The Twenty-First Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference
December 6, 2008
Schedule of Events
Registration and Morning Coffee
9:30-10:00 a.m.
Plenary Speakers
10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Roger S. Wieck, The Morgan Libary and Museum
“ Time and the Hours ”
Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
"The Observer's Time: Observation as a Way of Life in Early Modern Europe"
Special Performance : “Performing Time”
Organized by Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York University
1:30-2:00 p.m.
First Afternoon Session
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Moderator : Phillip John Usher, Barnard College
Charlotte Gross, North Carolina State University
“Creation and Time : Augustine and the Angels of San Marco”
Jessica Berenbeim, Harvard University
“Medieval Livy Illuminations and the Distance of Ancient Rome”
Barnaby Nygren, Loyola College in Maryland
“Masaccio’s Waves : Time, Motion and the Perspectival Narrative”
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, University of Maryland
“Titian’s Venus and Adonis and Flow of Time at the Portal of Eros”
Moderator: Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller, Barnard College
Lesley-Anne Dyer, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
“Foundations for Imagination :
The Benevolence of Eternity and Goodness of Time in Augustine and Plato”
Wan-Chuan Kao, Graduate Center, City University of New York
“The Whiteness of Time : The Object Biography of Salvation in Pearl”
William E. Engel, The University of the South
“Lovers’ Time : Memory, Chiasmus, and Death in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Donald Gilman, Ball State University
“Pontus de Tyard’s Scève, ou le discours du temps : Text, Context, and the Uses of Dialogue”
Moderator: Neslihan Senocak, Columbia University
Danielle Joyner, University of Notre Dame
“Variations on Time and Ecclesia in the Hortus Deliciarum”
Kathryn L. Mapstone, Bunker Hill Community College
“The Problem of When : Pure-Church Polemic in the English Reformation”
Laura E. Cochrane, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
“ ‘Finite Moments and Infinite Recesses’ : Hezekiah Imitating Eternity in the Bury Psalter”
Moderator: Joel Kaye, Barnard College
Carolyn Collette, Mount Holyoke College
“L’Orloge Amoreus : Tempering Time in Froissart’s World”
Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College
“The Incarnation of Time”
Maia Wellington Gahtan, University of Wales at Lorenzo de’ Medici
“Giorgio Vasari’s Clock Hours”
Eric De Barros, Colgate University
“The (Un)certainty of Time and Place: Bodily Vulnerability and Strategic Action in
Early Modern Anglo-Ottoman Diplomatic Relations ”
Moderator: Peter Platt, Barnard College
Brian Walsh, Yale University
“Time is, Time was, Time is past :
Performance and the Technologies of Time in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay”
David Swain, Southern New Hampshire University
“ ‘One bare hour to live’: Time and Irrational Numbers in Doctor Faustus”
Raphael Falco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Genealogy, Time, and Tradition in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale”
Break
3:30-4:00 p.m.
Second Afternoon Session
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Moderator: Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania
Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University
“The Time of his Life : Petrarch’s Marginalia and Rvf 23”
Kathy Eden, Columbia University
“Time and Temporality in Petrarch’s Hermeneutics of Intimacy”
Roberta Antognini, Vassar College
“Time and Memory in Petrarch’s ‘sister’ canzoni : Rerum vulgarium fragmenta 125-126”
Moderator: Alan Gabbey, Barnard College
Emily Burnham, New York University
“Time and Distance : Traces of periodos ges in Western Islamic geographies”
Jeffrey Robert Webb, Harvard University
“The Shape of the Distant Past in Eleventh-Century Episcopal Hagiography”
Laura Morreale, Fordham University
“Writing Vernacular History :
Municipal Historians and Marking Time in Fourteenth Century Northern Italy”
Cristian Bratu, Baylor University
“Genealogical Time and Its Gaps in Froissart’s Chroniques”
Moderator: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
Eric Ramírez-Weaver, University of Virginia
“Redeeming the Time : The Christian Sacralization of the Zodiac in the Carolingian Empire”
Susan Leibacher Ward, Rhode Island School of Design
“Time Fragmented : The Signs of the Zodiac and Labors of the Months in Twelfth-Century Sculpted Archivolts”
Sarah Powrie, Saint Thomas More College
“The Geometry of Eternity”
Sheila J. Rabin, Saint Peter’s College
“Kepler’s Astrology and the Shape of Time”
Moderator: Christopher Baswell, Barnard College
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island
“Timing the Pope’s Death : The Liturgy of the Sede Vacante”
Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University
“Time and Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Law”
Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
“Voices from the Convent : History, Property, and Politics in ‘Upon Appleton House’ ”
Stephanie Elsky, University of Pennsylvania
“Inscribing Custom : Legal Time and Literary Form in Lady Anne Clifford’s Diaries”
Moderator: Timea Szell, Barnard College
Ana Pairet, Rutgers University
“Allegorizing the Penitential Calendar : The Battles of Caresme and Charnage”
Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Fall’s Melancholy Time : Wine, Blood and the Dead in the Late Medieval Vernacular Calendar”
Christine Clark-Evans, The Pennsylvania State University
“The Anatomy of Time :
Medical Humanism, the Body-Clock, and Modernity in Rabelais’s Gargantua”
Dora E. Polachek, Binghamton University, State University of New York
“Arresting Time and the Female Body: The Fantasy and its Avatars”
Reception
5:30-7:00 p.m.
For registration information, please contact
Conference Organizer, Laurie Postlewate
lpostlew@barnard.edu