Thursday, November 6, 2003
10:00 a.m. Registration opens

1:15 p.m.
Welcome

1:30 p.m.
Plenary I: Geographies and Polities

• " 'Making' Geographies and Polities: Representation in Historical Narrative"
  Joanne M. Ferraro, History, San Diego State University
• "Renaissance Genderscapes."
  Adrian W. B. Randolph, Art History, Dartmouth College
• "Locating Holiness in Early Modern Spain: Convents, Caves, and Houses."
  Alison Weber, Spanish, University of Virginia
• Moderator: Madeline Zilfi, History, University of Maryland

3:15 p.m.
Coffee

3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Workshops: Geographies and Polities

1. "The Construction of Female Theatrical Voices and Spaces in the Seventeenth Century: English and Spanish Women Dramatists." Marguerite Corporall, Alison Findlay, José Manuel Gonzalez, Rina Walthaus.
2. "Creative Women: Fashioning an Identity and Community." Marjorie Och, Erith Jaffe-Berg, Anne R. Larsen, Amy Scott-Douglass.
3. "Engendering the 'Four Nations' in the Seventeenth Century: (Re)Locating Women in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales." Kate Chedgzoy, Suzanne Trill.
4. "Framing the Domestic in Early Modern England: Private Spaces/Public Matters." Emily MacMillan, Melissa Hull, Laura Lunger Knoppers, Cynthia Klekar.
5. "Gender and Race Crossing the English Atlantic." Susan D. Amussen, Kim F. Hall, Jennifer Morgan.
6. "Gender, Performance, and National Identity: Women and Seventeenth-Century European Theatre." Clare McManus, Karen Britland.
7. "Structures and Subjectivities in Sixteenth-Century Gynecology, or How the Father of Medicine Reclaimed His Paternity." Monica H. Green, Helen King.
8. "Virgin or Vixen? Considering Models of Female Autonomy in Early Modern Europe." Blake de Maria, Holly S. Hurlbert.
9. "Women and the Missionary Position? Gendering Encounters with the Ethnic Other in Quaker and Catholic Writings." Sylvia Brown, Paulomi Chakraborty, Karine Hopper, Kelly Laycock, Aida Patient, Kirsten Uszkalo.
10. "Women and Religious Polities." Jane Donawerth, Margaret Rose Jaster, Anamaria Kothe, Karen Nelson, Michele Osherow.
11. "Women's Sense of Space in the Age of European Overseas Expansion." Laura McGough, Bernadette Andrea, Elizabeth Horodowich, Aurora Wolfgang.

5:30 p.m.
Reception, sponsored by Ashgate Publishing Company

7:00 p.m.
Keynote Address.
"Dangerous Enchantments: Music, Magic, and the Perilous Allure of Convent Singing."
Craig Monson, Music, Washington University in St. Louis

Friday, November 7, 2003

8:30 a.m.
Coffee

9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Plenary II: Degree, Priority, and Place

• "Cosmologies of Female Desires in the Early Modern China: Of Bodies, Work, and Things."
  Dorothy Ko, History, Barnard College
• "Sapphic Subjects and the Economies of Desire."
  Susan S. Lanser, English, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University
• "Women before the Law Courts in Islamic and Christian Polities."
  Margaret R. Hunt, History, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
• Moderator: Amy Leonard, History, Georgetown University

10:45 a.m.
Break

11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Workshops: Degree, Priority, and Place

12. "Catholic Women's Lives." Colleen Seguin, Heather Wolfe.
13. "'Conceived unto herself': Maternal Influence in the Patriarchal Home." Caroline Bicks, Caroline Johnson Hodge, Katharine Park.
14. "Constructing the Female Body: Debased, Mutilated, and Dead Bodies in Religious Images." Touba Ghadessi, Meredith TeGrotenhuis.
15. "Divine Disruptions: Early Modern Female Mystics and Prophets." Susan G. Cosby, Carrie Klaus, Bo Karen Lee.
16. "Downward Mobility: Royal and Noble Women Negotiating Lower Status." Barbara Ann McCahill, Alison Smith, Kristen Walton.
17. "Female Cultures of Correspondence." Ursula Appelt, Laura Henigman.
18. "Hysteria, the Passions, and Suffocation of the Mother." Elspeth Whitney, Laurinda Dixon, Alison Klairmont-Lingo.
19. "'Patterne' and 'Partes': Exploring Hierarchies of Reception in Early Modern Textual and Visual Representations of Women." Susan Shifrin, Christopher Orchard.
20. "Sibling Treasures: Sororal Relations in the Early Modern Music, Art, and Literature." Naomi Yavneh, Linda Austern, Naomi Miller.
21. "Veiled Truths: Wives, Widows, and Whores in Early Modern Europe." Paula Loscocco, Christiane Andersson, Joyce de Vries.
22. "Woman of Power: Elizabeth I Then and Now." Georgianna Ziegler, Margaret Hannay, Carole Levin.
23. Electronic Resources Workshop. Librarians of the Arts and Humanities Team, University of Maryland Libraries (Workshop repeated on Saturday)

1:00 p.m.
Lunch

2:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Plenary III: The Built Environment

• "Inhabiting the Great Man's House: Women and Space at Monticello"
  Elizabeth V. Chew, Art History, Monticello
• "Crimson, Feathers, and Pearls: Performing the Feminine in the Early Modern City."
  Carole Collier Frick, History, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
• "A Womb of One's Own: Constructing Maternal Space in Early Modern England."
  Naomi Miller, English, University of Arizona
• Moderator: Katie King, Women's Studies, University of Maryland

4:00 p.m.
Break

4:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Distinguished Speaker: Bernadette Andrea, English, University of Texas at San Antonio
"'Turning Apostata': Theorizing the Exchange of Women between East and West."
Followed by Business Meeting and Reception for Members of SSEMW

6:15 p.m.
Buffet
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

7:30 p.m.
Performance: "The Triumphs of Oriana."
Christopher Kendall and Linda Mabbs with the University of Maryland Chamber Singers, directed by Edward Maclary
Pre-Performance Introduction by Carole Levin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Saturday, November 8, 2003

8:30 a.m.
Coffee

9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Workshops: The Built Environment

24. "Between Punishment and Discipline: Early Modern Workhouses and the Public Woman." Melissa Mowry, Jane Kromm, Cristine Varholy.
25. "The Built Environment and the Imaginary: Women's Space in Early Modern Spain and Italy." Mary Elizabeth Perry, Darcy Donahue, Helen Hills, Eunice D. Howe, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt.
26. "Commemorative Labors: Women and the Construction of Monuments." Michelle M. Dowd, Susan Comilang, Sara L. French.
27. "The Dialogue as Structure and Strategy in Court and Convent." Elizabeth Pallitto, Electa Arenal
28. "The Early Modern Woman's Preface: From Structures to Subjectivities." Julie A. Eckerle, Laura Burch, Marcela Kostihova
29. "Re-attending to the Early Modern Women's Receipt Book: Food, Medicine and Self-fashioning." Catherine Field, Alisha Rankin.
30. "Gender and Figure in the Arts of the Renaissance." Andrea Pearson, Stephen Whitworth, Todd Borgerding.
31. "Interior Designs: The Built Environment and Early Modern Women's Subjectivities." Heather Meakin, Vera J. Camden, Elizabeth V. Chew, Kimberly Hill.
32. "Publicizing Private Space, 1400-1650." Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Caroline P. Murphy.
33. "A Woman in a Golden Cage: Gender within a Musically-Harmonized Space." Sonia Brighenti, Erika Giovanelli, Omar Borghetti.

10:30 a.m.
Break

10:45 a.m.
Video Presentation
funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
"Possessing Women: Investigating Italian Renaissance Material Culture."
Patricia Allerston
Evelyn Welch

12:15 p.m.
Lunch

1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Plenary IV: Pedagogies

• "The Early Modern Woman and the Twenty-First-Century Museum."
  Julia Marciari-Alexander, Art History, Center for British Art, Yale University
• "But Is It Any Good? The Value of Teaching Early Women Writers."
  Susanne Woods, English, Wheaton College
• "Stress Management: Connecting Research and Pegagogy in Women's History."
  Allyson M. Poska, History, Mary Washington College
• Moderator: Hervé Campangne, French, University of Maryland

3:15 p.m.
Coffee

3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Workshops: Pedagogies

34. "Early Modern English Women's Letters: Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Teaching." Sara Jayne Steen, Lynne Magnusson.
35. "Examining Books by and about Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italy and France in the Context of the History of the Book." Joyce Miller, Laila Paris.
36. "The Personal is Pedagogical." Donna C. Woodford, Katherine A. Hoffman, Suzanne Magnanini, Sharon D. Michalove.
37. "The Real 'Judith Shakespeares' Go Virtual: Technology in the Teaching of Early Modern Women." Erin E. Kelly, Sheila Cavanagh, Samantha A. Morgan-Curtis.
38. "Teaching about Marriage & Churching Ceremonies in Early Modern England." Chanita Goodblatt, Ann Hurley, Jeffrey Johnson.
39. "Truth in the Telling: Gendering Structures of Authenticity in Early Modern and Academic Contexts." Megan Matchinske, Kathryn Burns.
40. "Women and the Pedagogical Structures of Memory." Anita Gilman Sherman, Brandi K. Adams, Virginie Cassidy, Natasha Korda.
41. "Drama by Early Modern Women: Text into Performance." Rosanne Fleszar Denhard, Gweno Williams.
42. Electronic Resources Workshop. Libraries of the Arts and Humanities Team, University of Maryland Libraries.

5:15 p.m. Adjourn