Schedule

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009

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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Inn & Conference Center, University College, Adelphi, Maryland
University of Maryland
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11:00 am Registration Opens
   
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Room 0105 (Lower Level) | Description
   
1:00 pm Welcome & Opening Remarks
   
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Plenary I: Negotiations
   
  Conquistadora of the Spirit, María de Jesús de Ágreda
Juliana Barr, History, University of Florida
   
 

Big Sister as Intermediary: How Maria Rolandus Tried to Win Back Her Wayward Brother
Craig Harline, History, Brigham Young University

   
  Getting Past No or Getting to Yes: Nuns, Divas, and Negotiation Tactics in Early Modern Italy
Colleen Reardon, Music, University of California, Irvine
   
3:15 pm Break
   
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Plenary I Workshops: Negotiations
   
  See schedule here
   
5:30 pm Buffet Reception
   
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Keynote Address
   
  Attending to Women and Religion in the Early Modern World
Silvia Evangelisti, History, University of East Anglia

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Friday, November 6, 2009
Inn & Conference Center, University College, Adelphi, Maryland
University of Maryland
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8:30 am Coffee
   
9:00 am - 10:45 am Plenary II: Economies
   
 

Writing the Lives of Our Men: Factual Fictions, Eyewitness Accounts, and the Competition for Truth
Megan Matchinske, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

   
  Columbus’ Sister: Imagining Female Agency and Women’s Bodies in Early Modern Atlantic
and Mediterranean Imperial Discourse
Holly Hurlburt, History and Women’s Studies, Southern Illinois University
 
  Significance and Impact of Women's Property Rights in Islamic Law: Lessons from Fifteenth Century Granada
Maya Shatzmiller, History, University of Western Ontario, Canada
   
10:45 am Break
   
11:15 am - 12:45 pm Plenary II Workshops: Economies
   
  See schedule here
   
12:45 pm Lunch (subscribed or on own)
   
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm Plenary III: Faiths & Spiritualities
   
  Christianity, Religion and Identity in a Muslim Environment: Mother Maria, Queen of Larantuka, Indonesia
Barbara Watson Andaya, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
   
  Women's Spiritual Narratives from the Black Atlantic
Jon Sensbach, History, University of Florida
   
  The Intervening Widow: Performing Spousal Salvation through Rogier van der Weyden’s Braque Triptych
Penny Howell Jolly, Art History, Skidmore College
   
4:30 pm Break
   
4:45 pm Business Meeting
   
  Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
   
6:30 pm Dinner (subscribed or on own)
   
8:00 pm Performance
  Concert by the Musicians in Ordinary
  The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland

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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Inn & Conference Center, University College, Adelphi, Maryland
University of Maryland
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8:30 am - 10:00 am Roundtables
   
  Early Career Professional Development
  Organizer and Moderator: Jane Donawerth, University of Maryland
  Panelists: Erika Gaffney, Ashgate Publishers; Meredith Gill, Unviersity of Maryland, Carole Levin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University; and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   
  Mid-Career Professional Development
  Organizer: The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
  Moderator: Naomi Miller, Smith College
  Panelists: Nancy Gutierrez, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Deborah Lesko-Baker, Chair, Department of French, Geoergetown University; Sara Jayne Steen, President, Plymouth State University; and Susanne Woods, former Provost, Wheaton College
   
10:00 am Break
   
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Plenary III Workshops: Faiths & Spiritualities
   
  See schedule here
   
12:00 pm Lunch (subscribed)
   
  Ashgate Celebrates Ten Years of the Ashgate Series "Women and Gender in the Early Modern World": Negotiating Geographical and Disicplinary Divides
 

Organizers and Moderators: Allyson Poska, Mary Washington University; Abby Zanger, Boston University; Erika Gaffney, Ashgate Publishers

  Panelists: Elizabeth Goldsmith, Boston University; Tamara Harvey, George Mason University; Liane McTavish, University of Alberta; Haruko Nawata Ward, Columbia Theological Seminary
   
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Plenary IV: Pedagogies
   
  The Gender Differential in Honors Programs and Colleges, and the Opportunities It Provides
Susan Dinan, History, William Patterson University
   
  Conflict & Concord---from the Beginning: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and Christine de Pizan’s
Book of the City of Ladies
Albert Rabil, Emeritus
   
  Early Modern Amazons: Teaching Conflict in Representation
Nora Stoppino, Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Plenary IV Workshops: Pedagogies
   
  See schedule here