Daily Schedule

June 12-June 17 | June 20-June 24 | June 27-July 1
July 4-July 8 | July 11-July 15

Guest scholars will be available for consultation with participants during “Research and Reading” periods that follow their presentations.

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June 12 - June 17
Sunday, June 12. Welcome
5:00 - 7:00
Reception
Rossborough Inn
Monday, June 13. Introductions and Orientation
9:00 - 10:15
Introductions and breakfast
Ralph Bauer, Vincent Carey, and Adele Seeff
10:30 -12:00 Orientation session and campus walking tour
1:00 - 3:00 Library orientation
3:15 - 5:00

Introductory lecture & discussion
Ralph Bauer & Vincent Carey, “What is Persecution?”

5:00 - 7:00 Welcome dinner
   

Tuesday, June 14 through Wednesday, June 22. Lead Scholar: Ralph Bauer
The Cultural and Political Functions of Public Spectacles of Persecution: Spain and Spanish America

Tuesday, June 14
9:00 - 10:30 Reading and research
10:30 - 12:00 Ralph Bauer, lecture, “The Cultural and Political Functions of Public Spectacles of Persecution: Spain and New Spain”
1:00 - 2:15 Lourdes Alvarez, lecture, “Religious Persecution and the Rhetoric of Conversion: Muslims & Jews in 15th Century Spain”
2:30 - 4:30 Lourdes Alvarez, workshop, “Spanish Politics of Religion”
   
Wednesday, June 15
9:00 - 10:15 Barbara Fuchs, lecture, “Maurophila/Maurophobia”
10:30 - 12:30 Barbara Fuchs, “Christians and Moriscos in Sixteenth-Century Spain”
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Reading and research
   
Thursday, June 16
9:00 - 12:00 Eyda Merediz, lecture and workshop, “Conquest and Persecution and Conquest in the Early Modern Atlantic”
1:00 - 5:00 Research and reading at the University of Maryland or by metro to the Folger or the Library of Congress
   
Friday, June 17
9:00 -10:15 Luis Fernando Restrepo, lecture, “Persecution in Colonial Spanish America: Extirpating Idolatry in the Northern Andes”
10:30 - 12:30 Luis Fernando Restrepo and Ralph Bauer, workshop, “Texts and Contexts of the Auto de Fé
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
 
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June 20 - June 24
Monday, June 20
9:00 - 10:15 Georgina Dopico Black, lecture, “Transatlantic Crossings: Conversion, Translation and Assimilation in Early Modern Spain and Colonial America”
10:30 - 12:30 Georgina Dopico Black, workshop, “Eimeric, Nicolau, and Francisco Peña's Directorium inquisitorium
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Tuesday, June 21
9:00 - 10:15 Nina Gerassi-Navarro, lecture, “Raiding Latin America: Piracy, Empire, and Creole Patriots”
10:30 - 12:30 Nina Gerassi-Navarro and Ralph Bauer, workshop, “The Hawkins Expedition from Various Perspectives”
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Wednesday, June 22
9:00 - 11:30 Ralph Bauer, “Forum: Persecutions in Spain and Spanish America”
12:30 - 5:00 Field trip to the National Gallery of Art and DC sites
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner downtown
   

Thursday, June 23 through Tuesday, June 28. Lead Scholar: Vincent Carey
Making Law and Remaking History: The Elizabethan Settlement

Thursday, June 23
9:00 - 10:30 Research and reading
10:30 - 11:30 Vincent Carey, “English Reformations and Persecutions in the Sixteenth Century: Overview, Timeline, and the Current Debate”
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 4:30 Theresa Coletti, lecture and workshop, “Late Medieval Theologies of the Image: Practice & Persecution on the Threshold of Reform”
   
Friday, June 24
9:00 - 10:15

Norman Jones, lecture, “The Elizabethan Settlement and the Structure of Enforced Religion”

10:30 - 12:30

Norman Jones, workshop, “The Elizabethan Settlement: Parliament and the Law Concerning the Church”

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
 
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June 27 - July 1
Monday, June 27
9:00 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Tuesday, June 28
AT THE FOLGER
10:00 - 11:15 Rachel Doggett, lecture, “Foxe in the Folger Library: The Books and Their Preservation”
11:30 -1:00 Rachel Doggett, lecture, “Bibles, Catechisms, Prayer Books, and ABC Books”
1:00 - 4:30 Research and reading
5:30 - 8:00 Dinner downtown
   

Wednesday, June 29, through Friday, July 1. Lead Scholar: Vincent Carey
Treason and Martyrdom, Persecution and Prosecution

Wednesday, June 29
9:00 - 10:15 Vincent Carey, lecture, “The Jesuit Mission and the Execution of Campion: Conflicting Accounts”
10:30 - 12:30 Vincent Carey, workshop, “Campions Affect on Public Discourse”
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:00

Participant presentations

   
Thursday, June 30
9:00 - 10:15 Vincent Carey, “Atrocity, Martyrdom, and the Formation of Irish Catholic Identity”
10:30 - 12:30 Vincent Carey, workshop, “Atrocity and Protestant Apocalyptic Justifications in Evidence”
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 Participant presentations
   
Friday, July 1
9:00 - 10:15 Christopher Highley, lecture, “Catholics in Exile under Elizabeth and James”
10:30 - 11:30 Christopher Highley, workshop, “Textual Communities in Cities of Exile: Douay-Rhemes, Louvain, and Antwerp”
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch with Highley and Leinwand
1:00 - 4:00 Theodore Leinwand, “Shakespeare against Doctrine: Hamlet and Measure for Measure
 
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July 4 - July 8
Monday, July 4
HOLIDAY
   
Tuesday, July 5
9:00 - 10:15 John King, lecture, “The History of Foxe’s Book: Actes and Monuments, 1563-1684”
10:30 - 12:30 John King, workshop
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch with visiting scholar
2:00 - 4:00 Participant presentations
   

Wednesday, July 6, through Friday, July 8. Lead Scholar: Vincent Carey
Martyrdom, Treason, Conformity, and Resistance: Catholics in Elizabethan England

Wednesday, July 6
9:00 - 12:30 Research and reading
1:30 - 3:00 Jessie Anne Owens, lecture, “William Byrd: Music of Sorrow and Comfort”
3:15 - 4:30 Jessie Anne Owens, lecture, “Disseminating Byrd’s Music: Evidence of Printed Books and Manuscripts”
5:30 - 7:00 Catered dinner with Jessie Anne Owens
7:00 - 8:30 Jessie Anne Owens, workshop, “Hearing Byrd’s Music”
   
Thursday, July 7
9:00 - 10:15 Frances Dolan, “Catholicism and the Undead”
10:30 - 12:30 Frances Dolan, workshop, “The Place of Gender in Anti-Catholic Polemic”
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch with visiting scholar
2:00 - 4:00 Participant presentations
   
Friday, July 8
9:00 - 1:00 Research, reading, and lunch
1:00 - 5:00 Field trip to The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md.
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner in Baltimore
 
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July 11 - July 15

Monday, July 11, through Wednesday, July 13. Lead Scholar: Ralph Bauer
The Cultural Work of Persecution: England and British America

Monday, July 11
9:00 - 10:15 Ralph Bauer, “From England to British America: Anglicans, Puritans, Quakers, and Antinomians”
10:30 - 12:30 Ralph Bauer, workshop
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Tuesday, July 12
9:00 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Wednesday, July 13
9:00 - 10:15

Carla Pestana, “Did the Quakers Court Persecution?”

10:30 - 12:30 Carla Pestana, workshop
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Thursday and Friday, July 14 and 15. Conclusions
Thursday, July 14
9:00 - 10:15 Ralph Bauer, “Persecution in the Age of Newton: The ‘Specular’ Evidence in the Salem Witch Trials”
10:15 - 12:30 Ralph Bauer, workshop
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Friday, July 15
9:00 - 12:00 Participant Presentations
12:00 - 1:30 Catered lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Roundtable Discussion: “What is Persecution?”
2:30 - 4:00 Evaluation and closing
 
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The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
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The University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742
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Last updated June 13, 2007