(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
***
9:00-9:15am
Room 2115
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS by Andrea Frisch, SLLC, University of Maryland
***
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
***
10:45-11:00am
2nd Floor Lobby
COFFEE BREAK
***
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”
***
12:30-1:30pm
2nd Floor Lobby
LUNCH
***
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
***
3:00-3:30pm
2nd Floor Lobby
COFFEE BREAK
***
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”
***
5:00-5:15pm
Tawes Hall, Ulrich Recital Hall
MARYLAND PALESTRINA CHOIR
***
5:15-6:30pm
Tawes Hall, 2nd Floor Lobby
RECEPTION
***
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
***
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
***
11:30-11:45am
2nd Floor Lobby
COFFEE BREAK
***
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
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
***
1:15-2:15pm
2nd Floor Lobby
LUNCH
***
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
Ruth Ahnert, Department of English, Queen Mary University of London
Sebastian Ahnert, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
“Tudor Networks in the Digital Age”
***
3:45-4:15pm
2nd Floor Lobby
COFFEE BREAK
***
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”
***
5:30-6:30pm
2nd Floor Lobby
RECEPTION