Schedule

Thursday, November 9: Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland
Friday, November 10: Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, University of Maryland
Saturday, November 11: Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland

Thursday, November 9
Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland
10:00 am Registration Opens
1:00 pm

Welcome & Opening Remarks
1:30 pm
to
3:15 pm

Plenary I: Theorizing Early Modern Masculinity and Maleness

Manhood, Patriarchy, and Gender in Early Modern History
Alexandra Shepard, History, Cambridge University

The Castrato as Sex Object
Roger Freitas, Musicology, Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester)

Fashioning Men for Marriage: An Obscure Chapter in the History of Renaissance Education
Margaret Ferguson, English, University of California, Davis
3:15 pm

Coffee
3:45 pm
to
5:15 pm

Plenary I: Workshops: Theorizing Masculinity

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5:30 pm

Buffet Reception
7:30 pm
to
9:00 pm

Keynote Address

Showing the Heart: Friendship, Love and Anatomy in Early Modern Portraiture
Sarah Cohen, Art History, State University of New York, Albany

Friday, November 10
Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, University of Maryland
8:30 am Coffee
9:00 am
to
10:45 am

Plenary II: Childhood

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Gender Difference in German Primary School Education
Amy Leonard, History, Georgetown University

“All you need is love”: Music, Romance, and Adolescent Education in Sixteenth-Century France
Jeanice Brooks, Music, University of Southampton

Growing Up Female: Chastity Tests and Adolescent Anatomy
Valeria Finucci, Italian, Duke University
10:45 am Coffee
11:15 am
to
12:45 pm

Plenary II: Workshops: Childhood

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12:45 pm Lunch (subscribed or on your own)
2:30 pm
to
4:15 pm

Plenary III: Violence

Bosch’s Iron Age
Margaret Carroll, Art History, Wellesley College

Women Murderers in Early Modern English News and the Culture of Equity
Randall Martin, Theatre and Literature, University of New Brunswick

Vagabonds, Violence, and Dubious Women: The Moral Order of Town Life in Sixteenth-Century Peru
Susan Niles, Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette College
4:15 pm Break
4:30 pm

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Celebrating a Dozen Years of SSEMW
Plenary Round Table: The Next 12 Years
Moderator: Naomi Yavneh (Hu)
Panelists: Elizabeth Cohen (H), Ann Rosalind Jones (CL), Allyson Poska (H), Jennifer Pendergrass (AH)

Followed by the Business Meeting and Bestowal of Awards
6:30 pm Dinner (subscribed or on your own)
8:00 pm
to
9:00 pm 		Performance
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
   

Saturday, November 11
Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland
8:30 am Coffee
9:00 am
to
10:30 am

Plenary III: Workshops: Violence

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10:30 am Coffee
11:00 am
to
12:45 pm

Plenary IV: Pedagogies

Telling 1001 Tales: Integrating Muslim Women into the World History Narrative
Judith E. Tucker, History, Georgetown University

Mediated Masculinity: The Duke of Bracciano, the Medici Princess, and the White Devil
Caroline Murphy, Art History, University of California, Riverside

The Politics of Pedagogy: Teaching Gender and Sexuality During the Culture Wars
Katherine Crawford, History, Vanderbilt University
1:00 pm Lunch (subscribed or on your own)
2:15 pm
to
3:45 pm

Plenary IV: Workshops: Pedagogies

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4:00 pm Adjourn