Nov 3-5 | Early Modern Trans Studies II – Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr College)
Thursday, Nov. 3
9:45, Opening Remarks, Colby Gordon
10:00, Panel 1:
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Sawyer Kemp, “Ickiness in the Archive, When Queer Solidarity Ain’t There: The Case of Aniseed Water Robin
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Simone Chess, “Shakespeare in Trans Archives”
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Urvashi Chakravarty, “Early Modern White Feminism”
11:30-1:00, Lunch
1:00-2:30, Panel 2:
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Miles Grier, “Trans Formations from Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies”
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Abdulhamit Arvas, “Gender Variance and Race in Translation”
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James Bromley, “Transmaterial Attachments in Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia”
3:00-4:30, Panel 3:
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Emma Frankland and Subira Joy, “Like Well & Allow It”
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Andy Kesson, ‘“Plain fields”: John Lyly’s Galatea in performance
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Natasha Korda, “‘Mincing Steps’ and ‘Manly Strides’: Practicing Gendered Footwork on the Early Modern Stage”
Friday, Nov. 4
10:00-11:30, Panel 1:
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Jacob Romm, “Decircumcision, Baby: Surgical Conversions in Social and Historical Perspective”
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Colby Gordon, “A Trans Crux”
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Laurie Marhoefer, “Trans Historiography and the Holocaust”
11:30-1:00, Lunch
1:00-2:30, Panel 2:
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Jordan Windholz, “Anatomy, Synecdoche, and the Elaboration of the Cisgender Body under Early Modern Patriarchy”
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Ari Friedlander, “When Milton was Cis”
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Daniel D’Elia, “An Archaeological Approach to Deconstructing Sex and Reconstructing Agency”
3:00-4:50, Panel 3:
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Joseph Gamble, “Spenser’s Trans Verse”
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Drew Daniel, “Chasing the False Florimell, or Transversal Spenser”
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Madison Wolfert, “Britomart’s Fair Genders, or, Who Gets to (be) Trans in The Faerie Queene?”
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Melissa Sanchez, “Transmisogyny, Colonial Cacophony and Early Modern Trans Studies”
Saturday, Nov. 5
10:00-11:30, Panel 1:
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Micah Goodrich, “Elemental Trans”
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Aylin Malcolm, “Le sanc novel”: Animality and Transubstantiation in Marie de France’s Yonec”
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Holly Dugan, “Aping Gender”
11:30-1:00, Lunch
1:00-2:30, Panel 2:
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Nicholas R. Jones, “Mastering Blackness and Intimacy in María de Zayas y Sotomayor”
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Cory Huston, “Whose breast is it, anyways?: Bifurcation of Self in A Christian Turn’d Turk”
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Julie Crawford, “Margaret Cavendish’s Bodies”
3:00-4:30, Panel 3:
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Mario diGangi, “Transgender Epistemology and Non-Binary Masculinity in Early Modern Interfaith Drama”
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Sandra Goldstein Lehnert, “History / Trans / Youth: Epicoene & Hearing Past Silence”
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Sarah Wall-Randell, “The proper false: Twelfth Night, trans exclusion, and “Original Practices,” 2002-2022”