The Fall of Troy in the Renaissance Imagination Conference Program
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Friday, 4 October
All sessions held in Victoria Chapel: 91 Charles St W.
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
Konrad Eisenbichler
9:15-10:45 a.m. Panel 1: The Medieval Inheritance
Chair: Konrad Eisenbichler (CRRS)
Jane Abray, (University of Toronto)
"Imaging the Masculine: Christine de Pisan's Hector, Prince of Troy"
Pamela Troyer, (University of Denver)
"Was it all a Dream? Poetic License in the 14th-century Romance The Seege or Batayle of Troye"
Brent Miles (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
"Togail Troí: The Irish Destruction of Troy on the Cusp of the Renaissance"10:45-11:00 a.m. Tea and Coffee
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Panel 2: Troy as a Moral Exemplum
Chair: Benoit Bolduc (University of Toronto)
Stéphanie Bélanger, (University of Toronto)
"La Troade de Garnier: Destins malhereux et exemples héroiques"
Marie-José Govers, (University of Groningen)
" 'Woe betide the one who causes great dispute': The Abduction of Helen in Jehan Baptista Houwaert's Pegasides Pleyn, often den Lusthof der Maechden (The Plain of the Muses, or the Delightful Garden of Young Women)"
Joelle Rollo-Koster, (University of Rhode Island)
"Avignon and Troy: Trojan Metaphors during the Great Western Schism"12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:30 p.m. Panel 3: Troy in Art and Ekphrasis
Chair: Alexander Nagel (University of Toronto)
John H. Astington, (University of Toronto)
"'Like a painted tyrant': Images of Troy in Graphic Art and on the Stage"
Paolo Sanvito, (Independent scholar)
"The Symbolic Use of the Trojan Myth in Roman Painting Cycles of the Renaissance"
Christoper D. Johnson, (Harvard University)
"The Trojan Ekphrasis in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece"3:30-4:00 p.m. Tea and Coffee
4:00-5:30 p.m. Panel 4: Translatio imperii (1): Continental
Chair: Jess Paehlke (CRRS)
Sheila Das, (University of Toronto)
"Defeated Trojans as Venetian Heroes: The Trojan foundation of Venice"
James Harper, (University of Oregon)
"Rome versus Istanbul: Competing Claims and the Moral Value of Trojan Heritage"
Paul Cohen, (Université de Paris VIII)
"In Search of the Trojan Origins of French: The Uses of History in the Elevation of the Vernacular in the Early Modern Period"
Saturday, 5 October
All sessions held in Victoria Chapel, 91 Charles St W.
9:00-10:30 a.m. Panel 5: Translatio imperii (2): British
Chair: Germaine Warkentin (University of Toronto)
Tim Markey, (Boston University)
"Classical Epic and English Pastoral: Virgil's (and Homer's) Andromache in Spenser's 'Maye'"
Rebeca Helfer, (Columbia University)
"Spenser's Anti-Virgilian Translatio"
Scott Schofield, (University of Toronto)
"Antony Munday’s Politicization of England’s Mythical Trojan Origins"10:30-11:00 a.m. Tea and Coffee
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Panel 6: Troy and English Drama
Chair: Michael Ullyot (CRRS)
Paul Yachnin, (McGill University)
"'The perfection of ten': Artisanal Value and Elite Culture in Troilus and Cressida"
Andrew Hiscock, (University of Wales, Bangor)
"'What’s Hecuba to him...': Memory, Text and Myths of Belonging in Shakespeare’s Hamlet"
Deanne Williams, (York University)
"Dido, Queen of England"12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:30 p.m. Panel 7: Trojan Women
Chair: Alan Shepard (University of Guelph)
Julia B. Griffin, (Georgia Southern University)
"Ashes from Troy"
Richardine Woodall, (York University)
"The Place of Women in the Fall of Troy"
Michael Keefer,
"'Fairer than the evening air': Marlowe's Gnostic Helen of Troy and the Tropes of Belatedness and Historical Mediation"3:30-4:00 p.m. Tea and Coffee
4:00-5:30 p.m. Panel 8: Trojan Visions and Revisions
Chair: Bill Bowen (University of Toronto; CRRS Director)
Stephen Guy-Bray, (University of Calgary)
"Embracing Troy: Surrey’s Aeneid"
Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, (University of New Hampshire)
"Slander and/as the Eroticizing of Troy"
7:00 p.m. Banquet (by registration only)
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