The conference will examine life in buildings, institutions and broader geographical areas from a variety of perspectives and will consider the following questions:
- How were medieval and early modern spaces adapted and transformed through the movement of material and immaterial things?
- Which particular aspects of political, social and economic infrastructures enabled the exchange of objects and ideas?
- To what extent did a sense of place depend upon the activities taking place there?
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Provisional Programme
Friday 23 February9:45-10:00 Registration
10:00 Introductory remarks (Helen Coffey and Leah Clark)
10:15 Spaces and Bodies
- Anuradha Gobin, University of Calgary: ‘Subverting Spaces of Control: Transformation, Deviance and Identity Formation in the Dutch Republic’
- Michael Grillo, University of Maine: ‘Spatial Memory, Mapping and Perspective in the Wake of the Plague’
- Naomi J. Barker, The Open University: ‘Intellectual polyphony: Music at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, 1600-1630’
11:45 Break
12:15 Travels and Movement
- Jennifer Allport Reid, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘‘Fallen Am I in Dark Uneven Way’: Wandering from the Road in Early Modern Folklore’
- Lisa Regan, University of California, Berkeley/IES, Vienna: ‘When the City Gates Close: Wayfaring Chapels and the Disciplining of Space’
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Sacred Spaces I
- Zahra Ahari, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran: ‘Transformation of Mosalla into space of spectacle in Safavid Isfahan’
- Judith Utz, Freie Universität Berlin/Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome: ‘Materiality and Space. Southern Italian Exultet scrolls in their liturgical setting’
15:15 Break
15:45 Sacred Spaces II
- Julia Kotzur, University of Aberdeen, ‘Performing Spatial Change: Transformations and Redefinitions of Religious Space in Jonson’s The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair’
- Kader N. Hegedüs, University of Lausanne, “A scant map of this”: John Donne and the (Un)mapping of the Reformation’
17:15 End (Reception/Dinner in evening)
Saturday 24 February
10:00 Domestic Spaces
11:30 Break
12:00 Women and Domestic Space
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Urban Spaces
15:00 Break
15:30 Performance Spaces
17:00 End
- Stephanie Bowry, University of Leicester: ‘”A goodly Gallery with a most pleasaunt Prospect […]”: Early Modern Gardens and Galleries as Entangled Spaces’
- Lynsey McCulloch, Coventry University: ‘Choreographing the Early Modern Garden’
- Audrey Thorstad, Bangor University: ‘”When thou comes to a lordis gate”: Hospitality and Socialising Spaces in Tudor Castles’
11:30 Break
12:00 Women and Domestic Space
- Ja Young Jeon, City University of New York: ‘“Enter my closet”: The Gendered Early Modern Closet in The Changeling’
- Eva Lauenstein, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘Within these tombes enclos’d’: Interring Renaissance Love in Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Urban Spaces
- Luise Scheidt, University of Cambridge: ‘An Iconography of Warfare: The Representation of Battle and Military Success in Early Modern Venetian Spaces’
- Koching Chao, University of York: ‘Constituting Public Piazza in Trecento Communal Statues: Framing Montepulciano’s Piazza Grande in 1337’
15:00 Break
15:30 Performance Spaces
- M.A.Katritzky, The Open University: ‘Transnational interpretations of theatrical space at the 1589 Florentine intermedi’
- Michael Gale, The Open University: ‘Music-making and identity-formation in the Elizabethan universities’
17:00 End
