Mighty Europe Conference - Programme

SATURDAY

11.00-13.00 REGISTRATION Coffee and Biscuits - TEGFAN Conference Room
13.00-14.00 LUNCH - Ffriddoedd Bistro
14.00-15.10 Welcome and Plenary - TEGFAN Conference Room

PLENARY
Chair: Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University)

• RICHARD DUTTON (Ohio State University) "Jonson's Volpone: Venice in London, London in Venice"
  

15.20-16.30

TEGFAN PANEL: EUROPE & RELIGION I - TEGFAN Conference Room
Chair: Leslie Francis (Bangor University)

• PÄRTEL PIIRIMÄE (St John's College, University of Cambridge) "'Contrary to the Practice of all Christian and Civilized Nations...': The construction of Europe as a moral community through the legitimations of war"
• SUE KNOTT (The Open University) "Walls of Defence: English national identity and the established church"
  
• TONY CLAYDON (Bangor University) "The concept of Christendom in late Stuart England"

REICHEL PANEL: EARLY MODERN DRAMA I - REICHEL Common Room
Chair: Ceri Sullivan (Bangor University)

• JOAN FITZPATRICK (University College Northampton) "'Some straunger lombard now | will take the vittailes': Continental Appetites in Early Modern London"
• PAUL INNES (University of Glasgow) "Cymbeline and Empire"
• GLENN ODOM and BRYAN REYNOLDS (University of California, Irvine) "Becomings Roman/Comings-to-be Villain: Translucency and the Coding of Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationality in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus"

16.30-17.00 Coffee & Cake - TEGFAN Conference Room

17.00-18.15

TEGFAN PANEL: EARLY MODERN DRAMA II - TEGFAN Conference Room
Chair: Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)

• PHILIP CRISPIN "Papal Bull: Julius II, Louis XII, and Pierre Gringore's Sottie du Jeu du Prince des sots"
• JESÚS LÓPEZ-PELÁEZ (Universidad de Jaén) "Drawing the Lines: Spaniards and 'Moors' in Seventeenth-Century English Drama"
• MANUEL J. GÓMEZ-LARA and MARIA J. MORA (Universidad de Sevilla) "The 'Anglicized Italian' in Restoration Comedy: Parodic Reversal of a Cultural Topos"

REICHEL PANEL: EUROPE AND RELIGION II - REICHEL Common Room
Chair: Roderick J. Lyall (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

• HUGH ADLINGTON (King's College London) "'...though Sion do stretch out her hand': John Donne, confessional identity, and the civitas dei in seventeenth-century Europe"
• NATASHA CONSTANTINIDOU (University of Edinburgh) "The blurring of confessional identities: James VI and I, Paolo Sarpi and the limits of spiritual power"
• MOISÉS ORFALI (Bar Ilan University) "The Spanish Apologia as Against the Black Legend"

19.00-20.00 DINNER - Friddoedd Bistro

20.00-21.15 TEGFAN: EUROPE AND THE VISUAL ARTS - TEGFAN Conference Room
Chair: Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University)

• MEREDITH J. GILL (University of Notre Dame) "Jupiter's Prize: Europa and the Origins of Europe"
• SABINA de CAVI (Columbia University, New York) "Jusepe de Ribera Español F(ecit)"

21.15 LEISURE Friddoedd Bar Open

SUNDAY HEN GOLEG

9.00-10.00 PLENARY - HEN GOLEG Conference Room
Chair: Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University)

• JOHN KERRIGAN (University of Cambridge) "The Anglo-Scoto-Dutch Triangle: Milton and Marvell to 1660"

10.10-11.25

PANEL 1: CONSTRUCTING THE TURK IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE - Conference Rm
Chair: Tony Claydon (Bangor University)

• MATTHEW DIMMOCK (University of Sussex) "'Our turkish and sinful lives': Islam and the Ottomans in the court of Henry VIII"
• SAM WOOD (University of Leeds) "Fighting Turks as Turks: proud Europe and conspicuous virtue"
• STEPHAN SCHMUCK (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) '"Wars more happily managed abroad than at home' - English visions of a European victory: the 'Battle of Lepanto'"

PANEL 2: WRITING AND THE NATION
Chair: Geoffrey Eatough (University of Wales, Lampeter) - Hen Goleg D1.1

• VERONIKA OBERPARLEITER (Universität Salzburg) "Nicolaus Vernulaeus's Representation of the House of Habsburg"
• GARY GIBBS (Roanoke College) "Arthur Golding's Metamorphoses: the Elizabethan politics of 'Englished' mythology"
• FLORINDA RUIZ (Roanoke College) "Golding's Translation of Ovid: A Protreptic Tool to Shape Elizabethan Cultural Identity"

11.25-11.45 Coffee & Biscuits - Hen Goleg Conference Lounge

11.45-13.00

PANEL 1: POLITICAL AND TEXTUAL PERFORMANCE - Hen Goleg D1.6
Chair: John Kerrigan (University of Cambridge)

• LISA HOPKINS (Sheffield Hallam University) "Fire, Ice and Ghosts: The North in the English Renaissance Imagination"
• EDWARD HOLBERTON (Trinity College, Cambridge) "Bulstrode Whitelocke's Embassy to Sweden 1653-54"
• ELAINE WALKER (Shakespeare Institute) "'My own private riding-house at Antwerp': the Duke of Newcastle's new and extraordinary method of colonization"

PANEL 2: COURTLY ENCOUNTERS - Hen Goleg D1.7
Chair: Richard Dutton (Ohio State University)

• MANUEL GOMES da TORRE (University of Porto) "The Language of the Bride: Portuguese for English learners in two grammars of 1662"
• EKATERINA DOMNINA (Lomonosov Moscow State University) "The riches of England are greater than those of any other country in Europe: A Venetian image of Tudor England"
• STEFANI BRUSBERG-KIERMEIER (Potsdam University) "Dark, but neither lord nor lady: the Italian Bassano family at the English court and Shakespeare's Italian and Jewish representations"
  
  

13.00-13.50 LUNCH - Hen Goleg Conference Lounge

13.50 Coach leaves for Conwy Excursion from Colleg Rd, outside Hen Goleg: approximate return to Bangor 18.00

19.30 Sherry Reception in OSWALDS

20.00 Conference DINNER in OSWALDS

MONDAY HEN GOLEG

9.00-10.15

PANEL 1: EUROPE AND BEYOND - Hen Goleg Conference Room
Chair: Tony Brown (Bangor University)

• GEOFFREY EATOUGH (University of Wales, Lampeter) ''The Break with Europe: Britain and the Phoenician Connection"
• CLAIRE JOWITT (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) "Piracy, National Identity and Empire: the European Dimension and Beyond"
• ANDREW HISCOCK (Bangor University) "'A Dialogue between Old England and New': Anne Bradstreet and her negotiations with the Old World"

PANEL 2: IMAGES OF SOVEREIGNTY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE - D1.1
Chair: Tony Claydon (Bangor University)

• CHRISTOPHER HARDING (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) and NICOLA HARDING (National Archive) "Representations of Governance in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe: The Iconography and Dramatic Representation of the Sovereign Ruler"
• NATHAN MARTIN (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) "Ecclesiastical Decolonization, Henrician Cartography, and the Changing Metropolitan Attitudes in Tudor England"
• NADINE N. W. AKKERMAN (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) "Shaping Epistolary Identities in Exile: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), Queen of Bohemia"
  
  

10.15 10.35 Coffee & Cake - Hen Goleg Conference Lounge

10.35 11.50

PANEL 1: SHAPING IDENTITIES IN MIDDLE EUROPE - Hen Goleg D1.6
Chair: Michael Whitworth (Bangor University)

• ANNA CARRDUS (University of Bristol) "Invitations to the 'Gregoriusfest' in Germany 1660-1715: the role of schoolboys in allegorical and historical representations of civic identity"
• JAROSLAV PÁNEK (Czech Academy of Sciences - Institute of History) "A small nation between Germans, Poles and Ottomans: Early modern national identity of Czechs and their attitude towards Europe in the 16th and beginning 17th century"
• ZDENIK VYBÍRAL (Historical Institute of South-Bohemian University & Hussite Museum Tábor, Czech Republic) "Politically religious identities in the power discourse of the Bohemian estate society"

PANEL 2: RE-FORMING EUROPEAN IDENTITIES - Hen Goleg D1.7
Chair: Gabriel Egan (Shakespeare's Globe London)

• RODERICK J. LYALL (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) "(Re)Inventing Scotland for a European Audience: The Historical Albums of John Johnston, 1602-3"
• ASTRID STILMA (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) "Justifying War: Dutch translations of Scottish books around 1600"
• GLORIA LEANDRO (University Ca' Foscari Venice) "The Cathedral Saint Aleksander Nevskij in Sofia (Bulgaria)"
  

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Linda Jones
7 September 2004