Workshops

Plenary I: Negotiations
Plenary II: Economies
Plenary III: Faiths and Spiritualities
Plenary IV: Pedagogies

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Plenary I Workshops: Negotiations
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland, University College
3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
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1. Women’s Commentary on War
Merry Wiesner-Hanks (H); Grethe Jacobsen (LIB)

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2. Elizabeth Stuart, Princess Royal, Electress of the Palatinate, and Queen of Bohemia, Negotiates                              
Joan E. Hartman (E); Stephen J. Stearns (H)

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3. Negotiating Lineage: Women and Genealogy
Michelle M. Dowd (E); Julie A. Eckerle (E); Stephanie O'Hara (F)

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4. Women Negotiating Chastity in China and Italy
Elizabeth Cohen (H); Janet Theiss (H)

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5. Women Under Siege                           
Catharine Gray (E); Erin Murphy (E); Brian Sandberg (H)

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6. Early Modern Women: Negotiating Past and Present
Erin E. Kelly (E); Erin A. Sadlack (E, WS); Deborah Uman (E, WS); Jessica Walker (E)

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7. Negotiating the Classical Past: Women, Texts, Politics
Lara Dodds (E); Anne Harris (AH); Andrea Sununu (E)

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8. Negotiating Music in Early Modern England: The Case of the Sidneys
Katherine R. Larson (E, WS); Linda Phyllis Austern (M); Jeanice Brooks (M, F)

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9. Bearing the Rod of Peace: The Gender of Discord and Concord
CoryAnne Harrigan (E); Sarah Nelson (FL)

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10. Conjugal Politics: Negotiating Marriage in Early Modern Italy and France
Abby Zanger (F); Caroline Castiglione (H)

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Plenary II Workshops: Economies
Friday, November 6, 2009
Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland, University College
11:15 am to 12:45 pm
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11. Italian Brides, English Divas, Young Male Flaunters, Fictional Women
Mary Ellen Lamb (E), Carole Collier Frick (H), Pamela Allen Brown (E), Amanda Bailey (E)

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12.How to Turn Your Man into a Killer: Lessons from Alice Arden and Lady Macbeth
Erin Bone Steele (TH); AnnMarie Saunders (TH); Jasmine Lellock (E)

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13. Negotiations of Love and Desire: Elopement, Abduction, and Women’s Agency
Katharine Cleland (E); Valentina Cesco (H)

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14. Women on/in the Market: Women and Wealth in Five Political Controversies
Elizabeth Hyde (H); Faith Beasley (F); Jennifer Jones (H)

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15. Performing Sociability
Wendy Heller (M); Katherine McIver (AH); Alison Smith (H)

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16. “Kitchin-physick”: Diet and Identity in a Colonial Economy
Kimberly Coles (E); Gitanjali Shahani (E)

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17. Alessandra Strozzi: Guiding a Florentine Family from Exile to Patronage through a Mother’s Letters
Louisa Woodville (AH); Elizabeth Griffith (AH)  

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18. Alice Clark at 90: Reconsiderations, Reviews, Reworking Women's Work
Ann C. Christensen (E); Lori Humphrey Newcomb (E); Clarissa Hinajosa (H)

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Plenary III Workshops: Faiths & Spiritualities
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland, University College
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
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19. Text and Image: Material Expressions of Spiritual Beliefs
Georgianna Ziegler (E, LIB); Margaret Hannay (E); Sheila ffolliott (AH)

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20. Faith Journeys: The Early Seventeenth-Century Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley and Begum Mariam Khan from the Islamic Empire of the East to England
Bernadette Andrea (E); Bindu Malieckal (E)

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21. “Depravity” and the Place of Women
Sara L. French (AR); Amanda Eubanks Winkler (M)

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22. Writing the Spiritual Self: Non-Conformist Women’s Life Writing in Seventeenth Century England, Ireland, and Scotland
Giuseppina A. Iacono (E); Megyn Dixon (H)

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23. Celtic Women Negotiating Exile
Kristen Post Walton (H); Samantha Morgan-Curtis (E, WS); Naomi McAreavey (E); Angela Ellis (H)

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24. Political Resistance and the Right to Conscience in Women’s Religious and Literary Writing
Penelope Anderson (E); Constance Furey (RS); William E Smith, III (RS)

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25. Correspondence and Belief: Letters, Faith, and the Art of Radical Concourse
Brandie Siegfried (E); Elizabeth Hodgson (E); Chris Laoutaris (E)

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26. Contested Identities: Religion, Misogyny, and Polemic in Early Modern Europe
Lynn Westwater (I); Leah Chang (F); Meredith Ray (I)

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27. Conflict and Negotiation Inside and Outside the Early Modern Convent
Amy Leonard (H); Barbara Mujica (S)

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Plenary IV Workshops: Pedagogies
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland, University College
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
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28. Changing the Curriculum: Negotiating the Education of Daughters and Wives, Midwives, Humanists, and Indians
Elizabeth Mazzola (E); Adrianna Bakos (H); Theresa Kemp (E); Victoria Mondelli (H)

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29. “First to speak to the young Students, because youth, and learning, is the beginning of life, and knowledge”: Approaches to Studying Early Modern Women in the Undergraduate Classroom
Gweno Williams (AE); Rosanne Fleszar Denhard (E)

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30. Framing Disguise
Elizabeth Patton (E); Amy Kirsten (MT); H. Spencer Stanford (TE); Anne Lake Prescott (CL)

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31. Representing Early Modern Women in Contemporary Popular Culture
Michele Osherow (E); Carole Levin (H); Jo Eldridge Carney (E)

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32. Electronic Self Fashioning: Scholarly Bloggers in the Real World
Emily Ruth Isaacson (E), Jessica Murphy (E)

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33. Teaching and Researching Early Modern Women in the Digital World
Yelena Luckert (LIB), Tim Hackman (LIB), Patricia Herron (LIB), Eric Lindquist (LIB), Jennie Levine (LIB)

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