm (Concurrent Sessions)

Room 1105

 

CASE STUDIES

 

Moderator: Justine DeCamillis, Department of English, University of Maryland

 

Megan Moran, Department of History, Montclair State University

“Female Networks, Political Ties, and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy”

 

Leonardo Francalanci, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Notre Dame

“Building cultural networks across the Mediterranean: the epistolary of Mallorcan humanist Arnau Descós”

 

Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
“All Roads Lead to Rome: Reconstructing Artistic Networks between the Netherlands and Italy”

 

 

Room 1107

 

NETWORKED NATURAL HISTORY

 

Moderator: Rob Wakeman, Department of English, University of Maryland

 

Francesco G. Sacco, University of Calabria and Warburg Institute

“Virtuosi, Craftsmen, and Merchants: Knowledge Networks in the Early Royal Society”

                       

Kellie Robertson, Department of English, University of Maryland

“The Physics of Love”

 

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1:15-2:15pm

2nd Floor Lobby

 

LUNCH

 

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2:15-3:45pm

Room 1100

 

MAKING NETWORKS VISIBLE

 

Moderator:  Ralph Bauer, Department of English, University of Maryland

 

Kelsey Flynn, Department of History, George Washington University

“Making the Covert Visible: Anglo-Atlantic Intelligence Networks and the English Embassy in

Madrid, 1605-1625”

 

Ruth Ahnert, Department of English, Queen Mary University of London

Sebastian Ahnert, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

“Tudor Networks in the Digital Age”

 

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3:45-4:15pm

2nd Floor Lobby

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

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4:15-5:30pm

Room 1100

 

NETWORKS AND INTERFACES: PRESENTATION AND CLOSING CONVERSATION

 

Moderator:  Andrea Frisch, SLLC, University of Maryland

 

David Wallace, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

“European Literary History: Networks and Interfaces”

 

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5:30-6:30pm

2nd Floor Lobby

 

RECEPTION

 

 

 

 

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