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Wednesday, 30 June 2010

 

09.00 – 10.00 Registration in the Main Hall of UNI Mail

 

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome, room MR 280

 

10.15 – 11.15 Plenary lecture, room MR 280

Ø         Colin Burrow (University of Oxford), Fictions of Collaboration: Authors and Editors in the Sixteenth Century (Chair: Indira Ghose, University of Fribourg)

 

11.30 – 13.00 Parallel sessions

Ø         Advice, Commentary, Preaching and Medieval Authorship, room MR 150
(M. Giancarlo, E. Thorn, C. Hemet; chair: K. Smyth)

Ø         Genre and Women’s Authorship in the Seventeenth Century, room MR 160

          (A. Eardley,  J. Harris, E. Scott-Baumann; chair: L. Bezzola)

Ø         Writing, Interpretation, and (Loss of) Authorial Control in the Seventeenth Century, room MR 170

          (G. Mahlberg, K. McDonald, D. Shore; chair: K. Klein)

 

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break and/or Registration

 

14.30 – 16.00 Plenary session, room MR 280

Ø         Authorship from Homer to Wordsworth via Milton

        Neil Forsyth (University of Lausanne)

Ø         Collocation Matching: a Breakthrough in Authorship Attribution Studies

        Brian Vickers (University of London)

Ø         Authorial Impersonation: Three Faces of Henry Chettle

        Katherine Duncan-Jones (University of Oxford)

          (Chair: Anthony Mortimer, University of Fribourg)

 

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break

 

16.30 – 18.00 Parallel sessions

Ø         Reception, Intertextuality, Translation and Medieval Authorship, room MR 150

(R. Critten, S. Brazil, V. Cangemi; chair: M. Nievergelt)

Ø         ‘Thou Art Translated’: Reconfiguring ‘Shakespeare’ After Shakespeare, room MR 160

        (J. Bark, E. Depledge, K. Klein; chair: R. Orgis)

Ø         The Author and His Works in Tudor England, room MR 170

          (T. Rooney, A. Harbus, P. Hehmeyer; chair: J. Harris)

 

18.15 – 19.15 Plenary lecture, room MR 280

Ø         Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), Producing the Lector (Chair: Denis Renevey, University of Lausanne)

 

19.15 – 21.30 Conference reception in the Main Hall of UNI Mail

 

 

 

Thursday, 1 July 2010

 

09.00 – 10.00 Plenary lecture, room MR 280

Ø         Robert Edwards (Pennsylvania State University), Authorship, Imitation, and Refusal in Late-Medieval England (Chair: Guillemette Bolens, University of Geneva)

 

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break

 

10.30 – 12.00 Parallel sessions

Ø         Chaucer and the Chaucerian Author, room MR 150

(S. D’Agata D’Ottavi, H. Reis, A. Higl; chair: F. Tolhurst)

Ø         Authorship and Early Modern Poetry, room MR 160

        (A. Swärdh, C. Engbers, I. Hsiao; chair: K. Stirling)

Ø         Authorship and the Early Modern Book Trade, room MR 170

        (S. Gebhardt,  L. Wilson, R. Robertson; chair: J. Bark)

 

12.00 – 12.45 Short Lunch break

 

12.45 – 13.45 Plenary lecture, room MR 280

Ø         Patrick Cheney (Pennsylvania State University), English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime (Chair: Lukas Erne, University of Geneva)

 

14.00– 18.00 Social Program

 

14.00 Bus leaves from UNI Mail

 

14.15- 15.30 « Le Musée de la Réforme »

 

15.30 Bus leaves from the museum

 

16.00-17.45 « La Fondation Bodmer »

 

17.45 Bus leaves from Bodmer and drives back to UNI Mail

 

19.30 – 22.00 Conference dinner at the Restaurant Le Lyrique

 

 

 

Friday, 2 July 2010

 

08.30 – 09.15 SAMEMES AGM, room MR 170

 

09.30-10.30 Plenary lecture, room MR 280

Ø         Helen Cooper (University of Cambridge), Choosing Poetic Fathers: the English Problem (Chair: Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, University of Zurich)

 

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

 

11.00 – 12.30 Parallel sessions

Ø         Writing in and of British History in Medieval England, room MR 150

(M. Hackney, N. Nyffenegger, M. Nievergelt; chair: L. Perry)

Ø         Configurations of Authorship in the Long Seventeenth Century, room MR 160

(T. Döring, S. Hequembourg, J. Straub; chair: E. Depledge)

Ø         Drifting Authority: Authorship in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth, room MR 170

        (E. Ford, J. Gregory, E. Poulard; chair: A. Kesson)

 

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break

 

14.00 – 15.30 Parallel sessions

Ø         Fifteenth-Century Gendered Authors and Hagiographies, room MR 150

(S. C. Marshall, J. Vuille, A. Spencer; chair: P. Ivanova)

Ø         Translation, the Epic, and Early Modern Authorship, room MR 160

        (S. Van der Laan, E. Paleit, A. Petrina; chair: V. Fehlbaum)

Ø         Weston, Clifford, Cavendish: the Early Modern ‘Authoress’, room MR 170

        (S. Fielitz, T. Chao, J. Malay, S. Sweetinburgh; chair: S. Gebhardt)

 

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

 

16.00 – 17.00 Parallel sessions

Ø         Early Modern Authorial Quests for Authority, room MR 150

        (J. Blakeley, C. Knellwolf King; chair: S. Brazil)

Ø         Dramatized Authorship in Shakespeare, room MR 160

        (L. Bezzola, L. Meskill; chair: J. McGee)

Ø         Early Modern Negotiations of Co-Authorship, room MR 170

(L. Sansonetti, E. Botonaki; chair: L. Wilson)

 

17.15 – 18.15 Plenary lecture, room MR 280

Ø         Alastair Minnis (Yale University), Ethical Poetry, Poetic Theology: A Crisis of Medieval Authority (Chair: Margaret Bridges, University of Berne)

 

18.15 Conference ends

 

 

 

 

 

DETAILS OF PARALLEL AND PLENARY SESSIONS

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 30 JUNE: 11.30 – 13.00

 

Advice, Commentary, Preaching and Medieval Authorship                               MR 150

 

Chair: Karen Smyth (University of East Anglia)

  • Matthew Giancarlo (University of Kentucky): Confected Authorship in the Work of Peter Idley

 

  • Edwina Thorn (University of Bristol): A Scholastic Commentator and the compilatio Motif: Thomas Waleys’s Commentary on De civitate Dei

 

  • Catherine Hemet (University of Le Havre): From Harclay to Stratford through Becket: History of the Controversial Authorship of a Medieval Sermon

 

 

Genre and Women’s Authorship in the Seventeenth Century                           MR 160           

 

Chair: Ladina Bezzola (University of Basel)

 

  • Alice Eardley (University of Oxford): ‘I ... applaud my Stars, that I am not a Man’:

      Lady Hester Pulter’s Feminist Romance

 

  • Johanna Harris (University of Geneva): Lady Brilliana Harley: Form and Rhetorical Dexterity

 

  • Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Oxford Brookes University): Katherine Philips: Conversations in Genre

 

 

Writing, Interpretation, and (Loss of) Authorial Control

in the Seventeenth Century                                                                                   MR 170

 

Chair: Kareen Klein (University of Geneva)

 

  • Gaby Mahlberg (University of Potsdam): Authors Losing Control: The Case of Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668)

 

  • Keith McDonald (Royal Holloway, University of London): Denying Authorship: Marvell, Maniban and the Quest for Privacy

 

  • Daniel Shore (Grinnell College): Becoming a Supplement: Superfluous Authorship and Scriptural Interpretation in John Milton’s Of Prelatical Episcopacy

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 30 JUNE: 14.30 – 16.00                                                               MR 280

 

Chair: Anthony Mortimer (University of Fribourg)

 

  • Neil Forsyth (University of Lausanne): Authorship from Homer to Wordsworth via Milton

 

  • Brian Vickers (University of London): Collocation Matching: a Breakthrough in Authorship Attribution Studies

 

  • Katherine Duncan-Jones (University of Oxford): Authorial Impersonation: Three Faces of Henry Chettle

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 30 JUNE: 16.30 – 18.00

 

Reception, Intertextuality, Translation and Medieval Authorship                    MR 150

 

Chair: Marco Nievergelt (University of Lausanne)

 

  • Rory Critten (McGill University): Authorship and Authority in the Late Medieval Reception of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series

 

  • Sarah Brazil (University of Geneva): An Authorship of Intertextuality? Chaucer, Lucan and the Epic Tradition

 

  • Valérie Cangemi (University of Lausanne): English Rewritings of French Heroes: Lancelot, Gawain, Morgan and her Avatars

 

 

‘Thou Art Translated’: Reconfiguring ‘Shakespeare’ After Shakespeare       MR 160

     

Chair: Rahel Orgis (University of Neuchâtel)

 

  • Julianna Bark (University of Geneva): Portraiture, Authorship, and the Authentication of Shakespeare

 

  • Emma Depledge (University of Geneva): Authorising Adaptation, (Re)Authoring Shakespeare: Censorship, Adaptation and Textual Possession in Shakespeare Adaptations of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-82

 

  • Kareen Klein (University of Geneva): Re-contextualizing Authorship, Adaptation and Translation for Seventeenth-Century German Shakespeare

 

 

The Author and His Works in Tudor England                                                   MR 170

 

Chair: Johanna Harris (University of Geneva)

 

  • Tom Rooney (Central European University): An Author and His ‘Workes’: Rereading Francis Meres on Shakespeare

 

  • Antonina Harbus (Macquarie University, Australia): Chaucer the Proverbial Author: One Renaissance Annotator’s Reception of the 1532 Edition of the Works

 

  • Paxton Hehmeyer (University of California, Santa Barbara): A Matter for the Psychoanalyst: Churchyard’s Challenge to Early Modern Authorship

 

 

 

THURSDAY, 1 JULY: 10.30 – 12.00

 

Chaucer and the Chaucerian Author                                                                    MR 150

 

Chair: Fiona Tolhurst (Universities of Basel, Geneva, and Neuchâtel)

 

  • Stefania D’Agata D’Ottavi (University of Siena): The Logic of Authorship: the Authorial Status from the Point of View of XIV-Century Sign Theory

 

  • Huriye Reis (Hacettepe University): Negotiating the Relationship Between  Power/Knowledge and the Author in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Legend of Good Women

 

  • Andrew Higl (Winona State University): Lydgate’s Foray into Chaucer’s World

 

 

Authorship and Early Modern Poetry                                                                  MR 160

 

Chair: Kirsten Stirling (University of Lausanne)

 

  • Anna Swärdh (University of Uppsala): Authorial Dialogues: Intertextuality and Genre Awareness in the Late Elizabethan Female Complaints

 

  • Chad Engbers (Calvin College, MI): Altar egos: a Jungian Reading of Early Modern Penitential Poetry

 

  • Irene Hsiao (University of Chicago): Forbidding Mourning: Donne’s Lyric as Popular Song

 

 

Authorship and the Early Modern Book Trade                                                 MR 170

 

Chair: Julianna Bark (University of Geneva)

 

  • Susanna Gebhardt (University of Geneva): Radical Authorship, Agency, and Censorship in Post-1603 England and Scotland

 

  • Louise Wilson (University of Geneva): Authorship and Fictions of Book Production in Late Elizabethan Prose Paratexts

 

  • Randy Robertson (Susquehanna University): Rochester and Authorship

 

 

 

FRIDAY, 2 JULY: 11.00 – 12.30

 

Writing in and of British History in Medieval England                                      MR 150

 

Chair: Lucy Perry (Universities of Lausanne and Geneva)

 

  • Mélanie Hackney (Louisiana State University): When Scribes Take the Sword: Clerical Violence in Layamon’s Brut

 

  • Nicole Nyffenegger (University of Berne): Writing about Writing: the Power of the Written Word, Authority and Authorship in Medieval Historiography

 

  • Marco Nievergelt (University of Lausanne): Authorial Identity, Arthurian Revisionism and the Writing of the ‘whole booke’ of King Arthur: Malory’s Representations of Authorship in the Morte Darthur.

 

 

Configurations of Authorship in the Long Seventeenth Century                      MR 160

 

Chair: Emma Depledge (University of Geneva)

 

  • Tobias Döring (University of Munich): Culinary Authorship? Cooking and/as Writing in Early Seventeenth-Century Performance

 

  • Stephen Boyd Hequembourg (Harvard University): Marvell’s Pronouns and the Ethics of Representation

 

  • Julia Straub (University of Berne): Conceptualising Authorship in Colonial America, 1670-1730

 

 

Drifting Authority: Authorship in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus,

Troilus and Cressida and Macbeth                                                                        MR 170

 

Chair: Andy Kesson (University of Kent)

 

  • Elizabeth Ford (Cardiff University): ‘Newes, from heaven’: Will Kemp in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

 

  • Johann Gregory (Cardiff University): The ‘author’s drift’ in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida

 

  • Etienne Poulard (Cardiff University): ‘Towards his design / Moves like a ghost’: Shakespeare’s Self-Erasure in Macbeth

 

 

 

FRIDAY, 2 JULY: 14.00 – 15.30

 

Fifteenth-Century Gendered Authors and Hagiographies                                MR 150

 

Chair: Petya Ivanova (University of Geneva)

 

  • Simone Celine Marshall (University of Otago, New Zealand): The Anonymous Author in Medieval  Literature

 

  • Juliette Vuille (University of Lausanne): The Magdalene as an Authorizing Tool for Julian of Norwich's Authorship

 

  • Alice Spencer (University of Turin): By Auctoryte of Experyence: The Role of Topography in Osbern Bokenham’s Lives of Native Saints

 

 

Translation, the Epic, and Early Modern Authorship                                      MR 160

 

Chair: Valérie Fehlbaum (University of Geneva)

 

  • Sarah Van der Laan (Indiana University): George Chapman, Author of the Odyssey

 

  • Edward Paleit (University of Exeter): Milton, Fanshawe’s Lusiads and the New Epic in 1650s England.

 

  • Alessandra Petrina (University of Padova): Challenging the Author: Gavin Douglas’s Eneados

 

 

Weston, Clifford, Cavendish: the Early Modern ‘Authoress’                          MR 170

 

Chair: Susanna Gebhardt (University of Geneva)

 

  • Sonja Fielitz (University of Marburg, Germany): Elizabeth Jane Weston: A Neglected Neo-Latin Poet and Catholic Refugee

 

  • Tien-yi Chao (National Taiwan University): ‘Authoress of a whole World’: Alchemy and Authorship in The Blazing World (1666)

 

  • Jessica Malay & Sheila Sweetinburgh (University of Huddersfield): Authoring the Past to Produce the Present: Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record

 

 

 

FRIDAY, 2 JULY: 16.00 – 17.00

 

Early Modern Authorial Quests for Authority                                                    MR 150

 

Chair: Sarah Brazil (University of Geneva)

 

  • John Blakeley (University College Plymouth St Mark & St John): The Parnassus Plays and Literary Careers in the Late-Sixteenth Century

 

  • Christa Knellwolf King (University of Konstanz): Prophetic Authorship: the Presentation of John Dee’s Arcane Knowledge

 

 

Dramatized Authorship in Shakespeare                                                              MR 160

 

Chair: John McGee (University of Geneva)

 

  • Ladina Bezzola (University of Basel): ‘for the hire of their breath’: Self-Exposure and Authorization in Coriolanus

 

  • Lynn Meskill (University of Paris XIII): Roman Prodigies: The Author in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Jonson’s Sejanus

 

   

Early Modern Negotiations of Co-Authorship                                                   MR 170

 

Chair: Louise Wilson (University of Geneva)

 

  • Laetitia Sansonetti (University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle): Constructing Joint Authorship:  Hero and Leander by Marlowe and Chapman

 

  • Effie Botonaki (Greek Open University): Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson and Queen Anne of Denmark: Patronage and Co-Authorship in the Jacobean Court Masques

 

 

 

 

List of Plenary Speakers

 

Colin Burrow (University of Oxford)

Fictions of Collaboration: Authors and Editors in the Sixteenth Century

 

Patrick Cheney (Pennsylvania State University)

English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime

 

Helen Cooper (Cambridge University)

Choosing Poetic Fathers: the English Problem

 

Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania)

Producing the lector

 

Katherine Duncan-Jones (University of Oxford)

Authorial Impersonation: Three Faces of Henry Chettle

 

Robert Edwards (Pennsylvania State University)

Authorship, Imitation, and Refusal in Late-Medieval England

 

Neil Forsyth (University of Lausanne)

Authorship from Homer to Wordsworth via Milton

 

Alastair Minnis (Yale University)

Ethical Poetry, Poetic Theology: A Crisis of Medieval Authority

 

Brian Vickers (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Collocation Matching: A Breakthrough in Authorship Attribution Studies

 

 

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List of Other Speakers

 

Julianna Bark (University of Geneva)

Portraiture, Authorship, and the Authentication of Shakespeare

 

Ladina Bezzola (University of Basel)

‘for the hire of their breath’: Self-Exposure and Authorization in Coriolanus

 

John Blakeley (University College Plymouth St Mark & St John)

The Parnassus Plays and Literary Careers in the Late-Sixteenth Century

 

Effie Botonaki (Greek Open University)

Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson and Queen Anne of Denmark:

 Patronage and Co-Authorship in the Jacobean Court Masques

 

Sarah Brazil (University of Geneva)

An Authorship of Intertextuality? Chaucer, Lucan and the Epic Tradition

 

Valérie Cangemi (University of Lausanne)

English Rewritings of French Heroes: Lancelot, Gawain, Morgan and her Avatars

 

Tien-yi Chao (National Taiwan University)

‘Authoress of a whole World’: Alchemy and Authorship in The Blazing World (1666)

 

Rory Critten (McGill University)

Authorship and Authority in the Late Medieval Reception of

Thomas Hoccleve’s Series

 

Stefania D’Agata D’Ottavi (University of Siena)

The Logic of Authorship:

the Authorial Status from the Point of View of XIV-Century Sign Theory

 

Emma Depledge (University of Geneva)

Authorising Adaptation, (Re)Authoring Shakespeare:

Censorship, Adaptation and Textual Possession in Shakespeare Adaptations of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-82

 

Tobias Döring (University of Munich)

Culinary Authorship?

Cooking and/as Writing in Early Seventeenth-Century Performance

 

Alice Eardley (University of Oxford)

‘I ... applaud my Stars, that I am not a Man’: Lady Hester Pulter’s Feminist Romance

 

Chad Engbers (Calvin College, MI)

Altar egos: a Jungian Reading of Early Modern Penitential Poetry

 

Sonja Fielitz (University of Marburg, Germany)

Elizabeth Jane Weston: A Neglected Neo-Latin Poet and Catholic Refugee

 

Elizabeth Ford (Cardiff University)

‘Newes, from heaven’: Will Kemp in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

 

Susanna Gebhardt (University of Geneva)

Radical Authorship, Agency, and Censorship in Post-1603 England and Scotland

 

Matthew Giancarlo (University of Kentucky)

Confected Authorship in the Work of Peter Idley

 

Johann Gregory (Cardiff University)

The ‘author’s drift’ in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida

 

Mélanie Hackney (Louisiana State University)

When Scribes Take the Sword: Clerical Violence in Layamon’s Brut

 

Antonina Harbus (Macquarie University, Australia)

Chaucer the Proverbial Author:

One Renaissance Annotator’s Reception of the 1532 Edition of the Works

 

Johanna Harris (University of Geneva)

Lady Brilliana Harley: Form and Rhetorical Dexterity

 

Paxton Hehmeyer (University of California, Santa Barbara)

A Matter for the Psychoanalyst:

Churchyard’s Challenge to Early Modern Authorship

 

Catherine Hemet (University of Le Havre)

From Harclay to Stratford through Becket:

History of the Controversial Authorship of a Medieval Sermon

 

Stephen Boyd Hequembourg (Harvard University)

Marvell’s Pronouns and the Ethics of Representation

 

Andrew Higl (Winona State University)

Lydgate’s Foray into Chaucer’s World

 

Irene Hsiao (University of Chicago)

Forbidding Mourning: Donne’s Lyric as Popular Song

 

Kareen Klein (University of Geneva)

Re-Contextualizing Authorship, Adaptation and Translation for

Seventeenth-Century German Shakespeare

 

Christa Knellwolf King (University of Konstanz)

Prophetic Authorship: the Presentation of John Dee’s Arcane Knowledge

 

Gaby Mahlberg (University of Potsdam)

Authors Losing Control: The Case of Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668)

 

Jessica Malay & Sheila Sweetinburgh (University of Huddersfield)

Authoring the Past to Produce the Present: Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record

 

Simone Celine Marshall (University of Otago, New Zealand)

The Anonymous Author in Medieval Literature

 

Keith McDonald (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Denying Authorship: Marvell, Maniban and the Quest for Privacy

 

Lynn Meskill (University of Paris XIII)

Roman Prodigies: The Author in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Jonson’s Sejanus

 

Marco Nievergelt (University of Lausanne)

Authorial Identity, Arthurian Revisionism

and the Writing of the ‘whole booke’ of King Arthur:

Malory’s Representations of Authorship in the Morte Darthur

 

Nicole Nyffenegger (University of Berne)

Writing about Writing:

the Power of the Written Word, Authority and Authorship in Medieval Historiography

 

Edward Paleit (University of Exeter)

Milton, Fanshawe’s Lusiads and the New Epic in 1650s England

 

Alessandra Petrina (University of Padova)

Challenging the Author: Gavin Douglas’s Eneados

 

Etienne Poulard (Cardiff University)

‘Towards his design / Moves like a ghost’: Shakespeare’s Self-Erasure in Macbeth

 

Huriye Reis (Hacettepe University)

Negotiating the Relationship between Power/Knowledge and the Author in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Legend of Good Women

 

Randy Robertson (Susquehanna University)

Rochester and Authorship

 

Tom Rooney (Central European University)

An Author and His ‘Workes’: Rereading Francis Meres on Shakespeare

 

Laetitia Sansonetti (University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Constructing Joint Authorship:  Hero and Leander by Marlowe and Chapman

 

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Oxford Brookes University)

Katherine Philips: Conversations in Genre

 

Daniel Shore (Grinnell College)

Becoming a Supplement:

Superfluous Authorship and Scriptural Interpretation in John Milton’s Of Prelatical Episcopacy

 

Alice Spencer (University of Turin)

‘By Auctoryte of Experyence’:

The Role of Topography in Osbern Bokenham’s Lives of Native Saints

 

Julia Straub (University of Berne)

Conceptualising Authorship in Colonial America, 1670-1730

 

Anna Swärdh (University of Uppsala)

Authorial Dialogues:

Intertextuality and Genre Awareness in Late Elizabethan Female Complaints

 

Edwina Thorn (University of Bristol)

A Scholastic Commentator and the compilatio Motif:

Thomas Waleys’s Commentary on De civitate Dei

 

Sarah Van der Laan (Indiana University)

George Chapman, Author of the Odyssey

 

Juliette Vuille (University of Lausanne)

The Magdalene as an Authorizing Tool for Julian of Norwich’s Authorship

 

Louise Wilson (University of Geneva)

Authorship and Fictions of Book Production in Late Elizabethan Prose Paratexts