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The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women sponsored these sessions at a number of professional meetings in 2004.

Sponsored Sessions 2004:

Renaissance Society of America
1-3 April, 2004. New York, NY
Complete Program

Officially Sponsored Sessions:

• "Gender, Status, and the Early Modern Female Subject" Organizer: Mihoko Suzuki
• "Between the Lines: Creativity and Collaboration in Reading Early Modern Women” Organizers: Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer
• "Giulia Bigolina's Urania (c. 1556): Italy's First Female-Authored Prose Romance" Organizer: Naomi Yavneh

Relevant Subject Matter:

• "People and Domestic Property in Renaissance Italy" Organizers: Anne Matchette and Flora Dennis
• "Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe" Organizers: Louisa Mattozi and Lara Diefenderfer
• "Female Agency in the Renaissance" Chair: Kathleen Loysen
• "Emblems/Imprese, Authorship and Women" Organizer: Monica Calabritto
• "Female Identity in the Renaissance" Chair: Sarah Covington
• "He Said, She Said: Gender and Narrative in Renaissance Europe" Organizer: Kathleen Perry Long
• "Thinking about Old Wives' Tales: Gender and Early Modern Oral Culture" Organizer: Mary Ellen Lamb
• "Consumption and Early Modern Women in Italy and England" Organizer: Mary Ellen Lamb
• "Women's Discourses: Science, Theology, Letters" Organizer: Patricia Lennox
• "Women's Voices in Early Modern English Drama" Chair: Karoline Szarek
• "Transatlantic Intercourses: Power, Gender, and Sexuality in Old World/New Word Encounters" Organizer: Lucas Marchante-Aragon
• "Eros and Early Modern Women Readers" Organizer: Mary Ellen Lamb
• "Women in their Texts: Constructing Sanctity in the Northern Italian Cities, ca. 1300-1700" Organizers: John Martin and Allison Frazier
• "Dildos, Castrati and the Challenges to Early Modern Masculinity" Organizer: Mary Ellen Lamb
• "Homosociality in Early Modern Culture" Organizers: Francesca Sautman and Domina Stanton
• "Early Modern Italian Women" Organizers: Francesca Sautman and Domina Stanton
• "The Body and the City" Organizers: Francesca Sautman and Domina Stanton
• "Margaret Cavendish and the Problems of Self-Expression" Organizer: Mary Ellen Lamb
• "Performing 'Witchcraft' in Early Modern England" Organizer: Sarah Williams
• "Gender and Gender Roles in the Renaissance" Chair: Mario di Gangi
• "The Dynamics of Exemplarity: Representing Catherine de Medicis in Renaissance France" Organizer: Dora Polachek
• "Early Modern Italian Women Reading: I and II" Organizer: Julia Hairston
• "Exploring Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder" Organizer: Erin Murphy
• "Archival Perspectives on Women and Medicine in Early Modern Europe" Organizers: Alisha Rankin and Monica Azzolini
• "Re-presenting Women: Interpretation and Ideology in the Renaissance" Organizer: Michelle Ephraim
• "New Work in Gender Studies: Italian Context" Organizer: Mary Ellen Lamb
• "Women, Faith, and Culture in Early Modern Europe: The Works of Gabriella Zarri" Organizer: Danielle Culpepper
• "Women Writers and the City" Organizer: Anne Huse
• "Gender and Genealogy in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso" Organizer: Eleonora Stoppino
• "Women Behaving Badly in Medieval and Renaissance Lucca" Organizer: Mary Hewlett
• "Women's Political Writing in the Renaissance" Chair: Lynne Greenberg
• "Correcting Courtesans: Early Modernity and the Styles of Sexuality" Organizer: Kaherine Romack
• "Controlling Devotions: Race, Gender, and Identity in Renaissance and Early Modern Confraternities" Organizer: Nicholas Terpstra
• "Medici Women as Patrons of the Arts"
• "Constructing Female Identity: Signatures in Early Modern Italy"
  Organizer: Judith Mann; Chair: Mary D. Garrard
• "Marriage, Mourning, and Murder: Ways of Silencing Women in Shakespeare" Organizer: Cristina Alfar
• "The Performance of Chastity" Organizer: Patricia Wareh