Sovereignty and Metaphor NYU Graduate Student Conference 24 – 25 Sep 2015
Thursday, September 24
Event Space, Ground 9.30 – 10
10 – 10.15
10.15 – 11.15
11.15 – 11.30 11.30 – 1
Floor, 244 Greene St.
Registration and Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Jacques Lezra, “Sovereignty or Translation: Sancho’s Decisions” Respondent: Cody Reis
Tea Break
Panel 1: Opacity
Clio Doyle, “‘On londe’: Kingship and the Grounds of Allegory in Piers Plowman”
Ruby Lowe, “Is Speech a Metaphor?”
Rachel Dunn, “Writing Providence: Metaphor and Form in John Barclay’s Argenis”
Respondent: Christopher Cannon
Lunch
Kathleen Davis, “Time and Sovereignty: the Middle Ages as Metaphor”
Respondent: Carla Thomas
Tea Break
Panel 2: Centers
Orlando S. Reade, “‘Parlament, which is his mother’: the comedy of sovereignty in Milton’s Eikonoklastes”
Ross Lerner, “Allegories of Fanaticism: Spenser’s Organs of Divine Might”
Dan Normandin, “Marvell’s Maps: Reading Empire through Microcosm at Nun Appleton”
Respondent: John Guillory
1 – 2 2 – 3
3 – 3.30 3.30 – 5
5 – 5.30 5.30 – 6.30
6.30 – 7.30
Drinks and Light Snacks
Victoria Kahn, “Political Theology, Original Sin, and the Work of Metaphor”
Respondent: Ruby Lowe
Welcome Reception
Friday, September 25
Event Space, Ground 9 – 9.30
9.30 – 10.30
10.30 – 10.45 10.45 – 12.15
Floor, 244 Greene St Registration and Breakfast
John Rogers, “Latter-Day Milton: Paradise Lost and the Sovereignty of God in Mormonism and Seventh-Day Adventism”
Respondent: Laura Yoder
Tea Break
Panel 3: Bodies
Maia Farrar, “Arthur as the Giant: Conflating Sovereignty and Tyranny in the Alliterative Morte”
Beatrice Bradley, “‘Fie, wrangling queen’: A History of Embodiment in Cleopatra’s Egypt”
Stephanie Ranks, “‘Infinite compositions and divisions’: Restoration Monarchy and the Microscopic Eye” Respondent: Susanne Wofford
Lunch
Brandon Chua, “Dryden’s Bower of Bliss: Spaces of Toleration in The Hind and the Panther (1687)”
Respondent: Paula McDowell
Tea Break
Panel 4: Violence
José Villagrana, “‘Antes muerto que mudado’: Metonyms of Hispanophobia in Donne’s Poetry”
Sheila Coursey, “Executing Romance: Havelok the Dane, Athelston, and the Sovereign Scaffold”
12.15 – 1.15 1.15 – 2.15
2.15 – 2.30 2.30 – 4
4 – 4.30 4.30 – 5.30
Gina Dominick, “‘That he shulde never be hole’: The Anatomy of a Broken Metaphor in Le Morte D’Arthur”
Respondent: Carolyn Dinshaw
Afternoon Tea
Paul Strohm, “Chaucer’s Metaphorical Kings” Respondent: Gina Dominick