Schedule Overview

June 13 through July 15, 2004
University of Maryland

Please note: The co-directors for this institute, Vincent Carey, Ralph Bauer, and Adele Seeff, will be in residence, facilitating sessions and available for consultation, for the entire five-week period.

We include here the main topics of the institute to give you a sense of its general organization and scope. In addition, we are providing a list of the scholars who will help anchor the discussion along with selected titles of their lectures and workshops. For complete details, along with specific reading assignments, please see the daily schedule.

Monday, June 13
Introductions and Orientation
Ralph Bauer, Vincent Carey, and Adele Seeff

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

• Lourdes Alvarez, Languages, "Religious Persecution and the Rhetoric of Conversion: Muslims & Jews in 15th Century Spain"
• Barbara Fuchs, Romance Languages, "Maurophilia/Maurophobia"
• Eyda Merediz, Foreign Languages, "Conquest and Persecution and Conquest in the Early Modern Atlantic"
• Luis Fernando Restrepo, Foreign Languages, "Persecution and Colonial Spanish America: Extirpating Idolatry in the Northern Andes"
• Georgina Dopico Black, Spanish Literature, "Transatlantic Crossings"
• Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Spanish, "Raiding Latin America: Piracy, Empire, and Creole Patriots"

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

• Theresa Coletti, English, "Late Medieval Theologies of the Image: Practice & Persecution on the Threshold of Reform"
• Norman Jones, History, "The Elizabethan Settlement and the Structure of Enforced Religion"
• Rachel Doggett, English, "Foxe in the Folger Library: The Books and Their Preservation" and "Bibles, Catechisms, Prayer Books, and ABC Books"

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

• Christopher Highley, English, "Catholics in Exile under Elizabeth and James" and "Textual Communities in Cities of Exile: Douay-Rhemes, Louvain, and Antwerp"
• Theodore Leinwand, English, "Shakespeare against Doctrine: Hamlet and Measure for Measure"

Tuesday, July 5, through Friday, July 8
Martyrdom, Treason, Conformity, and Resistance: Catholics in Elizabethan England
Lead Scholar: Vincent Carey
Guest Lecturers:

• Jessie Ann Owens, Music, "William Byrd: Music of Sorrow and Comfort" and "Disseminating Byrd's Music Evidence of Printed Books and Manuscripts"
• Frances Dolan, English, "Catholicism and the Undead"
• John King, English, "The History of Foxe's Book: Actes and Monuments, 1563 to 1684"

Monday, July 11, through Thursday, July 14
The Cultural Work of Inquisition and Persecution: England and British America
Lead Scholar: Ralph Bauer
Guest Lecturer: Carla Pestana, History, "Did the Quakers Court Persecution?"

Friday, July 15
Final Presentations and Closing Exercises