'The International Christopher Marlowe' is a two day academic conference devoted to exploring the international contexts, both historical and contemporary, informing the work of the English poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe (c.1564).
Monday 7th September
9.15-10.00 Registration, coffee
10.00-10.15 Edward Paleit (Exeter), Welcome
10.15-12.00 Session 1: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and the East
Simon May (Oxford), ‘Marlowe’s Tamburlaine: Ambiguity and the Near East’
Chloe Houston (Reading), ‘Valiant Tamburlaine, the man of fame’: gender, Persia and romance in Tamburlaine”
Professor Matthew Dimmock (Sussex), ‘Tamburlaine’s Material Worlds’
12.00-12.45 Lunch
12.45-14.00 Session 2: Provocation and Subversion in Marlowe
Professor Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Marlowe’s Provocative Play Names’
Vincenzo Pasquarella, ‘Italian Masks/Italianate Devils: The Metamorphic Deceptions in Marlowe’s Edward II’
14.00-14.15 Coffee Break
14.15-15.45 Session 3: Marlowe’s International Perspectives
Chloe Preedy (Exeter), ‘Europe by Air: International Flight in Marlowe’s Drama’
Barbara Wooding, ‘‘With twice twelve Phrygian ships I ploughed the deep’: Marlowe and journeys of the imagination.’
15.45-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Session 4: Marlowe and European politics
Edward Paleit (Exeter), ‘Whose resistance theory is it anyway? The virtual excommunication of Marlowe’s Edward II’
Georgina Lucas (Birmingham/Shakespeare Institute), ‘ “An action bloody and tyrannical”: Tyranny and Resistance in Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris’
17.45-19.00 Keynote: Professor Alan Stewart (Columbia)
(Followed by Q&A)
20.00 Conference Dinner: Côte Brasserie, Cathedral Green, Exeter
Tuesday 8th September
9.00-10.45 Session 4: Religious Conflict in Marlowe
Professor Catherine Gemelli Martin (Memphis), ‘Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris and the Wars of Religion’
Killian Schindler (Fribourg), ‘Predestination and Religious Toleration: New International Contexts for Doctor Faustus’
Meadhbh O’Halloran (Cork), ‘Marlowe’s Mediterranean’
10.45-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.45 Session 5: Giordano Bruno, Philosophy and Religion
Professor Rosanna Camerlingo (Perugia), ‘Brunian Marlowe’
Luca Bocchetti (Verona), ‘Benvolio, Christ and Actaeon: the Italian Neoplatonic Legacy of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Giordano Bruno’s Spaccio de la bestia trionfante.’
Cristiano Ragni (Perugia) ‘ “What irreligious pagans’ parts be these?” Machiavelli, Bruno, Gentili and the idea of religion in Marlowe’s Massacre.’
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.45-15.15 Session 6: Marlowe from Marlowe to modernity
Professor Richard Hillman (Tours), ‘Dr. Faustus and contemporary French translations of the Faustbuch’
George Oppitz-Trotman (UEA), ‘Doctor Faustus and the English Comedians’
15.15-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.45 Session 6, continued
Conny Loder (LMU Munich), ‘Christopher Marlowe’s influence on literary, dramatic and intellectual trends in Germany in the seventeenth century’
Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen (Leiden), ‘Marlowe, Shakespeare & Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Two Dutch Case Studies’
17.00-18.00 Drinks reception
Places are limited so please register as soon as possible by visiting http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/conference/registration/
There are also a number of full postgraduate bursaries available, for more information see http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/conference/postgrad-bursaries/
Registration closes on 25 August 2015.
For further information about the conference and the International Christopher Marlowe Project please visit our website http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/ or contact us directly with any queries at InternationalMarlowe@exeter.ac.uk.
Edward Paleit, University of Exeter (Lead Researcher on ‘The International Christopher Marlowe’)
Nora Williams and Jasmine Hunter Evans, University of Exeter (Project Facilitators)
There are also a number of full postgraduate bursaries available, for more information see http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/conference/postgrad-bursaries/
Registration closes on 25 August 2015.
For further information about the conference and the International Christopher Marlowe Project please visit our website http://christophermarlowe.exeter.ac.uk/ or contact us directly with any queries at InternationalMarlowe@exeter.ac.uk.
Edward Paleit, University of Exeter (Lead Researcher on ‘The International Christopher Marlowe’)
Nora Williams and Jasmine Hunter Evans, University of Exeter (Project Facilitators)
